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drmambobob.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist | Data Scientist | Samurai
Website: https://manabusakamoto.uk/
Find me on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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vanders.bsky.social
The kids are alright.
stevewhiteraven.bsky.social SteveWhiteraven @stevewhiteraven.bsky.social · 11h
"The Green Party leader Zack Polanski also spoke at the event but received a markedly more positive reception from the young crowd. Once finished, he received raptures of applause from the students, with many even standing up and cheering."
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
If you qualify as Home UK and BAME student, then we have an opportunity for a PhD position at the University of Reading to be considered under the CROCUS-DLA
BAME Home Scholarships – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
drmambobob.bsky.social
Just posting again, but I've got two PhD positions on offer through the CROCUS-DLA at the University of Reading. One on the phylogenetics and evolution of dragonflies with Dr Jamie Thompson

#PhD #zoology #paleontology
CR2026_43 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
Cool funded PhD position on Investigating the structural optimisation of bone through computational biomechanical modelling

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PhD #phdStudentship #science #zoology #biomechanics
Investigating the structural optimisation of bone through computational biomechanical modelling at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating the structural optimisation of bone through computational biomechanical modelling at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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wake-botany.bsky.social
Don’t get a boring job.
Get a fun job.
Be a botanist.
#botany #WakeBotany
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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jamiet-42.bsky.social
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!

It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
I miss MD player/recorders. Also cassette tapes.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
kiaspeaks.us kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 4d
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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jazzytyfighter.bsky.social
Check the Star Wars accounts.
www.wired.com/story/star-w...
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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bloomberg.com
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
You'll forgive my profanity, but we f*cking told you so.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
drmambobob.bsky.social
How Reform Is Selling Out The Coastline
youtu.be/3_6s1Wd9mgQ
How Reform Is Selling Out The Coastline
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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paperghost.bsky.social
oh my god. now labour is going with "near automatic", which is still not remotely accurate! is anyone going to pull them up on this??! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
Some of these conditions are required to qualify for settlement at any time. Today, settlement is near automatic. The only qualifications required are to have lived in this country for, in most cases, five years, and to have not received a prison sentence of over a 4 year. Now, the qualifying bar will be set higher. Applicants must have a clean criminal record. They must speak English to a high standard. They must make a sustained and measurable economic contribution. Finally, they must have no debt in this country.
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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paperghost.bsky.social
genuinely infuriating www.gov.uk/government/n...
"The new system will end automatic settlement and citizenship for anyone living here for five years. Instead, migrants must spend a decade in the UK before applying to stay unless they can show a real and lasting contribution to the economy and society. "
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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paperghost.bsky.social
a side note, but "Keir Starmer vowed to curb net migration...migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years." there IS NO AUTOMATIC SETTLING! this is *not a thing that exists*, @andrewgregory.com. Labour made that up
edpoole1975.bsky.social Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 5d
The predictable knee jerk incompetence of this government. Instead of addressing the material problems in people lives they scapegoat immigration and make the material problems worse. 50k nurse could quit the UK!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
#DAWNDINOS paper! We built a 3D musculoskeletal model of ~1 kg Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Gracilisuchus. Forelimbs were a challenge. Nice articulations of ribs, vertebrae & osteoderms made a good torso & neck. Probably quadrupedal, plantigrade & not fully erect limbs. doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae)
A three-dimensional biomechanical model of the musculoskeletal system is used to analyse the potential locomotor functions of the small (~1 kg) Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Gracilisuchus stipan...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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sheg7.bsky.social
Based. 🗳 💚
Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, may have been thinking about people like Wes Streeting (see 4.16pm) when he wrote this piece for Huffpost UK saying his party would target Labour MPs who have defended the asylum policy. He said: 44 Out of more than 400 Labour MPs, barely 20 are standing up against these grotesque asylum proposals. Twenty. That’s not courage, that’s capitulation.Those Labour MPs who are silent should be ashamed. Truly ashamed. The suggestion of confiscating jewellery, to drag children into detention centres, this is indecent, immoral, and indefensible. And let me say this clearly: we will challenge every single Labour MP who goes along with this. It’s not enough to just say you regret it or you're sad about it. Voters still have a moral compass, even if Labour have smashed theirs to pieces.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
George Monbiot delivers a perfect analysis of where we're at with capitalism on the new episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.

Premiering on YouTube now: youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI
"when the rich don't like what you say, they come for you" on the bold politics thumbnail with george monbiot
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
If you're interested in dragonflies, evolution and phylogenetics, then this might be the PhD project for you! #paleontology #PhD
CR2026_43 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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darren32359.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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jamesmchapman.bsky.social
Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
I'm co-supervising two PhD projects at the University of Reading through the CROCUS-DLA.

First project:
The evolutionary rise of dragonflies as efficient hunters through changing climates

Please share widely!

#zoology #palaeontology #PhD #PhDStudentship
CR2026_43 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
drmambobob.bsky.social
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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mflohr.bsky.social
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
A horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of mandates in Copenhagen. The largest party is "Enhl." short for Enhedslisten, a far-left party, followed by SF, the socialist people's party, and then the social democrats who suffered a major defeat.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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entirelyharmless.bsky.social
Labour: "you have to vote for us or you'll end up with Reform"

Danish Social Democrats: "yeah, about that strategy..."
mflohr.bsky.social Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 6d
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
A horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of mandates in Copenhagen. The largest party is "Enhl." short for Enhedslisten, a far-left party, followed by SF, the socialist people's party, and then the social democrats who suffered a major defeat.
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM