Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈

really fun!

This was a really tricky one!

What species would you say fits the theme of 'incomplete'? We ended up deciding that everyone should just pivot to ants 🐜🧪

An adult male western lowland gorilla standing in a forest looking directly at the camera.

my large son

honestly really weird but so lovely to see!

Aha! The gorilla troop I helped habituate is in the new Attenborough series Parenthood!

I can still recognise the silverback Kamaya 🦍😌

YES 😎

A vibrant Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture, leaning on a subtle black base. "Aurora" is a hand sculpted, highly detailed octopus sculpture made from clay and painted with acrylics. She is textured in appearance, with intricate bluish green paint work, overlaid with a dark maroon webbed pattern. Each of the octopus's arms are fully detailed with two neat rows of carefully sculpted suckers.

🌊 Aurora the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡

A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.

It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist

Talk to your neighbour! Start train spotting! Consider tennis! Get a dog and go to puppy classes! What of lawn bowls? What of music lessons! Learn to ceilidh dance! Take French! MY GOD LADS IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE FASCISM.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Fermented fruits: scrumping, sharing, and the origin of feasting Abstract. Mounting evidence points to the importance of fermented fruits in the diets of tropical frugivores, especially African apes. But how has this fun

How do (non-human!) primates get their booze? @nakedprimate.bsky.social draws on the medieval word "scrumping" to describe their consumption of fallen fruit.

History, linguistics and animal behaviour come together in this great piece on tipsy apes and monkeys:
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
🧪🌏🐒🍹

one of the sentences is just listing what other actors are in the TV show ffs!

I just don't understand why you would need to use it in this context! If you have just written an entire article on this topic, banging out an extra four sentences summarising it is not going to take you very long!

every time some right wing politician or commentator talks about scrapping net zero I want them to be shown this graph

the tide has already turned

Hehehe

(the press release hints at tiny elephants, so here's hoping 😌👀)

ahh love that you were involved! I can only assume that means a good proboscidean contingent.

1. It's cool that there are so many new things still to discover about our world (especially insects!)
2. DNA sequencers are all very well, but sometimes you have to break out the real high tech: "The insect was so high up that they had to use a long stick to get it down."

From the LegalAdviceUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the LegalAdviceUK community

www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic... the outcome of a decade of scaremongering about trans people is a man being forced to use the ladies toilets, great work everyone 🫠

I only really use it for podcasts so I listen to the ads embedded in those, whereas on youtube I listen to a lot of soundtracks and the ads between each track have now just got entirely out of control

the irony of youtube forcing me to watch more ads is that I'm getting closer and closer to paying for spotify

98%

That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p)

Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible

Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well

www.gov.uk/government/p...

ok but we need to know more about the person hugging the giant fish fountain? I love it

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

for the love of god, not now

Mastodon mounted skeleton with head and tusks held high. In a modern looking white atrium with stairs behind it.

Close up of forefoot and sign with header: the case of the missing toes

This male mastodon cast at the U of Michigan preserves a cool taphonomic detail: missing toes on the right forefoot.

The mastodon was butchered by humans and stashed in an icy pond. Those people probably cut the toes off while removing the skin and foot pads and didn’t bother to retrieve them.

Yes please ask @joshlukedavis.com and I some questions or I will be forced read out every kind of type listed in the IZCN and IBCN until someone stops me…

releases shouldnt be done glibly! but also if you're going to require fairly stringent criteria (which you know, isnt necessarily a bad thing) maybe dont then open applications to anyone/individuals and maybe manage expectations better?