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Neal Anthwal

@nanthwal.bsky.social
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developmental biologist. evolution, mammals, jaws, ears. that kind of thing. also typos. lots of typos.

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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A very useful guide to all the jargons and concepts of mechanics used in #devbio from the lab of @raphclement.bsky.social and @pflenne.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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A developmental biologist's guide to mechanics
Summary: A guide to mechanics in development: unlock how forces, material properties and geometry shape the forms of life.
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oops and here's another I wrote last week for @livescience.com Mammal ancestors may have given live birth 90 million years earlier than we thought 🧪 www.livescience.com/animals/land...
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Live birth may have evolved 90 million years earlier than thought
Scientists found evidence of live birth in a mammal that lived more than 230 million years ago, rewriting evolutionary timelines.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
ooo, this looks fun, wonder which mover and shaker thought leader of the moment I'll get? britmonkey.com/2020s-politi... oh...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
When wake up and think, "eugh this is typical", then two hours later things look much brighter. This is a cricket post.
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Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology (CCRB) @ccrb27.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New paper from the Tucker lab at @ccrb27.bsky.social ! Authors Ticha Tuwatnawanit, @nanthwal.bsky.social and collagues analysed the formation and molecular identity of the glenoid fossa of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/3)
Graphical abstract summarising the key findings of the paper.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just put a new pick guard on my cheapo PJ bass and now I only want shell pink + mint green Fenders.
body of a PJ style bass guitar in shell pink with a miny green pickguard
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Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology (CCRB) @ccrb27.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New review from our centre published in the Journal of Dental Research! Activating Endogenous Condylar Stem Cells to Enhance TMJ Repair doi.org/10.1177/0022... Congratulations Ticha Tuwatnawanit, @nanthwal.bsky.social and Abigail for this publication! @kingsdentistry.bsky.social (1/3)
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Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology (CCRB) @ccrb27.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
CCRB paper alert! Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap? (1/3)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you like evolutionary constraints, serial homology, teeth, bats or all of the above, come and see our talk and posters! 👇🏼 At 3:30 I will talk about the genomic and developmental foundation of adaptive tooth shape evolution in bats Room S09 rm 118-119 #ESEB2025
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Tucker group @ccrb27.bsky.social is looking for a new postdoc to look at the interplay between the microbiome and the developing vomeralnasal organ. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121845-...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node
The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
the worst thing about being on the job market is having to actually engage with LinkedIn. oh man, what a stunningly awful platform that is. Was it better before and has just suffered from enshittification?
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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If you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club | Alastair Campbell
The civil service, judiciary and media are still dominated by the privately educated 7%. Lasting change is not a pipe dream – but it’s up to us, says writer and podcaster Alastair Campbell
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. open.substack.com/pu... A platform took my PhD thesis and used AI to turn it into a podcast, then emailed me expecting me to be grateful about it. I... am not. #AI #Podcast #Publishing
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A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.
An AI programme has apparently made a podcast out of my PhD thesis, in what seems to be a Guinness World Record attempt for 'most pointless endeavour ever'.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here Mike Lynch mounts a fierce challenge to two recent attempts to understand the evolution of complexity in biology and beyond. I wouldn't like to place bets on the winner in this bout, but it does seem Lynch presents some tough questions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS
Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of new principles of evolution that have somehow eluded over a cen...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I've never felt so seen www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir... (archive link) archive.ph/MjC2z
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
just sat down for a restorative Beamish in Cork city, and what do I see in the seat we randomly picked? #UpTheAlbion
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/05/2025
new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
just asked an popular LLM to write about working @ccrb27.bsky.social and it basically said the lifts are more temperamental than the experiments. Take from that what you will.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy St George' Day!
Cartoon for St George's day by Stephen Collins for the guardian. Script as follows:

Scene is outside a cave, ST GEORGE in armour etc is confronting the DRAGON while the CAPTURED PRINCESS looks on.

DRAGON:
So let me get this straight.

DRAGON:
You’re hoping to reinforce ‘helpless princess’ tropes…

DRAGON:
By publicly stabbing an *endangered animal* to death with a *sword*…

DRAGON:
So you can force a whole Syrian village to convert to Christianity….

DRAGON:
And become a nationalist icon for a colonial state…

DRAGON:
Through the cultural appropriation of ancient medieval dragon myths. 

DRAGON:
You’ve not been *online* very long, have you?

