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SHRIMPtember concludes a Devonian decapod whose descendants become shrimp 🦐, lobsters 🦞, and crabs 🦀 (but not Dendrobranchiata -- prawns 🍤). #shrimptember #palaeopalaemon #paleoart #education #SciArt

The ancient ancestor of shrimp, Palaeopalaemon newberryi, as a spooky ghost

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a feeling Claude would have come up with a better record collection than the one I managed on my own. At the very least I wouldn't own Helen Reddy's greatest hits.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is scrapping the triple lock electoral suicide for Labour. It would be for the Tories. But I would have thought it would have just made grumpy old people who always vote Tory even grumpier. That wouldn't hurt Labour and would give me personally a laugh.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's an idea. Instead of having a war, Iran and US could have a competition to see which one can rebuild Gaza fastest and best? The winner gets tarif free trade with the rest of the world.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I made a joke the other day about the supposed attack on the US airbase actually being a badly worded Tesco online delivery order. I wonder if that was what actually happened?

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are lots of things that happen that you don’t hear anything about. I don’t know what they are.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It sounds more sensible when you put it like that.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Americans shouldn't want to fight Iran. The Americans don't want to fight Iran. But given that they are fighting them, they should be able to win. Why they aren't winning seems to me to be the most interesting question.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the time of writing this, the Fairford incident could be anything on a spectrum from organised attack by foreign government all the way to badly chosen Tesco delivery order. But if it is an attack, it's hard not to argue that it's a legitimate military target.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s not my fault my posts are rubbish. You need to give me a better prompt.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At an unusual performance of a mid summers night dream in Chichester.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surely you can do this in less time?

Scary lady in glasses threatening the viewer with a todo list.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I have seen further than others it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants, whose work I used to train an algorithm.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ontex That might not make much sense. It’s been taken out of context.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Random thought. I just looked up what proportion of Cubans are black. It’s 9%. Are 9% of Cuban emigrés in Florida black? (I’m British and I have no idea what the answer is - so this isn’t a rhetorical question).

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm a people person. Just not the people I actually meet.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s not my fault this post isn’t very good. I am claiming force majeure.

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Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

According to a AP poll, Mayor Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Netanyahu.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don’t like and subscribe. I don’t like you. It would be awkward. And subscribing puts unfair pressure on me to produce more content.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think I might start doing posts alternating between a chaotic and hedonistic Dionysian style and a rational and logical Appolonian one.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have decided to make my posts apolitical. That way I won't be complicit, and everyone will like me.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m a moral relativist. But there are worse things to be.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve combined the best Trump names I’ve seen into One. Mr Tangotinted MacTacotits.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When did it become the thing that you stopped being Irish when people didn’t like you? It never applied to Bono.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A capybara will go farer than a Lada Samara.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A problem with being a scientist and working in a lab is that a lot of non-scientists make jokes about you and your team being "mad scientists". I've come up with this infographic that explains that most mad people aren't scientists, and most scientists aren't mad. I hope it helps.

Venn diagram showing that the intersection of the set of people who are both mad and scientists is small and so the assumption that the scientist you are actually talking to is mad is flawed. (At least most of the time.)

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m gender fluid. But it is a fluid with quite a high level of viscosity.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Has anyone asked Daniel Hannan how Canada becoming an associate member of the EU will affect his CANZUK idea?

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No matter how old you get, you never get to have heard all the Christopher Lee stories. I have just found out he met two of the men who killed Rasputin. Oh and later, he also met Rasputin's daughter.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isn’t this a tactic of cults to isolate their followers from normal social support?

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is relevant to UK folk as well. It would be wise not to divulge any information at all to Restore Britain representives. www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...

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Elon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we know

Musk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The increased polarisation and reduction in the quality of debate has been the biggest disappointment of social media for me. But discovering that nobody is interested in my opinion is up there too.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leaving aside the rights or wrongs of the cause he is espousing, it has to be said that Macklemore is doing a cracking job of being an activist. He hasn't missed a chance to put the case he wants to put in a way that helps it along.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you're planning a genocide, here's a handy guide to compiling your shopping list. youtu.be/wm20Kjm7vjw?...

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"I Dropped This Bomb Myself" - Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar

YouTube video by Mario Nawfal

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I see what Bob is saying, but I'm not sure that if you leave a project to conservatives it would ever get off the ground.

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History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think lack of committment to free speech is the biggest issue people have with Israel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_i7...

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Foreign Ministry tells diplomats to dial down attacks on ‘NAZA’ film

YouTube video by The Times of Israel

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