John R. Hutchinson

Professor John R. Hutchinson

@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biomechanist. Awesome animals, dinosaurs, anatomy, locomotion, computer modeling, http://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com, #DisabledInSTEM. #DAWNDINOS. He/him. Fellow of the Royal Society.

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John Hutchinson is a British academic. He is a reader in nationalism at the London School of Economics (LSE), in the Department of Government.

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Environmental science 27%

Geology 18%

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know this guy Jack Hodgins (Bones) but maybe we could be bros.
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Doc Brown, Tyrion Lannister, Fox Mulder-- I'm cool with those comparisons.
And that Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride) is at the other end of my spectrum.
Quite fun.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2h

Receiving an email with content like this just makes my damn day. I am done. I can leave the office early. It's wonderful to hear that you've reached a student. Maybe even corrupted them. 👹

email text: "I had loads of questions regarding the research opportunities for veterinary students at the RVC. I unfortunately do not remember her name, but she mentioned she had done “a project on dinosaurs”. I think this may have been the moment I knew that the RVC was the place for me."

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3h

The horror, the horror...
Chortle

The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3h

Artist Moebius just takes your breath away far too often!
Cover of Comic "Cheval noir"- 1990- USA

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3h

It's a common idea these days, but not consensus. The paper goes into that in detail, and whether it was bipedal or not, and more.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 4h

Another #DAWNDINOS paper submitted! A deep dive into locomotor function and biomechanics in the awesome Late Triassic "rauisuchian" Postosuchus.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 6h

Tauntauns!
Feels like it will be a Christmas movie... in May.
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The Mandalorian and Grogu | A New Journey Begins | In Theaters May 22

YouTube video by Star Wars

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 18h

"Rude Boy" (Prime)- fascinating 1980 rockumentary: a 20 year old London guy becomes a roadie for The Clash (the real band) for a while. I had a hard time figuring out what was real-life footage vs. acting, but it's a mix of fact & fiction. Stunning live performances. Captures ~1980 UK culture well.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 20h

Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.

First, I want to be very clear that I am not speaking in any official capacity for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) with this post. I’ll be speaking of the society of course, but this is not an organizational official statement. I’m also not going to speak super directly to the details of the Epstein Files revelations that erupted over the weekend and still continue. I believe the stories I’ve heard from numerous female SVP members about other behaviors, words and actions by accused individuals and many other men. There should be a robust Ethics Committee investigation that includes the possibility of bannings and revocations as potential consequences for a totality of offenses both recent and otherwise. This goes for any SVP member, not just those with outsized influence or media presence.

Communications Committee (which I am co-chair of) was not involved in crafting the statement released by SVP earlier this week. We are discussing how to better integrate relevant committees in future situations that require precise, expeditious official commentary from SVP. While the technical legalistic language in that statement is correct, IMO it severely missed the mark on understanding and acknowledging the hurt and anger amongst membership. The community response appeared to be in part driven by decades of women in membership feeling their real experiences with harassment, objectification, and assault continue to be minimized and ignored. Due to structural inequities, legal fears and power imbalances we especially see influential repeat-offenders relegated to whisper-network warnings rather than face any true professional or personal consequences. As anyone with a shred of empathy can understand, this has over time led to intense and even angry frustration, members quitting the society, and others avoiding membership altogether.

Despite robust cultural and operational changes within SVP over the past 20+ years, the outcomes we are experiencing are still deeply problematic. If the outcomes are chronically proven inadequate, that means the systems producing those outcomes are inadequate, and should be fixed where appropriate or thrown out in favor of a complete rebuild. I have not arrived at these conclusions lightly. I have been in private conversation with current and former SVP members (mostly women) nearly constantly since this past Sunday. Everyone from students who only joined very recently, early careers expressing dismay at the silence of more senior figures, established mid-career members, and those who have left membership in frustration. The act of leadership relies most on listening, and I’ve been doing my best to do that where I can this week. In light of this assessment, and with the help of extensive dialogue which I am immensely grateful for, I have submitted the following action items to SVP leadership to be included in discussion at an upcoming followup town hall meeting:

1) Strongly consider an overhaul to our Code of Conduct rules regarding interpersonal behavior, ethics reporting, and ethics violation policies within the bounds of technical legal protections required for all parties. This includes but is not limited to banning from meetings, banning from society membership, and revocation of Society awards as official potential consequences. If our current systems for dealing with abusive or unprofessional behavior are not getting the job done, we should fix them.

