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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%
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h
Oh I've not heard of that one.

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Anne Koelewijn @drannek.bsky.social · 13h
My research group has an open position for a postdoc! Interested in investigating the postural transition towards mammalian gait using movement simulations? We might have the right position for you! More details and application info here: www.asm.tf.fau.de/en/2025/11/1...
Postdoctoral researcher for DFG-funded project “FossilGaitSim”
The Biomechanical Motion Analysis and Creation (BioMAC) group at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a postdoctoral position with the goal to…
www.asm.tf.fau.de

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 18h
What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 18h
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint? ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard. COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be? ALTMAN: Electrons.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d
Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 1d
Anyone doing photogrammetry to reconstruct 3D models from photographs? I'm curious if there's any software out there that people like that can use the command line for doing the reconstructions, in which case we can throw them onto our cluster for computing.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
"Judas Priest: In Performance" (Prime): not a live show but a short potted history/critique of their albums. Good overview. Enjoy the reactions about the Point of Entry album (which I have always liked) and Turbo. I worked in a music store when Painkiller came out and yeah it blew our minds.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
Watch it at least to chortle at The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Came from outta left field.
Looks like quite a few shows filmed in London venues, including Poison's.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
"Heavy Rock Masterpieces" (Prime) is a mix of live recordings of various rock/metal bands (many British) in 1970s-90s. I knew most, but not familiar with Magnum. Uriah Heep I know little of but they did 2 great harmony-laden songs. Deep Purple shredded. Great set of songs, well performed.

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ThanksgiVIRing @enginvir.bsky.social · 1d
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
Taking it easy at home with our 4 cats. Mochi is getting sleepy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
I like how these guys get to have it both ways

they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math

then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com

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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 1d
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 1d
Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d
Part 152 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

A 3rd-century CE schoolboy named Thonis, studying away from home, wrote this letter to his dad: ‘Look, this is my 5th letter to you and you've only written to me once, not even a word about your welfare, nor come to see me’.
Writing on pyprus

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 2d
You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:

1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!

(my latest for CNN) 🧪
Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother | CNN
Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.
www.cnn.com

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 2d
Ever find yourself at home, hungry, & wishing for an eel delivery service? Well you're not alone!

In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven.

Why eel out when you can order in?
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Meme. Painting of Queen Elizabeth, wearing the fanciest collar you ever did see. It is lacy, and diaphanous, and massive, spreading out in concentric rings, with the last ring being made of overlapping circles with designs inside of them. You can't see the rest of her clothes; I've cropped the picture too tight on her face. But believe me...they fit the collar. Her hair is done up right and tight, and her pallor is ghostly white, with a big of pink on her cheeks. Her lips are pursed, and her expression says, "I am not amused, but you must keep trying. It's your failure that feeds me." Happily for you, she's not looking at you. Rather, she's looking past you a bit. It's as if you don't really matter, but the person behind you does. Normally this would trouble you to be so dismissed. But not today. She does not look like a woman who would play-wrestle with a puppy. But she might order someone else to do it. Meme text reads: "And lead us not into temptation but deliver us some eels"

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d
"The Shrine" (Shudder) manages to be scary on a low budget and without the best acting ever. A journalist, photographer and intern avoid studying bees to experience folk horror in Poland instead. Movie ratchets up the tension quickly and then it really boils over toward the end, in a nasty way.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 2d
incredible! a gorgeously preserved skull from tupandactylus imperator has been described, offering new insights into its dietary ecology and soft tissues 😻
www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/6Hv...
(art by maurilio oliveira)
the stunning next skull attributed to t. imperator art of t. imperator soaring over a lagoon on a sunny day, plant material clasped in its beak