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Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
Poem title: At the Intersection The poem is divided into two overlapping circles. The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads: we have nothing in common at all
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
04.08.2025 09:27 — 👍 495 🔁 181 💬 21 📌 11
Tapirs, hummingbirds and a billion-dollar bedrock of gold: the Ecuador reserve that is now a battlefield over a new mine
04.08.2025 11:49 — 👍 41 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 3Saddle up!
Domesticated horses introduced to Iberia around 1800 BC but wild horses derived from Palaeolithic populations still persist until around 500 BC.
I'm actually a big fan of DuckDuckGo, it reminds me of olden days when the internet used to be fun
03.08.2025 22:20 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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New postdoc opening in our lab: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... Don't hesitate to send in your details or contact me if interested!
01.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
A Euler diagram showing a circle on the left with “Understanding of Venn diagrams” and a circle on the right with “Math(s) ability” Both circles create the shape of a yellow tennis ball in the centre.
I'm hopeless at Venn diagrams. I really don't get them.😕
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Wooden coffin leaning upright against a brick wall.
One previous owner...
02.08.2025 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A silver skull with prominent electrodes and lightbulbs for eyes
A statue of a horse covered in many stripes of paint of different colours.
Sculpture of three garden gnomes playing cards on a mushroom table.
A grotesque stone carving holding a shield that bears a strong resemblance to uncle deadly from the Muppets.
Some of the many treasures for sale in the antique shops of Cullen.
02.08.2025 15:50 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A carved stone effigy of a knight lies in a niche within a stone wall.
A lichen covered grave slab with prominent skull and crossbones.
A lichen covered grave slab of a blacksmith with engraving of a crown, a hammer, and an anvil.
Some spectacular gravestones in Fordyce auld Kirk.
02.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The report is "tedious" and at times "truly wearisome", according to Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University. Kopp recently worked on a paper showing how rising temperatures and drought will worsen crop yields, counter to the report's claims that crops will flourish with extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "Carbon dioxide fertilization is largely irrelevant to how increasingly extreme heat and intense drought will impact crop yields," Kopp said. "As a former department of energy fellow, I'm embarrassed by this report."
I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
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16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census)
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.
🐹 Animal #732 🐓
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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A beaded necklace on a museum stand, with a curved tusk piece held at the bottom
#FindsFriday This curious pendant is made from a mix of whale teeth and walrus tusk, and was worn by a Neolithic person 5000 years ago!
Found at Skara Brae in #Orkney, it must have been quite prestigious jewellery to wear
It's now in the Skara Brae #museum
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #museums🏺
Paywall free version of the New Scientist article here archive.is/202507311223...
01.08.2025 08:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is kinda lovely www.theguardian.com/environment/...
01.08.2025 07:11 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
"Artax, stupid horse. You've got to move or you'll die!" [Cries in 80s childhood] www.bbc.com/news/article...
31.07.2025 22:50 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is eye-poppingly terrifying. The de-extinction debacle of Colossal Biosc. was already highly questionable both in terms of science & sci comm, but it now appears that somebody (?) has been coordinating dodgy hit pieces and feeble attempts to discredit scientists that criticise this 'work' 1/3
31.07.2025 13:58 — 👍 71 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 1
Unbiased commentary is so hard to find www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_u...
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🐃 Animal #731 🦤
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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