Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?
Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
This is excellent news! One to look out for in the coming months. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An osprey sits atop a NO SWIMMING sign with a half-eaten fish that has clearly fallen foul of the no swimming rule.
There are clearly very severe penalties for rule breaking round here!
Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.
Liar Wolf
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
THREAD.
3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022
New paper out from @hoehna.bsky.social Lab, led by the brilliant @bjorntko.bsky.social! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life doi.org/10.1093/evle...
The Spandrels of San Marco /jk
Maybe it was the first time that particular dolphin had been killed by seals?
If you see a snail crossing a path & grab its shell to move it out of the way, you might be injuring it while thinking you're helping but grabbing the shell is a problem
✅ How to move a snail safely:
#GardenWildlife #GentleGardening ee
"I'd love to see you again! Maybe I'll give you a call... what's your number?"
"HAVEN'T GOT ONE"
But you have to walk past the much cooler real Centrosaurus skull to get there (and other wonders)
"Strangely, none have ever been found with a blade attached"
In the case of Meta AI's head of safety, it's the entire contents of her inbox. LOL
Here's some Colchester trivia that I know you'll appreciate - it is the site of Britain's only known earthquake fatality!
I've been!
Of course you're exactly right. Generations of us.
He absolutely is a royal. They can try and wash their hands of him all they want but being born into a life of enormous privilege is how he got where he is. Let's not forget that the queen paid one of his alleged victims £12 million in hush money!
Exhausted - and in some cases dead - Atlantic puffins have been washing up around the UK recently after storms have left them weak and unable to feed.
If you find a puffin:
✍️Log your sighting on iNaturalist: buff.ly/sMJmnVF
🚑If it’s alive, contact a local veterinary practice who can advise you
A reminder: today is the only day of the year when you can legally buy the ingredients for #pancakes
SVP Diversity Committee co-chair here. Feel free to dm me your thoughts. I’m working with DivComm and some other committees on an action plan and I’d love to know what you want to happen and what would make you feel safer, reassured, and welcome.
Speaking as someone who was involved in the sexual selection argument referred to here, along with @tetzoo.bsky.social and @davehone.bsky.social, I reckon Horner got thoroughly and convincingly panned. One of my main takeaways was how little actual biology some of these senior palaeo guys know... 🧪
I agree.
Personally I'm more cheesed off that you socialised with a convicted sex trafficker.
So no, Jack, you did nothing of the sort!
Back in 2018, my PhD supervisors @davehone.bsky.social and @robknell.bsky.social organised a conference with Doug Emlen to bring together palaeontologists and sexual selection scientists. Kevin Padian spoke about his work with Horner, and their interpretation was comprehensively panned.
This might be a good opportunity to link to my first ever publication, in which we test Padian and Horner's 'species recognition' hypothesis (something they never bothered doing) in ceratopsians and found no evidence for it. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The new computational model for jaw mechanics in piranhas is called PiranhaLever, available for download on my GitHub github.com/mwestneat/Pi.... Along with various other models for biomechanics and morphometrics. All Mac apps, install the dmg and skirt your security demon 😎
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Guys, meet Shawn.
“Shawn the Prawn” is a fossilised prawn in the marble floor of Australia’s Parliament House.
