CCRB paper alert!
Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap?

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Maybe @aeon.co would be a good home for this

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

If you like evolutionary constraints, serial homology, teeth, bats or all of the above, come and see our talk and posters! 👇🏼
At 3:30 I will talk about the genomic and developmental foundation of adaptive tooth shape evolution in bats Room S09 rm 118-119 #ESEB2025

The Tucker group @ccrb27.bsky.social is looking for a new postdoc to look at the interplay between the microbiome and the developing vomeralnasal organ. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121845-...

And working class people here too. Where I grew everyone had their tea after CBBC finished (on their laps infront of neighbours, TNG, ot Fresh Prince). We were 1st gen middle class (teacher mum), and we'd have an early dinner 4 nights out of 7.

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

the worst thing about being on the job market is having to actually engage with LinkedIn. oh man, what a stunningly awful platform that is. Was it better before and has just suffered from enshittification?

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.

open.substack.com/pu...

A platform took my PhD thesis and used AI to turn it into a podcast, then emailed me expecting me to be grateful about it. I... am not.

#AI #Podcast #Publishing

Here Mike Lynch mounts a fierce challenge to two recent attempts to understand the evolution of complexity in biology and beyond. I wouldn't like to place bets on the winner in this bout, but it does seem Lynch presents some tough questions.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I could quote the whole of this article.

"how are mid-career academics, who have had years of rejections and refusals, supposed to believe in themselves if nobody above them does?... you are absolutely replaceable at these institutions. Thirty younger, cheaper, keener people are clamouring to leap into any hole created by your absence"

photo didn't uploat.... IT WASN'T A WEST BROM STICKER

I've never felt so seen
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
(archive link) archive.ph/MjC2z

just sat down for a restorative Beamish in Cork city, and what do I see in the seat we randomly picked? #UpTheAlbion

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

just asked an popular LLM to write about working @ccrb27.bsky.social and it basically said the lifts are more temperamental than the experiments. Take from that what you will.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Happy St George' Day!

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean?
In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

just saw the 80s referred to as the late 1900s, and now I'm a dessicated corpse.