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Jeremy Lockwood

@valdosaurus.bsky.social
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30 years a GP, now PhD palaeobiology. Six new dinosaurs for the Isle of Wight. Scientific associate Natural History Museum London. Worried about the destruction of the NHS.

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There is a plant which can mimic the leaves of other plants - including plastic ones - and the best explanation for this ability is that it has some form of vision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant
Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possi...
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#FossilFriday
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
CEO of Anglian Water, England's worst-polluting water company, handed extra £1.3m despite govt ban on bonuses for failing firms. Companies circumvent rules to reward execs for dumping sewage, fleecing customers, neglecting investment. Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
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England's most prolific polluters hand water boss extra £1.3m - despite ban on bonuses | LBC
Last year, the government delivered new legislation to prevent underperforming water companies from offering bonus payments to their executives.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Gold octopus ornaments from Bronze Age Mycenae, some 3,500 years ago. Probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a museum display of gold octopus-shaped ornaments excavated from Grave IV, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece. Each octopus ornament measures 6.8 cm in diameter and has seven writhing arms with suckers. The coiled tips of each arm create small holes which would enable them to be sewn onto fabric. They were probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Dated 1,500 BC. National Archaeological Museum Athens.
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bog star is a much better name than Grass of Parnassus.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For #FossilFriday a rare shark’s head in lagoonal sediments from the earliest Aptian of the #IsleofWight. About 30 cms across. A row of teeth can be seen across the lower jaw. On display at #DinosaurIsleMuseum.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
An astonishing and shocking analysis in the British Medical Journal. So many deaths just to appease Trump. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests
Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
After years of advising palaeontologists to give up on the 'species recognition' hypothesis for elaborate structures AND of promoting mutual sexual selection in Mesozoic #dinosaurs, @davehone.bsky.social and I are seeing more takeup of what we suggested... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Beyond species recognition hypothesis: evolutionary trends in Abelisauridae cranial ornamentation | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Beyond species recognition hypothesis: evolutionary trends in Abelisauridae cranial ornamentation
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just got Broad-banded hopper wasp in the garden, a bembicid sand wasp that predates mostly on bugs. Relatively rare and my sighting is the first iNaturalist record for Southampton! Err, if it's correct. #wasps #hymenopteran
Sand wasp on rotting wood, holding dead insect on middle leg pair.
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The extent to which fieldwork in palaeontology (& other research areas) is valued has been in long-term decline, with funding challenging despite its fundamental importance. Will the rise of AI change this given that finding, collecting & studying new fossils cannot be done by a computer? I hope so.
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A massive mollusc for #FossilFriday Bourgetia is a 160 million year old gastropod from the tropical seas of the Yorkshire Jurassic. The grid on my desk is 50mm. There's a good article about these and other upper Jurassic snails here: fossilsinthills.weebly.com/blogs/the-tw... ⚒️🌍🐚🐌🔬🧪
A buff-coloured spiral gastropod shell Bourgetia. It's about 15cm tall.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Down on the coast this #FossilFriday looking through heavily dinoturbated sandstones. Not sure about this but looks a bit like a sauropod pes but well over a metre long! #IsleofWight
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This episode is now available on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In Our Time - The Evolution of Trees - BBC Sounds
How trees first arose from small plants and changed the world, and why new trees emerge.
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wollemia is critically endangered in the wild. Here's some of the trees I've grown from seeds, collected from trees that were part of the amazing conservation strategy (work out how to propagate at scale & then sell the trees around the world). #WollemiaWednesday
A Wollemia tree with pale coloured new growth and some sunburnt leaves from last Spring, surrounded by lots of other garden plants running riot.Three Wollemias of different sizes in pots against the brick wall of a house. There's a blackberry plant in a tub next to them.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you enjoyed or heard about #DinoConUK last year, our 2026 meeting is substantially bigger, with so much more stuff. Tickets are still on sale, get them and arrange accommodation at www.dinocon.co.uk And follow us for news at @dinoconuk.bsky.social. A few of our speakers...
