developmental biologist. evolution, ears, jaws. that kind of thing. also typos. lots of typos.
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25 Dec 2025
hike in the woods, a couple of brandy flips, homemade Peking duck, and a bottle of decent Riesling.
merry Christmas.
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6 Aug 2025
The Tucker group @CCRB27 is looking for a new postdoc to look at the interplay between the microbiome and the developing vomeralnasal organ. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121845-postdo…
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7 Mar 2025
Fantastic PhD in stem cells / hearing opportunity with Prof Abigail Tucker at @CCRB27 @KingsCollegeLon findaphd.com/phds/project/en…
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6 Nov 2024
Timeline cleanse. LOOK AT HIM RUN!
6 Nov 2024
New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻♂️ @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing
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26 Sep 2024
Congratuations James, Emily and co. Fascinating work!
25 Sep 2024
Pleased that our paper on mammalian jaw evolution is out today in @Nature. First paper from James’ PhD arising from on-going collaboration with our friends and colleagues Pam Gill, @agu_martinelli, @MarinaBentoSoa2 and Cesar Schultz.
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24 Jul 2024
Scientists have found Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, have iron coated teeth.
@AaronLeBlanc6 (@kingsdentistry) says the study gives us clues to how dinosaurs like the T-rex may have ripped apart their prey #ScienceatKings
Read more⬇️
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19 Aug 2024
New preprint from our work on the TMJ (🤞 for the peer review): biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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5 Jul 2024
Rishi Sunak has offered his resignation to The King but Keir Starmer has yet to be appointed as Prime Minister, so who's in charge? Me.
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Graduation day!👩🎓 🧑🎓
One of the best days of the year sees our amazing PhD students graduate into Drs. It’s a day to celebrate all their hard work with friends and family👨👩👧
Congratulations to all CCRB’s new doctors!
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9 May 2024
Bat folks! Do you have experience with Japanese bats? Or know anyone who does?
We've got a bunch of paid work coming up through July and August for people who can ID Japanese bats from audio. For more info see this link:
pivotal.earth/wp-content/upl…
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3 Jul 2024
Election tomorrow.
FIND YOUR PHOTO ID.
PUT IT IN YOUR POCKET OR BAG.
The address DOESN'T need to match your constituency or current address. This is just to prove your ID.
Passport, driving license, PASS card or Voter Certificate, or this stuff:
electoralcommission.org.uk/v…
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SCIENCE CAT
(my latest cartoon for @newscientist)
ALT Title: SCIENCE CAT Panel one: A black cat walks into frame wearing a white lab coat and carrying a clipboard and pen. Panels two, three, four: A mug sits near the edge of a table. Science Cat's pen appears from the right ans gently pushes it off the table. It falls to the floor and smashes. Panel five: Science Cat writes on the clipboard and thinks "Once again, the experiment confirmed my hypothesis, but further research in this area is required. Panel 6: Science cat leaves, thinking "I love science!"
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21 Jun 2024
How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words:
** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary **
arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016
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12 Jun 2024
Academia: Come on in! I'm a loophole in the universe where you can spend your days reading, thinking & studying crazy ideas. Nothing you try has to work or be useful, just have fun!
Academics: no thank you we prefer boring safe projects with a high likelihood of being published
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5 Jun 2024
impromptu interail trip post GRC in Barcelona continues. Lovely couple of days catching up with @aigverte in Montpellier, now en route to Marseille for Bouillabaisse and Richard.
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1 Jun 2024
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? nautil.us/the-collapse-is-co…
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