Tori Herridge

Not to mention car journeys! One of the nicest experiences is sharing a book together as a family

*have produced!

Well done Eva, exceptionally important stuff. What a stellar PhD thesis you are producing ⭐️

After 5 years of sample collection and analysis our paper examining the impacts of an industrial #DeepSea mining trial on seafloor #biodiversity is published! Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

This is quite a story. Trying to trademark the word ‘sabzi’ is the equivalent of trying to trademark the word ‘food’.

www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Onward by Carson Ellis The only way to reach your goal is to keep pushing forward with determination! Carson Ellis is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak? and also the illustrator...

If you live in the US, you can buy notecards of the ONWARD print, and all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood

buyolympia.com/Item/carson-...

[I would love to have a stack of these to send to people. Such a oft-needed message!]

A screengrab of a print by Carson Ellis. A woman in armour rides a horse. She is holding a pennant, which streams behind her. The woman, horse and flag are printed in black ink on a cream background. There is a red sun above the horses head. Beneath them, in the same red as the sun, is the word ONWARD in uppercase letters.

A screengrab of Carson Ellis’s thoughts on balancing work with parenthood, from her website. The text reads: How do you juggle work and being a parent? Sometimes very poorly but always with a lot of help. I split parenting duties with my husband. I have a helpful mother-in-law who lives nearby, and when they were little, my kids had part-time nannies. It’s hard to be an artist and a mom. Two equally powerful forces pull me in two opposite directions every day. Sometimes I see ways that the two work together and benefit from each other but just as often they feel disparate and their balance takes careful managing. In practical terms, I do this by setting boundaries: I very rarely work on nights and weekends and I very rarely skip a work day to do something with my kids. In psychic terms, I feel like the pendulum is always swinging: sometimes it’s too much of one, sometimes it’s too much of the other, in fleeting moments everything feels right. Though I should add that those fleeting moments happen more often and last longer now that my kids are older. if you're an overwhelmed artist parenting tiny children, take heart: it gets a lot easier.

Two more beautiful, hopeful things from Carson Ellis

Painting of winter night scene with a night sky filled with stars. The lower portion of the image is covered in white snow. In the bottom left, a dark, bare tree with red berries is visible. In the bottom right, two figures hold hands and look up at the sky. Rolling grey green hills are the background with trees and a house with a steeple. A large, bright comet with a fiery orange and red tail streaks across the sky.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Carson Ellis

Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years Andrés Alfonso-Rojas has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago, and have remained giants ever since.

Fantastic work by #HeadLab PhD student Andrés Alfonso Rojas!

Anacondas have been (resiliently) giant since at least the middle Mioncene.

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twel...

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Reminds me of #FindsFriday artefact now in London Museum's mudlarking exhibition:
1550-1650 elephant ivory pocket sundial of a ship's captain; possibly made in Germany, also had compass in recess.
Found in same area of Thames foreshore in 2 parts, by 2 different mudlarks, 8 years apart.

Hard choices for preprint servers.

bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3

Oh wow, that book was HUGE! And such a fun idea

It was performed as a play back in the 30s. I think it would actually work incredibly well as a play. I hope someone revives it for the stage.

I finished Crooked Cross last night. It is not a GREAT WORK OF LITERATURE (though a good editor might have made it so), but it is quite powerful in its contemporary portrait of a people embracing fascism. And also a reminder that everyone everywhere knew FROM 1932 what was going on.

I think one of the most interesting aspects on the Prehistoric Planet franchise is how it really lays bare the tropes of natural history film-making

[Disclosure: I was a scientific consultant for the show, but had no influence on editorial]

Would’ve loved to have been there!

Looking good Professor! Definitely not sucking

My son is currently watching and telling me i got stuff wrong

I am certain you will not suck

Actually quite sad not have even clocked this was on

OMG

thank you!

It was really fun working on this project as a consultant. Very much looking forward to watching it later (my 6yo is DESPERATE), and maybe seeing a couple of cameos of your's truly and @seismatters.bsky.social in the BTS bit at the end!

Heads are quite useful

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺

Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.

Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?

Love this!

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