GEORGE: 
I have been quite surprised by the comments.

GEORGE’S SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT [who is filming this encounter on an iPhone]:
I told you it’s problematic, George.

DRAGON:
Problematic? It’s a *bin fire*!

DRAGON:
OK. Here’s how you turn this round - 

CUT TO a YoutTube post called ‘MY JOURNEY (An apology)’. GEORGE is crying to camera, Dragon in background.

GEORGE: 
I am *so sorry* guys… 
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
just saw the 80s referred to as the late 1900s, and now I'm a dessicated corpse.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
wow
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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Exciting news! 🎉 MorphoBank is now on Bluesky! We’re a #FAIR and #Open resource for #phylogenetic #morphological data, helping researchers archive, share, and analyze phylogenetic matrices and images. Follow us for updates on new projects, best practices, and ways to get involved!
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Have you always dreamt of doing a PhD in eardrum stem cells with Abbie Tucker @ccrb27.bsky.social, on the 27th Floor or Europe's tallest hospital in London? Well, here's an ideal opening for your oddly specific dream www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Enhancing ear drum repair by tracking endogenous stem cells at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Enhancing ear drum repair by tracking endogenous stem cells at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Fantastic PhD in stem cells / hearing opportunity with Prof Abigail Tucker at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Enhancing ear drum repair by tracking endogenous stem cells at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Enhancing ear drum repair by tracking endogenous stem cells at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Everything that’s wrong with society can be traced back to the decline in popularity of point-and-click adventure games. None of this would be happening if there was a AAA King’s Quest game every five years
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
this is lovely spooky stuff
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS. forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Reposting for the working week.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Delighted to share our new paper, led by superb students Ticha, in which she identifies FSP1 fibroblast stem/progenitor cells in TMJ journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XHXK9...
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FSP1/S100A4-Expressing Stem/Progenitor Cells Are Essential for Temporomandibular Joint Growth and Homeostasis - T. Tuwatnawanit, W. Wessman, D. Belisova, Z. Sumbalova Koledova, A.S. Tucker, N. Anthwal...
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is one of the most used joints in the body. Defects and wear in the cartilage of the joint, condyle, and fibrocartilage disc l...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Yep, it's looking like it's going to be one of those days. Wordle 1,333 X/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Max Planck Institute in Plön seeks a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Developmental Biology to study craniofacial evolution. Apply by March 31, 2025. Learn more: www.evolbio.mpg.de #phd
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Das Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie besteht derzeit aus den beiden Abteilungen für Theoretische Biologie und Mikrobielle Populationsbiologie. Es betreibt Grundlagenforschung, um grundsätzliche evolutionsbiologische Prozesse zu erklären wie etwa ökologische Anpassungen, Entstehung der Sexualität oder Evolution von Kooperativität. Die Spannbreite der Arbeiten beinhaltet ökologische, organismische, molekulare und theoretische Ansätze.
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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A week left to apply to @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence programme Deadline 31 January The programme supports postdocs going on the academic job market in 2025 We offer training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Der Spiegel reports the attack on a Christmas Market in Madgeburg, killing two people, carried out by a man from Saudi Arabia apparently with far right sympathies for the AfD's anti-Muslim agenda. He puts the X owner Elon Musk with Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson as inspiring his journey to violence.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024
News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions theonion.com/news-happeni...
News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions
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Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This video shows the mechanical patterning of crocodile head scales 🐊. Read our new @natureportfolio.bsky.social article to learn more ⬇️ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The only meaningful sports championship
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
oh how exciting, i just checked clearsky.app and i appear to have been blocked by loads of people (no idea why, people don't like typos?). how exciting. I've arrived.
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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame #EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered
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Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Guardian journalists are on strike. In solidarity, here are the articles I refuse to link to: - I say return our looted culture to Cro-Magnon France - I thought I was dying - but I'd just skipped lunch! - Finally, at 36, I understand old age - I spent a week in the North and it wasn't too bad [1/2]
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New @dev-journal.bsky.social editorial We know we have high standards - but we're committed to making publishing with us constructive From clear revision guidance to limitations sections & transparent peer review, we're here to help you share your science journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Constructive Critics: Development's approach to peer review
We're all familiar with complaints about peer review. Some think it's biased – editors (especially from ‘those’ journals) seem to have too much power to decide what gets published. It can be opaque – ...
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