Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻
@lsmonster.bsky.social
ニック PhD Zoology🔬 By day, NHM London 🏛️🐋 By night, children's author 📚 SMALL WORLD out now... 🦋 DINOSAUR DESERT out this July... 🦕 nickcrumpton.com
Woah. I mean this is amazing. And Yara as first author. AND JAVIER! Very very very cool work by extremely cool scientists. :)
Neil Shubin@neilshubin.bsky.social · last yr.New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Goooood morning. Here's a little introduction to my terribly grafted ginseng ficus. I bought them upon moving to London ten years ago, it's survived it's first repotting - and a few months of neglect. Hoping this fellow's going to be my life-long photosynthesising buddy.
#TakashiKashiwagi carving based on a #ShinjiTsuchimochi drawing. Tsuchimochi is a Tokyo based illustrator who creates modern landscapes in the Ukiyo style. Title:Ginza in the rain Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.
Have you heard of Michał Piotr Boym? A Pole, born in Lwow (1612), died in Guanxi. Considered to be the first European Natural History Researcher in China. Responsible for creating the first map of China, coining the word "flora" and introducing Europe to fruit such as lychee 🧵
Alex de Waal (world expert on famine) on the weaponisation of famine in Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
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In 2012, an armed group of poachers killed seven people and 14 okapis at Epulu wildlife facility. 13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.
13 years after deadly attack, an okapi returns to Epulu in DRC reserve
In February 2025, rangers at Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, successfully brought an okapi to Epulu, site of the…
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Sometimes I turn Radio 4 on and marvel at the extraordinary breadth and range of it's content: an astonishing array of intelligent, curious cultural, political, and scientific programming. But then sometimes I turn it on and it's The Archers.
Added benefit of WFH: being able to take deliveries of new book proofs. Sure, it looked amazing on the PDFs, but its size in the hand, the foil on the cover, the SMELL of the ink! Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
For anyone interested, Puffin books UK have a children’s Graphic Novel arm. 🙂 It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators. Hit the link below for more info. ☺️ www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...
The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition
The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition aims to seek out, nurture and publish new graphic novel creators from communities under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves.
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Ok #kidslitUK #kidlitUK gang. My 5 year old has come back from school so inspired about #space and I've realised I have tonnes of natural history #books in the house but no kickass books with facts about the solar system... Apart from astrocat, what are your favourites?
a man in a plaid shirt is looking up at the sun and planets
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is looking up at the sun and planets
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Greater London National Park. (Commuting out of NW)
I caught this last night and stopped what I was doing to listen to it. So of course it was a @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social programme. Continued to fuel my resistance to the capital concept of "progress" 🫣🌕
Falling Tree Productions@fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · last yr.Listen to A Map of the Moon now on the BBC Radio 4 Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This scene focusses on the fish. But the seafloor is also full of the things I work on. Small (and some surprisingly large) invertebrates. Slow growing and slow moving ones. Relatively fast hunting and burrowing ones. As well as micro-size but important places where biogeochemical reactions occur.
spencer roberts 🦈@unpopularscience.bsky.social · last yr.I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪
I was super lucky to have co-organised an event at @rbgkew.bsky.social yesterday with a heap of majorly talented PhD students from there and the @nhm-london.bsky.social. And yeesh, this was the view behind the lecture theatre 🤩
"Electric flames played over the rigging". So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...
The Living Planet 01 The Building of the Earth krakatoa
YouTube video by Ross Abercrombie
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Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻@lsmonster.bsky.social · last yr.Happy birthday, big man. Have a good one, baby. 💚
Happy birthday, big man. Have a good one, baby. 💚
You've heard of the tyrannosaurs - but have you heard of the megaraptors? These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from. Find out more about their Asian origins 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Tyrannosaurus rex’s ancestors were predatory Asian dinosaurs | Natural History Museum
The ‘king’ of the dinosaurs might not be the all-American predator it appears to be.
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The feeling when you think you've just spotted an otter but it turns out it's just a nutria. But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.
a beaver standing in the grass near a body of water with a stick in its mouth
ALT: a beaver standing in the grass near a body of water with a stick in its mouth
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Aha. Here it is. A Boom in Comics Drawn From Fact www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/b... (I imagine @louiestowell.bsky.social will get a kick out of this...)
A Boom in Comics Drawn From Fact (Published 2024)
One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.
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Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻@lsmonster.bsky.social · last yr.I remember reading somewhere that 1 in 4 books sold in France are graphic novels. A lot of that is non-fiction/journalistic. When you look at the quality of something like Green Algae, it's really not hard to see why...
I remember reading somewhere that 1 in 4 books sold in France are graphic novels. A lot of that is non-fiction/journalistic. When you look at the quality of something like Green Algae, it's really not hard to see why...
Been in northern France for less than 24 hours - barely over the channel - and the state of our borrowed roof box speaks volumes on UK vs mainland European insect abundance.
Please don't judge the mess in the yard... But look how well she's doing!!!
Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻@lsmonster.bsky.social · last yr.We live in London and have a *tiny* backyard. Nevertheless, we have a very scruffy robin fledgling being raised in it. Upon viewing, my 5-year-old immediately wanted to illustrate it and I should very much like to draw your attention to it's ear tufts 🥰 #urbannature
@joaovascoleite.bsky.social Hi João. I'm hoping to get in touch about a Graduate Centre event I'd like to contact you about at the NHM in May... Would you be able to share your best email address with me? Otherwise I'm at nick.crumpton at NHM.ac.uk :)
We live in London and have a *tiny* backyard. Nevertheless, we have a very scruffy robin fledgling being raised in it. Upon viewing, my 5-year-old immediately wanted to illustrate it and I should very much like to draw your attention to it's ear tufts 🥰 #urbannature
Waterlow Park, Highgate. A "garden for the garden-less". North London.
