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Professor John R. Hutchinson
@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biomechanist. Awesome animals, dinosaurs, anatomy, locomotion, computer modeling, http://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com, #DisabledInSTEM. #DAWNDINOS. He/him. Fellow of the Royal Society.

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John Hutchinson is a British academic. He is a reader in nationalism at the London School of Economics (LSE), in the Department of Government.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families
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Taissa Rodrigues @taissarms.bsky.social · 2h
Hi Bluesky, I need your help. Please share broadly:

We have an EXCELLENT job opening. We are looking for a non-Brazilian visiting scholar who specializes in Genomics applied to animal evolution, biogeography, and/or biodiversity. This is a one-year contract that can be extended for up to 4 years.
Edital nº 161/2025-Progep - Professor Visitante Estrangeiro | Progep
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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 11h
Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river
Colorful kayaks in a circle on the water
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
#MetalMonday: Phoenix metal band Flotsam and Jetsam has been thrashing since 1981. Their early members included a certain bassist you may know of, Jason Newsted. In 1990 they shifted to a more "prog" direction and it worked out well-- I have always liked the production sound. youtu.be/kE55G8volCI
The Master Sleeps
YouTube video by Flotsam & Jetsam - Topic
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d
Distressed to see I guess I'm out of a job. AI has figured out everything there is to know about maize domestication. (Found this online when looking for images for a talk)
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d
No Mow May turned into No Mow June turned into No Mow July turned into No Mow August turned into No Mow September turned into No Mow... OK I mowed the lawn today. Last time for 2025.
a kitten is sitting on a tiled floor looking up at the camera .
ALT: a kitten is sitting on a tiled floor looking up at the camera .
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d
If you're wondering
Thank you, I am doing OK
On Baldur's Gate 3
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 2d
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d
Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o...

Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Open AI commercial about using ChatGPT to plan a road trip Hannah Read, 37, tried to use an AI chatbot to plan a trip to Norway with her partner and three children. She wanted to drive from her home in Flintshire, north Wales and cross the North Sea by ferry. "I thought it might make for a nice drive," Hannah says. "I asked ChatGPT if there was a ferry from the UK to Norway and it said there was one from Newcastle to Bergen." She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists. A travel blog detailing how Brits can reach Norway says the last time the route operated was in 2008. "I did feel a bit disappointed when I found out the information on ChatGPT was incorrect, as I'd got quite excited and had started planning the trip in my head," Hannah adds. "My advice is don't rely on AI 100%, it's better to still do proper research."
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d
Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
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"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 2d
Timeline cleanse!
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d
"An American Werewolf in London" (also 1981) gets honourable mention. Also famously great effects, and remarkably funny. A truly great film.

"Teen Wolf", nope. It was of its time.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d
But "The Howling" (1981) remains the best werewolf movie. It still holds up as a terrifying story with special effects that knock your socks off. It made werewolves scary again, and sexy. After repeated viewings it continues to creep me out.
Recommended Halloween viewing!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d
"The Wolf of Snow Hollow" (Shudder) is a hidden gem of a campy horror movie. Lycanthropy and anger management/ alcoholism do a surprisingly enjoyable dramatic dance, with writer-director-lead actor Jim Cummings leading the way.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d
Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 4d
with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.
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