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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.

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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 · 14h
My only New Year's Resolution (I don't tend to do them): run this #Mothership #TTRPG module, which is truly awesome and a rare example of real cosmic horror plus hard sci-fi. The content warning (CW) says it all.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
I just stumbled across this fake name and identity generator (it's for fun, not felony) and it's really impressive-- www.fakenamegenerator.com
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 15h
A very good animated story about werewolf-vampires, to round out your 2025.
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VRDLK: FAMILY OF VURDULAK | Red Iron Road | Full Episode
YouTube video by Lakeside Animation
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 16h
2026, Year of the Horse
kickass art by Matt Frank
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A colour sketch of a monstrous, muscular horse in left side view. It has crushed the head of the 2025 year of the snake under its left front hoof in a splash of blood, and the snake is wound about its hindleg. The brown and black horse has a spectral, demonic skull in red, and a black unicorn horn, and a red fiery mane. Chinese characters say Year of the Horse (I am guessing) and 2026.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h
This shit needs to be burned to the ground, as any kind of response to stunts and marches the resurgent far right. “The largest fascist mobilisation since before WWII” is an emergency. Anyone who reacts like this is pandering and seeking their approval.
Then on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, home secretary Cooper seemed to take it even further. She said: "We actually have Union Jack bunting on our garden shed at the moment, I've got St George's flags, I've got St George's bunting, I've got the Yorkshire Rose bunting as well, I've got Union Jack flags and tablecloths... we've got the lot." Prime minister Keir Starmer told BBC Radio 5 Live that he is "very encouraging of flags", saying they are "patriotic" and a "great symbol of a nation". • He said. "I'm the leader of the Labour Party who put the Union Jack on our Labour Party membership cards. I always sit in front of a Union Jack, and l've been doing it for years. "It attracted a lot of comment when I started doing it and in our flat - which is upstairs from here - we've got the St George's flag in our flat."

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NPR @npr.org · 18h
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 19h
I just want to celebrate that, as 2025 ends, I have coauthored a paper about crocs with a Jésus, and I look forward to publishing it in 2026 with our scientific lord and saviour.

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J.M. (But also Nemo) @alamhigo.bsky.social · 1d
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
A very energetic Rob Halford with Skid Row, doing a classic earlier-Judas Priest album opener. Great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsF...
Rob Halford & Skid Row - Delivering the Goods - Live in New York City 1992 [1080p60]
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 1d
"Bring Her Back" (discount rental only £1.99 on Prime)- Ouch! This was intense and disturbing from start to finish! Big trigger warning about violence & young people. A very, very effective horror film but not one I could endure again soon. Stunning performances; superb cinematography. Nightmarish.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 1d
The second-most popular @royalsocietypublishing.org paper of 2025 reveals that arthropods (like insects, crabs and spiders) owe their success to grouping their body into specialised segments like head, thorax and abdomen, a process known as tagmosis. https://bit.ly/48GCAcG
Early evolvability in arthropod tagmosis exemplified by a new radiodont from the Burgess Shale
Abstract. Much diversity in arthropod form is the result of variation in the number and differentiation of segments (tagmosis). Fossil evidence to date has
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 1d
The Giraffe Titan, a poem by Brandon Kilbourne. A wonderful exploration of the multiple narratives embodied by objects on public display in general, and by dinosaurs in particular. From brooklynrail.org/2025/12/poet...
The Giraffe Titan (I) by Brandon Kilbourne In the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. the dinosaur exhibition is composed largely of specimens excavated between 1906 and 1913 at Tendaguru, a site in the former colony of German East Africa (today Tanzania). Of these dinosaurs, the most iconic is Giraffatitan brancai. Coincidentallv, European and other major world powers met in Berlin, some twenty ears prior to the dinosaurs excavation, at the Berlin Conference (1884-1885), where these powers negotiated their claims to regions of Africa for colonial expansion. At the feet of a precipice-tall skeleton, we wonder about the horrors of the Jurassic, predators stalking, then slicing into, their prey. Walking among Berlin's exhibited bones embodying bridge-span necks and column limbs, lance-point armor and knife-lined jaws, we try to picture a world beyond our ken, subiect to claws evolved as killing personified, laws of unremitting savagery Imagine on an over-muggy Earth, a head towering above in the domain of treetops and dogfighting pterosaurs, imagine the head-crowned neck crashing down like a felled alder, the impact thundering as if a deposed god was hurled to Earth; in final moments, would the aged Titan be able to imagine scavengers biting into its cold skin, its bones swallowed by tidal mud? Could it then possibly imagine a world beyond its ken hundreds of thousands of millennia later in which twenty men in Berlin would carve its continent into plantations, mines, and ivory. hunting grounds, their talons manifest in massacres charring within burning villages, famine's gaunt ribs slowly quelling rebellions, black skin in the mouths of ravenous empires? Even if so, why try wondering at all? A predator is a predator after all, regardless of the time in Earth's history- -they simply differ in their habit and the hunt: some sink their honed teeth into a scaly hide, a roar professing their territory; others convene over a landmass map, howling false claims in English, French, and German Photo of sauropod skeleton with striding posture and vertical neck in a large multi-story hall with skylight roof. Shares a flatform with a smaller trailing sauropod.