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New book! ‘Lost Animals: The story of extinct, endangered and rediscovered species’ is available to order now, courtesy of the good folk at @welbeckpublish

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own. Editors’ picks: Celebrating some of our most popular content of 2024 @gentraso aeon.co/essays/the-str…

for Atmos' latest print issue, Kinship, i wanted to know how a bonobo society would handle climate change. here's what the late, great Frans de Waal told me atmos.earth/chimps-and-bon…

Nice write-up from UCLH about their joining our Real World Evidence Network. Welcome aboard @UCLHresearch! #OMOP #RWE @prieto_alhambra @HDR_UK "UCLH part of pilot study to address health questions through ‘real world evidence’" uclhospitals.brc.nihr.ac.uk/news/uclh-part…

🎣 "Sand eels in the Dogger Bank may prove to be the proverbial canary (or indeed puffin) in the coalmine" 📝 NEW BLOG: With the EU objecting to a UK ban on sand eel fishing, @joelreland sets out three lessons for the UK-EU relationship. ukandeu.ac.uk/eel-or-no-eel-…

RIP Quincy Jones. The 2016 QJ prom with the @MetropoleOrkest @julesbuckley (and the man himself) was one of the most sheerly pleasurable gigs I have ever been to: youtube.com/watch?v=EzXkFp…

Universities, particularly modern universities, are key to meeting the government's own missions. So why was HE largely off the table in yesterday's Budget? Pleasure to write for @ResearchProfes on what we've learnt and what needs to come next. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

New on @ResProfNews: "universities will be deeply concerned by wider tax measures that increase the costs on an already financially fraught sector", says @Rachel_Hewitt_ @million_plus researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

The Freelance Nov 🗞️Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war - the latest update. Reporters must be protected (and it's not just journalists...) #mediasafety #pressfreedom @IFJGlobal @InfoPJS @pressfreedom londonfreelance.org/fl/2311gaza-de…

New on @ResProfNews: "If there was ever a time to finally face the short-term costs of reforming research evaluation, it is now" @SanjushDalmia_ responds to the debate prompted by @UKDayOne's proposed REF replacement. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

eLife to lose Impact Factor due to peer review change. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-…

If you are going to buy a publication from a paper mill, maybe don't upload the invoice and receipts to Scribd?

Current reading. Frostbite is no picnic, in case you were wondering. Nor is 1950 treatment for frostbite.

We need to build up renewable infrastructure much faster

The UK's nightmare scenario is the solar+battery boosters being right for everywhere except Northern Europe. That would mean energy costs collapse everywhere but here, and we couldn't rely on American and Chinese ingenuity + efficiency to solve our energy cost problems.

This is a really interesting article - great work by @frances_jones00 and @FiJMcIntyre

If you can go to Monet in London @TheCourtauld without contracting a Waterloo Sunset earworm, you're stronger minded than me.

Contrary to appearances, this is not a piece of woven material, it’s an aerial view of thousands of abandoned public-share bicycles at a lot in Shenyang, China (2021, STR/AFP/ Getty Images)

A tax raid on private equity must avoid harming UK innovation, says @WilliamCB. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

Huh. I tend to go abstract; discussion; results/figures. Don't know if that's because those are the bits most salient to journos, or because my academic development was arrested at the PhD stage.