A few posts on books that have arrived in the past couple of weeks or so. Thanks to Amy Greaves & Elliott & Thompson for sending the new books from Matt Gaw ✨ and Jules Howard

politics makes more sense if you assume all Tory MPs are being blackmailed

Just listen to that spark of wonder!

11-year-old Ruby Reynolds, her father Justin, & Paul de la Salle capture the moment they recovered a critical part of the gigantic jawbone of Ichthyotitan severnensis.

Nothing more incredible than the sense of discovery. I love palaeontology.

'Families and all sorts of people can make amazing discoveries. You don't have to be a world expert. As long as you have that bit of patience and a keen eye, you can make a discovery...' Wise words from Dr Dean Lomax! (And congrats!).
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Bluey referenced “mitochondria” and I immediately said to my 4yo “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” like a sleeper agent who just heard their activation phrase

Annual bluebell shot with the wet-nosed one. (One of the few flowers dogs can see the colour of like we can).

Can't recommend Sarah's talents highly enough! 👇❤️

Absolutely loving this book! Bravo, Erica. Congrats to all! X

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Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

EDINBURGH! What a week - 4 shows. So many lovely audiences. Thanks so much for having me Edinburgh Science, as ever. Amazing vision, staff, ideas, creativity and LORRA fun. The best there is. Love to co-presenters Dr Erica McAlister, Sarah Ellis + many others. Pleasure to hear ur knowledge.

New family member Nina enjoying Jules Howard brilliant book Wonderdog almost as much as I am 🐾

This copy is actually signed to her after we went to the brilliant Cats V Dogs Edinburgh Science event last week!

THANK YOUUUUUU, KATE! Some fab messages like these coming in. Very grateful! ❤️

Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

Heyyy look!

I got my hands on an advance copy of my first ever book: A Little Gay Natural History! 🐧🌈🤯

For those in the UK, the book will be available directly through the Natural History Museum (onsite and online) from June!
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At a glance, I thought somebody had been knocking a few nails into this log in Peru, but these are the fruiting bodies of the fungus Camillea leprieurii.

Let's meet in Montana! April 13. And you get dinner too.

Some news - it was an immense honour to be awarded the Darwin Medal this year, and just as much to join Humanists UK as a patron - a philosophy for this one remarkable hominin life we all have that's always resonated with me.