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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4
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Devonian tetrapod | Former autonomous human jukebox | FirstGen | DICE Kent alum. | Lecturer in Biodiversity @ UCL | Opinions recycled | He/him

UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64254-jim-labisko
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/JLabs
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Very proud: 'The Lives of Frogs' is published today! Hardback and ebook available globally 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity 🐸 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ac.uk 🐸 🧪
GOOOOOONEEERRRRRSSSS!!!
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think:

“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”

Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh mate!
BBC 6 Music, 12:33-1pm
Back on the Block Party

Today's assignment: Erykah Badu

Celebrating 25 years of 'Mama's Gun' 🔫 with another sonic collage of 30+ tracks from across the catalogue, including LP cuts, singles, collabs, live performances, remixes & samples 📻📡
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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De La Soul's 10th album is out today 🌼 The first in nearly a decade, the first without Dave (RIP). Big day for us that've been fans since '89.

The Mass Appeal label is surely the Hip Hop MVP this year? LPs by Slick Rick, Mobb Deep, Big L, Ghostface, Raekwon, with Nas & DJ Premier to come. I mean..
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Well now, what a surprise. Lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives.
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I see what you did there. Nice 🐝🐝🐝
A Spike Bee Joint
Nikon Z9 and Z 105mm mc
SS1/2000 F9 ISO2500
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Human health and ecosystem health are connected - In-depth reporting on amphibian die-off in Central America, and downstream implications for malaria incidence featuring work from my colleague Mike Springborn
wapo.st/47Slsij
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Love it when accessibility is embraced.

I just want everyone to experience the same joys in life as me, even if they have to take a different path to get there. People deserve to be happy! 😃
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Had a fabulous time at the BFI for the premiere of Arthur Baker’s Rockers Don’t Stop film. Go see it when you can
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Great to see our membership numbers still rising....

This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼

youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM