RFK Jr ‘cut off a dead raccoon’s penis’ US politician’s antics about a “freezer full of roadkill” and “weird family” told in new book

RFK Jr is undoubtedly 🦇💩 but having a roadkill-filled freezer is honestly not that weird.

Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...

Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Kæmpe RIP, mand.

Jeg skal til at bruge mås’en som tidsenhed.

I know nothing about physics but if a cow can be thrown around like it’s nothing as in that tornado documentary, Twister, I’m sure a brachy can become airborne as well.

Wild to think that tornadoes and large sauropods co-existed for millions of years. Even wilder to consider how, at one point, some insane EF5 likely picked up a fully grown brachiosaur and hurled it across some prehistoric plain.

Evolution of the Italian pasta ripiena: the first steps toward a scientific classification - Discover Food In this study, phylogenetic and biogeographic methods are used to investigate the evolutionary relationships between various types of Italian pasta ripiena (filled pasta) and related representatives f...

The pasta paper:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Easily one of the most fun reads (along with the pasta paper) of 2025. Knot kidding.

Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.

Roses are red

I’m in mood for some rice

a man is eating a can of soda . ALT: a man is eating a can of soda .

#PhdLessons432

Finishing a PhD thesis is like time. It's a flat circle.

It's a pancake flat circle of endless: "I'm going to make it" - "fuck I'm not going to make it" - "hey, I'm actually going to make it" and "fuck, I'm never going to make this"

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10)

@biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed acro...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Roses are red

Bet you can’t take this one step further

Vent - blev der produceret Walkmen frem til 2005??

"Underland: A Deep Time Journey" by Robert Mcfarlane is a fantastic read and listen.

"[...] genetic sex estimation is notoriously difficult in living porcupines, due to their internal genitalia and defensive spines [...]"

Genomic identification and complete mitochondrial recovery of a Late Holocene porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) mummy from Yukon permafrost - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Genomic identification and complete mitochondrial recovery of a Late Holocene porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) mummy from Yukon permafrost

"Sex determination in living porcupines is not an easy task, luckily genetic sex determination using DNA is a relatively simpler task."

This ought to be fun…

Yes

Looks like something out of a pinhole camera.

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a man with a beard in a suit and tie looks at a woman . ALT: a man with a beard in a suit and tie looks at a woman .

It was difficult enough writing the paper. But actually submitting the damn thing? Well...

🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA

Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data.

💰 £37k - £39k
⏳ 34 months
📍 York, UK
📅 Apply by 24 March 2026

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

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A north arrow. This one is drawn as an actual arrow with fletchings and everything. The shaft is tapered down to the barbed point. At the tip is written "Nord" in nice cursive script.

#NorthArrow Frants Frederik Jonathan Møller 1811.

Good dynamism. Like the detail on the fletching. 8/10

🏺 🐺 🐕 My pet theory is that wolves' musicality and ability to sing WITH PEOPLE is a key reason why we were mutually attracted - domestication through shared aesthetic sensibility, not merely economics of being good at hunting or guarding or pulling sleds...
(this is going to be in #Matriarcha 📚)

I'm singing with my dog on a near-daily basis.

“Aa, det fille, det falle i min Hovedskalle.” sagde Kyllingen. “Lad os løbe!” sagde Hanen.