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Lifelong student of history, archeology, anthropology, science, literature and comparative religion. Can’t figure out my profile pic yet

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 10h
Three chemistry-related researchers have been named laureates of the 2026 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, which honor academics under the age of 42. #chemsky 🧪
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Three researchers receive 2026 Blavatnik National Awards
Patrick Hsu, David Nagib, and Jonathan Rivnay work in a range of chemistry-related fields
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 09/10/2026
Hydrogen is a key part of the EU’s decarbonisation agenda, but increasing its production will require more water. Our new report shows that, with good water management, Europe can meet its hydrogen goals without creating water shortages. Read more here link.europa.eu/4MgtRv #SciComm🧪
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meanwhile my USA is moving backwards :-(
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 09/10/2026
Symbiotic #rhizobia form nitrogen-fixing partnerships with #plant roots. This study by @albinteulet.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social uses structural modelling to predict how secreted proteins may mimic plant factors in a strategy shared with pathogens. 🧪 #AcademicSky #symbiosis plos.io/4j6bWj0
Network-based identification of structural units (SUs) present in multiple Nop effectors.
(A) Structural similarity network of the 96 structural units (SU) extracted from AlphaFold models of the 33 Nop effectors. Each node represents one region, and edges connect pairs of regions that are structurally similar with a TM-score above 0.5. Coloured circles delimit the 13 communities containing at least two members (SU1–SU13). The remaining grey nodes correspond to the 9 singleton units. (B–N) Overlays of all structural regions belonging to each community (SU1–SU13). The putative fold or function inferred from Foldseek analysis is indicated below each panel, with the number of occurrences in each community given in parentheses.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 09/10/2026
🌊 Switchbacks in the solar wind hold a clue The Sun's wind kinks into sharp folds called switchbacks. A new study shows these folds keep a record of the very process that heats the Sun's atmosphere and flings the wind outward. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02928-0 #Space #Sun #Astronomy #Physics 🧪
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On the coronal origin of magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind - Nature Astronomy
Solar Orbiter’s detection of the ion composition of a magnetic switchback reveals its origin in hot coronal loops, implicating interchange reconnection as the release mechanism of the solar wind plasm...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How has Vought et. al disrupted NIH funding? 1. Grants were awarded more slowly in 2025-2026. 2. Peer reviewed grants enter a digital black hole. 3. Most of the staff that process the awards is gone. 4. Grants are flagged if they contain banned words. 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/10/2026
As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense blazes. to.pbs.org/4dMxAFk
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'An unworldly experience.' Why scientists flew into firestorm clouds this wildfire season
As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense b...
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ESCONI @esconi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fossil Friday #337: A Different View of Lepidostrobus #fossils #paleontology #FossilFriday #MazonCreek #pennsylvanian #carboniferous #lepidodendron Lepidostrobus is a cone from lepidodendron tree.  It was named in… esconi.org/2026/10/fossil-friday-33…
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Fossil Friday #337: A Different View of Lepidostrobus
Lepidostrobus is a cone from lepidodendron tree.  It was named in 1828 by Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart (1801 – 1876), who was a French paleontologist, considered by many to be the father of paleobotany.  He also named Lepidostrobophyllum which are the individual cone bracts of which Lepidostrobus is the whole reproductive organ. See Mazon Monday #202.
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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I swear I was gonna do a tyrannosaur #FossilFriday even before Tromerosaurus dropped! 😅 Each time I'm at the Mongolian Institute of Paleontology, even I have to admire and drool over the 'baby' Tarbosaurus MPC-D 107/7. Check out the 'chicken wing'-sized articulated arm from this specimen!!!!🤩
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#fossilfriday The fossil mastodon molar found in a streambed in the Santa Cruz Mountains a month ago or so, recently donated to a research collection at Stanford. Photo by Jeff Chiu. 🦖🧪
A photo of a well-preserved mastodon tooth in an archival box; it has five transverse ridges or lophs, with gray enamel, and a series of reddish banana-shaped roots.
