Per Ahlberg

It’s awkward when the gold bars get stuck in the modem.

So good to see viral biodiversity rebounding! A conservation success story.

Same here. I arrived in Britain in 1977 so he was my first Doctor.

Good old K9. Affirmative!

Another Ukrainian biolab escape?

How do you make a small fortune as a dog owner? Start with a large fortune.

American exceptionalism, as always. Imagining that other countries don't have agency.

THE RUTS - BABYLONS BURNING YouTube video by pondscum77

Time for one of the great punk classics, Babylon's Burning by The Ruts. The lyric speak straight to the rise of the far right in the 2020s:

You burn as you work
You burn as you play
The spark of fear is smouldering
With ignorance and hate

And with anxiety

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This is such a fundamental point! It’s strange that it isn’t more widely known and discussed.

Your “administration” has some few Americans dead and many hundreds (and rising) of Iranians dead - including children and other civilians. People who were never any threat to your country. I never thought I would use these words, but -

Check your privilege.

Shades of George Formby:

"Now I go strumming kittens,
to earn an honest bob,
for a nosey Parker it's an interesting jo_AAAARGH GET IT OFF ME!!!"

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the sopranissimo ukulele

You think of it that way because the early Holocene - the time of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in "primeval" forests - was already an ecological disaster zone. A shell of what it had been; an ecosystem stripped of all the really big environmental engineers like elephants and rhinos.

The greatest tongue-twister is surely the fossil primate Ekgmowechashala zancanellai, but in all its you-didn't-really-read-it-did-you? simplicity, my all-time favorite is Homo erectus.

A planktivore is the most terrifying hyperpredator imaginable. Its victims count in the tens, nay, hundreds of thousands. All consumed without a moment of pity.

A red sandstone bridge over the river Neckar. The old town of Heidelberg in the background.

The gate tower of the bridge: two white round towers with ornamental roofs flanking a red sandstone arch.

The market square in the old town of Heidelberg, with a gothic church in the middle.

While Silurian stem osteichthyans seize the cover of Nature, it’s a beautiful evening in Heidelberg. My first visit, here to give two lectures. A lovely city!

arcade, but not everyone believed us. Here they are! Seen in an articulated fish for the first time. 🧪

This paper carries a special satisfaction for me. Years ago, Donglei Chen and I discovered small tooth-bearing elements in Silurian vertebrate micro-residues (obtained by dissolving rock in acid) of the stem osteichthyans Andreolepis and Lophosteus. We worked out that they must be the inner dental

Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters - Nature New findings from articulated head and trunk material of Megamastax amblyodus yield previously unseen morphological details of a Silurian stem osteichthyan.

Megamastax, a mighty chew from the Silurian - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gorgeous photo! The shadow really makes it.

Thrilled to have been a part of this project and the accompanying (but slightly younger and much bigger) Megamastax. The osteichthyan stem group is coming into focus!🧪

Chocolate chip dog

A single toilet bowl with his face on the inside is a bigger up-front investment but can be used again and again. Probably cheaper in the long run.

I would love to see Trump try to pronounce “Cardinal Ximenez”.

And still it won't make him happy. Every day his hatred and fear - the worm that never sleeps - will continue to gnaw at his bowels.

Is that a Druid standing by the stones??

"No one knows
who they were,
or what they were doing;
but their legacy remains,
hewn into the living rock
of Stonehenge!"

Really looks like it, doesn't it? Obviously this doesn't apply to all of them - and we all know who the exceptions are - but from an outside viewpoint their response to the obvious authoritarian far right take-over of the US government has been jaw-droppingly lame.

Yep

You know what I mean, I think; those strange lingering sequences when a shallow sea has inexplicably surrounded Yubaba's bath house. Shoals of small fish swimming over submerged railway tracks.