Thanks @EGU, it’s an honour and privilege!

Oh Vienna!

GREAT TIGERMARK GIVEAWAY!!!!
The orginal paintings are going to the 2024 #BookMarkProject , but I have 5 printed limited-edition Tigermarks to give away.
To bag one: Follow, retweet, and tell me your favourite tiger tale!
If more than 5 entrants, I'll choose winners Thurs @ 5pm

Sorry Home Office, Costa Rica is out.

When we tiled our shower a decade ago, we got a discount on the travertine because we picked ones that were “messy” with fossils rather than nice and uniform

It doesn’t have to be like this

Imagine finding a Neanderthal jaw in your bathroom tile!! johnhawks.net/weblog/how-man…

Quite possibly the #urbangeology find of the decade, a hominid mandible in what is very likely to be 600 ka Denizli Basin travertine. Article from John Hawks and find and photos by kidipadeli75 Reddit johnhawks.net/weblog/how-man…

V cool

Chuffed to win an @Inspire_Global award last night for my The Standard piece on Indigenous tourism.

Thanks to the wonderful Juliet Kinsman for the commission and for winning her own award 🙌🏽

#IGMAs #positiveimpacttorytelling

Sadly leaving beautiful Norway

Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Homes for Ukraine scheme could have been brilliant. If gov had bothered talking to us, planning with us, or listening when we spelled out the risks. I wrote this thread as soon as the scheme was launched. Anyone with any care could’ve seen the harm.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Interesting

So depressing to see one Conservative MP after another trot out tobacco industry narrative? Don’t they realise it makes them look stupid or corrupt?
Industry always pushes “education” because it doesn’t work. And to claim you are opposing because you worry about inequality! 😹

Nick Boles sums it up perfectly.

In retribution for the Viking activities in my homeland a millennium ago, I will be invading Oslo today! Aargh! (And speaking at a conference on refugees) 🗡️

We see this way too often. The issue is the term ‘tree planting’ rather than ‘woodland creation’ which mentally dismisses maintenance and very often people are in this for the grant money not the outcomes. Am embarrassed to be a forester sometimes - what must folk think of us?

STOP INTERVIEWING LIZ TRUSS. Speaking as an intergalactic space warrior with a bin for a head and a Ceefax fixation, she’s not a serious person.

To piggyback on the smoking-ban bill, can we also ban fossil fuels? Government figures forecast 10,889 climate-related deaths per year in the 2050s