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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's something very cetacean about the Kerry slug, like a tiny terrestrial whale.

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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

<Whispers> This site works in England too... Fantastic for "what was under my house before they built it?", "so the road is called Mill Close..." and other local history nerderies.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st @womensart1 book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting woman, with only her middle in view knitting in a patterned dress

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Five months prior, a man on an online dating app had reported her threat to "kill all the Jews and Muslims in Britain", but the matter was sent back to local police, which Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) has now admitted was a mistake.” 🤨

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

New achievement unlocked! I've done something cool and interesting enough to be ripped off uncredited by a random Facebook page. At least they link to the original @newscientist.com video so that's a start.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I've known Richard since the 1990s and he was a mentor, advisor and friend to many of us. He did a massive amount to build collabs, help in excavations and pass on advice and enthusiasm. He was a warm and welcoming person who promoted inclusion, collaboration and the role of amateurs in science.

Darren Naish and Richard Forrest (RIP 2026) at the Square Tower, Portsmouth, 2001. An especially bad photo. I don't recall who took it.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

All plesiosaurs today for #FossilFriday, in tribute to our departed friend Richard Forrest.

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus scavenges a dead pterosaur

A gloomy image of the elasmosaur Albertonectes foraging in the deep sea.

"Plesiosaurus" macrocephalus, a species known only from a famous but poorly studied juvenile specimen, and its possible parent: a mature rhomaelosaurid.

Elasmosaurid Thalassomedon surfaces to take a breath. This image shows what you may have actually seen from a boat while marine reptile watching, once we consider the physics of how plesiosaurs moved and floated.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In shock to hear that Richard Forrest passed this morning. What a guy. I've met few people as enthusiastic about fossils. He had a whole life, whole career, outside of the academic world but made huge contributions to scholarship. And was so kind and welcoming to everyone. RIP.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Just learned that Richard Forrest, one of the pillars of British vert palaeo, has passed away unexpectedly. Richard was such a friendly, welcoming person, an expert on British marine reptiles, and the unofficial custodian of SVPCA. We spent many hours chatting in various pubs. He will be missed.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

An absolute pillar of the British vertebrate palaeontology, plesiosaurus expert, Richard Forrest, passed away. Really sad to see another senior welcoming figure in this field, leave us. Was lovely working with him while in Lyme Regis.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Via Sally Hollingworth and Sue Forrest comes the unexpected news that Richard passed this morning. This is a shock and a major loss. Richard is a notable person in the Mesozoic research community, known for his work on marine reptiles and his role in organising conferences and meetings. Very sad.

Richard Forrest (RIP Jan 2026), with Mike Taylor behind, September 2017.

A group of palaeontologists following a Scottish, post-SVPCA fieldtrip of (I think) 2007. Richard Forrest (RIP Jan 2026) is at centre holding a geological hammer aloft.

Richard Forrest (RIP Jan 2026), with Bob Nicholls, at SVPCA Oxford, September 2012.

Richard Forrest (RIP Jan 2026) at right, with Darren (left) and Neil Gostling (centre) during July 2025.

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Australia has no woodpeckers, but striped #possums are tropical #marsupials that do the same job: their big ears detect beetle grubs tunnelling in wood, which they chip out with large incisors, then use their elongated 4th finger to hook them out of the tunnels (just like aye-ayes do in Madagascar).

A gorgeous taxidermy striped possum on display in the Haus der Natur in Salzburg

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

For generations the Univ of Leicester has been a global leader in geology, Earth science & climate research Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs Sign this to stop this madness: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A 1.4 Ga organic rich mudstone from Australia that has low-grade contact metamorphism. Black blobs with crystal cores are thucolites, brown square is a fragment of microfossil that has been partially mineralised. More deets in alt text. #ThinSectionThursday #Geology #paleontology ⚒️🧪🔬

Microscope photo of a slice of rock with white light shining through it. The rock is composed of a polygonal mosaic of mostly white crystal grains, light brown crystal grains, black crystal grains with a white crystal in the centre, and dark brown organic matter. A red scale bar shows the image is about 0.5 mm across our 500 microns.

Microscope photo of a slice of rock with cross polarised light shining through it. The rock is composed of a polygonal mosaic of mostly grey crystal grains, light brown-grey crystal grains, black crystal grains with a bright blue crystal in the centre, long thin orange grading to pink crystal grains, and dark brown organic matter. A red scale bar shows the image is about 0.5 mm across our 500 microns. The image has been rotated approx 45 degrees anti clockwise.

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#FossilFriday One extra fossil from Singapore, in the black limestone cladding of the same Prada shop as the rugose coral posted earlier, a brachiopod preserving internally the calcite supports of the two arms of the lophophore visible as rings of dots on the left and right side of the fossil.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/11/2025

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

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UNESCO International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🎨 To help promote the benefits of geodiversity, a team from the Open University have worked with artscientist Dr Vicky Bowskill to produce this amazing new image! 🌍 Read more, and download the image on our website: www.geodiversityday.org/post/visuali...

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Visualising the Benefits of Geodiversity

International Geodiversity Day 2025 is approaching, and many people worldwide have organised events based on their professional or personal connections with geodiversity; whether these be around under...

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UNESCO International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day! ⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation: 🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.

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UNESCO International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🌟 The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland have celebrated #GeodiversityDay with the launch of a new Geodiversity Charter! 🌐 www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/Geodive...

