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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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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 8h
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 · 12h
If you're wondering
Thank you, I am doing OK
On Baldur's Gate 3
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 15h
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 · 16h
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 · 1d
Timeline cleanse!
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d
"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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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
www.nytimes.com
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 2d
"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 · 2d
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.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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 · 2d
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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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d
What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be.

#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
Making space in STEM for people with disabilities
Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d
We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
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Dr. Sarah Z. Gibson, PhD @gombessagirl.bsky.social · 3d
A phenomenal paleontologist and a pleasure to talk to at SVP conferences. Mark will be missed.
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d
The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.
Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.
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