The disgusting life of Ann Coulter. 🤮

This is how far Africa is left out, the so-called unbiased media was unable to cover these floods that happened on Saturday in Guinea Conakry. 🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳

Last week, I spent 5 days at the NHM, London, IDing deep sea fish and generally gawping at ichthyological oddities. I must confess, though, that I had an ulterior motive. In this thread I'm going tell you the whole story and show you the single coolest fish I've ever found! 1/

Arts funding

4-year postdoc job now advertised in my lab to study the 3D neck motions in salamander feeding!#biomechanics #XROMM #vertebrae – see job link and thread below for details jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ517/pos… Applications close 27 September. Please contact me with any questions!

Had an extra-special treat at Elmley NNR this morning - just a bittern out for its morning stroll!

Job opportunity! NHM needs a Head of Molecular Biology Laboratories 🧬🦣🦤🦩🪲🦥🪱🦟🌿🍄🌶️🦀🪼🦑🐟jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

When me and Pete had Noel Gallagher on for a live phone-in, but just lined up loads of nannas and grandpas #oasis

Spider-fly, spider-fly, does whatever...not to die 😅 Members of the picture-winged #fly genus #Xanthacrona (#Ulidiidae) have a scutellum w/fake "eyes" & patterned wings. A convincing 🕷️ mimic to fool predators trying to sneak up on them! #FlySchool24 Soltis Center, Costa Rica

Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals - Gayford - 2024 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Our new basal ceratopsian from Japan was published today. Thanks to my co-authors Tomonori Tanaka, Kentaro Chiba and Tadahiro Ikeda for inviting me to work with them. #Sasayamagnomus #ceratopsian Tomonori Tanaka Kentaro Chiba

The Beaty Centre for Species Discovery at #MuseumOfNature invites applications for the Visiting Student Awards, a #TravelGrant program for graduate student doing research on plant, animal, mineral and fossil systematics. Learn more and apply today 🔗 nature.ca/en/our-science…

COMEDY NERDS. This is one of my all-time favourite moments from The Day Today, but can anyone tell me who in the TDT team wrote it? Also, whether they'd be willing to speak with me for five minutes, but we'll get to that...

So excited that this experiment in team building has just been accepted to Integrative Organismal Biology! We’ll upload the much-improved revised version soon, and many thanks to the reviewers and editor for their helpful suggestions!

Remember when Brexiteers and right wing media spread a rumour that Poles eat swans and ducks. I do. Racists recycle racism.

Do you prepare your own fossils? We now have these handy fossil preparation kits available in our online shop. These great kits incorporate 5 key tools for preparing your fossils by hand. theetchescollectionshop.org/products/fossi…

Men, be more like Scroobius Pip.

Have you ever wondered what factors shape the processes of morphological evolution? And how might innovations arise and contribute to patterns of diversification? Our new paper uses 3D CT scans of tetraodontiform fishes to explore these questions. doi.org/10.1093/evolut… 1/15

Opportunity to come and do a PhD on islands and allometry with me & Gavin Thomas at Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natalie Cooper at the Natural History Museum! 🗓️start date: January 2025 🛑Deadline: 28th October 2024 🛂 funding for UK only, sadly findaphd.com/search/Project…

Eels that have been swallowed by fish have figured out how to make a daring escape via the gills – and now you can watch it happen. newscientist.com/article/244712…