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New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.www.404media.co

New paper by Ph.D. student Melvin Vankelst in Proc B. We modified our semi-automated high density 3D geometric morphometrics protocol to fit carnivoran molars, and test the shape-diet links of these teeth. Check it out! @universitedeliege.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Decoupling geometry and topography reveals contrasting ecomorphological signals in carnivoran carnassial teethAbstract. The lower carnassial tooth (m1) is a key innovation underlying the ecological diversification of Carnivora. However, their exceptionally diverseroyalsocietypublishing.org

Congratulations to Professor Laura Porro, Professor of Anatomy, on her promotion in the recent UCL Senior Promotions round! 🎉 Please join us in congratulating Laura on this well-deserved achievement and celebrating this milestone in her remarkable UCL career. 👏🎓🫀

Here is the paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 3/3

The rise of carnivoran mammals in Europe through the lens of body massAbstract. Carnivoran mammals (cats, dogs, bears, seals, etc.) and their kin radiated during the Palaeogene, among other carnivorous clades (hyaenodonts, meroyalsocietypublishing.org

We find that the classic 'competition hypothesis' explaining the rise of carnivorans to dominance does not fit European data; regional environmental changes better fit the patterns we observe. @universitedeliege.bsky.social @belspo.be 2/3

Second paper out today on fossil carnivorans, this time in Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org. We looked at the evolution of the body mass of carnivorous mammals throughout the Paleogene, comparing the patterns in Europe vs USA 1/3

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

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Check out the paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... And a huge shoutout to my co-authors Caleb Gordon, Lisa Janzen, Chris Griffin, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar!

The evolution of the ‘third eye’ illuminates shifting amniote ecologies through the Late Paleozoic and TriassicAbstract. The pineal gland has strong ties to organismal physiology and behaviour, and in several ectothermic clades of tetrapods, it is associated with anroyalsocietypublishing.org

New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...

The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.

BREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Our latest: Xinyuan Meng @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social describes Bataspis crux, expanding galeaspid (jawless fish) disparity with a bat-like head adapted for dynamic lift. Xinyuan's study was aided by @ferronhg.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Zhikun Gai and myself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Devastating news for all of us in Oxford - in Biology, and the many other communities he played such key roles in - that Prof Graham Taylor has died. Graham was a brilliant scientist, an instinctive leader & incisive thinker but most of all an incredible colleague www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...

Professor Graham TaylorA message from Jim Naismith, Head of MPLS Division, to honour Professor Graham Taylor.www.mpls.ox.ac.uk

Fabulous article and photos, with a killer line: ““Victim misses” had become “victim Mrs.””

Play is intrinsically connected to hope, community, and identity. Games are a function of that play that we need in times of darkness. Games ARE political, and have been used as tools of propaganda by colonizers for nearly our entire modern understanding.