Dr Alessio Veneziano
@aveneziano.bsky.social
Biological Anthropologist with an inordinate fondness for science, nature, bones, fossils, primates, data and R! 💀🦷🦴🩻🦍🦧📊
Trying to gain visibility in #science 🧪 but you share SURNAME AND NAME with a porn actor...
a man playing a guitar with the words " i never had a chance " above him
ALT: a man playing a guitar with the words " i never had a chance " above him
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Trying to gain visibility in #science 🧪 but you share SURNAME AND NAME with a porn actor...
A university course on things we don't understand and struggle to grasp about the natural world! 🤯 I long to be a student again, sitting in those benches waiting for the knowledge to explode leaving me intellectually mindblown for the rest of my life!
🧪 #science
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
🧪 #science
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
No one knows the answer, and that’s the point — Harvard Gazette
“Genuinely Hard Problems” pilots novel approach to scientific education.
news.harvard.edu
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A university course on things we don't understand and struggle to grasp about the natural world! 🤯 I long to be a student again, sitting in those benches waiting for the knowledge to explode leaving me intellectually mindblown for the rest of my life!
🧪 #science
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
🧪 #science
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
What a thread 🧵👇 and another great example to celebrate #WomenInSTEM! Read about #paleo Elga Mark-Kurik, about her work and how it crossed path with the modern meme culture! Thanks @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for sharing this important bit of colourful #science 🧪
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What a thread 🧵👇 and another great example to celebrate #WomenInSTEM! Read about #paleo Elga Mark-Kurik, about her work and how it crossed path with the modern meme culture! Thanks @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for sharing this important bit of colourful #science 🧪
I had a pretty bad job interview today, which I did with a very bad throat infection and associated muscle pain...but #Mamdani won elections as Mayor of New York, so overall this is a massively positive day! And I don't even live in the US!
A sign that people had enough of oligarchy!
A sign that people had enough of oligarchy!
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I had a pretty bad job interview today, which I did with a very bad throat infection and associated muscle pain...but #Mamdani won elections as Mayor of New York, so overall this is a massively positive day! And I don't even live in the US!
A sign that people had enough of oligarchy!
A sign that people had enough of oligarchy!
Things don't always have to be sensational! #History does not need to be rewritten but updated and that's done thanks to funding the sciences and the humanities! Please, find joy in the slow but accurate updating of knowledge!
🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology #AI
🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology #AI
So the neofascist's money ...
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/elon-musk-ai-archaeology-rome-7rn9xpsgd
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/elon-musk-ai-archaeology-rome-7rn9xpsgd
Elon Musk says AI research into ancient Rome will ‘rewrite history’
The world’s richest man is financing a new age of archaeological projects that seek to use artificial intelligence to fill in knowledge gaps
www.thetimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Things don't always have to be sensational! #History does not need to be rewritten but updated and that's done thanks to funding the sciences and the humanities! Please, find joy in the slow but accurate updating of knowledge!
🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology #AI
🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology #AI
In #science 🧪, something is not true but supported by evidence! Some things have so much evidence to support them, that we can think of them as facts! If massive evidence supports the safety of vaccines, it becomes unlikely that some new evidence can counteract that point, possible but unlikely! 👇
“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change.
Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence.
My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
1/10
Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence.
My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
1/10
There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you
How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.
www.livescience.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In #science 🧪, something is not true but supported by evidence! Some things have so much evidence to support them, that we can think of them as facts! If massive evidence supports the safety of vaccines, it becomes unlikely that some new evidence can counteract that point, possible but unlikely! 👇
With #Halloween approaching 🎃, help yourself with a treat: trees seem to influence their surrounding diversity even after they die 🌳🌲👻
🧪 #science #botany #ecology #biology
🧪 #science #botany #ecology #biology
🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
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Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
A thread: [1/3]
Memories of Trees Past: Coexistence Implications of Legacy Conspecific Density Dependence
Negative density dependence persisted for up to 5 years after tree death, but with interspecific variation. Although stabilising niche differences were large, fitness differences–at the seedling life...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
With #Halloween approaching 🎃, help yourself with a treat: trees seem to influence their surrounding diversity even after they die 🌳🌲👻
🧪 #science #botany #ecology #biology
🧪 #science #botany #ecology #biology
The #AI bubble explained simply! I think AI is here to stay but not in the gargantuan ways we see today: when AI costs will become too heavy to subsidize and its quality will reduce (eventually 👇), people will finally see the usefulness of smaller and better targeted AI! I hope... 🧪 #science
the eventual collapse of ai because it will run out
of quality material to train on has me fascinated - esp since the collapse is expected to start sooner than i thought
of quality material to train on has me fascinated - esp since the collapse is expected to start sooner than i thought
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Free course in Developmental Biology starting tomorrow in Paris 🇫🇷, held at @sorbonne-universite.fr! 🧪 #science #biology
Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
October 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Free course in Developmental Biology starting tomorrow in Paris 🇫🇷, held at @sorbonne-universite.fr! 🧪 #science #biology
A global atlas of 3D canopy structure 🌲🌳🌍 with most of the database soon to be freely available! Great effort!
