Dr Cinnamon Remote

Scientists may have finally figured out how elephants got their incredible trunks Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago.

www.livescience.com/animals/elep...

One of my former students was asking how we know dinosaurs didn’t have trunks since they don’t fossilise well.

Given this relatively new info on elephant evolution, has anyone looked at herbivorous dinosaurs to see if there’s a similar pattern?

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

Country diary: Eyes to the skies for autumn’s mass migration | Lev Parikian Hampstead, London: Spring has the dawn chorus, autumn has ‘vismig’, the changing of the guard of millions of birds – an early start for me, then, to try and glimpse this remarkable phenomenon

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about migration. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This, like its author, is ace.

Just finished @drmjwarren.bsky.social's The Cuckoo's Lea and I absolutely LOVED it. In fact it's one of my favourite reads so far this year.

#Nature, #History, #birds, #language #landscape and more... woven together seamlessly, and so beautifully. Fascinating! I can't recommend it highly enough

A hand holds a lantern that has a pressed flower visible on it.

When the world gets darker try to find ways to shine a light..✨

Things got rather gloomy so I made a little lantern..✨

A spread of the calendar opened to November. two cuttlefish hover over a reef where the female has laid eggs with tiny little baby cuttlefish in them.

This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar!

Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them!

Sales will fund our '26 Native Plant Project

Pre-order now, they’ll ship in early November! Squidfacts.net

Build follies. Follies everywhere. Especially on roundabouts.

Did u know?Since we've been making bee hotels,our diversity of solitary bees has increased 10-fold.This is a mud nesting brick for Hairy Footed Flower bees.Recipe:cricket pitch loam,sand,straw. Poke holes. 2 feet off the ground,south facing. Plant Pulmonaria-they LOVE it.How fab is the male?! 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝

"Finally, the Commission offers no excuse for [warning about the risk of indirect sex discrimination against women while ignoring the risk of indirect discrimination against trans people]. That is because this statement was inexcusable." 🔥🔥🔥

Yep they dropped carers and over 50s so now I’ve to find a pharmacy that will do private for about £100 each…

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Sleeper trains?

That said my friend met her husband on just such a midnight bus…

I'll be signing and dedicating a copy of VIANNE in aid of this year's Children In Read. Interested? Bid here. www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Cover of the book reviewed, depicting a ceramic jar with a lid shaped like a human head, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

📕 #BookReview

What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Where nobody knows your name... Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !

The Bayeux Tapestry online (in case you don’t have a copy at home), battle from scene 51 onwards: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

Why we & @justtreatment.org delivered a massive cheque and 250,000 signatures to the UK government…

The Tolling of Pavlov's Bells Award-winning horror author Seanan McGuire's story of a media savvy bioterrorist and the spread of a horrible plague will leave you chilled.

Do you hear the bells? Can't you hear them chime?

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...?

I’d name at least one, but I tend to hate them because they are ear worms so I can’t even let myself think about them or they start playing on repeat in my brain…

Shellfish

Pan’s Labrynth

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I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

This is the way

And then there’s flammable and inflammable…

A possum in a beret with a paintbrush screams in front of a canvas with a possum in a pile of leaves. The words say bad art for good an art + community event and the possum is saying “make the world better with art!” And free beer snacks and art supplies, and Indy hall November 10th 6:30

We’re BACK BABY.

At Bad Art for Good, we’re gonna get together and make some art to make things better.

How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel good! Art moves people! And we need a LOT of people to move right now!

RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i

Not sure if these are sanderlings or maybe western sandpipers, but some cute as hell shorebird bath footage i took last year, full speed 🪶

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

Full shot of dozens of Adelie penguins porpoising out of the water with an ice shelf in the distance

Adelie penguins porpoise because it's efficient and it allows them to breathe while they are hurrying to wherever they are going which in this case was back to the colony at Paulet Island
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