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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Powerful letter from paleontologist Kenshu Shimada re: the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State U in Kansas, US closing by years end. Along w/ the closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, US, this is an alarming trend in the US right now. #FossilFriday 🧪
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anything from the Neolithic is automatically older than the pyramids. From the earlier Bronze Age as well.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Full article: A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...
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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Big pig news! Forest hogs (and therefore Kolpochoerus) are officially sister to Phacochoerini as Hylochoerini, NOT part of Potamochoerini #FossilFriday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Phylogeny showing sister relationship of Phacochoerus and Hylochoerus
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📢 IPC7: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Due to the high number of abstract submissions 🥳, the early-bird registration deadline has been extended to Monday, 7 September 2026. See you all at the Gala dinner! 💃🕺 #IPC7 #Paleontology #ScienceConference
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Many of you aware of PREHISTORIC PLANET ICE AGE will know that we featured a giant, black fosa that we showed as unusually large, larger even than the estimated size for the fossil species CryptoprocTa spelea. Here's my article on what we showed.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... CONTINUED....
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The Amazing Giant Black Fossa — Tetrapod Zoology
Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Perge was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda. Today it is 15 kilometres E of Antalya. Romans gifted Perga to the Attalid kingdom in 188 BC but inherited it in 133 BC. #RomanSiteSaturday
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Here the result of tonight's formation stream! Corral Bluffs is a locality of the Denver formation that has become more and more important in recent years as it has yielded a huge number of important fossils that were deposited not even a million years after the K-Pg extinction. #paleoart #sciart
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust - Johnson - 2026 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust
Recent studies of expanded K-Pg boundary sites imply that the Chicxulub impact produced abundant fine dust Fine dust greatly enhances the infrared heat pulse produced by spherules reentering the ...
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Common sense is a cypher. An empty set into which people pour their vague ideas about common sense
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Pyxis is a wonderful old Mediterranean pre-Greek word It also gave rise you our word “box”.
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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Apparently the Goldfuß Museum at the University of Bonn got robbed of a bunch of fossils sometime during construction the past three years www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit... Some of it is pretty obvious thought some are casts that every major museum and dealer has
Fossil fernBig fossil fishFossil eurytperid, mixopterus, may be cast?A very common dragonfly
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A holy grail of bat research would be finding these in Eocene or Paleocene caves
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🍄🌾 RESEARCH 🌾🍄 The Fusarium metabolite culmorin contributes to virulence on plants by suppressing detoxification of the virulence factor deoxynivalenol by glucosyltransferases - Michlmayr et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Impact of deoxynivalenol (DON) and culmorin (CUL) on roots of seedlings of the wheat cultivar Apogee. (A, B) Seedlings were grown for 96 h in media containing different concentrations of DON and/or CUL: the numbers on the x-axis refer to the concentrations in mg l−1; Ctrl, control (no CUL or DON). (A) Primary root length and (B) total root length of the seedlings after 96 h (n=10); × denotes the arithmetic mean whilst circles denote outliers. Different letters indicate significant differences as determined by the Wilcoxon rank sum test using the Benjamini—Hochberg method to adjust for multiple testing (P<0.05). The full Padj values for (A) and (B) are shown in Supplementary Tables S5 and S6, respectively. (C) Representative images of seedlings after 96 h growth in medium containing 5 mg l−1 DON and/or CUL.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I didn't know start of women-led palaeontology in China was, so needlessly brutal and unfair. Ma, an exceptional young geologist, trailblazer, was killed by chance thiefs, along with her research group, while collecting Triassic fossils in rural Guizhou.
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There’s no giants of course
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oooh 👍🏾
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Many non-avian dinosaurs were enormous, yet even the biggest dinosaur eggs were smaller than the largest bird eggs. Our results suggest that the answer lies in brain evolution. As birds evolved larger brains, they also evolved larger offspring, which required larger eggs." @stephlechki.bsky.social
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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#FossilFriday Sections of the Carboniferous rugose coral Dibunophyllum bipartitum in black Frosterley Marble from County Durham at Peterborough Cathedral. This decorative limestone is seldom seen in churches as far south in England.
