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Goio Maldito Roedor 🚷 #7291 #AltriNon 🇵🇸 @goio.satan.social · 17h

A ver si sacan algun articulo hablando de como gazaties vuelven a casa y simplemente se lo encuentran todo destruido y sus familias, muertas.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 17h

A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The evolutionary and ecological diversity of animals is often reflected in the elemental composition of their bodies. Despite decades of stoichiometric research, remarkably little is known about the elemental composition of birds, the most diverse group ...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Quantitative analysis of stem-palaeognath flight capabilities sheds light on ratite dispersal and flight loss | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Quantitative analysis of stem-palaeognath flight capabilities sheds light on ratite dispersal and flight loss | Biology Letters

Lithornithids are an assemblage of Palaeogene fossil birds thought to represent stem-group members of Palaeognathae. Among extant palaeognaths, which include flightless ratites such as ostriches, only...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications

Ophthalmosaurids were a globally distributed clade of ichthyosaurs that thrived from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous. Although their fossil record spans a wide palaeogeographic ran...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

They really said that "creative" destruction is the engine of capitalism.

Standard Error Research Editors @standarderror.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their well-deserved Nobel Prize in economics!

Their groundbreaking work opened the black box of innovation in relation to economic growth, both being core features of modern economies and human wellbeing

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Current mosquitoes evolved more recently than previously thought www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Client Challenge

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century
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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween special XII: Aldrovandi Book of Monsters

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Quantitative assessment of community structure of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic periods 🧪⚒️ 🌴
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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

The rediscovered Hula painted frog is a living fossil
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

The cuteness 😍

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2d

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Threeoffour. @beckitoo.bsky.social · 2d

A mandatory duck in pastels I did a few weeks ago. I'm really pleased with my progress in pastels. Practice practice practice.
#mandarinduck #duck #bird #riverbird #birdart #natureart #riverlife #wildlife #pastelmat #pastelart #artist #pastellist #ukartist #pastelpencils #panpastels #drake

A colourful male mandarin duck facing left on a river with it's colours reflecting beneath him.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · 2d

If you study plants, you need this book.
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The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megaflora

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2d

For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

Iconic💔

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Fans and colleagues on Saturday remembered Diane Keaton, who died at 79, leaving a legacy as a vulnerable actress onscreen and a compassionate colleague while away from the camera.

Hollywood and Fans Remember Diane Keaton

Tributes from colleagues and fans flooded social media as they learned of her death. Many celebrated her onscreen legacy and some noted her impact on their lives.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 3d

This is great by @motherjones.com. This is also great by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social: ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography

Diplodocoidea is a diverse clade of sauropod dinosaurs that comprises three major lineages: Diplodocidae, Dicraeosauridae and Rebbachisauridae, with the former two united as Flagellicaudata. There ...

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 4d

Debbie Brockman is a journalist for WGN, Chicago's most iconic television news station.

Here she is being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed & detained by masked ICE agents in broad daylight.

ICE rammed into her vehicle, dragged her out & whisked her away. Whereabouts unknown.

This is fascism.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts

Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis - Atterholt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis

In birds, the neural canal houses a variety of anatomical structures including the spinal cord, meninges, spinal vasculature, and respiratory diverticula. Among these, paramedullary diverticula and t....

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 4d

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 4d

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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