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
Greater Stitchwort (Rabelera holostea) in profusion while walking Cedric in a beautiful ancient woodland. #IsleofWight.
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?
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...
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).
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)
For #FossilFriday I was just thinking of William Fox #IsleofWight who discovered several new dinosaur taxa in the 1860s. He called them dragons. “I cannot leave this place while I have any money left to live on, I take such deep in hunting for old dragons”.
👇The latest from RPN on the shake-up of funding at @ukri.org that is leading to ~30% cuts in UK research funding to astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics. Other research areas are now realising that these changes are going to impact their funding too....🧪🔭⚛️
Top right: Photograph of two jaw bones with a one cent Euro coin for scale. The bones are a fragment of a mandible of Galanthis baskini from Las Casiones (small, darker specimen, above) and a complete mandible of the extant species Mustela nivalis (lesser weasel; lighter coloured specimen below). Image: Alberto Valenciano. Top left: blue rectangle is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology. Bottom: Illustration of body mass along the branches of the tip-dated Bayesian MCC tree, showing the ancestral body mass for each clade; illustrated specimens (not to scale): Lutra lutra, MNCN-3666; Vormela peregusna, IVPP-OV519; Zdanskyictis minimus, PMU-21788; Mustela putorius, MNCN-3846; Mustela nivalis, MNCN-14416; Mustela erminea, MNCN-14372; Neogale vison, MNCN-14417; Galanthis baskini, KS-9a; Martes americana, FMNH-51372.
Oldest evidence of a weasel reveals a Miocene origin of the Mustelinae (Mammalia, Carnivora) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social
"Zweidrittelmehrheit für Magyar – Orbán gratuliert zum Wahlsieg" - #Ungarn HAT gewählt
#ProEuropa
#FCKPutin
my low key favourite thing about these is that the coloured slips are named after birds, with these two being bullfinch red and kingfisher blue 😌
Selfie photo of me, smiling in front of the Stegosaurus-and-Allosaurus display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, February 2026
Visiting my old friends Allosaurus and Stegosaurus at DMNS on a recent #FossilFriday
Pond, photographed from distance, with blue tit perched close to edge.
I like it when birds visit the pond... my photos are always crappy and opportunistic, not planned. Look for the Blue tit :)
The fantastic skulls of 𝘿𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙠𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞 and 𝙋𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙪𝙨, pterosaurs from the Jurassic plattenkalks of southern Germany.
Read the research by Smyth & Unwin (2024) here: buff.ly/vSGuV2o
#PaleoSky #FossilFriday
Ancient ivory from the straight tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus that roamed #IsleofWight about 100,000 years ago when still part of the mainland. #FossilFriday
National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝
Somewhat belatedly... I just updated the TetZooCon page at the Tet Zoo site to include a summary of the 2024 meeting, our last one ever, and the predecessor to #DinoCon. An 11 year run of steadily improved zoology-themed conventions. Please check it out at .... tetzoo.com/convention
A tiny, light green, coiled fiddlehead of the Maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris), in front of lots of old dark stems
Maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) coming back to life
#FossilFriday A brachiopod with a hole, the pygopid Antionomia.
Pencil drawings of mainly fossil marine reptile teeth.
#FossilFriday: Mary Anning's hand-drawn copy of a plate of ichthyosaur and other teeth copied from WD Conybeare's 1822 paper, Additional Notices on Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus. #MaryAnning
Engraving: sense dramatically explains the organic nature of fossils to a questioning figure.
Easily the most theatrical depiction of a fossil sea urchin on record: the frontispiece to Agostino Scilla's important 1670 work on fossils, Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (in inglese). Scilla's fossils and sketches are in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social #FossilFriday
A heavily ornamented dentary tooth from a little iguanodontian dinosaur from the #IsleofWight. The primary ridge is bang in the centre which is typical of the early diverging dryosaurids so this could be from Valdosaurus the ‘Wealden lizard’. #FossilFriday
So many decisions being made about people’s health without actually seeing them. Totally scandalous!
🚨New species alert🚨
24 new deep-sea crustaceans, known as amphipods, have been named for the first time. Their names come from many sources, from friends and family members to the video game Hollow Knight!
Find out more about these incredible animals 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Sunday Exception:
Swan Perfect Landing
Fossil flower from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River formation. About 40-50 million years old. #fossilfriday
Gray and tan sandstone surface criss-crossed by abundant bilobed trilobite burrows, "popping out" as bas-relief natural casts on the bottom of the sandstone bed. These lengthy and commonly wide burrows have a "ropey" texture with "braiding" representing movement of the trilobite legs on a firm muddy bottom. My hand to the left provides a scale, showing some burrows greater than the width of my hand (about 15 cm).
For #FossilFriday, some spectacular trilobite burrows (ichnogenus Cruziana) from the Lower-Middle Ordovician (~465 mya) of southern Spain. Although not all trilobites burrowed, the ones that did left us such beautiful expressions of their seafloor behaviors. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾
This one has been soaked in graded solutions of PVA so might keep a little longer.
For #FossilFriday have this lovely picture of a baby Protoceratops to accompany this short piece I've written on problems with current trends in publications in science. TLDR: all references in a paper should be cited. It'd fix some problems. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...
#FossilFriday A tiny rolling bryozoan from the Late Cretaceous of Norfolk. Volviflustrellaria taverensis grew by continuously budding new zooids from a growing edge (top of image) to cover the older zooids of the colony.
For #FossilFriday a little pinecone still preserved in 3D after 125million years. Early Cretaceous Wessex Fm #IsleofWight
