Twins at La Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze

Excited to finally be able to share this news, I am overjoyed to have been awarded the John C. Marsden medal from The Linnean Society of London. I am honoured to be on this list alongside the other incredible medal recipients, especially my former office mate Anne-Claire Fabre @[email protected]!

Evolutionary biologist Prof Dr Anne-Claire Fabre (Anne-Claire Fabre) is our 2024 Bicentenary Medal winner! Her work on functional morphology focuses on shape evolution in an ecological context across vertebrate animals.

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We’re delighted to announce the winners of our 2024 Medal and Awards. Keep an eye out over the coming days as we spotlight each of our deserving awardees from across science, conservation and the arts.

Please join us in congratulating them all!

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Join us for Linnean Family Tours and Crafts: Natural History with a Twist!
Pet racoons, terrible tummy aches and mythical beasts – learn about natural history and put your artistic skills to the test! Dates available on April 9 - book below:
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Animals are so beautiful

Quite proud of my kid’s #Zelda #totk themed 11th bday party - yiga & korok mask making, sword fighting for gummy bugs, reuniting koroks for korok seeds (golden marshmallows), archery against octoballoons with fake rocks & cake of Link fighting a stone talus! #proudmom #nerdlife

I love #ScienceWeek , especially as it means I get to visit my favourite kids Fircroft Primary and see how excited they all are about nature and palaeontology. I’m always so impressed with how much they know and the great questions they ask!

Extraordinary

This is such a important thread. Agree 100%. I’ve even been told by other PoCs that my experience and perspective aren’t relevant for attendees at PoC networking events because of precisely this perception. This division is so false and hurtful and serves no purpose at all.

🧵We, British Indians, rarely get explicit mention in the discourse around racism. It’s because, in part, we’re perceived as ‘successful’ when compared to other PoC minorities.

That doesn’t mean we aren’t discriminated against; it means, we’re expected to put up & shut up

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I will never complain about my field sites again

AI and evolution: what are the challenges and opportunities for Artificial Intelligence in the science of evolution? Techniques, robotics, potential & transformation - fascinating preprint from Yichen He, James Mulqueeney Emily Watt Prof. Anjali Goswami &al. doi.org/10.32942/X2S315

#Herbaria have long been a critical resource for ecological and evolutionary research but have recently become relevant to many more fields, including climate science, anthropology, genetics, computer science, chemistry, and medicine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

As President The Linnean Society of London I am beyond ecstatic to share the news that we have secured our home at Burlington House for 999 years & can now focus on our crucial work for the understanding & protection of nature. Thank you to everyone who helped achieve this wonderful outcome!

Lies. My favourite trousers were destroyed by deer in this park because I had a biscuit in my back pocket. They literally ripped my pockets off to get at it. Vicious trouser killing machines. I still miss those trousers, they were perfect. Most deer are ok I guess.

Wanted: Molecular Biology Specialist to work at NHM further developing our Air-seq pipelines with me and Richard Leggett, apply careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…

Alu is officially my least favourite mobile element. This is clearly a lose-lose story - no tail and increased risk of neural tube defects. Keep your folic acid and give me back a tail!

10% of your genome is composed of traces of Alu, a mobile element that has jumped around our DNA for millions of years doing nothing important. But one of those jumps may have caused our distant ancestors to lose their tails, about 15 million years ago! nature.com/articles/s4158…

You are getting very sleepy….

Saw this amazing model yesterday at the impressive ammonite museum in Perambalur - they are also protecting some of the key fossiliferous Cretaceous outcrops in this area. A lovely break from the scorching heat while working those very outcrops!