Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻
@lsmonster.bsky.social
ニック PhD Zoology🔬
By day, NHM London 🏛️🐋
By night, children's author 📚
SMALL WORLD out now... 🦋
DINOSAUR DESERT out this July... 🦕
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By day, NHM London 🏛️🐋
By night, children's author 📚
SMALL WORLD out now... 🦋
DINOSAUR DESERT out this July... 🦕
nickcrumpton.com
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Hiya. Here's a little introduction to my new natural history children's book SMALL WORLD published by Wide Eyed books here in the UK. :) #kidlitUK
www.quarto.com/books/978071...
www.quarto.com/books/978071...
Woah. I mean this is amazing. And Yara as first author. AND JAVIER! Very very very cool work by extremely cool scientists. :)
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Woah. I mean this is amazing. And Yara as first author. AND JAVIER! Very very very cool work by extremely cool scientists. :)
Goooood morning. Here's a little introduction to my terribly grafted ginseng ficus. I bought them upon moving to London ten years ago, it's survived it's first repotting - and a few months of neglect. Hoping this fellow's going to be my life-long photosynthesising buddy.
May 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Goooood morning. Here's a little introduction to my terribly grafted ginseng ficus. I bought them upon moving to London ten years ago, it's survived it's first repotting - and a few months of neglect. Hoping this fellow's going to be my life-long photosynthesising buddy.
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#TakashiKashiwagi carving based on a #ShinjiTsuchimochi drawing. Tsuchimochi is a Tokyo based illustrator who creates modern landscapes in the Ukiyo style.
Title:Ginza in the rain
Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.
Title:Ginza in the rain
Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.
May 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#TakashiKashiwagi carving based on a #ShinjiTsuchimochi drawing. Tsuchimochi is a Tokyo based illustrator who creates modern landscapes in the Ukiyo style.
Title:Ginza in the rain
Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.
Title:Ginza in the rain
Kashiwagi is an author who graduated from a school specializing in woodblock carving.
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Have you heard of Michał Piotr Boym? A Pole, born in Lwow (1612), died in Guanxi. Considered to be the first European Natural History Researcher in China. Responsible for creating the first map of China, coining the word "flora" and introducing Europe to fruit such as lychee 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Have you heard of Michał Piotr Boym? A Pole, born in Lwow (1612), died in Guanxi. Considered to be the first European Natural History Researcher in China. Responsible for creating the first map of China, coining the word "flora" and introducing Europe to fruit such as lychee 🧵
Alex de Waal (world expert on famine) on the weaponisation of famine in Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Alex de Waal (world expert on famine) on the weaponisation of famine in Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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In 2012, an armed group of poachers killed seven people and 14 okapis at Epulu wildlife facility.
13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.
13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.
13 years after deadly attack, an okapi returns to Epulu in DRC reserve
In February 2025, rangers at Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, successfully brought an okapi to Epulu, site of the…
news.mongabay.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In 2012, an armed group of poachers killed seven people and 14 okapis at Epulu wildlife facility.
13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.
13 years later, Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the DRC, in partnership with the Okapi Conservation Project, has announced the return of an okapi to the reserve area.
Sometimes I turn Radio 4 on and marvel at the extraordinary breadth and range of it's content: an astonishing array of intelligent, curious cultural, political, and scientific programming. But then sometimes I turn it on and it's The Archers.
May 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Sometimes I turn Radio 4 on and marvel at the extraordinary breadth and range of it's content: an astonishing array of intelligent, curious cultural, political, and scientific programming. But then sometimes I turn it on and it's The Archers.
Added benefit of WFH: being able to take deliveries of new book proofs. Sure, it looked amazing on the PDFs, but its size in the hand, the foil on the cover, the SMELL of the ink!
Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕
Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Added benefit of WFH: being able to take deliveries of new book proofs. Sure, it looked amazing on the PDFs, but its size in the hand, the foil on the cover, the SMELL of the ink!
Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕
Here's a detail from p27 of my main character feeling subtly chuffed she's going on an adventure. #kidslitUK #kidlit 🦕
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Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
May 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
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For anyone interested, Puffin books UK have a children’s Graphic Novel arm. 🙂
It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators.
Hit the link below for more info.
☺️
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...
It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators.
Hit the link below for more info.
☺️
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...
The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition
The Puffin Graphic Novel Competition aims to seek out, nurture and publish new graphic novel creators from communities under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves.
www.penguin.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For anyone interested, Puffin books UK have a children’s Graphic Novel arm. 🙂
It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators.
Hit the link below for more info.
☺️
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...
It’s really new and it’s running a competition for new and aspiring graphic novel creators.
Hit the link below for more info.
☺️
www.penguin.co.uk/discover/chi...
