iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 8h

I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider...

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

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Thomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our next step in this project is a bibliography of avian type publications. It's incomplete, but 1120+ refs to 210+ collections is a good starting point! Searchable by institution, country, city. albnd.github.io/bird_types/ #Ornithology #Taxonomy

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Bird Type Specimen Bibliography — Directory of Collections

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Major props to Robin and team for this important work. Read it, use it, share it far and wide.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just think, in another 4 or 5 years, Man City could have to pay a fine that runs to three figures!

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very pleased to get a preview copy of the paperback edition of Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. Looks very nice!

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This one has been a long time coming. Been chasing Brent to talk about his work for ages and he has such a cool career trajectory and involvement in various parts of palaeontology.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be there and speaking too! (Once I've finished writing my bit!).

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Queen Mary Centre for Civic and Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Engagement Fund 2026-27: Applications Now Open! Do you have an idea for engaging communities and publics with Queen Mary's research, teaching, or core business? Find out more about the Engagement Fund: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

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Engagement Fund - Queen Mary University of London

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm starting up a new extra-curricular program at QMUL focusing on communication skills. It's open to all Science and Engineering students, and it's all very informal and drop-in. But if you are a fellow academic, please share the news with your classes and if you are student, do come along.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I assume there's a new Chuck Tingle book coming about two burly fire fighters rescuing a President and then I don't want to know what the rest of the title would be.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is it submission season again? I've had requeuest to review 3 papers in the last 12 hours.

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Iszi Lawrence @iszi.com · 26/08/2026

New Terrible Lizards podcast out today with @davehone.bsky.social Terrible Lizards Live at Dinocon youtu.be/O8_8-5z6JTE

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What Fossil Would Change Everything? | Terrible Lizards Live at Dinocon

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have two papers of despair at the moment. No matter what we do with rewrites and edits and resubmissions they just get vaguely positive comments about the central idea and data with then suggestions to completely rewrite them. Worse, ususually one very positive and one very nagative review.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Close to breaking the 100 review mark on Amazon for Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social. The only 2 reviews of 1 star are complain the book was damaged so I'm claiming 100% positive reviews. If you have read it, please give it a rating and review*, it really helps! *Unless you hated it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If we don't stop, they may target us with cyberattacks and seek to subvert our democracy!!!

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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

✨Charity doodles✨ I'm opening artwork slots: doodles of prehistoric 🐥 birds and reptiles🦎 of your choice. Supporting community charities in Hong Kong and Palestine 🇭🇰🇵🇸 Just donate to charity below 👇 for a free palaeo-doodle of choice

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This could save the monorail!

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A point I've not seen before and a strong one!

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I wonder what might have promoted such sales to become more common?

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Currently 11 reader comments... I am going to answer a few now and hence up the count a little. But huge thanks to those who've said positive things about what happened. #DinoConUK tetzoo.com/blog/2026/8/...

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DinoCon 2026, a Giant Event at Hilton Birmingham Metropole — Tetrapod Zoology

Bigger, better… in fact, around twice the size of DinoCon 2025. Let’s discuss what happened at DinoCon 2026…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Forget everything else about this and just marvel at *Michael Gove and the Spectator* discussing how damaging a serially misleading fantasist can be, whether his bosses feel responsible and how they can claw back respectability.

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The tale of the Cambridge professor Jason Arday continues, as Michael and Maddie weigh in on the fantasy.
How much of a role has Cambridge played in enabling such a serially misleading individual, and how can the university claw back some respectability after this saga? - do they even feel a responsibility to do so?

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The blues have changed.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Having recently stayed at a 'Best Western' hotel, I'd like to start a campaign to rename them 'Well Below Average Western' for greater accuracy.

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Iszi Lawrence @iszi.com · 29/07/2026

Latest Terrible Lizards podcast is about billionaires buying fossils. Find us on your podcast app or watch us here: Who Should Own Dinosaur Fossils? The Gus T. rex Controversy youtu.be/TaLWBc-4vvE (with @davehone.bsky.social)

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Prof. Christine Böhmer @vertevo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[2/2] Sound on! 🔊 Singing with its wings: display behavior of the club-winged manakin. #birds 📹https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfCGhjv9H0c?feature=share 📄https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/singing-with-his-wings-the-club-winged-manakins-display/

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The club-winged manakin sounds #shorts #shortvideo

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Then the Democrats should ask for a re-fund.

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