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Caleb Scutt

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PhD @ University of Sheffield | Macroevolution & Mass Extinctions☄️

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚨 New paper alert! Delighted to have been involved in this @nature.com study using trait-based ecosystem modelling to examine plankton extinction patterns in the first *100 years* after the Chicxulub impact event at the #Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. ☄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns - Nature
Trait-based ecosystem modelling shows that impact-driven darkness and body-size-dependent extinction thresholds, rather than carbon-dioxide increase or acidification, drove most of the observed end-Cr...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now
Exhibit 2: We Assume Flows Through the Strait of Hormuz Start to Recover in 5 Days and Fully
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Source: Kpler, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New preprint🚨happy to share work from my first PhD chapter, evaluating the ways in which we can integrate ancestral state estimations into disparity workflows, completed alongside @tguillerme.bsky.social , Gavin Thomas & @nhcooper123.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪
Heatmap figure showing how relative disparity error changes across different trait models, ancestral state estimation approaches and fossil sampling densities
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Tiny shellear fish in central Africa scale a 50-foot vertical waterfall using suction cups and tiny hooks. This convergent evolution places them with some island gobies and Brazilian bumblebee catfish, who all do world class bouldering. 🐟🌍 phys.org/news/2026-04...
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Tiny African fish caught climbing to the top of a 50-foot waterfall
For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Mary Anning mentioned in Last One Laughing s2! (random but absolutely welcome)
Mel Giedroyc dressed as Mary Anning during a comedy sketch.Maisie Adam looking confused and asking ‘who?’
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What on earth. New depths of corruption
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Big up Ralph Lawson for going 20 hours (and 20 minutes) in the mix for @warchilduk.bsky.social . You can donate here: justgiving.com/page/warchil...
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War Child 2020 .. Ralph Lawson In The Mix
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
Scene from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Can’t recommend this enough, a hilarious take on all the idiosyncrasies of “extreme birding”
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
First time watching Apocalypse Now last night… 10/10 but why does FF Coppola make me wait 2 hours to reveal Kurtz only for Baron Harkonnen to turn up
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Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#Sheffield peeps, please help our friends in Nether Edge/Sharrow Vale. Comment on plan for new MacDonalds that would threaten local business, public health, & much more.🤮 @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @helpsheffield.co.uk planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/online-appli...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
When we said we don't intend to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Government - we intend to replace them, we meant it. Yougov have Labours lowest poll ever and Greens highest ever. Keep going everybody. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
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Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch
8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Call me crazy but I’m taking Guehi over Isak anyday… #LFC #deadlineday
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Salmon in Sheffield !!
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Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 24th Aug 2025
An exclusive, I think: the story of Sheffield's first baby salmon for over 250 years. Plus more on how Sheffield could do better.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

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No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Alta Via 1 ✅ 80km, 4000m elevation and 500 ciao’s later, one of the toughest but most rewarding things I’ve done.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪
Stoat in dense vegetation
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This doesn’t bode well
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hamlet Hail to the Thief. So good.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Grand Theft Hamlet tonight, Hamlet Hail to the Thief tomorrow. A very tragic bank holiday weekend
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour's disastrous plight is very easy to understand. The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left. Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thanks @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the great discussion this evening, which served as a fitting debrief after finishing ‘Less is More’ last month.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Have had worse Sundays
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.
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Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had | Aeon Ideas
Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
the malcom tucker monologue would be generational
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Few fontanesi style 📸 while in Marrakech this week
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sacha Lord is a great example of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He was never ‘For the Culture’🥱 the WHP exclusivity contracts are the reason so many grassroots venues are closing nationwide.
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Sacha Lord: Nightlife boss's firm must return £400k Covid grant
Nighttime economy adviser Sacha Lord announces he is stepping down following a review of the funding.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please sign, this institution was a godsend when I was a broke undergrad in London!
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dubby goodness on this one
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A2. Picasso - Dubaholic
Here at Rube Goldberg Series we pride ourselves on having everything you need to complete your ski gear set-up this season. So, whether it's ski bindings, ski goggles, ski poles, helmets, thermals and
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 11/01/2025
Darwin always seems to be stuck somewhere around Alice Springs. #LFC
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable. Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies). And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nosferatu… future family Christmas classic
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s 𝚌𝚑 𝚛𝚕 𝐥𝐦𝚗 𝚗 @schrillmann.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Aphex Twin be like driving home for XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Tarkovsky 🤝🏻 me falling asleep
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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hopped back on the bike for the 3rd extended ride since making the move up north… these Sheffield hills don’t seem to get any easier…
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