Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialApril Neander 🏳️🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 22hToday our paper introducing Megacauda is published in Nature! Which means I can finally share my illustration! Meet this beautifully preserved Jurassic, semi-aquatic swimmer #sciart #paleontology 1019566
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialDr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...jobs.ac.ukPhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of StrathclydeExplore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today! 01435
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialCharmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We are thrilled to be welcoming local artist Jenny Hunt to our Craft Fair on 31st October. Inspired by the flora and fauna of the Dorset coastline, Jenny sells her sketches as originals, cards, calendars, mugs, books and more. #MarineMonday 021
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialNatalie Litofsky @positivelynatalie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's been a hot minute since I was traveling (or living) abroad, but I do have quite the collection of museum displays, store signage, and menu text. Menus are my favorites, because what is translated as awkward poetry in signs is often... not so poetic on menus. 2220123
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened) 26694129
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They’re like the original NFTs 000
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why is it so brown? Have you just disturbed the substrate or put in a new piece of wood? Whatever the cause, 50% water change will help immediately. 000
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialPaul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#MolluscMonday Section of a fossil gastropod shell in a Bordeaux street paving stone. I believe this to be an acteonellid of Cretaceous age but would welcome feedback. 1318
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer. 1938760
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t want to see any “didn’t happen” posts here because this is too stupid to be made up. 080
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Something about it this year feels like we’re heading into a Westeros winter. 010
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Would be quite funny if almost all the muppets could do it, with ensuing chaos. 000
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1354042792
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialBrigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026For the last few years a lone male Tawny Owl has been calling in the woods across the road, but right now there are two males… AND a female!!! Made my year! 🦉🦉🦉 1211511
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Don’t forget Nigel Thornberry! 010
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialErica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Researching old Entomology books for an upcoming talk in the @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social From 1823, a series of pamphlets (all together here) by Christian F Vogels ‘Schmetterlings-Cabinet für Kinder’ or Butterflies for children was published. 200 years old & still wow @royentsoc.bsky.social 1555
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So if you tell the truth now that he’s died, would you get out early or get even more years added for perverting the course of justice? 080
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I #FoundThatLizard quite quickly this time but I think I just got lucky where I happened to zoom in! 110
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hoping for clear skies later so we can add a new #SolarEclipse photo to our collection. Like this one that Tom Kent took 114 years ago of a solar eclipse over Kirkwall #Orkney in April 1912. Taken 2 days after the sinking of the Titanic. Archives are amazing. ❤️ 746199
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Not as good though is it 426916
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialJuliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Eclipse in the sun glare over Oxford 🌙 1707
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It’s going well here. bsky.app/profile/davi... 010
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Alas, Scotland is delivering in typical fashion. 000
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Now, children, witness the MAJESTY OF THE HEAVENS 810614
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Is this real? Did this really happen?! 100
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means 3156851041
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Cockroaches getting some positive attention in the Guardian. Love to see it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThe ‘Cockroach Lord’ who names new species after Tolkien and Pokémon charactersCristian Lucañas has discovered multiple species of cockroach in the Philippines, and believes there’s far more to the much-maligned insect than meets the eye 000
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Curious to know if you read the original edition when you were a teen. 110
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialMs T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Tuesday 3817662688
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I like to joke to my southern friends about how much better it is here in Scotland but I do also seriously wonder if there will be a tipping point when a substantial number of people start migrating north. 010
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialPaul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Welcoming Musango matusadonaensis, a new sauropodomorph dino from the Late Triassic of Zimbabwe found by our team back in 2018. Read about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and have a look at this lovely reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social (1/2) 37524
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialPaul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026#MolluscMonday Section of a high-spired gastropod fossil in a paving stone adjacent to the National Theatre, London. #PavementGeology 24511
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes 3657
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialPaul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026#MolluscMonday Small (<2 cm) glycymerid bivalve shell with characteristic taxodont dentition. Photographed on a building stone (almost certainly Oligocene Calcaire à astéries) in St Émilion, the famous centre for Bordeaux wine. 0297
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Carrot & Clover. #wildflowerhour 111214
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Forget pervert glasses - what about smart plugs? Me on domestic abusers taking over home devices as.ft.com/r/8f4ab2f1-4... How smart tech is being weaponised in the home 15255133
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I don’t remember the details but the Yorkshire Museum has a similarly preserved shark’s head, I think from the Yorkshire coast. Don’t know if it’s ever been studied. 010
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialJeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026For #FossilFriday a rare shark’s head in lagoonal sediments from the earliest Aptian of the #IsleofWight. About 30 cms across. A row of teeth can be seen across the lower jaw. On display at #DinosaurIsleMuseum. 44714
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialPaul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#FossilFriday Field photograph of a belemnite, partly wrapped in seaweed, eroding out of Lower Jurassic rocks on the Yorkshire coast. A human finger points to this ‘witch’s finger’, one of the multitude of folklore names coined for belemnites. 26013
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Desperately hoping my youngest doesn’t find out about the new SpongeBob set. And that they stop making amazing Lord of the Rings sets. And dinosaurs. They need to just stop for a while. 010
david-nicholson.bsky.social @david-nicholson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Be absolutely certain to never EVER say this to your wife. 010
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning 652042406
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialDavid Roche @papaybirder.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Orkneys first Blue cheeked Bee eater, first found by Paul and Jakey around Clestrain whilst out on the quadbike. A nervous wait, but relieved to find it again around around Hundland where still present this evening #BirdingOrkney #RareBirdsUK 921922
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialRichard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 13/07/202623 month research associate job now available with our team to work on Middle Jurassic mammals from Scotland. Requires strong experience with segmentation of CT data but does not require a PhD. Deadline for applications is 26th July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comResearch Associate (Leverhulme) - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 105138 - Grade 6This is a Research Associate position to assist in palaeobiological research conducted as part of the project “New Insights Into Early Mammal Evolution From Exceptional Scottish Fossils” funded by the... 12031
Reposted by @david-nicholson.bsky.socialDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Bog pimpernel in wet meadow. #wildflowerhour 1638
