When wake up and think, "eugh this is typical", then two hours later things look much brighter. This is a cricket post.

New paper from the Tucker lab at @ccrb27.bsky.social ! Authors Ticha Tuwatnawanit, @nanthwal.bsky.social and collagues analysed the formation and molecular identity of the glenoid fossa of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/3)

Just put a new pick guard on my cheapo PJ bass and now I only want shell pink + mint green Fenders.

New review from our centre published in the Journal of Dental Research! Activating Endogenous Condylar Stem Cells to Enhance TMJ Repair doi.org/10.1177/0022... Congratulations Ticha Tuwatnawanit, @nanthwal.bsky.social and Abigail for this publication! @kingsdentistry.bsky.social (1/3)

CCRB paper alert! Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap? (1/3)

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

If you like evolutionary constraints, serial homology, teeth, bats or all of the above, come and see our talk and posters! 👇🏼 At 3:30 I will talk about the genomic and developmental foundation of adaptive tooth shape evolution in bats Room S09 rm 118-119 #ESEB2025

The Tucker group @ccrb27.bsky.social is looking for a new postdoc to look at the interplay between the microbiome and the developing vomeralnasal organ. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121845-...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

the worst thing about being on the job market is having to actually engage with LinkedIn. oh man, what a stunningly awful platform that is. Was it better before and has just suffered from enshittification?

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. open.substack.com/pu... A platform took my PhD thesis and used AI to turn it into a podcast, then emailed me expecting me to be grateful about it. I... am not. #AI #Podcast #Publishing

Here Mike Lynch mounts a fierce challenge to two recent attempts to understand the evolution of complexity in biology and beyond. I wouldn't like to place bets on the winner in this bout, but it does seem Lynch presents some tough questions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I've never felt so seen www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir... (archive link) archive.ph/MjC2z

just sat down for a restorative Beamish in Cork city, and what do I see in the seat we randomly picked? #UpTheAlbion

new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

just asked an popular LLM to write about working @ccrb27.bsky.social and it basically said the lifts are more temperamental than the experiments. Take from that what you will.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Happy St George' Day!

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

just saw the 80s referred to as the late 1900s, and now I'm a dessicated corpse.

wow

Exciting news! 🎉 MorphoBank is now on Bluesky! We’re a #FAIR and #Open resource for #phylogenetic #morphological data, helping researchers archive, share, and analyze phylogenetic matrices and images. Follow us for updates on new projects, best practices, and ways to get involved!

Have you always dreamt of doing a PhD in eardrum stem cells with Abbie Tucker @ccrb27.bsky.social, on the 27th Floor or Europe's tallest hospital in London? Well, here's an ideal opening for your oddly specific dream www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fantastic PhD in stem cells / hearing opportunity with Prof Abigail Tucker at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Everything that’s wrong with society can be traced back to the decline in popularity of point-and-click adventure games. None of this would be happening if there was a AAA King’s Quest game every five years

this is lovely spooky stuff

There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS. forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...

Reposting for the working week.

Delighted to share our new paper, led by superb students Ticha, in which she identifies FSP1 fibroblast stem/progenitor cells in TMJ journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XHXK9...

Yep, it's looking like it's going to be one of those days. Wordle 1,333 X/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩

The Max Planck Institute in Plön seeks a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Developmental Biology to study craniofacial evolution. Apply by March 31, 2025. Learn more: www.evolbio.mpg.de #phd

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

A week left to apply to @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence programme Deadline 31 January The programme supports postdocs going on the academic job market in 2025 We offer training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Der Spiegel reports the attack on a Christmas Market in Madgeburg, killing two people, carried out by a man from Saudi Arabia apparently with far right sympathies for the AfD's anti-Muslim agenda. He puts the X owner Elon Musk with Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson as inspiring his journey to violence.

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions theonion.com/news-happeni...

This video shows the mechanical patterning of crocodile head scales 🐊. Read our new @natureportfolio.bsky.social article to learn more ⬇️ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The only meaningful sports championship

oh how exciting, i just checked clearsky.app and i appear to have been blocked by loads of people (no idea why, people don't like typos?). how exciting. I've arrived.

Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame #EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered

Guardian journalists are on strike. In solidarity, here are the articles I refuse to link to: - I say return our looted culture to Cro-Magnon France - I thought I was dying - but I'd just skipped lunch! - Finally, at 36, I understand old age - I spent a week in the North and it wasn't too bad [1/2]

New @dev-journal.bsky.social editorial We know we have high standards - but we're committed to making publishing with us constructive From clear revision guidance to limitations sections & transparent peer review, we're here to help you share your science journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3

isn't it weird we're all just having a normal Thursday, and over in the US everyone is talking about turkey and having difficult family dinners. I'm thankful it's a normal Thursday>

Its amazing the cool insights one can glean about evolution through the study of teeth. I loved working with Anne Odling-Smee at Design Science to produce these videos. This is just a teaser. For the full (5-min) video see www.evolutionevolving.org #evolution #evodevo