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EXUBERANT is out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePa... if you have any questions or suggestions for what you would have chosen let us know!

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If you are in #Ithaca, come celebrate Pride at the Museum of the Earth's Natural Queeriosity event (all ages/identities welcome) June 26 – Paleontological Research Institution Queer crafts, scavenger hunt, and I'll be around to talk mollusks🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐌🦑🐚🐙🦪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ share.google/DwJrytbUQEwE...

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happy #PrideMonth, I guess

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you know what actually annoys me about the gochujang pasta sauce to cookies galaxy ai ad is the fact that the "solution" doesn't actually solve his problem he was cooking dinner, and ai gives him a recipe to make a bunch of cookies!

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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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with the announcement of Enigmacursor this week, it couldnt have been anything else for #FossilFriday, could it? so here're a couple of pics when I got to see it up close a few weeks ago, plus a bonus shot I'd apparently taken of when it was actually on sale a few years back 👀🦕

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this suggest that cardinals are angels' natural predators

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stop I did not just type 'bear' into the MS teams emoji search and get men with beards 💀

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I'm not a scientist but work closely with them. If you like my work, know that my supposedly biggest project of 2025 is put on hold as part of the recent NSF fiasco. If you're in the states, maybe speak up on my behalf please?

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with the announcement of Enigmacursor this week, it couldnt have been anything else for #FossilFriday, could it? so here're a couple of pics when I got to see it up close a few weeks ago, plus a bonus shot I'd apparently taken of when it was actually on sale a few years back 👀🦕

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Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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So proud to be an associate researcher @leibnizlib.bsky.social #QueerAnimals #PrideMonth leibniz-lib.de/en/news/2606... Also interesting for @joshlukedavis.com & @rossb-brighton.bsky.social ?

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Every time I see a genuinely funny shitpost, the fact checking/serious replies give me despair. Teachers: I think we need to start teaching children how to post, so they don't shame themselves as adults.

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What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...

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would just like the space and the money for a throwing wheel and kiln is that too much to ask

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Some personal reflections, at the end of a remarkable expedition... we've seen amazing things, and experienced Antarctica in the depths of its dark winter. We're returning home with an unparalleled dataset, and a deeper appreciation of this awe-inspiring place. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/r...

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Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social‬ with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora www.cell.com/current-biol...-5

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Network Rail have been using letters of complaint about their management as letters of support for their plan to build 1 million square feet of office block on top of Liverpool St station. Petition to save the old station - www.change.org/p/save-liver... Article - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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So, yesterday’s mass lobby of parliament was the largest LGBTQ + lobby of parliament ever, beating the Section 28 lobby in The 1980s…

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The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️ A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors. A thread…

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Curious: founder of this Turtle Dove release project in 2019 was Bill Makins (turtledovetrust.org.uk/trustees/). In 2021 he wrote to Telegraph opposing reintroduction of White-tailed Eagles, saying "ill-advised reintro programmes are hard to wind back once irreversible damage has been wrought".

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In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

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Sea cucumber or psychedelic pomegranate?🤔 Listen to our new podcast 'The Perfect Specimen' to discover weird, wonderful and often surprising sides of nature through hearing about our specimens. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! And let us know what you think of the episodes so far 👇

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Author copies arrived today! A crazy feeling, my daughter couldn't believe a book had my name on it. Now just a few more weeks until it's in shops!

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read it just for this graphic of a slightly perplexed labrador being stalked by the new dino

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spend a lot of time thinking about @stephenkb.bsky.social's point that "reading comprehension", as a skill, is apparently something that a lot of people have just given up on online - eg it's hard to believe here that so many people can't see this is so obviously tongue in cheek, but alas,

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What a fun study! They found 2/3 cats prefer to sleep on their left side as their right brain hemisphere is specialized for threat processing and could give them an advantage in detecting predators. 🐈 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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World of Wasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is open! Over a year in the making by this incredible team, the exhibition features displays, virtual reality, projections and paper sculptures drawing upon @uclcber.bsky.social research @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

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Here's something helpful you can do today: if your local news outlets didn't make the connection between the current heat wave and climate change, contact them and demand that they do better.

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new dino just dropped, and this one is already going on display 👀 🧪🦕 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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read it just for this graphic of a slightly perplexed labrador being stalked by the new dino

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There might be venomous animals living in your garden 👀 New research is suggesting that we should redefine venom so that it would include not only snakes and spiders, but a huge range of common species such as garden snails and aphids 😲 Find out why 👇🏻 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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Bunch of neanderthals #sciart

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does that make these the first wild bears in the UK for 500 years 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Still recovering from shock of having just read a large grant application with made-up reference list. Familiar authors but most refs don’t exist. ChatGPT written all over it Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 🧪 #science

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Money and health aren’t the only reasons to do things. It’s weird that we all obviously believe this when it comes to our own spending, but not collective investing (taxes) for some reason. Having a worldview based on how reality works seems important to me?

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