@HStiles1
@hstiles1.bsky.social
Cantwara Maegth;
Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain!
(tw)It! 🤪
Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain!
(tw)It! 🤪
The Gavle goat is back!
Pity they cut the horns out of the view & that Swedish privacy laws obvious mean pixillation of anyone in the view so it all looks a bit strange these days... www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
Pity they cut the horns out of the view & that Swedish privacy laws obvious mean pixillation of anyone in the view so it all looks a bit strange these days... www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
Gävle's brilliant Christmas symbol
Detta är Gävlebockens egna sida. Här hittar du allt från filmerna om Gävlebocken till hela invigningsprogrammet.
www.visitgavle.se
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Gavle goat is back!
Pity they cut the horns out of the view & that Swedish privacy laws obvious mean pixillation of anyone in the view so it all looks a bit strange these days... www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
Pity they cut the horns out of the view & that Swedish privacy laws obvious mean pixillation of anyone in the view so it all looks a bit strange these days... www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
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Here's a clip from my chat yesterday with @erictopol.bsky.social – this is about Crick's first encounter with the psychedelic poetry of Michael McClure, in 1959. For the full chat (it lasts an hour - you could just listen) go here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns2c...
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Here's a clip from my chat yesterday with @erictopol.bsky.social – this is about Crick's first encounter with the psychedelic poetry of Michael McClure, in 1959. For the full chat (it lasts an hour - you could just listen) go here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns2c...
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Been researching this man, Hezekiah Moscow, since February 2019. He went by a nickname that was spelled a billion different ways so getting to the truth is TOUGH. Findings today for the book have blown open doors. New things after six years! AND all because of collaboration. Buy my book. Thanks 😂
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Been researching this man, Hezekiah Moscow, since February 2019. He went by a nickname that was spelled a billion different ways so getting to the truth is TOUGH. Findings today for the book have blown open doors. New things after six years! AND all because of collaboration. Buy my book. Thanks 😂
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9️⃣0️⃣ Yvonne Barr (1932–2016) 🇮🇪 #womeninSTEM Everyone has heard of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis. But did you know that the virus was discovered in 1964 by Yvonne Barr, an irish virologist, and Michael Epstein ?
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
9️⃣0️⃣ Yvonne Barr (1932–2016) 🇮🇪 #womeninSTEM Everyone has heard of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis. But did you know that the virus was discovered in 1964 by Yvonne Barr, an irish virologist, and Michael Epstein ?
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/o...
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Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page
Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA
Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page
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🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience
Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Deaths from highly infectious virus grow, and states brace for more
Federal data shows more than 25,000 cases have been recorded so far this year, the second consecutive year of unusually high activity.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience
Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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@catieslaughts.bsky.social reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time. 🧪🔭
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Searching for Shifts in Variable Star Light Curves
Astrobites reports on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time.
aasnova.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@catieslaughts.bsky.social reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time. 🧪🔭
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The West’s vanishing porcupines www.hcn.org/articles/the... 🌐🧪
The West’s vanishing porcupines - High Country News
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.
www.hcn.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The West’s vanishing porcupines www.hcn.org/articles/the... 🌐🧪
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Earth cooled by 12ºC over the past 6 million years. Understanding this massive shift is key to anticipating how fast our world will heat up next. #ClimateHistory #Antarctica 🧪
New Lessons from Old Ice: How We Understand Past (and Future) Heating - Eos
Fragments of blue ice up to 6 million years old—the oldest ever found—offer key insights into Earth’s warming cycles. Researchers are using these ancient data to refine models of our future climate.
eos.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Earth cooled by 12ºC over the past 6 million years. Understanding this massive shift is key to anticipating how fast our world will heat up next. #ClimateHistory #Antarctica 🧪
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
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The ocean has a strong influence on precipitation in Southwest Asia. The historical patterns of warm and cold that suppress rain in Tehran are shown on the left. The current pattern is shown on the right, aligning closely for maximum forcing of drought.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The ocean has a strong influence on precipitation in Southwest Asia. The historical patterns of warm and cold that suppress rain in Tehran are shown on the left. The current pattern is shown on the right, aligning closely for maximum forcing of drought.
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Hear about the historic #drought going on in Tehran? Check out the thread below. Post #3 includes a link to a paper reviewing the multiple factors that force drought in the region. 🧪
Tehran is having an historic drought due to a combination of factors, including climate change.
The ocean is not helping.
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The ocean is not helping.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hear about the historic #drought going on in Tehran? Check out the thread below. Post #3 includes a link to a paper reviewing the multiple factors that force drought in the region. 🧪
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That grav. lens efect is crazy
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That grav. lens efect is crazy
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
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Celebrating a year on Bluesky (+/-1 million, because my dates are so not calibrated), I figured I might bring back some old posts buried in the feed for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
Hi there, science feed! 🧪 For your consideration: phosphatic shell fragments from lingulid brachiopods in siltstone, from the lower Triassic Dinwoody Formation of SW Montana. Preservation is a little rough, but two valves are loosely connected at the pedicle end.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Celebrating a year on Bluesky (+/-1 million, because my dates are so not calibrated), I figured I might bring back some old posts buried in the feed for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
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A wave of mass brutality accompanied the vanishing of the first pan-European culture [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🦴⚔️💀🌽
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A wave of mass brutality accompanied the vanishing of the first pan-European culture [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🦴⚔️💀🌽
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
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I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late?
Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend.
www.livescience.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
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I highly recommend the biography of Francis Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social if you want to know more about the man behind the myth, or are just interested in the history of molecular biology 🧪
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA
Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I highly recommend the biography of Francis Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social if you want to know more about the man behind the myth, or are just interested in the history of molecular biology 🧪
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... These Russian apologists should be expelled, lose their citizenship, & sent to bloody Russia where they belong...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... These Russian apologists should be expelled, lose their citizenship, & sent to bloody Russia where they belong...
I'll say it until my bones are dust but when newsrooms don't support science journalism, it's just easier to let science funding wither and die. [Katter voice] DONT SAY THAT pollies won't bend to pressure from the papers. They can be terrified of it (see news weaponising the social media ban...) 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🏺🧪Not convinced there's either a woman or goose depiction here (or indeed, goose-sex).
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🏺🧪Not convinced there's either a woman or goose depiction here (or indeed, goose-sex).
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator. Twice.
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
Did Plankton Freeze the Whole Earth?
Did you know that Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator? Twice.
And the new theory for how it happened is not what you’d expect.
It wasn’t an asteroid.
It wasn’t…
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator. Twice.
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
