Now THAT'S getting a re-post.

Heather Tweed@heathertweed.bsky.social · 2d ago

Even earlier confirmed sighting in 1920.👹 (Inherited this)

Ed Miliband will appoint a new special representative for climate security, as well as a new ministerial taskforce on “the national security and resilience risks of a changing climate and nature loss” - excellent to see Now release the full JIC report publicly! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 20h ago

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites, according to researchers and government officials.

Mato Tipila, 9/24/2026, 1:34:12 PM

I'm happy to share Avannaascolex, our new palaeoscolecid(omorph) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland 🪱 Written up with @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @cambriannelids.bsky.social and other colleagues from KOPRI, Bristol and the NHM not on bsky www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Love to see ecology and conservation being combined with local languages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦪 Really highlights the importance of including languages beyond English in our research! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

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Fossils as cultural heritage: Scientific, commercial and legislative issues - Fanti - 2026 - Geology Today - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fossils as cultural heritage: Scientific, commercial and legislative issues

Fossils are among the principal sources for understanding the history of life through ‘Deep Time’ and can inform projections of biotic responses to environmental change. Despite a widespread recognit...

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The 5th iteration of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG V) classification has been published. It's #OpenAccess, so check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V

We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of t...

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Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 3d ago

Two seemingly unrelated sides of our lab collided today in the AWESOME new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system poster: flowers 🌸 and phylogenomics 🧬 Need a new genome? Just pick up the phone and “dial-a-genome” 📞🧬 @getgenome.bsky.social www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo...

Many Jurassic classics first found in the western United States have turned up elsewhere. Diplodocus, an icon among America's dinosaurs, also lived in prehistoric Spain. To get articles like this first, sign up for my newsletter on Buttondown. 🧪 buttondown.com/restingdinof...

Diplodocus Strolled Jurassic Spain — Riley Black

Some dinosaurs lived so large they make the world seem small.

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Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

Unexpected surprise. Marks & Spensers have done a new dinosaur advent calendar featuring my retro artwork done for the Natural History Museum! The design reminds me of the classic Aurora model kits box art. This year, the back features a word search!

Shrimp! Cenomanian (earliest Late Cretaceous), of Lebanon. ⚒️

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Here's something: Dennis Potter's rarely seen Play for Today from 1974, Schmoedipus, will be repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 7th October at 10pm. It's their tribute to Tim Curry, who stars alongside Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC One - Play for Today, Series 4, Schmoedipus

A strange young man turns up on Elizabeth’s doorstep and makes a frightening claim.

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Join us at The Geological Society Burlington House on Friday, 2nd October for our next free evening talk: Thirty years of discovery at the UK's largest dinosaur track site in North Oxfordshire by Professor Kirsty Edgar, University of Birmingham. Non-members are welcome free of charge.

Oh no! The Sternberg museum is also closing! hayspost.com/posts/f38333...

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

When you look at the amount of bioturbation in Mesozoic fluvial strata, as I have over my career, you come away with the sense that infaunal critters and the appearance of hypermassive herbivores had huge affects on depositional styles. They were geomorphic and paleoecological agents.

I'm watching Laibach on the 29th and I've just realised England are playing the Czech Republic at the same time. Which means I will actually Laibach and think of England.

Meanwhile, friends have suggested we set up a gofundme to help alleviate money worries while trying to get Flo back on her feet again. And then they did all the hard work setting it up as well. So if you'd like to help, please have at it. And if you can't that's fine too. gofund.me/d0d4004d7

Donate to Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery, organized by Emma Leadley

Flo is an artist, sci-fi and fantasy writer and regular attendee at conventio… Emma Leadley needs your support for Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery

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For some journals the AI toolbar is so big it makes it impossible to actually read the paper on the screen too and there’s no way to minimise or remove it. Also utterly ironic to plaster it all over plant science journals publishing articles about alleviating the climate crisis 😡

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 4d ago

i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this

Crassulaceae are famous for being the family in which CAM was first discovered. As an aside: There is no Crassulacean acid, as there is citric acid (from Citrus) or malic acid (from Malus). It’s simply an acid metabolism associated with Crassulaceae. 📷: Crassula ovata #Crassulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

The School of Biological Sciences at @cam.ac.uk is seeking a new Director for our Microscopy Bioscience Platform, which brings researchers together through open access to advanced imaging expertise and technology. Please share! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/directo...

Coal tide, Silversands Bay #Aberdour #Fife #Coal Coast

#FossilFriday: The pelycosaur Dimetrodon, on display at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Such a moving thread about the incredible bravery of the RNLI and the devastating risks they sometimes face.

Mags L Halliday@magslhalliday.bsky.social · 7d ago

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

I like those knife demonstrations where the guy cuts up super thin slices of beans and makes a transparent sandwich and then he cuts a hole into spacetime and pulls out a feathery microraptor.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