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@geolsurveybelgium.bsky.social @geolsurveybelgium.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Happy Geodiversity Day! Today we celebrate the beauty and importance of our planet’s geological diversity. The Durbuy anticline, first described in 1807 by Jean-Baptiste Julien d’Omalius d’Halloy, is a perfect example of an IUGS Geological Heritage Site inside the UNESCO Geopark Famenne-Ardennes

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

October 6 was declared International #GeodiversityDay by the UNESCO in 2021. On this day we celebrate the abiotic beauty and diversity of Earth - including rocks, soils, landscapes, rivers, lakes, minerals & fossils ⛰️🪨🐚💎

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

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Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Regular reminder to authors to please acknowledge and cite people who have contributed to your work. Yet again I find a paper that I collected data for and I’m not acknowledged. 🧪 Also see our recent paper that provides a toolkit for more just and equitable citation practices👇🏽 🔗 osf.io/qjecy_v3

Conceptualization of the citational justice toolkit, organized around the
research cycle. In the top right quadrant of the cycle, we start with Planning, which includes the Ideas and Funding stages of research. This section contains two practices: citational politics training module and the Academic Wheel of Privilege, and one tool: the citational transparency browser extension. In the bottom right quadrant of the cycle, we have the Project, which includes Research and Journal Selection stages of research. This section contains one practice: diversify your reading. In the bottom left
quadrant of the cycle, we have the Paper, which includes Paper writing and Submission stages of research. This section contains three practices: citing R packages and other tools,
annotated citations lists and the citational diversity statement, and nine tools: Genderize, the Gray test, the citation audit survey, Mirya Holman’s pre-submission checklist, GBAT, the citational diversity codebook, a template for citing Indigenous peoples, the inwardness
metric and GCBI-alyzer. In the top left quadrant of the cycle, we have Publication, which includes the Peer Review and Publication stages of research. This section contains one practice, the Academic Wheel of Privilege.

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦 But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1] edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

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I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN

It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Here’s a comic I drew when I was 19.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

One of my favourite #MaryAnning facts™️ is that she would discover fossil cephalopod 🐙 fossils with preserved ink sacks, concoct a dangerous chemical slime to turn them back into gloopy ink, and then use her Jurassic ink to draw exquisite illustrations of the vertebrate fossils she found. Meta.

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markopalaeo.bsky.social @markopalaeo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

For #FossilFriday, a cobble from the streets of York with corals, not sure of the precise taxon. Maybe Carboniferous?

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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It’s my book launch on Monday 28th April (5 days) and so I’ll be posting a bit about it for the next week or so! Nervous, excited, overwhelmed- I’m all of these things plus a few more. @FairfieldBooks_ thenightwatchman.net/buy/cricket-ch…

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I enjoy the way that in this photo my cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

Our cats Jim and Roscoe looking very serious, in our kitchen.

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Mckeedi @mckeedi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Little egrets fighting. Taken at Spurn Head in East Yorkshire, UK #birds #nature #egrets #littleegrets #sprunhead #eastyorkshire #wildlife

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Saw some dinoturbation in the Jurassic Sandstones, South Cliff, Scarborough today. First time spotting these here, was very exciting!

Photo of some rocks layers - interbedded mudstone and sandstone. Under one sandstone layer, three prongs of sandstone push down into the mud later. This is a dinosaur footprint from a three-toed dinosaur. There's is some green text on the image that reads "three-toed dino footprint" and a dinosaur emoji.

Photo of a rock face of layers of sandstone. In the middle is a large depression filled with sand that has squashed the laminated sediments underneath. Text reads "sauropod footprint" with a sauropod emoji.

Photo of layers of sandstone and mudstone. In one later of laminated sediments is a depression structure filled with sand. Text on image reads "here. Sauropod stomp".

Photo of a rock face, at the base is a rucksack placed as scale. The exposure is layers of sandstone and mudstone. About the quarters up is a depression filled with sand. The laminated layers underneath have been squashed.

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I left the hellhole site a while ago and took a break from all this. But hey, I'm back. Hi everyone—hit me up if you're into anything dusty, chronology, and Quaternary. And here's an image of some lovely sand wedges preserved in loess as a little welcome gift.

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livlumlab.bsky.social @livlumlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm Dr Rachel Smedley, Reader in Physical Geography & Director of the LivLumLab for the last 7 years! I love to push the luminescence dating technique to its limits to answer innovative environmental research questions, including dating our hominin ancestors, underneath Antarctica and much more!

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

You maybe interested to read the information board in the Church on the lifestyle of the Chirotherium, undoubtedly from a little read chapter in the Book of Revelations

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Liam Herringshaw @fossiliam.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Pyramids, glaciers, Shane Hargrave and John Barry. And Fletch! In the Spring 2025 edition of The Nightwatchman, I mark the passing of the York Vale Cricket League after 91 years. Issue 49 also features @anniechave.bsky.social & @camsell59.bsky.social: www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nigh...

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The Nightwatchman single issue - print (Issue 49) - The Nightwatchman

Order Issue 49, March 2025 for £12 (excluding shipping) and get a free e-book copy.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The Footprint Bed of the Helsby Sandstone was well exposed at Storeton. It contains trackways of the early reptile Chirotherium. There is a slab with three prints in the porch of Christ Church - not something one usually sees in a church! #urbangeology

The interior of the porch of Christ Church. Ignoring the usual church clutter, the pale pink Storeton Stone can be seen. A triangular shaped slab with Chirotherium footprints can be seen at the top of the wall.

A close up of one of the footprints with my hand for scale. The curved thumb can be seen at the left and toes at the right of the print cast

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Experimental Officer - CT Scanner - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 105393 - Grade 6

You will provide technical expertise, support and guidance within the CoLES CT Scanner Facility. In addition to operating the CT scanner, you will oversee and develop the facility, carry out data proc...

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

OH COME ON OOLITH IS A WORD YOU TWERP

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It's beyond Obama. The bigger truth is about Black progress in America in the 20th/ 21st century-- Black advancement helps open the doors for so many other marginalized groups to rise. They want to kill the path of govt/educational/ career advancement for EVERYONE not white, straight, and male.

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