John R. Hutchinson

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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Environmental science 27%

Geology 18%

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3h

AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6h

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Melanie C. Green, Kathleen Kennedy

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4h

OK, who narced?

Screenshot of Bluesky thread.

Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Our oven has suddenly decided it's not going to get hotter than 315 degrees.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
Can you fit a space heater inside?

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov
What in the name of BEN FRANKLIN is going on here.
Nov 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 4h

Read more about this research in our interview with Katrina Moore, a PhD candidate in @birdbiomech.bsky.social's lab at UC Irvine, USA, investigating how wildlife behaviour changes across different contexts and how these insights can guide effective conservation strategies. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 5h

Gary Larson's Far Side comes through with another great one.

Six mottled blackish-green adult Alien "xenomorphs" at a dinner table in a room next to a smaller table of five pink wormy "chestbursters" (like children in a family dinner). One "child" has burst through the top of the turkey on the table and another is looking at the "adults", complaining "Mom! Bobby Joe's playing in the Turkey!".

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Frau Knurrkater @frauknurrkater.bsky.social · 13h

There is an option now to filter out AI-generated content on DrivethruRPG. I'm not sure if everybody is adding these filter options for their products retrospectively, but nonetheless useful.

#ttrpg #pnpde
help.drivethrurpg.com/hc/en-us/art...

Managing AI-Generated Content

Hiding AI-Generated Content AI-Generated content is set to viewable by default. When logged in you can choose to view, or to filter out, AI-Generated content in your Account Settings: From the...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing

When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that really IS a gorgeous nudibranch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qbd...
I immediately thought of Skittles candy-- mmmm, forbidden sea slug sweetness?

Is the rainbow sea slug the MOST COLOURFUL animal in the UK!?

YouTube video by Jacob Rheams

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving to my USA friends.
We're doing our festive dinner on Saturday.
I miss live American football.
Beware of demonic turkeys!

A roast turkey, shown belly-up in a roasting tray, with side dishes beside it. The browned skin of the turkey has two blackened patches like eyes, above its gaping thoracic cavity, which looks like a wailing, toothless maw.

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

radical lisa loebotomy @nfornihilism.net · 1d

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d

In space no one can hear you gobble.

Skeleton Claw @skeletonclaw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s time

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm liking the vibe of this trailer. Doesn't give too much away, either.
youtu.be/EUTatY1-oBI

Kraken | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

When my pet interests collide: #Mothership #TTRPG and palaeontology. RESULT: throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2018/05/gorg...

Gorgonopsid Space Liches

Jonathan Kuo Buckle up, ladies and gents, it's time for gorgonopsid space liches. Please pardon the fellow above, he is out of costume. ...

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

I love this so much!

Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 3d

I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

They keep trying to one-up themselves as monsters.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin has decided it will no longer commemorate December 1st, World AIDS Day. Fed employees have been instructed to refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches, or other public-facing messaging.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

Vegepygmy and Froghemoth, also from module S3 (among the greatest and most epic modules ever), are NOT dumb; they are weird and cool; and I will die on that hill.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

Don't you dare go insult my homeboy The Flumph, though. It's got monster imposter syndrome; be nice.

Yellow jellyfish-like body with many blue tentacles hanging down and a smiley slit mouth on top, flanked by yellow eyestalks.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

Not a gotcha monster, but one of the dumbest:
Guess what two words are its name? Yep.

A spider and a horse (mostly the latter but with spidery bits) set in front of a web. It's a Spider Horse. Haha.

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

See also The Adherer from "Fiend Folio". It's a mummy! Oh noes, it's a non-undead mimic that is covered in gooey strands, not bandages! And it's much wimpier than a mummy! Gotcha!
(Not quite the dumbest monster ever, but close)

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d

The ultimate D&D "gotcha" monster, from uber-classic module "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks". D&D loved its gotcha monsters for torturing players with (often just annoying) surprises. But who would expect a cute widdle (alien) bunny wabbit on a STUMP to be a Lovecraftian horror!? Gotcha!