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I have quoted this before I expect “It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers” - Pierre-Marc-Gaston, Duc de Lévis (1764-1830)

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Internal structure of Mammoth ivory inspired the design of Mizyn (Ukraine) Upper Palaeolithic figurines🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s40... Study results suggest that these artefacts represent an independent stylistic phenomenon in the chronology of art-style development during the Palaeolithic period

Mammoth ivory carving, where the Ice Age artist followed the bone's natural lines to create the art piece. (Image Credit: University of York)

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 02/10/2026

As waters warm won't corals spread away from the old tropics into the north Atlantic/Pacific, & the southern Pacific/Atlantic/Indian Oceans?

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Nature reports how researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater. 🌊🌎🧪

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The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?

Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.

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What is the betting other conditions will turn out to have an as yet undiscovered viral or bacterial cause or contribution?

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By the twitching in my toes, a fishy into my mouth goes...

Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Surinam toads are ambush predators who wait in murky water with outstretched arms for prey to approach, then suck it into their mouth without even touching it. UCLA research has shown that Surinam toads have extremely sensitive fingertips that can sense the movement of fish in water. 🧪

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These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes

Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's free newsletter is out! Inside you'll find Tyrant Lizard Queen tour dates, my latest writing, and why I'm excited about a brand new tyrannosaur species. 🧪

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Friday Fragments #33

A new tyrannosaur species indicates the tyrant dinosaurs were evolving fast towards the end of the Cretaceous.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FossilFriday brings canoodling Seymouria, a largely terrestrial Permian tetrapod thought to be a stem amphibian. This replica is from our collection, but the original is apparently at Carnegie. They're called the Tambach lovers, although Seymouria aggregations have been found elsewhere too. 🧪⚒️

Replica cast of two canoodling Seymouria sanjuanensis, early Permian, Germany.

Huh, didn’t notice the donor until just now. Guess the original's at Carnegie!

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Mark Popinchalk @markpopinchalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Live Bat" in an underground theater? Now that's comedy 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/YSPiO...

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LIVE BAT ON STAGE - Science Comedy Show

YouTube video by Science Tonight!

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Will have visitors tonight from Lonnon - they missed their train so heaven knows if she got an ordinary saver ticket or not -otherwise she'll end up paying for a new one! 😱 This is a friend whose life is perpetual stress & if it can go wrong it will...

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One really good reason I have for being part of a reading group is having to read books I would never normally touch with a barge pole. Lablit can be in almost any genre - apart from sci-fi & fantasy. We have even read a couple of romance stories! 👍 🩵📚

Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 26/09/2026

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📖 Today sees me a start another of my “Picked for me…” collection. This is “Water Moon” by Samantha Sotto Yambao, which @thebookbella.bsky.social selected for me during a #BookTube sprint. No clue what it’s about, but first chapter is v.intriguing 🤗 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #HammockTime 😎

A hand holding up a paperback edition of Samantha Sotto Yambao’s “Water Moon” against a clear blue sky. A yellow bookmark pokes out of the top of the book.

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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You spend part of every week proving to a machine that you're human. It has never once had to explain itself to you. Chapter one of FRICTION is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Thriller #SciFi ⚡️📚 🪐📚

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A well-constructed mystery that proves the genre CAN operate from a place of real emotion. Very much enjoyed this book! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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or with bright pastel colours & cartoonish figures it is modern romance

You know if the typeface for the tile is swirly & gothic, red & black, the book is probably to do with fantasy for example,

This illustrates the thriller/crime book cover genre very well! A snowy landscape with a small silhouetted figure looking lost. Here is a bit of rubbishy research I just did to illustrate. well, not so much snow but the point stands! 😀 Obviously covers are signals to readers...

London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well we need rain! September has been very dry in Norfolk... building a rain debt.

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Refreshing to see some actual prolonged cool weather, marked at times in a forecast model. Been shockingly absent following the first 10 days of January it’s practically been nonstop mild, often excessive apart from one cool week in mid May. (1/2)

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Child of God (film) - Wikipedia

Another novel that I had no idea had been filmed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_o... The novel is not a crime novel though it contains crimes.

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Some writers use 'Herstory' to remind people that women have often (usually) been written out of 'his-story'... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory omg! Mansplaining! sorry...

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Herstory - Wikipedia

Angie @angieshepherdgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow - what a great novel! Definitely the best fiction I have read in the last year. Perfect length too - under 200 pages. #booksky

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History; A place where you keep Hiss😁

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking forward tom the Big Crunch myself!

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👇 A must watch 😍 10/10 No notes 🔭

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think it suits your outfit! 👍

Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Going to get nearly £200 from people having borrowed my books from libraries this year. THANK YOU @alcs.co.uk

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I almost wrote about this for CW myself. It's so neat. Tens of grams of *elemental* sulfur inside each of us!

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mystery - a place where you keep mist