iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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 · 17/06/2026

it's more like we mammals lost the production line in favour of occlusion

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

i got a job rejection at 5pm on the last working day before the Christmas break. That felt classy.

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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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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Maybe @aeon.co would be a good home for this

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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-...

kcl.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

And working class people here too. Where I grew everyone had their tea after CBBC finished (on their laps infront of neighbours, TNG, ot Fresh Prince). We were 1st gen middle class (teacher mum), and we'd have an early dinner 4 nights out of 7.

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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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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 could quote the whole of this article.

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"how are mid-career academics, who have had years of rejections and refusals, supposed to believe in themselves if nobody above them does?... you are absolutely replaceable at these institutions. Thirty younger, cheaper, keener people are clamouring to leap into any hole created by your absence"

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

photo didn't uploat.... IT WASN'T A WEST BROM STICKER

Photo of a wooden wall of stickers in a pub in Cork, centred around a red and white sticker with the words "witton ablion" and "spezial", as well as a styalised lne drawing of WAFC's badge.

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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 · 21/03/2025

the intros were the worst bit, and really not sleep inducing, which was annoying due to the whole aimed at insomniacs thing.

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

there's a pod i used to listen to, specifically aimed at insomniacs, where one of the patreon feeds was "intros only". Maddening.

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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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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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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 · 17/02/2025

ironically, Pakistan is a country to which many people migrated just 4 years later

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Neal Anthwal @nanthwal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

*superb STUDENT Ticha. Damnit sausage fingers.

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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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