Mark Carnall

The shells! The shells! Publication day for this book I am very proud is now out in the world*! Out NOW. It's got beautiful shells! Words about shells! Pictures of shells! @BodPublishing @bodleianlibs bodleianshop.co.uk/products/beaut… #MolluscThursday? * Actual shells not included

@BestCryptids Legend by name. Legend by nature! Thank you so much, it is greatly appreciated.

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Can someone do me an old-school Twitter favor and confirm which marine invertebrate phyla appear in Heuvelmans 1986 "Annotated checklist of apparently unknown animals with which cryptozoology is concerned." It is frustratingly difficult to find electronically. #Cryptozoology

Paper of the day: Ear-invading Arthropoda: results of a preliminary South African survey.

どんな #ポケモン会えるかな ？ #ポケモン30周年 #PR @poke_times

Elaborate and boring stories about business decisions, office efficiencies, IT management and salary negotiating. Who is this clearly artificial business porn manufactured for?

There's an utterly bizarre genre of LinkedIn office maxing fan fiction tweets and I can't believe they're real nor understand who gains from writing them.

I wonder if it will just be bright colours and nice shapes before the end of it all.

I didn't have AI lewds and image layout gimmickery down for this stage of the decline. Fascinating.

Occasional series #InterestingBiogeography the documented distribution of Hipponix antiquatus.

To help ensure their workplace is a safe place to work in a place where work is done in the place for working, the working place, the place for where you work in the place where the plaice work their work in place of the work.

Interesting study from colleagues on decapod names and nomenclature: Decoding the bare necessities of decapod crustacean nomenclature through the ages. peerj.com/articles/20337/ Adds some meat to the bones of eponym & taxa name studies (and related 'drama').

@nikicaga Gingerbread women are 80-90% larger than gingerbread men, lack buttons have ancillary light detecting pseudo eyes and have wings. They brood gingerbread children in caves, tree cracks and under bridges etc.

What makes them men, specifically

There's a lecture theatre I walk past every day and 50% of the time a title slide like this is on the screens. Lads, jazzing up your title slide is 85% the fun of lecturing.

Waiting for my bus: Look at all these bottom tier buses. Bus scum. My bus turns up: here she is, the god of all buses. A fine chariot.

@Pohatu5indawahi The level of effort they invested in that story was surprising and impressive.

@mark_carnall I can remember the first time ivheard this on the radio. Ice shared this with so many folks

A colleague linked me to this 2013 podcast in part about calamari/bung holes urban legend/conspiracy theory and I enjoyed it so sharing here. thisamericanlife.org/484/doppelgang…

This is also such a great image.

Can't wait for the era of posted-without-context click bait but the context is nothing era of social media to be over.

Eyyyyyyyyy. Fumbling the easy wins bodes well for the radical changes needed to meet even our own EA aspirations. Another W for #ConseevationPessimism

Does it annoy you that "Remember, remember..." works for every date in September, October, November and December or are you neurotypical?