Woo! Congratulations folks!! 🎉🎉
The winner of Children's Publisher of the Year (sponsored by Publiship) is Nosy Crow✨
“The amount and range of work that goes on at Nosy Crow is incredible,” said the judges #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
“The amount and range of work that goes on at Nosy Crow is incredible,” said the judges #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
May 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Woo! Congratulations folks!! 🎉🎉
Ok #kidslitUK #kidlitUK gang. My 5 year old has come back from school so inspired about #space and I've realised I have tonnes of natural history #books in the house but no kickass books with facts about the solar system... Apart from astrocat, what are your favourites?
a man in a plaid shirt is looking up at the sun and planets
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is looking up at the sun and planets
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ok #kidslitUK #kidlitUK gang. My 5 year old has come back from school so inspired about #space and I've realised I have tonnes of natural history #books in the house but no kickass books with facts about the solar system... Apart from astrocat, what are your favourites?
Greater London National Park.
(Commuting out of NW)
(Commuting out of NW)
May 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Greater London National Park.
(Commuting out of NW)
(Commuting out of NW)
I caught this last night and stopped what I was doing to listen to it. So of course it was a @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social programme. Continued to fuel my resistance to the capital concept of "progress" 🫣🌕
Listen to A Map of the Moon now on the BBC Radio 4 Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
May 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I caught this last night and stopped what I was doing to listen to it. So of course it was a @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social programme. Continued to fuel my resistance to the capital concept of "progress" 🫣🌕
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This scene focusses on the fish. But the seafloor is also full of the things I work on. Small (and some surprisingly large) invertebrates. Slow growing and slow moving ones. Relatively fast hunting and burrowing ones. As well as micro-size but important places where biogeochemical reactions occur.
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This scene focusses on the fish. But the seafloor is also full of the things I work on. Small (and some surprisingly large) invertebrates. Slow growing and slow moving ones. Relatively fast hunting and burrowing ones. As well as micro-size but important places where biogeochemical reactions occur.
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Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!
May 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!
I was super lucky to have co-organised an event at @rbgkew.bsky.social yesterday with a heap of majorly talented PhD students from there and the @nhm-london.bsky.social. And yeesh, this was the view behind the lecture theatre 🤩
May 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I was super lucky to have co-organised an event at @rbgkew.bsky.social yesterday with a heap of majorly talented PhD students from there and the @nhm-london.bsky.social. And yeesh, this was the view behind the lecture theatre 🤩
YES this is amazing
May 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
YES this is amazing
"Electric flames played over the rigging".
So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...
So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...
May 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Electric flames played over the rigging".
So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...
So, this is my favourite #Attenborough moment. It's from The Living Planet (which is amazing) and it's just him giving an amazing piece to camera. It's really something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxv...
Happy birthday, big man. Have a good one, baby. 💚
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy birthday, big man. Have a good one, baby. 💚
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You've heard of the tyrannosaurs - but have you heard of the megaraptors?
These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from.
Find out more about their Asian origins 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from.
Find out more about their Asian origins 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Tyrannosaurus rex’s ancestors were predatory Asian dinosaurs | Natural History Museum
The ‘king’ of the dinosaurs might not be the all-American predator it appears to be.
www.nhm.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You've heard of the tyrannosaurs - but have you heard of the megaraptors?
These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from.
Find out more about their Asian origins 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
These large-clawed carnivores are pretty mysterious - but new research has shed light on where they, and T. rex, came from.
Find out more about their Asian origins 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The feeling when you think you've just spotted an otter but it turns out it's just a nutria.
But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.
But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.
a beaver standing in the grass near a body of water with a stick in its mouth
ALT: a beaver standing in the grass near a body of water with a stick in its mouth
media.tenor.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The feeling when you think you've just spotted an otter but it turns out it's just a nutria.
But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.
But then you realise you're not from mainland Europe and a nutria is still really exciting #mammal spot.
Aha. Here it is. A Boom in Comics Drawn From Fact www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/b... (I imagine @louiestowell.bsky.social will get a kick out of this...)
May 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Aha. Here it is. A Boom in Comics Drawn From Fact www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/b... (I imagine @louiestowell.bsky.social will get a kick out of this...)
I remember reading somewhere that 1 in 4 books sold in France are graphic novels. A lot of that is non-fiction/journalistic. When you look at the quality of something like Green Algae, it's really not hard to see why...
May 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I remember reading somewhere that 1 in 4 books sold in France are graphic novels. A lot of that is non-fiction/journalistic. When you look at the quality of something like Green Algae, it's really not hard to see why...
Been in northern France for less than 24 hours - barely over the channel - and the state of our borrowed roof box speaks volumes on UK vs mainland European insect abundance.
May 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Been in northern France for less than 24 hours - barely over the channel - and the state of our borrowed roof box speaks volumes on UK vs mainland European insect abundance.