Matthew Cobb

Play with this guy and you'll lose your shirt, for sure.

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

Print publishing is thriving in France, and in Paris booksellers just flipped amazon the bird. So there.
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Genuinely thought this was a small fish in the deep. Then I read the subsequent post. Twice.

Umm. Whose bones?

Le Caravage, Judith décapitant Holopherne (détail)

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.

#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

The chalk stream

Where're you going?

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

It was just sitting there in the middle of the path.

Don't say he dropped it in the bath

Female Common Earwigs Forficula auricularia are very good mothers. After spending the winter guarding her batch of eggs she cares for the nymphs for several weeks and regurgitates food for them. The nymphs will disperse when they are large enough to fend for themselves. Dartmoor, Devon

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To the pool.

A circle of twigs on the ground containing pink and yellow flowers and green snd yellow leaves.

A fallen branch with a cleft crowded wirh small brown mushrooms amd a small green weed

Some woodland artwork and a nest of mushrooms we saw on our walk yesterday.

UK rw papers went to press with the same line as the left hand NYT headline below. Fools and lickspittles.

New Channel 4 sitcom just dropped

We'd rather be floating 〰️⁠
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This bobtail snipe eel (Cyema atrum) was spotted at 1,941 meters (6,369 feet) in Monterey Bay. Snipe eels in the family Nemichthyidae have thin, tweezer-like jaws that bend outwards. Their tiny, backward-facing teeth work almost like velcro to capture small prey.

Being a Brit I wouldn’t even think of that!

Photo of four lichens growing flat on grey rock. A yellow lichen is growing in a diagonal line across the photo. A dark grey oval lichen is growing along the yellow line as is a larger, round, off white lichen. A small amount of brown lichen is at the right side end of the line of yellow lichen.

Crustose lichen mix: Candelariella (yellow), Rhizocarpon (dark grey) Dimelaena (off white) and Acarospora (brown). Photo covers about 6cm, left to right. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

As a historian of C18th northern England who recently published a social history of religion in northern towns I obviously had to see the Testament of Ann Lee, about the leader of a group popularly known as the Shakers, who originated in Manchester. It was *quite strange* THREAD

Yesterday I had no internet for a few hours and ate an apple. It felt like an extremely minor insight into what it's like to live as a horse.

Pig and dog

There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.

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Whelp, it was nice while it lasted. Where are we going next?

My PhD student Zita wrote this beautiful piece of natural history on the threatened Rangatira spider found only on some offshore islands of the Chathams. This is the result of many many hours of patiently observing them at night.

I can't compete with this.

A look at the Neanderthal deep cave structures from Bruniquel Ten years after describing the site, new work details ancient access to the cave.

Early Neanderthals walked into this cave, went three football fields into the earth, created 15-foot-wide bubbles of rock, lit and tended small fires upon them. Then they left.

This unique find has implications for how we underestimate many past peoples.

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