Henry Gee

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire by Henry Gee Find out more about The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire by Henry Gee

'The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire' - out in paperback on 5 March (excl. US and Canada) www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

The Wonder of Life on Earth by Henry Gee Find out more about The Wonder of Life on Earth by Henry Gee

THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is out now. Illustrations by Raxenne Maniquiz. Published by @twohootsbooks.bsky.social. All-new text by me. Suitable for very all ages. Available in all good bookshops. For details, inquire within www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental condi...

Salinity tunes mode of multicellularity in a tidepool choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade - Nature A skeleton of the alvarezsauroid Alnashetri cerropoliciensis—representing a highly complete alvarezsauroid skeleton from South America—provides evidence on the evolution of the peculiar anatomy and mi...

The tiniest and most complete alvarezsaur from South America reveals many routes to miniaturisation in this intriguing dinosaur group www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

This is figure 1, which shows the anatomy of A. cerropoliciensis based on the new specimen MPCA Pv 377.

A paper in Nature presents a nearly complete fossil of a dinosaur from Argentina that would have weighed less than 1 kg when alive and may be the smallest known dinosaur from South America discovered to date. go.nature.com/4kVlgox #Paleosky 🧪

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

All authors read this: if unsolicited praise sounds too good to be true, it probably is. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Do you: Have a strong interest in science? A passion for journalism and writing? Our paid 3-month internship might be for you! We are looking for talented candidates from all backgrounds, especially those traditionally underrepresented in publishing. Applications close 9 March 2026.

Calling all budding science writers!

Applications for our paid London-based internship, starting in June, are now open.

Deadline: 9 March 2026

Full info here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

#PaidInternship #Internship #Journalism

I for one welcome our Turdine Overlords.

Contestants in The Great Martian Bake-Off present their show-stopper.

Ctenopalooza Ctwo • MBARI Ctenopalooza Ctwo – a meeting of those interested in ctenophores About the meeting The past decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of these fascinating animals—spanning genomics, cel...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 We’re excited to announce that we are organizing a second ctenophore meeting — Ctenopalooza Ctwo — to be held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Monterey Bay, California, on August 23–25, 2026.
Registration is now open!
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...

I adore ‘The Art of Fugue’ though it might send me to sleep

I know when it's time to stop working and have a rest when my soundtrack changes from light classics by Mozart to Beethoven's last string quartets.

We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI.

"The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves."

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

We are devastated to learn about the passing of the great palaeontologist Hans Sues.

May his legacy live on through all that knew him and the students he mentored. Our thoughts are with his family at this incredibly difficult time 💔.

🔊 www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...

A crowd of marine embryos self-assembles into a living solid Nature Physics - Marine embryos are usually studied in isolation. But when starfish embryos are in a crowd, they self-assemble into living solids with unexpected dynamics, revealing how simple...

What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?

They become materials.

Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀

N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...

Very sad news just in from Neil Shubin that Hans-Dieter Sues has died: suddenly in his sleep this past weekend. Hans’ knowledge of vertebrate palaeontology was exceeded only by his good humour. 😞

‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens An innovative approach supercharges the innate immune system to provide a first line of defence against respiratory infections.

Imagine if a nasal spray could make you immune not only to the viruses that cause COVID-19 and influenza, but to all respiratory diseases

go.nature.com/4cJNUHb

I put my fist out and his face fell on it m’lud

A metaphor for the frustrations of modern life.

Mail on Sunday review of Tibor Fischer's new novel, My Bags Are Big

‘A knockabout satire with nice line in wry self-deflation.’ —Anthony Cummins, Mail on Sunday

Don’t mess with measles. #IDSky

Got that Just-Submitted-Version-3-of-Synopsis-for-next-book feelin'. Now to watch Wintry Limpets closing ceremony. Or the BAFTA film awards. Or Kill the Midwife. Honestly, the world is my hamster and mine to command. @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social

Spotted by a Mr M. P. Of Cromer in Waterstones, near Trafalgar Square, London.

To a Time Lord, reversing the polarity of the neutron flow is rather like the standard IT fix of turning it off and on again. TARDIS on the blink? Try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. If that doesn't work it's time to get out the sonic screwdriver.

Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...

#NatMicroPicks

A broad respiratory vaccine! 🦠🫁💉

An intranasal liposomal vaccine combining TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands with ovalbumin produced broad and durable respiratory protection in mice

#MicroSky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation Nature - Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.

These scientists and medical experts are taking to social media to counter climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience

go.nature.com/4tFXSjb

Cover image of Country Diary Wales by John Gilbey, published by Graffeg Books.

Greetings...
I may not have mentioned for a while that I have a book out...
"Country Diary Wales" is a compilation of 50 of my Country Diary columns for the @theguardian.com together with over 100 original colour images...
Published by the good folk at @graffegbooks.bsky.social and available now!

Dr Who #3 to #1 and #2: “I’ve reversed the polarity of the neutron flow”, in “the Five Doctors’ (1983).

… as one does.

Forget dinosaurs. The REALLY cool kids study fossil fish [runs away]

🦔 It’s #WorldPangolinDay! The world’s only scaly mammals have skulls as distinctive as their scales. A study in our @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social analysed 241 specimens, revealing differences between Asian & African species - and hidden diversity within the white-bellied pangolin: buff.ly/bZPlGIl