"I have said we'd have another election if there was no overall majority". Apparently it is now ok to tell the electorate to vote again if they don't give the right result.

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider...

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

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Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

Our next step in this project is a bibliography of avian type publications. It's incomplete, but 1120+ refs to 210+ collections is a good starting point! Searchable by institution, country, city. albnd.github.io/bird_types/ #Ornithology #Taxonomy

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper in @bou.org.uk's Ibis: there is still no comprehensive database of bird type specimens. Many major collections have no published type catalogue at all. Where they exist, they're often print-only, partial, or decades out of date. 🧵

Major props to Robin and team for this important work. Read it, use it, share it far and wide.

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️@canopyrobin.com · 2w ago

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Just think, in another 4 or 5 years, Man City could have to pay a fine that runs to three figures!

Very pleased to get a preview copy of the paperback edition of Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. Looks very nice!

This one has been a long time coming. Been chasing Brent to talk about his work for ages and he has such a cool career trajectory and involvement in various parts of palaeontology.

Iszi Lawrence@iszi.com · 3w ago

New terrible lizards episode about dinosaurs tracks with Brent Breithaupt and @davehone.bsky.social and me! How Do We Know What Dinosaurs DID? The Science of Footprints youtu.be/puS0gkuTCHY

I'll be there and speaking too! (Once I've finished writing my bit!).

Iszi Lawrence@iszi.com · 3w ago

This is tonight!

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

This can only end well.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3w ago

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Engagement Fund 2026-27: Applications Now Open! Do you have an idea for engaging communities and publics with Queen Mary's research, teaching, or core business? Find out more about the Engagement Fund: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

All the Ed Sheeran stuff in the news just reminds me of this magnificent entry from Viz: www.reddit.com/r/Viz/commen...

From the Viz community on Reddit: (Viz 273) Ed Sheeran And The Fountain Of Popularity.

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I'm starting up a new extra-curricular program at QMUL focusing on communication skills. It's open to all Science and Engineering students, and it's all very informal and drop-in. But if you are a fellow academic, please share the news with your classes and if you are student, do come along.

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

I assume there's a new Chuck Tingle book coming about two burly fire fighters rescuing a President and then I don't want to know what the rest of the title would be.

On Weds 23rd join me, @iszi.com and more wonderful people for a night of UNDERGROUND comedy at @brunelmuseum.bsky.social Tickets: thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event...

Underground Comedy - Brunel Museum

Jokes and learning are back in the big hole in the ground! Join the Brunel Museum for a night of laughing all about our theme of The Underground. The Amuseum have assembled a brilliant lineup of profe...

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Is it submission season again? I've had requeuest to review 3 papers in the last 12 hours.

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Great little thread. Really quite similar in some ways but also partly parallel to this that I wrote a couple of months back: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...

The importance of basic research

Following on from my last post on the importance of publishing data as well as testing hypotheses, I thought I’d expand a bit more on an associated problem with the idea that this area is increasin…

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Andy Farke@andyfarke.bsky.social · last mo.

Hot Take for #FossilFriday - the quest to make paleontology "useful" and "relevant" and "high impact" has backfired spectacularly. A hypothetical "Big Data Approaches to Deep Time Ecosystem Services" almost always end up largely disconnected from actual fossils. (thread) <1/n>

New Terrible Lizards podcast out today with @davehone.bsky.social Terrible Lizards Live at Dinocon youtu.be/O8_8-5z6JTE

What Fossil Would Change Everything? | Terrible Lizards Live at Dinocon

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I have two papers of despair at the moment. No matter what we do with rewrites and edits and resubmissions they just get vaguely positive comments about the central idea and data with then suggestions to completely rewrite them. Worse, ususually one very positive and one very nagative review.

Close to breaking the 100 review mark on Amazon for Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social. The only 2 reviews of 1 star are complain the book was damaged so I'm claiming 100% positive reviews. If you have read it, please give it a rating and review*, it really helps! *Unless you hated it.

I've got prints for sale! Please buy some so I can pay my ever-increasing-for-no-reason internet bill!

Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · 2mo ago

This. I encourage people to share their online stores in the #SciArt Feed because I've so many artists assume they shouldn't. Barked at a guy back in the early days who said the SciArt Feed should be "pure" and "not commercial". Hellz no. Artists, go get that cheddah.