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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 22h

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:

Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 14h

You'd be hard pressed to find anywhere on Mount Everest without hundreds of witnesses!

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Andrew @andrew-ecoathome.bsky.social · 4d

Introducing BIRDBASE, which aims to be the world's most comprehensive avian trait ecology database. Article links to open access paper, & data in Excel spreadsheet. phys.org/news/2025-09... #science #environment #ecology #eco #biology #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #openaccess #datascience

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

phys.org

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 9d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 3d

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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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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 3d

And also, after seeing countless other people getting bitten by slow walking zombies, stand/sit still for long periods without ever checking behind themselves.

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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Take part in activities celebrating World Anatomy Day! Join us on 18 October and find out how our museum is used for cutting-edge approaches to study ecology, evolution and skeletal anatomy.

Family Event: Amazing Anatomy

The Grant Museum has a takeover day in partnership with UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy. Pre-book for 11:00, drop-in 12:00 - 14:00

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 7d

Rumour has it those books are still there

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Correct Question @correctquestion.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall

My favorite anecdote was when The Far Side ran this cartoon. The Jane Goodall Institute was NOT amused, and threatened litigation, until it found out that Jane Goodall herself had seen the cartoon and thought it was hilarious.

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www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 7d

I once had a 5 hour flight to Azores with Ryanair. I couldn't sleep at all but certain other parts of my body didn't have trouble!

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 7d

Farage plays the everyman, but he’s not harmless, he’s not honest, and he’s not on your side. ❌

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 9d

This would be more effective if it wasn't anonymous

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domi @domi.zip · 13d

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

2 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

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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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 16d

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

jobs.open.ac.uk

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 19d

Beautiful day for a visit to Down House, followed by a drink in Darwin's local

The rear of Down House, former home of Charles Darwin, on a sunny day

View over a haymeadow towards Down House on a sunny day

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 20d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 21d

Saying you work in IT is the confession. The rest we could've guessed ourselves.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 22d

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief!

openquaternary.com/announcements

If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> [email protected]

Announcements | Open Quaternary

We are looking to appoint an Editor-in-Chief starting in January 2026 for a period of three years. The new Editor-in-Chief will be working closely with the current Editors-in-Chief during a transition period.

openquaternary.com

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 22d

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP

vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

2025 Registration Information – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

vertpaleo.org

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 23d

Abba-sinthe

Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 23d

The Shandy Warhols

On Her Majesty's Rail Replacement Bus Service 🔞🦀 (Crab Verified) @ipsumlorem.bsky.social · 23d

Make a band even more alcoholic:

The Specials Brew

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