Tori Herridge

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The implications for which species/traits are considered desirable in rewilding discussions is fascinating here (not to mention the synthetic biology angle…)

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

Countries can rewild land borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief

- Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

#rewilding
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southern Hemisphere initiation of the mid-Pleistocene transition A South Pacific neodymium isotope time series suggests Antarctic ice sheet growth triggered the mid-Pleistocene transition.

Interested in mid-Pleistocene transition? Check out our latest paper 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@us-sciod.bsky.social @kapuge9paleo.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social @julgottschalk.bsky.social
#paleoceanography #EXP383

A recent enquiry made us fall in love/awe with Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924) all over again These photographs of Mrs Gray, an intrepid Scottish fossil collector, were taken around her 90th birthday in 1922-23. Happy International Women’s Day!

Stalled labour is a known issue in captive elephants. And wild elephants are not pregnant with an experimental genetically modified foetus.

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

This is interesting on the value of low intensity, mixed farming for plant biodiversity theconversation.com/the-black-de...

A reminder that captive births are very far from risk free in elephants. You cannot do a c-section if e.g. development or delivery goes wrong (=death to mum for sure).

Honestly, this would not pass an ethics committee in the UK, I am sure.

I hope this is just more of the usual nonsense

And names.

Even if de-extinction efforts are “successful” by whatever criteria people use (% genetic similarity? Good enough to get media interest?), you are never going to have a mammoth, or a dodo or a thylacine.

So these beasts need new names…

❌ don’t say “restoring lost ecosystem function”

☑️ do say “testing the impact of synthetic phenotypes on ecosystems/environments”

De-extinction, and the language we use to frame it.

❌ don’t say “bringing back the mammoth” [or whatever 🦤]

☑️ do say “testing whether we can synthetically create specific desired phenotypes”

I propose the following names for the planned synthetic biological recreations of various extinct superstars:

🦣 The Lammoth (after Colossal CEO Ben Lamm)

🦤 The DoDon’t (de-exctincted Dodo)

🐅 The Trylacine (marks for good effort)

You are welcome.

If the first Lammoth is two years away, that means gene-edited embryos are about to be implanted into surrogates any time now.

I have always argued that the use of elephants in experiments like this is unethical.

My opinion has not changed.

Yes. That implies they have done this

Oh no!

This is vital playground currency. How else will they participate (and win?) in the BIGGEST NUMBER war?

Look up Graham’s Number

Photo of a table with old OS maps and finds (e.g. rocks, flint, pottery) in boxes with labels, and some books. On a display board behind is a timeline of Lady Aileen Fox's life and a poster entitled 'pioneering Exeter archaeologist' with a large black and white photo of her.

This display, created for the @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social International Women's Day event on Monday, was made by students Jo, Lilian & Georgie. It focuses on the achievements of Lady Aileen Fox, lecturer here 1947-71, who was instrumental in founding the teaching of archaeology @exeter.ac.uk.

In awe

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What level of ick is your cut-off point, when it comes to funding…?

Mine likes those too!

The global island species–area relationship for plants "a simple power model explains a remarkable amount of variation, with ISAR slope and residual variation explicable by isolation, island origins, and proportion of endemism" 🧪🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Actually considering one of your chapters!

Thank you!

It is supposed to be a surprise so that is a dynamic i am also working! Wish me luck!

Hivemind: I have signed up to read to my 10’year old daughter’s class & am now experiencing massive & total selfdoubt!

My shortlist variously contain bombs, socialist activism and refs to alcohol so eek maybe a bit much. What opening chapters or short story should I read?

Love this