🧪 #science #ecology #GIS
🧪 #science #ecology #GIS
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Vive la rHERPsistance ✊🐸 #herpetology #Portland
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Vive la rHERPsistance ✊🐸 #herpetology #Portland
The #science story of Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu has everything you want science to be! It's always very inspirational to see such commitment in a scientist! 🧪🌷🇯🇵 #botany #ecology #evolution
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The #science story of Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu has everything you want science to be! It's always very inspirational to see such commitment in a scientist! 🧪🌷🇯🇵 #botany #ecology #evolution
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
The evolution of fossil forests 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳 Another reminder that #science is really cool! 🧪
Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The evolution of fossil forests 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳 Another reminder that #science is really cool! 🧪
I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There is solid #science behind the benefits of reducing meat consumption 🥩 and the meat industry is behind the online backlash that undermines it. They want people to be misinformed and this costs lives. Choose your info sources wisely! 🧪👇
changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...
changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...
Meat vs EAT-Lancet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash • Changing Markets
The EAT-Lancet Commission publish EAT-Lancet 2.0: an update to the planetary health diet 2019. One of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – o...
changingmarkets.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
There is solid #science behind the benefits of reducing meat consumption 🥩 and the meat industry is behind the online backlash that undermines it. They want people to be misinformed and this costs lives. Choose your info sources wisely! 🧪👇
changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...
changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...
I love finding notes, receipts, etc from the past in secondhand books 📚, like this 1947 invite from a British lieutenant to an italian consul and missus in Palestine! It's a tiny bit of history, tangible proof it used to be #Palestine 🇵🇸!
#BookSky #books
#BookSky #books
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I love finding notes, receipts, etc from the past in secondhand books 📚, like this 1947 invite from a British lieutenant to an italian consul and missus in Palestine! It's a tiny bit of history, tangible proof it used to be #Palestine 🇵🇸!
#BookSky #books
#BookSky #books
Fungus-growing termites 🍄🟫 have evolved some contamination prevention responses with varying efficacy! Find out in the article! 👇
🧪 #science #nature
🧪 #science #nature
September 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Next time, they should all walk on stage and kick his ass! 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
September 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Next time, they should all walk on stage and kick his ass! 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
Natural disasters 🌪️ continue to kill years after they happen! Indirect effects of natural disasters could explain the observed higher mortality in south east US 🇺🇸! Data can save lives!
#science #data #climate 🧪 📊 🌍
#science #data #climate 🧪 📊 🌍
Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:
Did Scientists Just Figure Out Why People Die A DECADE Earlier in the Southeast US?
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
September 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I don't even live in the UK anymore but this is enough to support #GreenParty! 🇬🇧
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I don't even live in the UK anymore but this is enough to support #GreenParty! 🇬🇧
Reposted by Dr Alessio Veneziano
This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪
The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social reversed its decision to exclude israeli institutions. How can #EAA not take the right side while the entire Palestinian population and #heritage are being destroyed? Do they even care about humans or heritage?
🧪 #science #Archaeology #BioArch #EAA2025
🧪 #science #Archaeology #BioArch #EAA2025
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social reversed its decision to exclude israeli institutions. How can #EAA not take the right side while the entire Palestinian population and #heritage are being destroyed? Do they even care about humans or heritage?
🧪 #science #Archaeology #BioArch #EAA2025
🧪 #science #Archaeology #BioArch #EAA2025
Some very cool research from a former colleague! #Engineering and #Biology come together to study fluid dynamics, with a focus on salamanders! 🦎 Insigths into best practice for fluid simulation with organic geometries!
🧪 #science #herpetology #CFD
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
🧪 #science #herpetology #CFD
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
The crucial role of meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology: Describing fluid dynamics performance through best practices
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has become an essential tool for studying fluid interactions in biological systems. While widely used in engineering, its application in the natural sciences, pa...
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Some very cool research from a former colleague! #Engineering and #Biology come together to study fluid dynamics, with a focus on salamanders! 🦎 Insigths into best practice for fluid simulation with organic geometries!
🧪 #science #herpetology #CFD
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
🧪 #science #herpetology #CFD
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
It's mesmerising the way this artist sees #nature. Share it and show it to others! #sciart #art #environment 🌍
2021 vs 2025. Two illos based on the same motif. Which one do you like more? #sciart
August 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's mesmerising the way this artist sees #nature. Share it and show it to others! #sciart #art #environment 🌍