"Everything is old in Europe" - snails from 140 MYA at London Paddington paving slabs. 🧪 🐌 🚇
Dr Thomas ClementsAmazing 440 million year old sea snail fossils (gastropods) hidden under the feet of commuters at Paddington Station in London.
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Joanna Bagniewska
Профиль VivelyLecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧. #AcademicSky 🧪 I write books, buy them! https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
Do scientific conferences need to be boring? Who uses humour in their talks and how do the jokes land? A joyous little paper by @stefanomammola.bsky.social et al., with a great abstract too (starting with "We’ve all been there" is a clear winner!): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪
Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences?Abstract. We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation,doi.org"Oi, get your eyes off my eggs!" Fish know when you're staring at them - and they don't like it. Tourists, avert your gaze, please. 🧪🐠👀 Study of emperor cichlids: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
"Get them in with the rage baiting, then give them biology” - how to channel online hate into great science communication. @juliet-turner.bsky.social from @biology.ox.ac.uk shares how she handled misogyny on social media and used it to open career opportunities 💙 🧪 #academicsky #scicomm #womeninSTEM
NatureA simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner go.nature.com/4sQu3uX
Ahh, I finally get to feel like a true supervisor: I stand around as my students climb trees and install nest boxes! Read about our mycelium (🍄) bird boxes in the National Geographic article below. #Academicsky 🧪🪶
Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of OxfordCongratulations to Ecological Survey Techniques student, Dan Parker, on his feature in none other than National Geographic! Dan has been working on a project to produce bird nest boxes made out of mushrooms! Read more about it in the article: buff.ly/IpCxCfX 📸 Photos by Andrew Bailey #NatGeo
Our work on building bird boxes out of mushrooms is featured in National Geographic! Mycelium (🍄) boxes are lightweight, biodegradable and carbon-neutral; we are trialling them against conventional bird boxes. 🪶 🧪 Read more here: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... by @interspecies.agency
Is the bird nest of the future 3D-printed and made of mushrooms?As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds.www.nationalgeographic.com🎶Everybody farts... sometimes. 💨 Researchers want to know exactly how often, and they're using specially designed undies to do so. Smart underwear - or fart underwear. Now you know. 🧪
Bethany Brookshire“we took the sensor out of the chamber, and we were like, ‘Screw it. We’re going to try to measure a fart.’” So Hall stuck the device down his own pants and let rip. “And the signal was enormous.” www.sciencenews.org/article/smar...
Hopefully with @drhedgehog.bsky.social's findings, Hedgehog Hugh will no longer get into trouble on the A32. 🦔🚗🧪🌍
WildCRU, OxfordWhat can hedgehogs hear? 🦔 Researchers studied the ear anatomy of European hedgehogs using micro-CT scans, finding tiny middle ear bones and a cochlea perfectly shaped for detecting high-frequency sound. Research led by @drhedgehog.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4lnT1iN [1/3]
Science explains the perspective in Manet's painting - and adds a depth of meaning! 🧪
John C. BaezThe perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view! But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible! (1/n)
Butts, butts, butts! #WorldWildlifeDay butts - and the best one of them belongs to a dragonfly. What's so special about it? I explain in this here video. For more animal butt facts, buy my book (or just ask me). 🧪🍑 Big shoutout to the @morethanadodo.bsky.social, where the greatest filming happens.
Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of OxfordIn honour of World Wildlife Day today and World Book Day later this week, @JoannaBagniewska.com wanted to share with you a few facts about baby dragonfly butts from her book The Modern Bestiary... You can find the book, described as 'unhinged' by the GoodReads reviews, here: buff.ly/1V42ef3
It's World Wildlife Day, so the perfect moment to pencil a talk into your calendars. 9 March, at @morethanadodo.bsky.social we will host @danchallender.bsky.social from @biology.ox.ac.uk, talking about the elusive, endangered and no doubt enchanting pangolins. 🧪🦊
oxon-mammal-groupJoin us for our next Winter Lecture, Monday 9th March at 7pm at Oxford Museum of Natural History. Dan Challender is going to be telling us everything we need to know about pangolins! It's sure to be great, we can't wait to see you all there!
It's #DRSeussDay! Dr Seuss started a doctorate at @ox.ac.uk, but left after a year. Had he stayed longer, he might have become Dr Geisel rather than Dr Seuss. Oh, the places you'll go... A great piece on Theodor Geisel in Oxford: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dr Seuss Day: 'Without Oxford University, we don't get Dr Seuss'To coincide with Dr Seuss Day, the BBC looks back at how Oxford University helped create the icon.www.bbc.co.ukCan slow lorises rescued from the pet trade be translocated and released? Not easily. Out of 9 tracked lorises in the study, only 2 survived beyond 6 months. Four were fatally attacked by other lorises. Released lorises showed signs of chronic stress. 🧪🦊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The paper is neat, but can we please appreciate the fact that it's written by a Daniel, Daniele and Daniela? And John, who surely should have been swapped out for a Danielle.
Functional Ecology📰Published📰Daily cycles in oxygen availability affect energy demands for a coral reef fish🐟️ buff.ly/DjdjZjb 🧪🌍️
Biggest spider web in the world: the area of a flat. Found in a sulphur-smelling cave in the Balkans, this ~100m² spongy web is maintained by two species of solitary 🕷️. The 110K inhabitants feed on midges, probably because they can't see the other spiders. 🧪 subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/1623...
Well, well, well - Bluesky *IS* professionally useful, especially for someone running a social media workshop tomorrow. #Academicsky
Katharine HayhoeBluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."