2) Assemble comprehensive, expansive strategies that SVP leadership can implement with the goal of addressing the underlying unprofessional actions and attitudes that lead to misconduct behaviors propagating in our community. In function, the goal is to educationally inoculate against toxic and unprofessional behaviors.

3) SVP will produce a media series that guides members through the full start-to-finish ethics violation reporting and administrative action processes. We believe empowering membership with this information will help us all hold each other accountable and make SVP as safe and welcoming as possible to those wishing to contribute to the betterment of our professional community. (This one is more directly under my control and thus I can speak more assertively about it.)

4) SVP should provide quarterly progress updates on initiatives to address member safety as well as violation accountability procedures. This *would not* mean a change in policy for public disclosures on the details of ongoing ethics violation investigations. It will mean providing members with updates on process overhauls and finding new ways to provide allowable transparency to membership without creating legal vulnerabilities.

We are a society of incredibly smart, talented, generous and hardworking people. Circumstantial excuses do not protect our community members. These chronic problems are fixable if we have the collective will to do so.

Thanks for your time if you made it all the way through. I look forward to working with anyone with good-faith interest in making the changes our organization clearly still needs.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 21h

If the government and far-right people want to erase any uncomfortable history of "wokeness" then we should not celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, because that involved woke anti-colonialism and terrorism.

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Superb Owl day to those that celebrate it

Bubo the mechanical owl from the Ray Harryhausen film, Clash of the Titans

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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 21h

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century

www.latimes.com/environment/...

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century

Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

www.latimes.com

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Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 22h

Bad bunnies from long ago
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Allenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 1d

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Democrat Chasity Martinez just won a Louisiana district in a massive landslide victory.

Trump won this district by 13 points.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1d

"Since Trump returned to the White House, Democrats have picked up eight Republican-controlled districts through special elections, as well as 18 seats in New Jersey and Virginia during those states’ regularly scheduled contests last November. Republicans have flipped none."

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1d

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas.

Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.

Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup

Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return

www.the-downballot.com

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

I will be surprised if they invested so much in 1 show without continuing, but we'll see.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

"Pantheon" (Netflix) season 2 finished. That tangled web of a plot really did my head in. Much like "Dark"'s did. Uploaded intelligences, AIs, VR, MMORPGs, clones, biotech startups, intelligent digital viruses, global politics, and ...aliens maybe? I can't claim to understand it all but it was fun.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.

This eerily handlike fallen tree is just over the other side of the cliff in Dorset where I decided Eric and Carl, the main characters in my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You, lived in an off-white cottage. It's a very folkloric book so on my walks, while I was plotting it out, I was always imagining natural forms coming alive as mythical beasts. However, I didn't want to overdo it, especially as the main character in the book, Carl, is a hyper intelligent semiaquatic being, often mistaken for a dog, who is reincarnated by the sea over and over again, for eternity. So, after making this handlike fallen a tree a character in is own right, I made the harsh decision to edit it out of the final manuscript. When the book was finally released, this September, I was surprised to receive a letter from the tree, addressed to me in beautiful old-fashioned - but strangely crabesque - handwriting, where it told me of the deep hurt it had felt when it found out it had been omitted, especially after it had told all its friends "I'm going to be in a book! Not a really famous or important one by Zadie Smith or Ian McEwan or anything but, y'know, *still*."

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Zero surprise.
Weed them out, root and branch.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2d

Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King

Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed

www.ft.com/content/7001...

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations

Files released by US justice department detailed relationship with child sex offender

www.ft.com

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Eizo is getting ready for the Olympic games!
Training is going well, the new running mat is perfect for his claws to grip, soon: the golden medal 🏅
We believe in you, Eizo! 🦎

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 1d

These two have attended every meeting since 1963 and refuse to wait for someone to pass them a microphone before sharing their thoughts on this year's plenary speaker...

“Every year, this conference program looks better to me.”
“Every year, your eyesight gets worse!”

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Gooey goodness coming our way!
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BONE KEEPER (2026) Official UK Trailer (HD) CREATURE FEATURE

YouTube video by UHM - Upcoming Horror Movies

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

New Muppet Show on Disney+ is the wholesomeness, innocence and joy we need. And it's funny!
Paco agrees.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Lutnick procured the children:

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Sephe_The_Walrus @sephe.bsky.social · 2d

I've been friends with quite a few academics from professors to researchers and in my experience the Muppets are already at large in academia.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaa!
"so far, he isn’t aware of any actual billionaires planning to attend the march that has been organized in their honor."

techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/a...

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax | TechCrunch

The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

techcrunch.com

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 2d

"data available upon reasonable request"

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