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Benjamin Norris
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Comms Officer at Springer Nature // Coffee enthusiast
Just to reassure everyone that climate change is doing its best to upend the status quo in all regions of the planet!
Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier, once considered stable, is retreating faster than expected. A new study in @commsearth.nature.com shows it’s thinned by over 5 metres per year since 2019, and may collapse and retreat by several kilometres.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#glaciology #geoscience ⚒️
September 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Let's go! Huge congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the competition, including @royleresearch.bsky.social, @nataliajagielska.bsky.social, and @jackantbam.bsky.social 📸
A striking photograph of two male saiga antelope sparring on the banks of a steppe lake is the winner of the 2025 BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition.
Learn more about all winning images: spklr.io/63321BGOvf

@bmc.springernature.com #PhotoCompetition
August 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Benjamin Norris
🏔️Glacier Perito Moreno, in the southern Patagonian Icefields, is now experiencing accelerated thinning, flow acceleration, and unprecedented frontal retreat, indicating the potential for buoyancy-driven retreat once it passes a subglacial ridge.

👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The state and fate of Glaciar Perito Moreno Patagonia - Communications Earth & Environment
Glacier Perito Moreno, in the southern Patagonian Icefields, is now experiencing accelerated thinning, flow acceleration, and unprecedented frontal retreat, indicating the potential for buoyancy-drive...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm significantly biased, but I think Ronan is one of the best sea lions of all time 🦭 Fun trivia: that's my own metronome you can hear in the video 13 seconds in!
A Californian sea lion trained to move in time with a metronome can keep a beat better than some humans, finds Scientific Reports study. The study is one of the first to directly compare human rhythm-keeping skills to an animal's and suggests the ability to keep time is not unique to our species.
June 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Still can't believe the authors got the android head from Radiohead's The Bends to take part in this study, talk about a star performer
June 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Benjamin Norris
A new study has reported its findings from a rather curious experiment: getting a bunch of chimpanzees to watch a disembodied android head yawning

www.iflscience.com/chimpanzees-...
Chimpanzees Can Catch Yawns From Androids, Says Study We Really Didn’t See Coming
Upon seeing an android head let one rip, chimps started gathering bedding materials.
www.iflscience.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Benjamin Norris
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Reposted by Benjamin Norris
Let's go! Very egg-cited to see this getting the coverage (coveregg? Too much?) it deserves
Simulations and experiments suggest that an egg is best cooked by repeatedly alternating between boiling and tepid water

https://go.nature.com/4aPXGVp
How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
go.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM