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Gerard PJ
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Biology, Paleontology. Really interested in all sciences. Scientific illustration, many Paleoart. Literature, music and sports🦍🐳🦇🕷️🌳🌋🏔️☄️📚🎨🎸⚽🏀
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Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:
From molecular structures to research culture: Celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s legacy | Royal Society
Rosalind Franklin never lived to see the full impact of her discoveries. She didn’t witness how her work on DNA would revolutionise biology, nor did she witness the impact she would have in…
royalsociety.org
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Ancient proteins have been recovered from fossil relatives of rhinoceroses and other animals that are at least 18 million years old, according to evidence from two papers in Nature.

go.nature.com/4081H3m
go.nature.com/3Ik78Gj

#Paleosky 🧪
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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jul 10
Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions | Journal of Animal Ecology | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶
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Two new suckermouth catfish species are described from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #taxonomy #catfish
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Please share.

Trying to find my brother.

It's been 5 days
My brother is missing. He's been missing since Thursday, van parked at Battle Hill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire since Thursday.

Searches ongoing.

Please share especially if you know anyone in Northern Scotland.

Thank you.

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Police Scotland North East
We are appealing for information to help trace 40-year-old Jonathan Parsons missing from Huntly. Jonathan was last in Yule Square around 7.15am on Thursday, 3 July, 2025. He is around 5’ 7” with...
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In case anyone missed @archaeoalex.bsky.social's talk on using the ClassiCOL tool, it's now live on our YouTube channel! : youtu.be/CA36dn_zKfs?...
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The largest Palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia for #NationalCavesandKarstDay 🏺

The unusual techniques used to create the rock art make it unique in the region and it was some of our most-read research from 2023!

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Southern Chilean peatlands display unique ecological dynamics - this study sheds some light on the distribution and diversity of testate amoebae in these understudied systems: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #Patagonia #ecology
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The next talk in our #PAASTACommunity seminar series will be next week Wednesday 06 June at 16:00 CET!

And while none of these talks are to be missed, Meaghan will be broaching a really important topic for working in palaeproteomics!
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A study of 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica Empire, finds that ritual objects were made from the distinctive green and gold obsidian from Sierra de Pachuca, whereas workaday blades came from many sources. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Pleistocene island connectivity did not enhance dispersal or impact population size change in Galápagos #geckos #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #OpenAccess #Genomics #Evolution
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New in #PapersinPalaeontology Fossilized gut contents of the largest predatory ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy & prey preferences in a macropredator doi.org/10.1002/spp2... @smnstuttgart.bsky.social