Max Telford

Science Of The Times Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and ...

Omar Yaghi has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with 2 of his colleagues for his remarkable work on the remarkable materials produced through the MOFs and COFs he pioneered. His story is inspiring. Want to know what MOFs and COFs are? Last week's episode scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

see also this amazing story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed…

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

XXI ENBE – The International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology – 18th-19th December, 2025 XXI ENBE – The International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology

The annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology will be in beautiful Bragança, on December 18 - 19. Save the date and "vinde" !!

enbe2025.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

Fantastic work. Super interesting.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Tractor traffic jam. Dorset. Yesterday.

Cover and spine of CRICK, my biography of Francis Crick

Endpapers and inside flap of book

Double page photo of Crick at blackboard with section title The Central Problem

Colour plate showing Crick at Cold Spring Harbor in 1954.

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Publication day! My book on the Knights Hospitaller, 'Warrior Monks: Politics and Power in Medieval Britain' is now out. Available in all good and evil bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/Warrior-Monk...

Science Of The Times Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and ...

@scienceofthetimes.bsky.social is back after the summer break! We talk to @joanstrassmann.bsky.social about her fabulous new book "The Social Life of Birds". If you like the podcast: subscribe, like, share! We enjoy making it but have no idea how many folk listen!
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Apply now & work with me during your Post-doc. The FRQNT postdoc deadline (for Quebec residents) is October 8 & the NSERC postdoc deadline is October 17. Approximately 20% of the NSERC budget will be allocated to non-Canadians.

frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/program/p...

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Doors 10:30am, talk 11am Oda, 295 R 8th St, New York, NY 10009

Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds

VERY cool!

UCL Grant Museum from above showing empty vertebrate cases.

Empty fish case looking through to museum.

False gharial skeleton on newly-painted base.

Wondering why @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is closed this week? Case refurbishments and new displays on the way!

The Japan Environment and Children’s Study found that birthing parent’s autistic traits were associated with a higher degree of antenatal pain.

Assistant Professor in Psychology Ref: 40866 (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

Come and work with us!
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!

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- Placing new #Biodiversity #Genomics genomes (e.g.) in this framework gives context to which gene functions already exist in that clade and what is new/unknown for the new one

Big thanks to Rob Russell, Paschalis, JC, Mu-en, @maxjtelford.bsky.social @guigolab.bsky.social John Colbourne!

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Delighted that my book "The Tree of Life" has been selected as one of "The Next Big Idea Club’s November 2025 Must-Read Books". Out 11th November in USA. UK hardback version currently half price on Amazon - cheaper than the paperback will be!

nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...

dragonfly on concrete. green head, bright blue abdomen

Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...

Don't know if there is a link but browser has slowed RIGHT DOWN after installing new MacOS (Tahoe). Suggest you dont rush to upgrade!

YouTube video by Systematics Association Founders' Lecture 2024 | Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?

We are nearly ready to announce this year's Founders' Lecture speaker!

In the meantime time check out @maxjtelford.bsky.social's 2024 lecture: 'Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSR5...

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Reduced Amino Acid Substitution Matrices Find Traces of Ancient Coding Alphabets in Modern Day Proteins Abstract. All known living systems make proteins from the same 20 canonically coded amino acids, but this was not always the case. Early genetic coding sys

Douglas et al. challenge common amino acid substitution models that assume a constant coding alphabet over time. Their analyses indicate that ancient proteins dating from before the last universal common ancestor support a two-alphabet hypothesis.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf197

#evobio #molbio

I get it and I am not cool.

Figure showing sagittal sections of a cephalochordate and a hemichordate highlighting potentially homologous structures

My review of the evidence (morphological, embryological and molecular) for the deuterostomes clade is now available. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ferry between Palermo and Cagliari. Part of our lovely, slow, no-plane trip home from Sicily.

My book The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle is currently LESS THAN HALF PRICE. That’s less than the paperback will be amzn.eu/d/53hSKH5

Sublime New Historical Fiction

THE ORIGINAL and THIS HERE IS LOVE both made the @nytimes.com list of "Sublime New Historical Fiction."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...