@HStiles1
@hstiles1.bsky.social
Cantwara Maegth;
Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain!
(tw)It! 🤪
Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain!
(tw)It! 🤪
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
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The ocean has a strong influence on precipitation in Southwest Asia. The historical patterns of warm and cold that suppress rain in Tehran are shown on the left. The current pattern is shown on the right, aligning closely for maximum forcing of drought.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The ocean has a strong influence on precipitation in Southwest Asia. The historical patterns of warm and cold that suppress rain in Tehran are shown on the left. The current pattern is shown on the right, aligning closely for maximum forcing of drought.
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Hear about the historic #drought going on in Tehran? Check out the thread below. Post #3 includes a link to a paper reviewing the multiple factors that force drought in the region. 🧪
Tehran is having an historic drought due to a combination of factors, including climate change.
The ocean is not helping.
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The ocean is not helping.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hear about the historic #drought going on in Tehran? Check out the thread below. Post #3 includes a link to a paper reviewing the multiple factors that force drought in the region. 🧪
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That grav. lens efect is crazy
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That grav. lens efect is crazy
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
SCI: High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
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Celebrating a year on Bluesky (+/-1 million, because my dates are so not calibrated), I figured I might bring back some old posts buried in the feed for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
Hi there, science feed! 🧪 For your consideration: phosphatic shell fragments from lingulid brachiopods in siltstone, from the lower Triassic Dinwoody Formation of SW Montana. Preservation is a little rough, but two valves are loosely connected at the pedicle end.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Celebrating a year on Bluesky (+/-1 million, because my dates are so not calibrated), I figured I might bring back some old posts buried in the feed for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
There's still plenty of material from the old collection I haven't posted yet, but I have some old favorites worth revisiting!
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A wave of mass brutality accompanied the vanishing of the first pan-European culture [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🦴⚔️💀🌽
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A wave of mass brutality accompanied the vanishing of the first pan-European culture [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🦴⚔️💀🌽
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
"each new LBK #massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest [] #brutal practices"
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ancient #farming #Europe
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I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late?
Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend.
www.livescience.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
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I highly recommend the biography of Francis Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social if you want to know more about the man behind the myth, or are just interested in the history of molecular biology 🧪
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA
Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I highly recommend the biography of Francis Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social if you want to know more about the man behind the myth, or are just interested in the history of molecular biology 🧪
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
I thought I knew a little about Crick, but it turns out I didn't
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... These Russian apologists should be expelled, lose their citizenship, & sent to bloody Russia where they belong...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... These Russian apologists should be expelled, lose their citizenship, & sent to bloody Russia where they belong...
I'll say it until my bones are dust but when newsrooms don't support science journalism, it's just easier to let science funding wither and die. [Katter voice] DONT SAY THAT pollies won't bend to pressure from the papers. They can be terrified of it (see news weaponising the social media ban...) 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🏺🧪Not convinced there's either a woman or goose depiction here (or indeed, goose-sex).
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🏺🧪Not convinced there's either a woman or goose depiction here (or indeed, goose-sex).
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
IMO strongest claim that can be made is that it's a formed ceramic piece, *potentially* anthropomorphic, which had some red pigment on it at some point (which is still interesting!)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator. Twice.
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
Did Plankton Freeze the Whole Earth?
Did you know that Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator? Twice.
And the new theory for how it happened is not what you’d expect.
It wasn’t an asteroid.
It wasn’t…
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Earth once froze so completely that glaciers reached the equator. Twice.
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
And the new theory for why? Not asteroids. Not volcanoes.
Plankton.
How can microscopic organisms push a whole planet into a deep freeze?
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/JCRrMBN
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Yup, this hits. Best antidote is reading for joy and sharing recs. What book recently made you think or feel deeply? #booksky
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yup, this hits. Best antidote is reading for joy and sharing recs. What book recently made you think or feel deeply? #booksky
We know there is a connection between liberalism & education/reading, so I wonder if the rise of the so-called 'Reform' party is related to the rise in illiteracy !
Sunday Times highlights a National Literacy Trust report out tomorrow that charts continued declines in children & young people reading (not yet here literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser... ) 💡📚 #booksky
Research reports | National Literacy Trust
Keep up to date with the latest literacy research.
literacytrust.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We know there is a connection between liberalism & education/reading, so I wonder if the rise of the so-called 'Reform' party is related to the rise in illiteracy !
Sunday Times highlights a National Literacy Trust report out tomorrow that charts continued declines in children & young people reading (not yet here literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser... ) 💡📚 #booksky
Research reports | National Literacy Trust
Keep up to date with the latest literacy research.
literacytrust.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sunday Times highlights a National Literacy Trust report out tomorrow that charts continued declines in children & young people reading (not yet here literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser... ) 💡📚 #booksky
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The only time I saw baby pigeons was when I was a tween doing a rock climbing course. I was making my way up and came nose to beak with a pile of secret taters. Everyone involved was very surprised. I did warn the others coming up behind me. Anyway, read Rosemary's pigeon book. It's very good! 🪶🧪🐡
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The only time I saw baby pigeons was when I was a tween doing a rock climbing course. I was making my way up and came nose to beak with a pile of secret taters. Everyone involved was very surprised. I did warn the others coming up behind me. Anyway, read Rosemary's pigeon book. It's very good! 🪶🧪🐡
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
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Despite continuing to build fossil fuel capacity, new renewable capacity added is allowing China to meet all or nearly all of their demand growth. Because renewables are cheaper to operate, they queue earlier than fossil fuel capacity. The outcome will thus be further reduction in emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Despite continuing to build fossil fuel capacity, new renewable capacity added is allowing China to meet all or nearly all of their demand growth. Because renewables are cheaper to operate, they queue earlier than fossil fuel capacity. The outcome will thus be further reduction in emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Five major economic sectors in China have reduced emissions, while the chemical & other sections continue to show emissions growth. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Five major economic sectors in China have reduced emissions, while the chemical & other sections continue to show emissions growth. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Massive deployment of renewables are reducing emissions in China. Carbon emissions in China have been flat or falling for 18 months now from a peak in early 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Massive deployment of renewables are reducing emissions in China. Carbon emissions in China have been flat or falling for 18 months now from a peak in early 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Trump - what a moron
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump - what a moron