Personally, I’d like Britain’s reptiles and amphibians celebrated on banknotes. An adder. A natterjack toad. A slow worm. A great crested newt.
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Personally, I’d like Britain’s reptiles and amphibians celebrated on banknotes. An adder. A natterjack toad. A slow worm. A great crested newt.
After 35 years in the US, the awards honoring science that makes you laugh, then think, will be held in Zurich. Organizer @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy explains: "We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA"
reconstruction of Arborea elegans as a long narrow upright frond on a microbially colonized seafloor (white rings)
Arborea elegans showing long narrow frond with short orthogonal brabches and a wide flat basal disc
Another #FossilFriday and another new Nfld. Ediacaran for you to enjoy hot off the press. Introducing Arborea elegans. This is the first fossil from a rich new site near #Torbay & #MiddleCove just north of St. John’s. An area always considered unfossiliferous, but discovered by Pascal Olschewski🧵
Ticks next to a 5p coin - that’s the scale.
Nymphs (poppy-seed sized) are so easy to miss!
Check skin after being outdoors, especially hidden spots and remove ticks promptly.
Awareness prevents Lyme.
#TickAware #LymeDiseaseAwareness
Holy crap. This is very bad.
Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...
Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪
Deadline: June 30, 2026
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Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event)
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Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.
He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.
Douglas Adams should have been 74 today. Let's all keep faith that he would have been a lovely old fella, immune to the fascist propaganda which has wholly ensnared so very many of his friends and contemporaries.
Anyway, here's his official biography: www.penguin.co.uk/books/419319... 🤖
Today I learned about how you can search your own posts etc. to find stuff on Bluesky.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
First Contact, 2023 gouache and ink on postcard
This Land, 2019, detail of installation gouache and ink on postcard
Charismatic Megafauna, 2024 gouache and ink on postcard
Fourth Wall, 2015–2020 gouache and ink on postcard
Vintage travel postcards of David Opdyke
#art #travel #wyrdwednesday
Humanists UK. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?' Douglas Adams. Author and humanist.
DON'T PANIC. And always carry a towel.
Today, we're celebrating the life of the humanist and author Douglas Adams, born #onthisday 1952.
He is sorely missed, but his books remain some of the funniest and most imaginative explorations of the absurdity of life, the universe, and everything.
🏝️ Explore the botanical wonders of the Azores with this new study on the under-sampled island of São Jorge.
🌿 Researchers have catalogued rare bryophytes and lichens to better understand the island's environment.
Check out the full paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e184350
ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis!
Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...
Funny is back.
BE FUNNY OR DIE will rise again.
E-book and audiobook available now…
New paperback edition next year.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Northern lights in the Triassic period
#auroraborealis #artandscience #EarthHistory
This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!
www.ign.com/articles/the...
Really excited to read this deep dive, as a (very) long time Dougal Dixon fan.
My long review of the 2025 edition of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs has just been published in Historical Biology. What is the 'use' of Speculative Zoology and how does this book connect to the history of dinosaur research? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YTPSK... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
Photo of a seedling emerging among the leaflitter. The two opposite cotyledons are green, leafy and linear in shape. Two adult leaves (and one just emerging) show that the adult leaf morphology is pinnately compound.
As all gardeners know, cotyledons (the pair of seed "leaves") can look very different from the true, adult leaves of a plant. The cotyledons of this Operculicarya decaryi seedling are simple & linear, but the true leaves are pinnately compound. #seed #cotyledon #Anacardiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
The car's in dock so I've got to go by bus.
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.
star trek themed doctors office that looks very like much the TNG/VOY era consoles. there is also a cardboard cutout of seven of nine!
one of the waiting chairs that looks like the bridge of the enterprise-D’s navigation console except that the chair is black.
im at the eye doctors. there is a doctor here who has a whole ass star trek themed setup
🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:
Science reporter/journalist/writer job alert at Nature!
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#journalism #jobs #science #naturemag #dc #nyc
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