Jeremy Lockwood

YOUR GP - HERE FOR YOU - A NEW CONTRACT

It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government

For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first

GPs need your support in providing this

GPs up & down the country warned Wes Streeting, Department of Health and Social Care 6w ago that forcing the implementation of online forms without safeguards was a fools errand & raise false expectations

Have now decided not to talk to @BMA_GP @doctor_katie @DavidGWrigley

So here we are 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thank you my good friend and coauthor on those papers with Martin Lockley 11 years ago. Met up with Brent Breithaupt on the SVP field trip!

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."

THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

Relief skeleton of a medium-necked plesiosaur, surrounded by ornate wood trim.

Nearly identical plesiosaur cast, in a crowded case with other relief skeletons of marine reptiles, green text banners, and illustrations.

Illustration of the same skeleton with a guy pointing a stick at it. Text says Plesiosaurus cramptoni No. 228.

The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday

Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.

A 125 Ma old log provides a seat. Compton Bay #Isleofwight. Probably Pseudofrenelopsis, an extinct genus of conifer. #FossilFriday

Climate change doesn’t stop at borders, and neither should we. The UK and EU must work together to protect our planet. Watch One Earth, One Team and see why cooperation matters: bsky.app/profile/euro...

Some people may see this as a demonstration of the half-life of the errant teaspoon. Others may conclude "Australian scientists are thieves". These are the wonders of a multidisciplinary intellectual environment.

Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social was proud to speak at @weownit.org.uk protest against another round of disastrous PFI in the NHS.

Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.

It’s been such a long time since a government listened to the NHS and tried to understand. The current lot have so far been a great disappointment. Private sector, remote consulting, blurring of the need for a medical degree….and so it goes on.

NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment

Yep. That'll happen when instead of funding emergency and social care, winter planning and fully settling pay disputes - govt ploughs ahead with costly and unnecessary reform and further investment in the private sector - all without an impact report.

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Photograph of Philippe Taquet in a fine embroidered tailcoat and white tie, wearing medals, at a formal dinner.

French palaeontologist and historian of geology (and Cuvier expert) Philippe Taquet who died yesterday aged 85. I recall that he cut a fine dash in his embroidered tailcoat and medals at the Geological Society's Bicentenary Dinner in 2007.

Happy #FossilFriday! This tooth plate is from a giant fossil lungfish called Ceratodus. This specimen is thought to be from the Mesozoic Era and is estimated to be up to 13 feet long! Lungfish have been around for nearly 400 million years, and are one of the closest living relatives to tetrapods!🦎

Spirograptus fossil on a dark rock approx 12cm across. On display in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid

For #FossilFriday, here's a beautiful swirly Spirograptus. Graptolites are marine colonial animals which went extinct 320 million years ago, and their fossils often look like someone has been let loose with a pencil.

On display in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid

⚒🌏🔬✏

Title slide for a talk titled"Dinosaur of the round table"

Excited to give my SVP talk on Camelotia, a interesting dinosaur from the Triassic of Somerset

If you are at the meeting I'm talking at 3:30 this #fossilfriday afternoon in Hall 1

#SVP2025 #2025SVP

A fossil coelacanth (Macropoma) from the Chalk in a drawer in the NHM London collections.

Well preserved fossil fish from the Chalk in the NHM London collections.

#FossilFriday at #SVP2025 today! Emma Bernard will be talking about dating the amazing @nhm-london.bsky.social chalk fish collections at 09:30 in Hall 4. Then check out posters by Twitchett/Underwood and Kaia Spence on new #chalk sharks & coelacanth size in Poster Session III, Hall 3 (4:30 - 6:30).

Breaking out the Mammoth tooth to lecture about megafaunal extinctions today for #FossilFriday

We are 2 for 2 with echinoderms for #fossilfriday!

Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

A pliosaur vertebra from the Etches Collection sporting a notochordal boss, an embryonic remnant. These are common in ankylosaur verts but not uncommon in #IsleofWight posterior dorsal and early caudal iguanodontian centra. Rarely reported elsewhere it seems. #FossilFriday

I'm really happy to welcome Pim to the Museum, and I'm looking forward to getting cracking with some cool geochemistry!

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

Sign the Petition Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
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Please consider signing

One of the first X-ray photographs, an exposure of the left hand of Rontgen's wife. You can see her four finger, the dark mass of a ring on her ring finger, and the faint shadow of the soft tissue.

Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays #OTD in 1895 when he noticed that emanations from a Crookes tube caused a platino-barium screen to fluoresce. The rays exposed photographic plates but were blocked by bone and metal.

This early plate shows his wife's hand. 🧪 ⚛️

Image: Wellcome Trust

#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.

For this #FossilFriday a Stegodon tooth from the Siwaliks of Nepal on display at the International Mountain Museum, Pokhara

So sorry to hear this.

A courtyard stone tile outside the Trent Building at the University of Nottingham with Carboniferous coral fossils in it. My UK6 foot for scale.

Fossils in the fabric of the University of Nottingham: Carboniferous corals in the slabs outside the Trent Building, where Important People make decisions.

A bad week: the University has announced it is suspending the Plant Biology BSc course I lead, along with many other courses.

#FossilFriday