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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2h

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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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

well, I will be using that, with attribution

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 2d

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

"Don't give up" and more encouraging words; and also a list of people to yeet into space, to their doom.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 2d

Academics take one headshot at the start of their career and then use it for the next 40 years.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 2d

Apply by 24 October. Our Travelling Fellowships offer PhD students and postdocs up to £3,000 for undertaking collaborative visits to other laboratories. Find out more and apply at biologists.com/grants/trave...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Science Magazine @science.org · 4d

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene

The projected loss of glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada is likely unprecedented in at least the past 30,000 years.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

a humpback whale jumping out of the water, 6 images stacked as it goes from nearly straight up, through to the right where you can see the bottom of the whale, until it slaps down onto the water with a great splash

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d

But, of course, the fuckwits.

Dame Sarah Mullally makes history as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sky news headline fails to name her but it’s ok, her husband is named.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

there's been too much fighting on here - let's rerun Trump Is Secretly Dead this weekend, that was fun last time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, I uploaded the old one to Google Docs and it worked fine there, so I am all good.

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 5d

"What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language" - J. Goodall.

This #oVertTCN chimpanzee CT scan is available for exploration on MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

3D rendering of a whole body CT scan of a chimpanzee, showing the skeleton with a density map where yellow = most dense material, blue = medium density material, purple = low density material. Top shows 3 images of the whole body rendered in a series rotating from front to back. Bottom shows a close up of the head and shoulders. The "oVert" symbol is in the top right corner. In the bottom left corner it reads "Pan troglodytes; YPM:VZ:015959; MorphoSource ID: 0000058004"

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 4d

Stand and applaud that pub.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wallasey pub renamed The George Orwell in digital ID cards protest

The James Atherton has been renamed in a bid to spark debate about civil liberties.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 4d

"Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. " more--
royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

In memory of Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist and the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Take a look at her 1985 article published in #PhilTransB 'Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 6d

Neurologist Masud Husain wins the 2025 @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize!

More: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Huge honour to meet @masudhusain.bsky.social tonight at a fab event with Sir Adrian Smith, brilliantly MCed by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

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Katherine Mathieson @kathmath.bsky.social · 6d

Xmas wish list is sorted thanks to the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize! royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize | Royal Society

Each year our panel of expert judges, comprising eminent scientists, authors, journalists and broadcasters, choose the book that they believe makes popular science writing compelling and accessible to...

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 5d

Great issue of Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org on the BIG QUESTION of the origin of life: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 5d

Back to Wolverhampton today for #TTRPG convention @concretecow.bsky.social tomorrow. I'm running 2-3 games of sci-fi horror #Mothership. Hope to see some of you there!

an alien is wearing sunglasses and a helmet and says welcome to the mothership .

ALT: an alien is wearing sunglasses and a helmet and says welcome to the mothership .

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 5d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 5d

I love to make people happy!

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 6d

It's biodegradable PLA (e.g. formlabs.com/uk/blog/3d-p...), printed in pieces connected with tiny joints. Yes, palaeontologists (and biomechanists, and engineers) use plenty of 3D printing.

Guide to 3D Printing Materials: Types, Applications, and Properties

In this guide, learn about the most popular plastic and metal 3D printing materials available and how you can choose the right one for your project.

formlabs.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 6d

Awesome wiggly 3D-printed Mosasaurus hoffmani, thanks to @iscavezzoni.bsky.social

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