Update shocker: It was the second time the student had been caught installing a vending machine without permission!
05.03.2026 14:55
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Update shocker: It was the second time the student had been caught installing a vending machine without permission!
This explains why i got an email from @fossilrob.bsky.social containing only the words "fossil butthole!!'" earlier
Drama on Reddit as student says he is about to enter a disciplinary hearing for unauthorised installation of a vending machine. Watch this space.. www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/comm...
Not fussed about Spinosaurs, but I do like PCAs. I do not like this PCA
Do you think the Eurasian Lynx should be reintroduced into English forests? π²π²πββ¬
My undergraduate student Mel has made a video exploring the issues as part of her Science Communication project. Could you spare 5 minutes to watch and fill out her questionnaire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwk...
Fossil Fish News! (with some dinosaur news on the side)
Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ fossils reveals cryptic ποΈ & 𦴠of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous ππΊ find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!
P p p p p pancake day!
The βleafyβ western part
Daily cycling commute through Gorton and Denton by election update- number of household placards I saw for each party:
Green 35
Labour 10
Other parties: 0
The end Permian nearly wiped out all life on earth.ππ¦π¬πππΈ Now new data shows that life bounced back much faster than expected with a big diversity of predators right at the beginning of the Triassic. Find out more in today's new episode
What do you want to hear about? Every week we cover a new palaeo paper or discovery. This time, we are asking you to choose! Take a look at the options below and 'like' the title(s) you want @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social to do next!
So @fossilrob.bsky.social has posted me something and told me I'm not allowed to open it until we record the next Fossil Files podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social. I have concerns. Find out what it is by listening in wherever you get your podcasts... new episodes every other Tuesday
Whoβs that at our departmental seminar today? Itβs the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!
Whoβs that at our departmental seminar today? Itβs the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!
On second thoughts, I'm not hungry
With proper link royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The paper lead by @fossilyarns.bsky.social with colleagues in Manchester and California is out today in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org [end]
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We also found evidence of bony skeletal type tissues in these otherwise squishy vertebrates. nice.
The specific chemistry and distribution shows evidence of a complex eye and a retinal pigmented epithelium, early in our evolution. COOL.
Let's look closer at the eye. The Copper shows a really nice Camera-type eye structure, not seen before with normal light.
The Zinc picks out nicely the eyes, the 'gills', and some mystery unknown structures, but NOT the 'mouth'
Here is that same face, that only a mother could love, visualised in high powered X-rays at the Stamford Synchrotron to show Zinc
Here is Jamoytius's gormless face in fossils from the Early Silurian of Scotland
by Nobu Tamura
New paper story time. ποΈππ¦΄π©»
Here is your gormless jawless relative Jamoytius:
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My new paper is out today!
With @fossilrob.bsky.social looking at Silurian jawless fish (obvs)
With the SLAC synchrotron we find evidence for true bone in these squishy fish AND camera eyes - a nice kismet moment with that great recent Nature paper
Early vertebrate eyes are SO HOT right now!
Is it our ability to survive lead poisoning that made us human?β οΈ π¦§ π§ π¦· A new study combining data from gigant orangutan fossil teeth and artificially grown brains in jars paints a picture of distant human origins and language development. Episode out today!
Gigantopicthecus was gigantic @tweetisaurus.bsky.social