DinoCon 2026 promotional image for speaker Tim Haines.DinoCon 2026 promotional image for speaker Emma Nicholls.DinoCon 2026 promotional image for Guest of Honour David James Armsby.DinoCon 2026 promotional image for speaker Matt Dempsey.
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#FossilFriday New ichnogenus of possible tritylodont tracks associated with newly discovered tritylodont bonebeds under study by @andrewtracks.bsky.social from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. What long toes you have grandpa?
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Heidi The History Mouse @thehistorymouse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StCatherineBatheaston #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Effigies of children on C17 chancel memorial. The child to the rear is white and differently spaced. Predeceased the parents? Any experts?
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Palaeo3D @palaeo3d.com · 29/05/2026
Anlass zu sagen, "So ne Ankylosaurierhüfte schneidet einem aber ganz schön in die Pfoten!" hat man ja auch leider viel zu selten. #workskeet
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A jumble of Scheenstia fish remains from an Early Cretaceous freshwater environment on the #IsleofWight. An enamel-like coating on the scales preserves them as shiny black diamond shapes. #FossilFriday
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 27/05/2026
Voyager 1 has been travelling now for almost 50 years at a speed of 17,000 metres per second. In November it will reach a point one light day from earth. And it's still talking to us.
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Kate @mathkat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@deadder.bsky.social "Exit Strategy"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Privatisation of the NHS NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms. Private sector focused on profit, not service. Money buys less. Public purse depleted. NHS capacity not expanded. Why would it train staff? There is no public mandate for privatisation of the NHS.
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NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms
Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reports
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Jurassic Oceans is a separately ticketed event: you don’t get free entry as per other parts of the NHM. But if you like Mesozoic marine stuff, you totally should visit. It's open from today and I really recommend it! Info and tickets are here... www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... #FossilFriday
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Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep | Natural History Museum
Take a thrilling deep dive back in time into ancient waters with this monstrous exhibition.
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Overly honest museum labels #1 "Graptolites which look as if someone has scribbled all over the rock!" Leptograptus capillaris, on display in National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh #FossilFriday 🌍⚒️✏🧪🔬
A museum label which says "1 Graptolites which look as if someone has scribbled all over the rock! Leptograptus capillaris, Dob's Linn, Dumfriesshire G1984.8.31Leptograptus capillaris, a graptolite fossil which looks like a light grey scribble on a dark grey rock.
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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A reminder that some of the largest Late Triassic predators were croc relatives: here’s the humungous maxilla of a rauisuchian from the Elliot of South Africa, which was originally misidentified as a carnivorous prosauropod #FossilFriday
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For #FossilFriday, an ichnological 2-for-1 deal: Eocene (~50+ mya) shorebird tracks with bonus invertebrate trails (Cochlichnus), either made by nematode worms or insect (dipteran) larvae; little "craters" may be gas-bubble escape structures. From the Green River Formation, Utah. 🧪🐦🐾
Left hand holding a flat, gray-green rock surface with abundant small pockmarks, two three-toed bird tracks in sequence, and tiny "sine-wave" invertebrate trails crossing the second bird track.
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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#FossilFriday: In July 1824, Lord Cole (later Enniskillen) bought this, his first fossil, from Mary Anning. But it was missing the tip of its snout. In 1827 she found the tip, recognised that it belonged to the specimen she had sold to Cole 3 years before, and sent it to him and he stuck it on.
