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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 4d

he's that close to throwing a "thank you for your attention to this matter" in there

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 9d

#ö1 punkt eins heute zum start der impfsaison mit monika redlberger-fritz von der @meduniwien.ac.at

Virenflut und Impfstrategien | DI | 30 09 2025 | 13:00

Impflücken, Impfempfehlungen, neue Forschung gegen neue Risiken. Gast: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Monika Redlberger-Fritz, Virologin, MedUni Wien. Moderation: Xaver Forthuber. Anrufe 0800 22 69 79 | punkte...

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 11d

After a 3-month hiatus, thread number 3! Band of Brothers is the third episode of WWD2025, and focuses on the coming-of-age story of George the teenage Gastonia as he is pursued by Utahraptor, framed around the Lorrie’s site quarry in the Cedar Mountain Formation. (1/40)

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 11d

What's your sign?

pictogram saying "don't ride the dinosaur"

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 14d

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

Deadly new dinosaur with giant killer claws discovered – with it's last meal still trapped in its teeth | Discover Wildlife

Mega-clawed predatory dinosaur discovered in southern South America

www.discoverwildlife.com

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 16d

I'm blogging again, because sometimes I just want to write about what I want to write about. The latest is on a very spiky dinosaur and why dinosaurs are always going to be stranger than our expectations.

Extremely Spiky Dinosaur a Reminder of Fossil Record's Surprises — Riley Black

The discovery of an ornately-armored dinosaur underscores how much we don't yet know about the "terrible lizards."

rileyblack.net

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 15d

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 15d

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 15d

*deep sigh*

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 16d

Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out today!
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 16d

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful (...) But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16d

'"When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren't guided by strategy, but by 'fomo'". For 'companies', read 'universities'.

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

www.ft.com

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 20d

über den na-ionen-akku in der praxis - (noch?) nicht für autos, aber als speicher - hat digital leben vor kurzem berichtet: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Nachhaltige Akkus | MO | 15 09 2025 | 17:55

Eine Grazer Firma produziert recyclebare Batterien auf Natrium-Ionen-Basis

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · 21d

jetzt gleich ab 13 uhr in #ö1 punkt eins mit @melaniepichler.bsky.social und @petermock.bsky.social: ist die grüne transformation die zerstörung der europäischen autobranche - oder ihre einzige rettung?

Europas Autoindustrie: ein lebendes Fossil? | DO | 18 09 2025 | 13:00

Die Autobranche und der globale Wettbewerb um die Mobilitätswende. Gäste: Dr. Peter Mock, Europe Managing Director, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Berlin & Dr. Melanie Pichler...

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 25d

Jeri Taylor was remembered in the In Memorium tribute of this evening's Emmy Awards.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 27d

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise

1. This is sand dot com

Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)

thisissand.com

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 28d

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava.

But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.

My take @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time

The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them

www.science.org

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy Star Trek Day.

From Star Trek episode Balance of Terror, Captain Kirk says to Lt. Stiles, "Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge."

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · Feb 2

Early morning Mount Fuji. I love the twilight light from the opposite direction of a sunrise, especially with mountains. This was late autumn season, when I saw lots of autumn leaves at the bottom of the lake. Taken with a CPL to make them visible.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Feb 19

Pluto was named by an 11-year-old girl.
In 1930, Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, suggested to her grandfather that the new discovery be named for the Roman god of the underworld. He forwarded the name to the Lowell Observatory and it was selected.

Pluto's image taken by New Horizons on July 14, 2015, from a range of 22,025 miles (35,445 kilometers). The striking features on Pluto are clearly visible, including the bright expanse of Pluto's icy, nitrogen-and-methane rich "heart," Sputnik Planitia.
The natural-looking colors (beige, warm greys, and browns) result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to “true color” than the images released at the time of the encounter.
The source single-color MVIC scan includes no added data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m proud and over the moon to share the news that I’m a finalist in the Wildlife category of NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year 2025.

This is the big kahuna for Aotearoa wildlife photographers and a major goal I’ve been chasing for a long time. To achieve it is exceptionally special to me.

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

New dinosaur is unlike anything we've ever found | Unique armoured dinosaur discovered in Morocco

YouTube video by Natural History Museum

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Xaver Forthuber @xaverdavid.bsky.social · Aug 27

new anky just dropped!!

Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

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