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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈
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Science writer, editor and author @ the Natural History Museum, London | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
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Screenshot from guardian politics live blog reading "No 10 says Starmer has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them briefed against Streeting Keir Starmer has been told by his No 10 staff that none of them were involved in briefing against Wes Streeting, Downing Street said this morning." A still from the "we're all just trying to find the guy who did this" meme.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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somehow love that this wiki page has a section titled "Arguably venomous mammals"
Screen grab of a wiki section titled Arguably venomous mammals.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL GROUND SQUIRREL I WAS GIVEN FOR THE EPISODE ISN'T IT A THING OF WONDER
A top down photo of a thirteen lined ground squirrel skin showing its gorgeous coat pattern of caramel lines and dots on a chocolate background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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this is absolutely wild framing of a story which should read 'eating meat to blame for Amazon tree-felling and polluting UK rivers'
A BBC article with the headline "Amazon tree-felling blamed for polluting UK rivers" and intro text "Tree-felling in the Amazon rainforest is partly to blame for pollution that is plaguing UK rivers such as the Wye, a new report suggests. It points the finger of blame at soy which is imported from vast plantations overseas and used as livestock feed, calling this a "hidden link" to the poor state of many waterways in Wales, and around the UK. The report from environment groups Size of Wales, external and WWF Cymru, external says the soy is high in phosphorus, and becomes a pollutant when animal manure spread on land runs off into rivers.".
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The words "Queers for Natural History" in the same style as the Zohran for New York City campaign slogan.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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haaaa also just realised that the photo they used was pulled from her Facebook account 😭

justice for Amelia!
A screen grab from the article showing that the top image of the sculpture with googly eyes was taken from the teenagers facebook account.
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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absolutely insane single person supplement from @naturetrek.bsky.social lol
A screen grab of a naturetrek holiday in which the "single room supplement" is £1,295.
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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never forget
A still from the One Show in which the puppet of the Cookie Monster has a red poppy pinned on it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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fucking hell
A screen grab of a Guardian article reading "The need to identify victims Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living. Psychologists described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss” which can generate or contribute to depression, trauma and identity confusion, a situational disorder widespread in Gaza. The few remaining hospitals in the territory lack the equipment for DNA testing, which is desperately needed to help identify thousands of missing or deceased peope. Israel does not allow DNA testing materials to enter Gaza." with the last sentence highlighed in yellow.
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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yes I got to see Tristan Otto at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin last week! It is big!
The rest of the Tristan Otto T. rex skeleton posed as if walking.
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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pov: you're a nanotyrannosaur about to get chomped by a tyrannosaurus rex 👀

#FossilFriday 🧪🦖
A large T. rex fossil skull in a glass case, posed with its mouth open. A picture looking directly into the open mouth of the T. rex fossil skull.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A popup on Science Direct saying "Ask ScienceDirect AI - research faster with Science Direct AI"
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I'm sorry, you want me to paint _what_ on your bowls? if you say so...
A Greek bowl with the picture of a man vomiting on it. A Greek bowl with the picture of a woman peeing into a pot on it.
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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the perfect body doesn't exis-
A Roman clay statue of a person in which the legs go directly into the large head.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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didn't... didn't we already know that some hadrosaurs had "hooves"?? Or by 'first' are we actually meaning 'earliest' here?
Headline of a Science alert article that reads "Exceptionally Preserved 'Dinosaur Mummies' Reveal First-Known Reptile Hooves".
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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also featuring, the Berlin Archaeopteryx!

Discovered in 1874 it's often said to be the most beautiful and most complete and honestly, it's hard to argue with that. Genuinely breathtaking. 🦖🧪
A picture of the Berlin Archaeopteryx fossil on display.
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I like big (dino) butts and I cannot lie 🦕
A view of three sauropod dinosaurs from behind.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#FossilFriday coming to you from Berlin!

Finally got to see their amazing dinosaur hall, featuring the iconic Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus and yet another Dippy 🦕🧪
A picture of the dinosaur hall at the Natural History Museum, Berlin. A close up picture of a shoulder spike of Kentrosaurus. A picture of the Berlin Diplodocus. A close crop of a large mounted dinosaur skeleton.
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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a juvenile triceratops skull went for £650,000 at this year's Frieze Masters 🫠
A screen grab from a video showing a triceratops skull on display at a gallery with people looking at it.
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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this is an wild response from the person who is actually in charge of the platform
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A screen grab of the linked guardian article that reads: "Joaquín Abela, CEO of Freepik, said the responsibility for using such extreme images lay with media consumers, and not with platforms such as his. The AI stock photos, he said, are generated by the platform’s global community of users, who can receive a licensing fee when Freepik’s customers choose to buy their images. Freepik had attempted to curb biases it had found in other parts of its photo library, he said, by “injecting diversity” and trying to ensure gender balance into the photos of lawyers and CEOs hosted on the site. But, he said, there was only so much his platform could do. “It’s like trying to dry the ocean. We make an effort, but in reality, if customers worldwide want images a certain way, there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do.”"
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Had a quick visit to The Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibition this afternoon!

Always obsessed with the ceramics on show, but was rather enamoured by a lovely oil painting of a razorbill this year.
A picture of an art gallery, on the walls of which are various paintings and drawings of wildlife including penguins and gannets. In the foreground two sculptures of life size wolves. Three ceramic jackals in various poses. An oil painting of a razorbill.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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the gulf between lab tests and real world emissions is clearly not great, but I'm still not sure I would say 20% less is "almost as much"
Headline from the guardian that reads "Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds". Screen grab of the guardian article that reads "Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars, an analysis by the non-profit advocacy group Transport and Environment found on Thursday. Under laboratory tests, they were assumed to be 75% less polluting."
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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shouldn't be surprised, but was completely unaware that this had become A Thing on the right
Screen grab of an article that reads "In the Netherlands, Thierry Baudet, lawmaker and leader of the far-right Forum for Democracy party, gave an anti-European Union (EU) speech in March 2023, yelling, "No way!" as he poured golden mealworms out of a bag. Baudet later posted a photo of that moment on X, with the caption "WE WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS"."
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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really hate that MS Teams censors the word 'homo' in its transcripts, and I would love to know what other words it deems "profane"

(this is again coming to you from talking with researchers about human evolution 🙃)
A screen grab of a transcript that reads "they're all in **** longi" in which the word 'homo' has been censored.
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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And the winner of this year’s ✨Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ goes to Andrea Dominizi!

Awarded for their poignant picture of a longhorn beetle seemingly watching the destruction of its own forest. Or maybe the beetle is a symbol of resilience, surviving against all the odds 📸🧪🪲
A longhorn beetle stands on a log in focus at the bottom left corner of the frame, as a logging machinery is pictured blurred in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM