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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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The 12yo has declared yesterday the Chambered Nautilus Awareness Day! The best known of the nautiluses, found throughout the Pacific and it is nonetheless listed as threatened species.

Chambered nautilus - Wikipedia

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When the mammalogists are away, the invertebrate palaeontologists and ichthyologists will convene at cross purposes in the group chat to try and ID the skull your relative found in the garden. YMMV on if this is a good thing 😂

#MolluscMonday: the Lias ammonite Microderoceras birchi, named for Mary Anning's friend Col. Thomas Birch. This specimen @morethanadodo.bsky.social was probably purchased by J.E. Bowman (1785–1841) from Mary Anning when he visited Lyme Regis in August 1841.

#MolluscMonday Specimen of the Late Triassic bivalve Rhaetavicula contorta mounted on the tablet used when this Triassic bivalve was displayed in the old British Museum (Natural History) invertebrate fossil gallery.

Slightly terrifying to realise that my 2005 Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" tour T-shirt is old enough to drink even in the USA now 😂

If you want me to answer your customer experience survey, don't open with "how likely are you to recommend our product or service", bc I'm not. No matter how much I liked it. I don't go round recommending products and services to my friends.

Jokes aside, I see people go "I think I'm trans but I'm not gonna address it because of all the difficult stuff, what would I get out of it?" And the answer is true joy. That's what you get out of it. Unless you face yourself, fully and completely, and know who you are, you will never find true joy.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

"The new laws have been accompanied by that age-old trick, traditionally associated with fascist regimes, of smearing leftwing dissidents as terrorists." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Eons: Life and Death on Pangaea thread The Eons team trusted @lacerdajulio.bsky.social @kiabugboy.bsky.social and myself to help with the reconstructions for the series. I'm consolidating my posts to this thread so that they're easier to find. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt Watch link:

Eons

Take a journey through the history of life on Earth.

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Cameo: this wasn't part of the script but I had the power to #InsertAnInvert, so I specifically asked @kiabugboy.bsky.social to model us Dendropupa vetusta, the oldest land snail, which was also found in Joggins Formation. Please admire the snails. This is important.

Racists describing refugees to Britain as "Boat people" like our nation's most famous hobby wasn't using the boats of the British Navy to take over other countries. Like... British people are, very famously, boat people. We were boat people all over the world. It was our whole thing.

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

It's been a while, but it's always worth posting that the famous tongue-twister 'She sells sea shells' has NOTHING to do with Mary Anning, as was shown by folklorist Stephen Winick. He found the first connection comes from 1977, but it seems to date from a 1975 book. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...

Reminder to the media reporting on European wildfires: please don't say that forest has been "destroyed" or "lost": As developers are waiting for a chance to use these areas for other purposes don't imply that they have become worthless. Say "affected" or some similar wording instead. f24.my/C3vq.BS

France: 2,000 hectares lost in forest fires

France has been battling a series of devastating wildfires following record-breaking heatwaves, with the government saying the country has not experienced so many fire outbreaks since World War II. On...

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Long story short Government: Everything is fine actually and trans rights are exactly where we want them (segregated and banned in schools and for young people)

Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter.bsky.social · last wk.

The official government response to London Trans Prides message to Andy Burnham from the end of various articles: A Government spokesperson said: ‘The Government is committed to protecting the rights, dignity and safety of all LGBT+ people. 🧵 (me- this is simply insulting)

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to carbon & virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠

Thank you Lambeth Council 🎉🎉🎉 you are doing the right thing and I hope other authorities follow suit 🎉🎉🎉

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 2w ago

Lambeth Council to refuse to implement the “Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations”, if the council’s legal team confirms the move would be lawful. love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-to-c...

Perils of living in an apartment building that's part of a shopping centre complex: it's 6.45am and I want to walk my dog but there are three people engaged in a loud and sometimes mildly physical altercation in the plaza I'd have to cross to get out /o\

I just want to say, as a dyscalculic, that deciding to number your dataset with a selection of non-consecutive numbers from the 6700s, and a selection of non-consecutive numbers from the 7600s, is *bloody cruel* to subsequent users /o\

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PREORDERS ARE OUT TODAY FOR MY NEWEST FIELD GUIDE, "WIDOW SPIDERS OF THE WORLD"!!!! www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

Just as an fyi, because I refuse to give my govt ID to software company, I don't have DMs anymore!

Today in peer review: sometimes the ms is a delight to read and you learn stuff and you're looking forward to writing the bit of the review that says "hey I really liked this paper great job 👍"

New #watercolor: an agatized fossil nautilus (Aturia angustata) from the Cenozoic rocks of the Pacific Northwest. These little gems are highly prized by fossil collectors along the Oregon and Washington coastlines. 3x4", watercolor & gouache, ~4 hours. 🐡🦖🦑 #sciart #paleontology #fossils

#MolluscMonday Small (<2 cm) glycymerid bivalve shell with characteristic taxodont dentition. Photographed on a building stone (almost certainly Oligocene Calcaire à astéries) in St Émilion, the famous centre for Bordeaux wine.

There's no satisfaction quite like reuniting a specimen with its box after they've been a long time sundered by a former staff member aka agent of chaos

#FossilFriday‼️ 😲 Who does not like a well-preserved, large Cretaceous oyster like this Exogyra ponderosa? This one comes even with a repair scar! Campanian-aged Demopolis Formation, Alabama. Specimen: The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections. #paleontology #fossil