John R. Hutchinson

Professor John R. Hutchinson

@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biomechanist. Awesome animals, dinosaurs, anatomy, locomotion, computer modeling, http://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com, #DisabledInSTEM. #DAWNDINOS. He/him. Fellow of the Royal Society.

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John Hutchinson is a British academic. He is a reader in nationalism at the London School of Economics (LSE), in the Department of Government.

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Environmental science 27%

Geology 18%

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 2h

These stories are so surreal

nymag.com/intelligence...

A couple of weeks into this incursion, the Twin Cities are settling into a new rhythm, a relation between occupied and occupier. “There he is with his little bottle again,” sighs Emma, standing near her house in Frogtown, across the street from an ICE agent in an unmarked car. Every so often she blows the pink whistle attached to her zipper and points at the car; in response, he looks out his driver’s-side window straight at her, picks up his canister of pepper spray, and shakes it. Emma is a 30-something part-time music librarian in a gray beanie and purple coat and mittens that make her hands look comically large. She and the agent have been at this for 45 minutes: She makes him visible with her whistle; he taunts her with his pepper spray. It is ten degrees, windy, snowing. In the distance, we hear whistles — other neighbors pointing out other agents. Emma whistles; he shakes his little bottle.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Mary Feeney, Julia Lynch , and 7 more John R. Hutchinson, Mary Feeney, Julia Lynch, Alison Johnson, Margot C. Finn, Talia Schaffer, Henry Jones, Alessandro Rigolon, Ryan K. Brook, Jon Dean

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 5h

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 8h

Did you spot it…?
An insanely good camouflage 🦀

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11h

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

www.theguardian.com

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 12h

New #TikTok update gives the government access to your “sexual life” and sexual orientation

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 14h

THE GODDESS OF REGENT’S CANAL
(Pongo pygmaeus excelsus)
Some art I commissioned, via @lynneahardy.bsky.social for an upcoming project – the artist is Daniel Barker @arkat.bsky.social

A black and white picture of an Orangutang drinking tea and labelled Pongo pygmaeus excelsus.

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Lindsey B @kibalchich.bsky.social · 14h

Courtesy of Ben Jennings at
The Guardian

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 17h

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com · 22h

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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lou @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social · 1d

I want this to happen so bad. this will all be worth it if I can see a tree explode

map showing that there is an "EXPLODING TREE RISK" for this midwest this weekend.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1d

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 1d

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos — which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms — may have been able to hop in short bursts, according to research published in Scientific Reports: spklr.io/633258xjaX

#Palaeontology 🧪

Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos - Scientific Reports

The locomotor abilities of animals depend upon their body size. Today, kangaroos are the largest hopping mammals, but some of their Pleistocene relatives were larger still—more than twice as heavy as any modern kangaroo. So, is there an upper size limit of bipedal hopping? Previous analyses have recovered an upper limit of ~ 140–160 kg based on allometry, but have suggested that incorporating changes in hindlimb scaling patterns among giant species would alter these conclusions. Here, we test this proposal by integrating scaling data from modern kangaroos with direct observation of the hindlimb bones of giant fossil kangaroos. We test two potential limiting factors on hopping—bone strength, and tendon size. We find that (a) the metatarsals of giant kangaroos would be capable of resisting the bending moments involved in hopping, and (b), the calcanea (heel bones) of giant kangaroos could accommodate tendons large enough to resist the loads generated during hopping. While hopping may not have been their primary mode of locomotion, our findings suggest that it may have formed part of a broader locomotor repertoire, for example for short bursts of speed.

spklr.io

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

I love this one. Super creepy stop-motion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCB...
I didn't expect it to become a bromance. Ghoulmance?

Yogash the Ghoul

YouTube video by bluworm

www.youtube.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

then again:

* there was a thunderclap over the RNC in 2016 when he was nominated

* an bald eagle lashed out at him like the barking dogs in the first terminator movie

* his second swearing-in was one of the coldest winters in DC history

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

"Because of the extraordinarily long duration of these trips and the chance for prolonged side effects such as delirium and dizziness, Domanuer has yet to try the raw mushrooms himself."

Cowardly scientists...

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

"For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week."

😱Someone is going to get very rich off these!
I'm tempted to see the Lilliputians but it's a hard pass for me.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

"chemical extracts from lab specimens produced behavioural changes in mice similar to those reported in human."

!!!!?????Did the mice see mini-mice or mouse-sized humans!!!!???
We need answers, science!

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

"At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'"
Mmm forbidden little-person-summoning mushroom...

Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 1d

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Peter Thorne, John R. Hutchinson , and 3 more Dorothy Bishop, Peter Thorne, John R. Hutchinson, Charles West, Cailin O’Connor, Hisham Zerriffi

Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 1d

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Richard Price, Michael Larkin

Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 1d

My local bookshop understands their audience.

Sign in People's Book in Takoma Park featuring the illustration of the werewolf ripping off its shirt in anguish which reads WE ARE SOLD OUT OF THE GAY HOCKEY BOOKS

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Aaron Sojourner, Jessica Vitak , and 2 more John R. Hutchinson, Aaron Sojourner, Jessica Vitak, Mark Rice, Manisha Sinha

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article)

Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

www.nytimes.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of agents, you also risk the feds tracking you and those around you, explains a researcher who studies data governance and digital technologies. buff.ly/XdKwsYK

Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking – here’s how to minimize the risk

Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of agents, you also risk the feds tracking you and those around you.

theconversation.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 1d

in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.

brown wastewater cascades over a series of weirs into a churning frothy channel at a sewage treatment plant.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I still have my "AI slop multicolour pen" from >40 years ago. It never got much usage.

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · Nov 25

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out that AI like ChatGPT is a shoggoth.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, you all sent over 800 letters to House Reps calling on them to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.!!! Here's a heat map (since you dorks like data lol).

You can do it every day and it takes literally 5 seconds after you've done it once: fight2win.standupforscience.net

A heat map of the US in shades of purple and grey showing where the most letters were sent!

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

I got to visit the Evolutionary Biomechanics Lab at Imperial College in London yesterday to do a PhD viva (they passed easily).
Added perk in addition to prosecco: checking out some of their "tree lobsters" and other Phasmatodea.

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