Photograph of the tip of an ichthyosaur snout with many conical teeth, the end part stuck on with plaster.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Slides apparently made from fragments of the scapula of Neovenator a large #IsleofWight theropod dinosaur showing the cortex and spongy trabecular bone. #FossilFriday
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#FossilFriday The sail-backed herbivorous synapsid Edaphosaurus @ummnh.bsky.social
Skeleton of the Permian sail-backed protomammal Edaphosaurus
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Stu Pond @stupond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Finally made it to The Etches Collection on the Isle of Purbeck last week. The huge pliosaur skull was the star of the show for sure; a stunning fossil, beautifully prepped. Also gorgeous fossils of other marine reptiles, pterosaurs, fish and dinosaurs (yay!) #FossilFriday
view of the main gallery of The Etches CollectionClose-up of the snout and teeth of the huge pliosaur on display at The Etches CollectionThe huge pliosaur skull on display at The Etches CollectionMe and the huge pliosaur skull on display at The Etches Collection
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In the event of a fire, exit the building immediately. Do not stop to look at the MASSIVELY INTERESTING 350 MILLION YEAR OLD CRINOID FOSSILS, LIKE STACKS OF POLO MINTS, SLICED IN EVERY POSSIBLE ORIENTATION, WHICH LINE THE ENTIRE STAIRWELL. #FossilFriday 🌏⚒⭐🔬🧪
Crinoid fossils in Derbyshire crinoidal limestone, on the wall of the stairwell in the Physic Building at the University of Nottingham. They look like stacks of polo mints in a grey rock. There's a green emergency exit sign too.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The biting surface of an #IsleofWight spinosaurid’s snout. Lots of little new teeth emerging where the full size ones have been lost, probably during a struggle. #FossilFriday
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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I have a new paper out today in PeerJ with a new intermediate pterosaur taxon, Laueropterus vitriolus. The full paper is here if you want the technical stuff: peerj.com/articles/212...
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A new early monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany
A number of new early monofenestratan pterosaurs have recently been described from the Late Jurassic Mörnsheim Formation of Southern Germany, greatly expanding our knowledge of the diversity and evolu...
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Hark! You can now buy gift vouchers for my print store! The perfect gift for #paleoart or #dinosaur fans to celebrate birthdays, religious holidays, or a #FossilFriday? Check them out at: www.markwitton.co.uk/gift-voucher And the print store itself: www.markwitton.co.uk/category/all...
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A pslice of Psaronius for #FossilFriday and #FernFriday Psaronius is the permineralised 'trunk' of a Carboniferous tree fern, which was made up of a mantle of thousands of rootlets. This is a thin section made to be studied under the microscope. The slide is 25mm wide. 🌏⚒🌱🌿🌴🔬🧪
A thin section of a fragment of Psaronius - a fern with a 'trunk' made up of a mantle of rootlets. Lots of rounded polygonal light grey rootlets with dark margins, in a dark matrix.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A bit late for #FossilFriday but a heavily dinoturbated area at Hanover Point #IsleofWight. Some fierce weather here at times but this lone ornithopod dinosaur footcast was here when I first visited the island some 30 years ago.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
£240 billion per year is £3,480 per person £8,570 per household Reversing Brexit for could make you that much better off. For the cost of £1 billion, which is £14.50 per person, or £35.70 per household. Ask yourself: am I an idiot? If the answer is "no", back undoing Brexit.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It's a long weekend here, so ahead of #FossilFriday here's a paleo-postcard! It shows the base of a large Callixylon #tree from the Late Devonian (>360 million years ago) of Oklahoma, on the campus of East Central University🌲⛏️ See reply for the back of the postcard & more details! #paleobotany
Photo of a postcard with the upright base of a large fossil trunk on a university campus with a plaque in front
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A fragment of a 170 million year old delicate-looking fern frond for #FossilFriday & #FernFriday Coniopteris (this one is C. simplex I think) from the Yorkshire Jurassic. The fossil is about 3cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌿🦕🔬
Coniopteris (this one is C. simplex I think) from the Yorkshire Jurassic. The fossil is about 3cm long. A very skeletal, fillform black frond fragment on a grey rock.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
For #FossilFriday two huge fused sacral vertebrae discovered by the late Nick Chase from by far and away the largest spinosaurid dinosaur found on the #IsleofWight. I’d guess that as either end wasn’t fused this giant wasn’t fully grown. On display at #DinosaurIsleMuseum. Photobomber Henry Hover.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A couple of days too early!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
MPs oppose Wes Streeting’s decision to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs . Quite right too. To appease Trump Govt has agreed to pay £64bn extra for NHS drugs by 2036. No impact assessment published. No parliamentary scrutiny. Can use alternative sources, produce generic drugs cheaply locally.
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Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs
Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharma
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Owen Goodchild @paleowen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#FossilFriday some casts of the incredible dinosaur fossils from the Gobi Desert in the AMNH’s new ‘Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs’ exhibit honoring our late curator Dr. Mark Norell, and his decades of work in the Gobi with Dr. Mike Novacek and many more.