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Invertebrate paleontologists are a wonderfully eclectic group of scientists. Anyone can love a trilobite, but only a special few could truly love a graptolite, bryozoan, or Monte Carlo simulation
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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
After a bit of a break, we return to the Los Colorados Formation with the cynodont Tessellatia - only known from a skull. These animals are probainognathans - and are among those whose descendants would include modern mammals. Size comparison below! ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart
Brown and red Tessellatia
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I was so disappointed to find out that Chrissie was a Trump supporter But she hasn’t said a thing since the second election. Maybe that is a good sign.
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I was so disappointed to find out that Chrissie was a Trump supporter But she hasn’t said a thing since the second election. Maybe that is a good sign.
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The the first year of the Paleocene
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dear Archaeologists, as you know, we are trying to explore whether the EAA can be rescued and given back to its members. Please, have a look at our statement: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn.... To sign it: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here’s a better view of the croc! 🐊 Link to museum record: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
This photo of mine shows a view of the red clay pottery bowl from above. The small hippo figures and the crocodile can be seen spaced out around the wide rim. A number of cracks can be seen in the bowl where it was broken when found and has since been restored
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A 6,000 year-old pottery bowl with five small hippos and a crocodile. From the grave of a woman and child at Matmar, near Asyut, Egypt. Early Predynastic, Naqada I. 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a handmade pottery bowl made from red polished clay. The bowl shape is rounded, tapering to a narrower rounded base, with a wide flaring rim. Attached around the rim there are five small hand-modelled figures of hippopotami and one crocodile. The bowl was broken when found, and has been restored. Diameter: 29.50 cm (max) Height: 13.80 cm.

It was excavated from a predynastic cemetery at Matmar by Guy Brunton circa 1929-31. It was found in grave 2646 which belonged to a female and child.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology
The image shows a buff-coloured flake of limestone with a painted illustration of a cat herding geese, displayed against a black background. On the left of the scene, a tabby cat (brown with black line markings) stands on its hind legs in a human-like pose, facing right. In its upraised left paw it holds out a wooden staff to keep six geese in order. In its right paw it is holding the end of a long crook which it rests on its shoulder. A bag hangs by a strap from the end of the crook behind the cat. The six geese in front of the cat are arranged in two rows of three, one row above the other. The geese have brown legs, and white bodies with black plummage detail. Three of the geese have black painted heads and necks; top left, top right, and bottom middle. Above the geese there is a curved double brown line representing a nest filled with four white eggs in a row. Flake dimensions: H 11 cm x W 11 cm.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Patti Smith and PJ Harvey #WomensArt
Photo featuring two sitting white women, one playing the guitar the other watching both wearing trousers, boots and jackets
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The world is falling apart. Me: we actually have a fairly limited record of Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten (Quote lifted from Dr Joe Botting)
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Keep in mind Joe Kent is still a far right Fuentes style anti semite
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Misinformation is a formidable force. 46% of US adults surveyed last month signaled that they think the science on vaccines remains “up for debate” & is damaging to require people to get them. We have an HHS secretary who likes to chop off rodent genitalia. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views are commonplace across the land.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Many organisms from both biotas, Ediacaran macrobionts alongside early bilaterians and deuterostome animals.
Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554–539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/04/2026
Thou shalt not commit blasphemy against Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue in Pulp Fiction, motherfucker.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Mark Rufalo warns Congress against the Paramount-WBD merger: "You don't have to watch 'Citizen Kane' or read '1984' to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to a free press, an informed populace & democracy itself." www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We in the USA understand Canadians not wanting to have our paramilitary trump private army going after them.
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion. Tom Lantos Hungarian born California congressman from 1980-2008 and Holocaust survivor. He also survived the 1956 Soviet crackdown on Hungary
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ah, you mean designations used in the Bronze Age itself. Indeed. It’s centuries into the iron age before the Greeks began expanding their use of Assuwa or a similar term to apply to basically anything “eastern”.
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brucetutcher.bsky.social @brucetutcher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Part 2 the depalma final day hypothesis has red flags as he hadn’t let peers study his dino as it’s on land he owns. And would the normal caveat of species surviving millennia later, potentially, apply with a catastrophic bent like KT?
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