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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Are innovators born that way, or does solving problems come from experience?🐭 In our recent(ish) paper in @asab.org with @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther, we show innovation may be inherent in wild house mice and experience makes innovators better! paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123441

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

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Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Sprung! Twice in the year, around the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the sunrise shines right along Ingram Street, turning the Iron Duke, his steed, Copenhagen, and even his traffic cone hat into a shadowy work of art against the great doors of GoMA. Picture: u/Hoyerman68

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The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

No-one’s asking you to change your spots when you’re this good looking… 😍 #leopard #mbchimps #bigkitty #fieldwork #Guinea 🧪

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...

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The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory

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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A beautiful sight - so many different shades of green on the western slopes of the Long Mynd. I was on Adstone Hill for this shot, enjoying the peace and quiet in the morning sunshine. I had set out hoping for long shadows stretching across the fields - and that’s exactly what I got. #Shropshire

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is a very cool story, about how art historians, curators, mathematicians, and palaeographers work together to restore masterpieces: www.quantamagazine.org/using-mathem...

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Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece | Quanta Magazine

The author shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/02/2026

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!

A collage of nine images featuring prints, a cushion, a mug, a T-shirt and a phone case.

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

UCL to close its Institute of Advanced Studies this summer, stating the interdisciplinary research centre is no longer financially sustainable www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucl-axe... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

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UCL axes ‘utopian’ Institute of Advanced Studies

Interdisciplinary research hub focused on arts and humanities will shut in July amid financial sustainability issues

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Apparently it's #WorldHippoDay! 🦛🦛 Let's celebrate with this #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite. Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth. On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 me 🏺

Carving of a hippopotamus figurine made from calcite, featuring a stocky body, prominent bulging eyes, short legs, and textured surface, displayed on a glass shelf.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Latest drop in UK student visa applications ‘deeply concerning’. There were 19,800 applications last month—a 31 per cent decrease on January 2025, when there were 28,700. It is the fourth month in a row that monthly visa applications have been at a four year low.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I spent several hours with Gisele Pelicot in Paris She is remarkable This Sunday her only UK TV interview airs across the BBC

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026

I changed the audio

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Other work of the Ladybird artists. A February Day Artist: Rowland Hilder

A very loose, spare, painterly watercolour of a long view over a flat expansive landscape dotted with winter trees in broken sunshine under a cloudy sky

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Jen Gill @jengill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New wadertales blog on how quickly juvenile godwits learn to feed efficiently through their first winter: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l... From new @asab.org paper led by Josh Nightingale: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Last week, RPN broke a string of stories on significant changes to funding across a number of research councils (see thread below) This morning, UKRI chief executive is appearing at the Commons science committee, where he is being asked about them by MPs Here are some key moments so far 🧵

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Can't resist revisiting this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

Decorative flowers and stems on balustrade of curving staircase

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“Ambitious” plans to use research funding to attract industry investment of £25 billion by the end of the decade are likely to prove “extremely challenging” given falling levels of university-business spending, experts have warned. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky ow.ly/CKxs50XTrmp

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Georgia O'Keeffe, You Are The Sun, 1977 #Womensart #Solstice

Blue painted circle over waved horizontal line on a cream background

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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

How should universities work with combined authorities and business to support inclusive growth in our city-regions? Some reflections on my five years in Greater Manchester, to mark the year of my retirement from the University of Manchester. softmachines.org?p=3213

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On leaving the University of Manchester – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

This illustration was originally the front cover picture of the ladybird book.
Two herons and clusters of other birds stand around a partially frozen lake under a yellow winter sky

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

'Bananas.' (1956) Throughout his career Lucian Freud was fascinated with plants and approached the painting of them without smothering them with symbolic meaning much the same as his mentor Cedric Morris, himself an evocative and unsentimental flower painter.

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Prof Emma Flynn @profemmaflynn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Books I have read and enjoyed on my holiday: The Original by Nell Stevens, the second of the ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ by Solvej Balle, and The List of Suspicious Things by Janine Godfrey.

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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Many plausible candidates contributing to this dismal performance, from the factors leading up to the 2008 crisis, post-crisis policies that made the situation worse, and the shocks of the last decade My blogpost: The UK's continuing economic growth crisis softmachines.org?p=3206

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The UK’s continuing economic growth crisis – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/12/2025

This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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Johnny Rich @johnnyrich.com · 10/12/2025

At the packed launch of the OfS 5-year strategy. Chair Edward Peck is opening: “We want to create strong, robust, two-way dialogue”. Based on recent years, many in the sector will recognise that as more of a strategic change than it may sound.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

Photograph of a white woman putting clothes out to dry on a washing line in her garden in shoulder height snow so only her head and shoulders are visible

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Prof Emma Flynn @profemmaflynn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My recent morning runs have both been very beautiful but also quite different.

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Wouter @wvanparys.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The true pleasure of Bluesky. "When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."

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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

European Research Council’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage, but not to holders of ongoing ERC grants, funder reveals www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth whose back is turned to us, and Macbeth posed towards us with his hand on the back of his wife's neck. The long cut in the back of her dress reveals skin in the shape of a sword/dagger that Macbeth seems to be holding.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth facing us with her cleavage cut into three pointy triangles. Macbeth is kneeling in front of her, away from us, his face in his wife's chest. The exposed skin of Lady Macbeth looks like a crown that aligns with the top of Macbeth's head.

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Prof Emma Flynn @profemmaflynn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Not a bad day in London, the National Portrait Gallery, and then Nouvelle Vague in Camden Town.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies. Marion Davies!

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Prof Emma Flynn @profemmaflynn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It is always painful to drag yourself out of bed for a morning run especially when it is cold; but it is always worth it. #morningrun #leamingtonspa #morninglight

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)

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