Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes!
Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026
Please see the information attached for full description and application process.
Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
Every flag should feature a mythical animal. Notice how the roundabouts aren't being painted in Wales? It's because idiots can't draw a dragon.
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
pen on paper drawings of the ammonites Diplomoceras, Nipponites, Mariella and Hypoturrilites. Drawings are simple pen outlines with grayish shading.
heteromoprh ammonite sketches! trying out new brush pens and gray pens to practice for new painting.
based heavily on art by Satoshi Utsunomiya
Multiproxy analysis of the extinct moa genus Euryapteryx reveals new phylogenetic structure and disparity with morphometrics [Paywall] academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
🦧 Animal #995 🐳
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🫏 Animal #994 🦉
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.9
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VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Two species of rhino teeth used as retouchers during pleistocene? [Open access] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"
DNA is not the same as kinship.
Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:
• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research
Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
These are the thought processes of a particularly dim four year old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
🦩 Animal #991 🐆
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 5.9
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And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin.
Ben's books are good (and were popular at the library I worked) www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/author/6021/...
Anagrams of British fossils to unscramble in the PalAss newsletter.
Hardback book cover of "spinosaur tales" by Dave hone and mark witton which has a bright yellow cover with a spinosaur skeleton and fleshy reconstruction facing each other.
In a rare piece of personal good news I recently won a palaeoquiz and received a lovely book as prize! @davehone.bsky.social
