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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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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 10h
careful, the narrator is an evil android
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 10h
Streaming content's balkanization is going as predicted.
I prefer how Sky Atlantic would get the HBO shows.
Oh well.
I have doubts I'll subscribe.
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
HBO Max Sets U.K. Launch Date, Subscription Plans
HBO Max is set to launch in the U.K. in March 2026.
variety.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h
Your biometric data are one of your most valuable things. Protect them. They are yours.
For a chilling thriller of a non-fiction read, this book laid out the history of facial biometrics and the worsening storm of privacy invasion for £££ and control.
www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Your-F...
Your Face Belongs to Us
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOO...
www.simonandschuster.co.uk

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h
They had a recent major data breach from hackers. So surely there's nothing to worry about.
www.theverge.com/news/792032/...
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
www.theverge.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h
Discord will be requiring your biometric data a la face scan if you want full access.
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 11h
In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11h
#MetalMonday: Bring Me the Horizon might not (always) be metal; they tend to be genre-defying; but in this live rendition of "Kingslayer" they get headbanging with their album co-vocalists from Babymetal. And live from Tokyo. The fans go nuts.!
youtu.be/hb2mMVdx1KU
Bring Me The Horizon - 'Kingslayer' ft. BABYMETAL (Live In Tokyo)
YouTube video by BMTHOfficialVEVO
youtu.be

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 11h
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 13h
Apparently, Trump is offended by twerking.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 13h
I don't know this guy Jack Hodgins (Bones) but maybe we could be bros.
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
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.

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 13h
For anyone who missed the whole thing. Gloriously joyful and spot on youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?... #BadBunny #SuperBowl
Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
youtu.be

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 13h
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."

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 14h
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
The horror, the horror...
Chortle

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
Artist Moebius just takes your breath away far too often!
Cover of Comic "Cheval noir"- 1990- USA

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
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.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
Another #DAWNDINOS paper submitted! A deep dive into locomotor function and biomechanics in the awesome Late Triassic "rauisuchian" Postosuchus.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 17h
Tauntauns!
Feels like it will be a Christmas movie... in May.
youtu.be/sNAYYOYar5U
The Mandalorian and Grogu | A New Journey Begins | In Theaters May 22
YouTube video by Star Wars
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 22h
So Bad Bunny did a big show to highlight his heritage and culture? To match it, I’m assuming Kid Rock’s show was him smoking crack in a dumpster behind a 7-11 while whistling at high school girls

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
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/
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

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

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

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 1d
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

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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.