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Professor John R. Hutchinson
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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.

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

Source: Wikipedia
Environmental science 27%
Geology 18%

Nice to see some old farts in the mosh pit!

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

My first thought, so I'm rolling with it; I loved this game 43 years ago...:

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2026 UK plant biomechanics workshop on 17th April 2026 in Nottingham.

Abstract submissions deadline is 13 Feb, and registration is open.

🌱🧪🌿🔬#PlantSci
Home - Plant Biomechanics Workshop 2026 - East Midlands Conference Centre
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Ever wanted to know what the fossil record of trackways can tell us about past life? Well look no further than this excellent review paper in Palaeontology by the one & only @peterfalkingham.com and the legendary Stephen Gatesy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Formation, preservation, and interpretation of dinosaur tracks
The fossilized tracks of dinosaurs were first reported in the scientific literature in 1836, not long after Buckland's discovery of Megalosaurus. Tracks record aspects of dinosaur locomotion, diversi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

FYI here's how to watch the new Game of Thrones series and a bit about it:
www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/kn...
What time will A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms be released in the UK?
It's almost time to join Dunk and Egg on their first adventure!
www.radiotimes.com
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Yes the ending left that unresolved issue of "what now?" for the family; and the wife asked, "Why? Why?", which was not answered; which implies that the war's chaos has left such key questions behind.
After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
Enrique Tarrio, exlíder de los Proud Boys, dice que se ha convertido en agente de ICE
Tarrio, quien recibió un indulto de Trump por su participación en el asalto al Capitolio en 2021, fue detenido un mes después de su liberación por un cargo de agresión en Washington D.C.
www.telemundo.com

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“Wikipedia represents something unprecedented: the only major platform on which truth emerges through transparent debate, rather than algorithmic opacity or corporate interests. Every edit is logged, every discussion archived”

Use the Wikipedia app.
🧪 #Knowledge
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oops, big corrections: this is set in Iraq not Afghanistan, and is Navy SEALS not Army. Also, a neat point that Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza is played in the film and is a co-writer and co-director.
This movie has stuck with me as another great "War is hell" film.

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In the future ICE will be seen as America's Gestapo.

That's because in the present ICE is seen as America's Gestapo.

"Freaky Tales"- silly but gory 4-story interwoven anthology about 1987 culture in Oakland, CA. Some timely Anti-Nazi context & just plain fun. Pedro Pascal does his thing well as always. Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd & Normani + Dominique Thorne as rap duo shine. Watch end credits for more amusement.

"Relay" - taut thriller with Riz Ahmed displaying massive chops as a serious actor and action star. Lily James is very good, too. It's about a guy who plays middleman between whistleblowers and corporations. Complex, intelligent movie despite some wildly implausible moments. I loved it.

My 3 airplane movies:
"Warfare" (A24)- super-tense real-time story of a US Army squad under siege in a house in Afghanistan. No message; just a story very well told, viscerally in its true sense. I had my hands clenched for what felt like the whole movie, waiting for the bullets or explosions.

Back in the UK. Went from rainy UK to bizarrely rainy LA to glorious sunny LA to nice sunny UK. Good symmetry.
I wonder how many Dutch voters fully realize that what ICE is doing in Minnesota is *exactly* what Wilders (and van der Plas, Baudet, Eerdmans etc) would like to see happen here. It’s a free preview of what far right government actually looks like.
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Each ICE atrocity reaches a singular low point for human nature.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
"When it was built in the late 1950s the bunker was more than 100 yards from the sea." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nuclear bunker nears collapse due to coastal erosion - BBC News
The brick building, on the East Yorkshire coast, is thought to be about 70 years old.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
I’m just echoing others who have already said this, but it’s a good thing that it takes so many ICE agents to make a single arrest.

It makes the whole operation slower and more resource-intensive.

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why cant video game studio execs be as a sensible about AI as games workshop's