Scientific & Technology Lead for ARIA's Accelerated Adaptation programme, and co-founder of BES Evolutionary Ecology Group. Views my own.
Simon Evans
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This obituary headline for the climate-denying ExxonMobil CEO deserves an award.
obsessed with this extensive and bizarre list of collective nouns on wiktionary. love that it starts with a warning not to use them
Bizarre level of precision in The Guardian. Did a human copy edit this, let alone author it?
"A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself."
Been looking forward to this, the obvious sequel to the excellent The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.
Overheard in work today on a Teams call.
"I love your backdrop. The Golden Gate Bridge - I wish I was there!"
"It's the Forth Rail Bridge."
Note: no "T. rex cells" were used for this. Collagen sequences synthesized from osteological collagen from a Tyrannosaurus fossil were used. The resultant artificial leather lacks the actual microstructures that would have been present in actual T. rex skin.
But biotechbros gotta biotech.
Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.
