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Dub-A @Shunkup

PhD in geology, Passionate about science and fossils, nature, sports.

Joined November 2022
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Dub-A@Shunkup
May 27
Rapid sea level change, 5th century UK bioone.org/journals/journal-…

English Coastal Archaeological Evidence of a Fifth-Century (Dark Ages) 4-Meter Sea-Level Rise in 70...

Higgs, R., 2026. English coastal archaeological evidence of a fifth-century (Dark Ages) 4-meter sea-level rise in 70 years, portending a similar rise imminently. Journal of Coastal Research, 42(1),...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
May 15
Grok is getting better at video, but it remains a challenge to make anatomically correct fossil reconstructions. Here a Cambrian Yunnanozoon fossil, that was converted to a cartoon, then vivid image, then a video. Still improving the process!
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This is an interesting title. Fits on X tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Late Ediacaran Obamus coronatus trumped by mid Tonian impression from Ormiston Gorge, central...

A slightly ovoid impression from the mid Tonian-aged, Aspidella-bearing Heavitree Quartzite near Ormiston Gorge in central Australia strongly resembles the enigmatic, late Ediacaran-aged, Obamus co...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
Apr 20
Grok tools are awesome. Ive always had issue with reconstruction of Neanderthals as if in the modern sapien population. So I asked Grok to add flesh to La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1, then age it. Consider the thick, dense, large bone as a proxy for high muscle mass. Love it!
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Apr 20
fortune.com/2026/04/15/jeff-… I support funding for the preservation of nature 100%, and lets hope this commitment goes to useful projects and not to marketing and solving climate change hysteria, which has shown to be a useless use of resources (trillions invested, no reduced CO2).

Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren...

The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed more than $2 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple’s philanthropy is accelerating—though it still trails MacKenzie Scott’s...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
Apr 19
This is cool, I said make Anchiornis dance to supergrok. First attempt.
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Apr 17
Fossil Friday- Cucullus growth series- a Ediacaran organism (cucumber-like form). Age: ~635–551 million years ago Likely sessile benthic & attached at the narrow end, with a feeding or reproductive opening at the broader end. A fantastic, enigmatic pre-Cambrian fossil.
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Apr 16
Neanderthal contributions to sapiens brains, mostly negative and deleted, but some tolerated in unexpected ways. Im cautiously looking forward to the experts views on this conclusion. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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El Nino climate change keeps climate topics in the news cycle. The outlets share high uncertainty model predictions early. Is this a mistake? It could discredit climate science and even trust in science. Super El Niño? NOAA announces major climate shift share.google/GccO5mbKolQKlHo…

Super El Niño? Forecasters announce major climate shift

Scientists from NOAA say the La Niña climate pattern has come to an end. An El Niño is expected to develop, though its strength remains to be seen.

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Again. Its almost organized effort because a super El Nino is very unlikely. Not sure if its jut copy cat or what Super El Niño? NOAA announces major climate shift share.google/iNsVg7n1tnppJB4…

Super El Niño? Forecasters announce major climate shift

Scientists from NOAA say the La Niña climate pattern has come to an end. An El Niño is expected to develop, though its strength remains to be seen.

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Interesting read. americanaffairsjournal.org/2…

How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives - American Affairs Journal

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative...

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Published on April 1st! If true climate science would be a catastrophe not the climate itself, but its so bad its unbelievable and I suspect a joke: Breakthrough Exposes Volcanic Corruption of Global Temperature Data for 50 Years wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/… via @wattsupwiththat

Breakthrough Exposes Volcanic Corruption of Global Temperature Data...

When a single station—reporting temperatures more commonly associated with industrial furnaces than meteorological observations—can, through entirely procedural means, influence a global metric...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
Mar 11
This is why statistically the modern NBA is not directly comparable to 90's to early 2000s NBA. You simply have to look at advanced statistics to compare. Bam Adebayo scores 83, second-most points in NBA history - ESPN share.google/poWrbW4VWSZLkqW…

'Wilt, me, then Kobe': Adebayo scores 83 points

Bam Adebayo scored the most points since Wilt Chamberlain's iconic 100-point game in 1962 as the Heat star went for 83 points in a blowout win over the Wizards.

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A stem wasp like ant Sphecomyrma mesaki from 99Ma amber. They exhibit a wasp-like morphology with large compound eyes, elongate antennae, intermediate mandibles, and were epigaeic (above-ground) foragers or predators. This contrasts sharply subterranean habits of today.
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Colonial growth is flexible nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate

Nature - The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
Feb 22
CO2 measurable forcing nature.com/articles/nature14…

Observational determination of surface radiative forcing by CO2 from 2000 to 2010

Nature - Model studies have been used to quantify the effects of increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 on infrared energy balance and thus climate over the past 200 years, but observational...

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Dub-A@Shunkup
Feb 16
Something changed and suddenly oobjectivityis creeping back into climate science. ://phys.org/news/2026-02-rethinking-climate-natural-variability-solar.html#google_vignette
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Feb 16
My old friend. Total solar forcing is Irradiance plus Magnetics (alters cloud cover). sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Feb 12
To read later- DO events in climate have always fascinated me. cp.copernicus.org/articles/2…
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Dub-A@Shunkup
Jan 28
Are sponges or ctenophores the first multicellular animal? I love this fossil feud getting a healthy empirical debate and watching science do its thing as each side builds a case through time! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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