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I'm a Palaeobiologist working on #dinosaur evolution and #phylogenetics (🔴🟣🔵). 🇲🇽 Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him). Exhibition Curator at Senckenbergmuseum Frankfurt (views my own) ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
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Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product

They voted for Trump. ICE arrested their son.

Top 10 Semi-Final 2 after rehearsals (so hard to make, but committed now): 1. "Serving", 🇲🇹 2. "Survivor", 🇦🇲 3. "Wasted Love", 🇦🇹 4. "Ich komme", 🇫🇮 5. "La poupée mont le son", 🇱🇺 6. "Tavo akys", 🇱🇹 7. "Dobrodošli", 🇲🇪 8. "Hallucination", 🇩🇰 9. "Asteromata", 🇬🇷 10. "Laika", 🇮🇪

The National Institute of Anthropology and History letting a rich person use Mexican heritage as a personal brand and prop? Unheard of, that's never happened *cough Vallecillo*, *cough Aquilolamna*

Top 10 for Semi-Final 1 after rehearsals: 1."Zjerm" 🇦🇱 2."Gaja" 🇵🇱 3."Shh" 🇨🇾 4."Strobe lights" 🇧🇪 5. "How much time do we have left together" 🇸🇮 6."Tutta l'Italia" 🇸🇲 7."Lighter" 🇳🇴 8."Poisson cake" 🇭🇷 9."Bird of prey" 🇺🇦 10."Bara bada bastu" 🇸🇪

Spare us the fucking eye-rolling. Labour means they want to stop the nonwhites from the Global South. They should just say it like that,... maybe then the racists they want badly finally abandon Reform. I also think orange is a good shade for Starmer, it matches his skin tone.

It was fun to be part of this project last year, and it's finally out... FYI, I am generally not scared of puzzles. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

If you are interested in biodiversity in deep time, check out my new preprint with @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social! We review methods of quantifying diversity and diversification, using the fossil record and phylogenies with extinct tips 🐚🦕📊 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations. There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12

Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #evolution #phylogenetics

Today at the Frankfurt Zoo I said "Oh my god!" and "I love'em!" so many times that the words lost meaning. My biggest excitement was the aye-aye enclosure. I wasn't prepared for their majesty.

Not similar. The exact same. Religious agenda? ✅ Obsession with security? ✅ Lack of due process? ✅ Hostile interviews and mediatic circus now and then to pretend there's free speech? ✅ Defunding basic research? ✅ Structural eugenics? ✅ The US speedran though all the LatAm authoritarian regimes

Univision’s Parent Company, Televisa, Linked to Fabricated Child Sex Abuse Allegations in Disturbing #TelevisaLeaks Revelations lacartita.com/univisions-p...

"(...) recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." Henry D. Thoreau, 1849. True when opposing slavery. True when opposing the invasion of Mexico by the US. True today.

¡Buenos días, México! Televisa, quitándose las lagañas: ¿¡Qué tienen de buenos!? #televisaleaks youtu.be/lxZdmPqoMj8?...

RFK Jr blames diet, lifestyle & vaccines for chronic illness. Dr Oz says it’s a “patriotic duty” to lead a healthy life & be fit enough to serve in the military. Neither of them are pushing for Universal Healthcare, basic income, an end to food deserts & inequality, clean water etc. It’s eugenics

Hi. After my FB got hacked and someone impersonated me last year, my account got suspended. I have created a new one, and people can only find me if they are mutuals in IG, Whatsapp.If you got an invite from me, feel free to confirm with me. Also, I didn't unfriend you.

Hi. After my FB got hacked and someone impersonated me last year, my account got suspended. I have created a new one, and people can only find me if they are mutuals in IG, Whatsapp.If you got an invite from me, feel free to confirm with me. Also, I didn't unfriend you.

Congrats to two paleontological recipients of the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Jerónimo Morales Toledo and Sanaa El-Sayed! 🌿🐟

This will be a book about eugenics and how eugenics is being "cancelled" from institutions as "diversity, equity and inclusion" attempt to prevent the advancement of eugenics. They will be thin-veiled white supremacist essays about how the authors are victims of silence for spousing eugenic beliefs

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

These stories would be inspiring if they were not part of a political stunt for a tourism company owned by someone who donated $1m to a fascist regime that hates women, minoritised groups and refugees. So it wasn't just Katy Perry who disappointed people up there. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ais...

Let me desabuse you all of the idea that "gender ideology" is not religious. I was there. In the 90s, the catholic church in Mexico made laid the ground for the gender ideology movement. I was a kid in a catholic school with 3 years of "catholic sexual education". (1/n)

This ruling comes from a process that heard from the whole rolodex of transphobic orgs, but didn't allow any trans people to give evidence. Cool system we've got. Makes total sense. Not just a cruelty machine.

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

El brote de sarampión se dispara en México a más de 300 casos mientras el Gobierno vacuna a 700.000 personas en tres meses. Los contagios tienen su origen en personas no vacunadas que habían viajado a Texas dozz.es/4lihi4

You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

"it's time to admit that the wokes sensed something in the culture worth opposing - like, for example, literal Naziism"

It started as a "migration crisis", then a "fentanyl crisis", then a "trade deficit", and now we are in a "water crisis". So here is a reminder of how several US institutions and researchers brought us here many, many years ago. They are manufacturing consent to intervene in Mexico.

It's now negligent to encourage international students to take on positions in the US, as students, PhDs or postdocs. Wtaf...

trying not to exceed 2 intra-popular front mutual recrimination posts a week, but devoting 1 to say: seems clear that posters endlessly skeptical of "white supremacists/nationalists" and the like as descriptors of Trump/GOP are either dipshits who don't know what is going on or racists who do