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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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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h

"An American Werewolf in London" (also 1981) gets honourable mention. Also famously great effects, and remarkably funny. A truly great film.

"Teen Wolf", nope. It was of its time.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h

But "The Howling" (1981) remains the best werewolf movie. It still holds up as a terrifying story with special effects that knock your socks off. It made werewolves scary again, and sexy. After repeated viewings it continues to creep me out.
Recommended Halloween viewing!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 12h

"The Wolf of Snow Hollow" (Shudder) is a hidden gem of a campy horror movie. Lycanthropy and anger management/ alcoholism do a surprisingly enjoyable dramatic dance, with writer-director-lead actor Jim Cummings leading the way.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15h

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 19h

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 19h

What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be.

#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Making space in STEM for people with disabilities

Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be

cen.acs.org

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Sarah Z. Gibson, PhD @gombessagirl.bsky.social · 1d

A phenomenal paleontologist and a pleasure to talk to at SVP conferences. Mark will be missed.

Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds

Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.

www.nature.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

"Access: Horror 2025 Shorts Program" (Shudder): an abundance of quite short films, with a focus on psychological horror and toughness in disability or chronic health problems. Not very gory or very scary; more artistic and pensive. Sharp contrast to V/H/S series!

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

Latest installment of found footage horror anthology series "V/H/S/Halloween" (Shudder) continues to uphold the generally high quality. It goes all-in on the gore, but also the campiness of the holiday, & breaking taboos. It's brutal. "Coochie Coochie Coo" 1st short worked best. Watch end-credits!

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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 2d

"Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion"

"Patients have also been telling Your Voice, Your BBC News that they have been receiving text messages from the NHS and their GP asking them to come forward for their Covid jab despite not being eligible."

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion

Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

www.bbc.co.uk

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d

Horror classic "In the Mouth of Madness" coming in 4K restoration and if you've not seen this John Carpenter masterpiece yet, the time is coming.
watch for: throughline of homages to "Have you seen the Yellow Sign?" from Robert W. Chambers's "The King in Yellow".
youtu.be/qs1qo46GfWs

In the Mouth of Madness I Official Trailer | 4K

YouTube video by Arrow Video

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 4d

A new paper I'm on is out today! Primarily the work of @evodevoba.bsky.social, we found that distinguishing skull features among chicken-like and duck-like birds do not always arise later than shared similarities during embryonic development. evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🪶🧪

Chart showing the embryonic development of the skull in a chicken, a quail, a duck, and a goose.

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