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Good call by @ScotGovernment in trying to keep #Erasmus exchange funding going. Scholarship in HE is an #international venture and during my career I have worked or studied in England, Ireland, Germany and the US and retain my @AvHStiftung links.
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Given the changes to schools and exams across most of UK, I'm available for much of the next 4 weeks on @Tutorful at sensible rates for tuition in a range of subjects but with a particular focus on #Earth and #Environmental Sciences. Virtual field trips too!
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One of my favourite courses starts on Thu 21 Jan, 4-6pm: Scotland's Volcanoes, a six week online course.
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Image is some lovely magma chamber rocks on Isle of Rum. We explore volcanic rocks from Shetland to Arran and lots of places in between!
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It means we can have an "internal" and a "public" version of our data. With `pglogical`, any changes to data in the tables of the "internal" PostgreSQL are automatically (and instantly) applied to the tables in the "public" one. 1/2
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New post: New Shale Trail in West Lothian edinburghgeolsoc.org/new-sha…
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The lateral line mechanosensory organs in fish and
amphibians detect water movement and the environment. Learn how lateral line anatomy and position varies with a species’ ecology and behavior through Wnt signaling and local tissue interactions @_JSDB_ doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.225
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1/2⌛️ Final Day - just 14 hours left to give 💥
In the final hours of our campaign, we are asking you to dig deep and help us in our final climb to £35,000 🧗 With just hours remaining, we need to raise £5,776 to hit our target.
@Profiainstewart @VisitScotland #geotweeps
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So grateful for amazing collaborators like @Joseph_Bevitt putting in the hard yards for us when COVID makes interstate travel difficult/impossible but we don’t want to lose precious @ANSTO @ausynchrotron beamtime 🙏🏾
Science life doesn't get better than this! At the @ausynchrotron in Melbourne 3D imaging fossils on IMBL, while simultaneously remotely running the #neutronCT instrument Dingo back in Sydney with local tech staff changing samples! Amazing support and teamwork ❤🥳
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1/2 New preprint for #PhylogeneticsFriday! We simulate realistic morphological datasets use the
@palaeoware package TREvoSim and find that sampling of fossil taxa vastly improves the accuracy of phylogenies inferred from morphology. tinyurl.com/yycsy4rf
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🗿 Recherches sur les poissons fossiles . . /.
Neuchatel: Petitpierre, 1833-1843.
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Recording of last night's lecture by Graham Leslie "A Caledonian cruise across Iapetus on Anglesey" is now online. It was a wee bit complicated (and very well told) so it is good we can watch it again ...
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Latest news from Geowalks: please support the Scottish Geology Trust! mailchi.mp/4cc64da17c38/geow…
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my poem, "Lessons from the West African Lungfish" will appear in the July 2021 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, in their "Meter" column, and it will be accompanied by a broadside!! I am so excited about this, I might need to go estivate for a minute.
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Out doing some #PavementPalaeontology on the dreich streets of #Edinburgh yesterday. One of the 'shoal' outside @NtlMuseumsScot on Chambers Street. So long and thanks for all the fish! @ETAG_UK #ForeverEdinburgh
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Following up yesterday’s tweet from @rthandiackal on our #zebrafish locomotion work, it’s hard to overemphasize how detailed the velocity vector fields are using IR light and small algae as tracer particles. Paper in @J_Exp_Biol (bit.ly/3gwRrI5) #swimming #fishsci
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Congo River is so deep that some fish get the bends and die when expelled to the surface by rapid jets; and these fish are pale like cave-dwelling fish
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Spreading the love for Mission Jurassic and my colleagues on Scottish TV...and trying to explain why fossils are relevant (following a segment with some weird climate change denialism and digs at Greta Thunberg, yikes!).
"It's like a detective at a crime scene."
Palaeontologist @SteveBrusatte told #TheNine the more information we have on dinosaur fossils, the greater we can understand how the earth has changed over time and what is happening today.
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Wow, they just discovered the world's largest cavefish - a big undescribed blind carp from India.
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Many folks featured in the book! @TyrannosaurCarr @ABQTomW @ButlerLabBham @GraemeTLloyd @scwang251 @macroevolut @VTechmeetsPaleo @alanhturner @omateus @WitmerLab @TomChallands @peterfalkingham @JohnRHutchinson @jemilyr @Dr_Butty @MuseumGuyScott @NHMdinolab xitter.cf/SteveBrusatte/status/9…
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In #Edinburgh on the 1st Nov? Come & hear about #Scotland's amazing #fossils, w @gsciencelady @tanytrachelos @SteveBrusatte & @TomChallands