A pair of white dinosaur skeleton casts in red matrix with long curved necks. These are Khaan mckennaii, named for both the Mongolian term for ruler and for former AMNH curator Malcolm McKennaA long low skull with recurved blade-like teeth belonging to Velociraptor, accompanied by a reconstruction of this bird like dinosaur showing a covering of feathers on its body

Velociraptor mongoliensis skull DINosAuR
Lived 80 million years ago | Collected at the Flaming Cliffs, 1995
Museum scientists discovered the first known
Velociraptor fossil in the Gobi in 1923. These relatively small, carnivorous dinosaurs used their wickedly sharp claws and teeth to capture prey such as mammals, lizards and young dinosaurs.
3D print of Institute of Geology, Mongolia IGM 100/982 AMNH FARB 34118
ZHAO Chuang/PNSO plThe nest of a small troodontid theropod with eggs and the skeleton of a hatchling
• Byronosaurus jaffei nest and hatchling oUR
Lived 80 million years ago | Collected at Ukhaa Tolgod, 1995
The eggs and tiny, just-hatched
standing on end, indicating they
dinosaur in this nest belong to a type
were deliberately positioned, and
of small, feathered dinosaur called a a fully grown tooth found in one
troodontid. The nest offers evidence of the already hatched eggs suggestsA cast specimen of a baby Protoceratops
Protoceratops andrewsi DINOSAUR
Lived 80 million years ago | Collected at Ukhaa Tolgod, 1997
Protoceratops were sheep-sized, plant-eating dinosaurs.
This fossil is a baby-it does not yet have any fancy frills or horns on its skull. Those grew in as Protoceratops entered adulthood, when they may have been used for protection, to attract a mate or in fights for dominance.
3D print of Institute of Geology, Mongolia IGM 100/10020 AMNH FARB 34117
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Dreaming of Jurassic conifer forests this #FossilFriday 🌲🌲🌲 Brachyphyllum mamillare, a conifer twig with scale leaves from the Yorkshire Jurassic about 170 million years ago. 10 cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌲🦕🔬
Brachyphyllum mamillare - s fossil conifer twig with imbricate scale leaves on a grey rock. About 10cm long.
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A theropod dinosaur foot print with a beautiful claw mark from the Vectis Formation #IsleofWight in the collections of #DinosaurIsleMusem. Sadly the toe on the right is missing. ‘If only there was more’ is so often the lament of the palaeontologist. #FossilFriday
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
There is no evidence that GP referrals are the cause of the waiting list issues Referrals were not up but hospital treatments are still a problem Advice & Guidance funding has now been ‘capped’ by adding it to core rather than paid separately Cynical ploy to cut £ to GPs for work done
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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Greater Stitchwort (Rabelera holostea) in profusion while walking Cedric in a beautiful ancient woodland. #IsleofWight.
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This #FossilFriday, @gizz47.bsky.social has been helping me (= done the entire job) update my Redbubble store for the first time in years. Your favourite #paleoart from King Tyrant and Spinosaur Tales, as well as other new artworks, are now available as merch! www.redbubble.com/people/MarkW...
OMIGOD LOOK AT ALL THE GREAT ART YOU CAN BUY AS REDBUBBLE PRODUCTS AND THERE'S A SALE ON CERTAIN ITEMS RIGHT NOW SO IT'S DEFINITELY A SMART TIME TO BUY EXCEPT THERE ARE MORE PIECES BEING UPLOADED ALL THE TIME SO WHAT TO DO WHAT TO DO WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For #FossilFriday, a pair (front foot, rear foot) of wee little ornithopod tracks in the Dakota Formation (~100 mya) at Dinosaur Ridge near Morrison, CO. Dinosaur Ridge is one of the most popular dinosaur tracksites in the U.S. (cc: @dinoridge.bsky.social, @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social)
A pair of small dinosaur tracks, with a roundish smaller track (3 cm wide) in front of a larger three-toed track (8 cm long and 8 cm wide), preserved in a gray sandstone; my left index finger is pointing to the larger track and serving as scale (about 2 cm wide).
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