Escaping #Tashkent today for a trip down to #Bhukara near the border with #Turkmenistan. Lunch at the Lyabi House Hotel before heading back to the airport.
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Escaping #Tashkent today for a trip down to #Bhukara near the border with #Turkmenistan. Lunch at the Lyabi House Hotel before heading back to the airport.
Nice morning wandering around the State Geology Museum in #Tashkent. Great display of mineral specimens and some dinosaur bit and pieces.
Continuing my trip through the #tashkent metro here are the bomb blast doors at Minor station.
The wonderful Kosmonavtlar #Tashkent metro station featuring Yuri Gagarin and many others. Found out today that until about 2018 I would have been arrested for taking these as the metro stations doubled as bomb shelters.
Early morning arrival into #Tashkent #Uzbekistan with the Tien Shan mountains in the distance
Frozen lakes and night skiing #Voss #Norway … it’s very cold!
Maybe because the way they are going there won’t be any left!
No pubs?
Last night in Bulawayo for Kimi …. recovering after a day scoring sauropodomorphs with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social
In Bulawayo with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and Kimi Chapelle for a visit to the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. There is no power but we have stocked up on the essentials.
This is Felipe just before he got stuck ….
I’m tomorrow- feel your pain
It’s a bit bonkers isn’t it
Great piece on this morning's Today program on Radio 4 about the discovery of the weird and very spiky Jurassic ankylosaur Spicomellus from Morocco, featuring @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social, @ahmedoussou.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...
Think I’ve found the updated Temple of Zeus ..
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So HSBC are joining the side of the idiots
Cause and effect ….
Driving from Kiel to Rotterdam today in an #EV. Maybe it’s just me, but the effort in planning to make sure I don’t run out of charge is a monumental pain in the ass. Same in reverse in my diesel truck - so much easier. Until infrastructure and range improve long distance EV trips are much harder.
We at NHM Fossil Reptiles got to dress up unprecedentedly smartly to go to the NHM's annual Trustees' dinner last night as we revealed Enigmacursor to the great and good. Featuring @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social, @marcehjones.bsky.social, @simonwills.bsky.social, Mike Day and Fern the Diplodocus
New paper just out online describing the first dino body fossils found in Serbia, led by our colleague Predrag Radovic with contributions from me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and @simonwills.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yet more ways to kill off science in the US
www.science.org/content/arti...
Last day in #Zanzibar spent in Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park. Examining the results of illegal logging in the forest with my good friend Miza from Zanzibar Forestry. And then the mangroves essential for coastal protection.
The frothing #Brexit lovers are out in force today on X - it’s quite amusing to see them get worked up.
Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in Planning and Infrastructure Bill rejected by Labour MPs.
Thank you @elliechowns.bsky.social for so passionately speaking up for this today. Very disappointed in the government.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Race to the bottom unfortunately
