Jules Howard

@juleshoward.bsky.social

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Zoology, science-writer, author.
Did I mention duck vaginas?
www.juleshoward.co.uk

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*drumroll* …Please welcome into the world ‘INFINITE LIFE’, which rolls out of its egg-tube today and finally hatches! It’s an egg’s eye view of evolution, spanning 1,000 million years of animals. It’s out now! (Also on Audible, in which I go full Brian Blessed). Bookshop.org: bit.ly/4aMVk9i

Coming in May! Thanks, Becky ❤️

If you love beautifully written surprising & fascinating science writing 📚 📖 🧪, look out for the forthcoming INFINITE LIFE by @juleshoward.bsky.social , a wondrous exploration of the astonishing evolution of animal eggs... (one of which you came from, and some you might also contain, right now)

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The lovely @juleshoward.bsky.social & I are getting it on...At the Edinburgh Science Festival, We will reveal some amazing tales of fighting, flirting & fornicating that insects get up to. Small does not mean limited. Come hear about indecent insects 😎 www.edinburghscience.co.uk?s=indecent+i...

*AND PRINT* This has been an absolute BEAST to write but, holy hell, i am really happy about how it's turned out. (Working title, out next year).

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hey look, I wrote a nice little piece on a 500-million-year-old murder mystery! 🧪 It was assumed that the shrimp-like Anomalocaris was chomping on trilobites, but we had the wrong suspect! https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/july/cambrian-apex-predator-probably-preferred-soft-bodied-prey.html

Cambrian apex predator probably preferred soft-bodied preywww.nhm.ac.uk A 500-million-year-old murder mystery has been solved.

I wish it was more normalised to play hide and seek with your dog. I do it in secret, when no-one else is in the park, but then sometimes people spot me and it gets weird.

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Here's the thing about artists/writers and self-promotion on social media: publishers have slashed their PR departments. Books/arts coverage in traditional media has evaporated. The PR plan for any new book, exhibit, launch etc these days is generally "have talent promote it on their social media."

Quick question for my fellow pop-sci / wildlife writers: how worried are you about AI? Give me a number out of 10 (10 = feeling great; 1 = creeping terror) and then gimme a sentence on how you're feeling. Interested to know.

I quietly scan every inch of soil for fossils while I walk the dog. Is someone taking the p*ss?

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ALL WILL BECOME CRAB

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY: Oak galls ('apples') made by parasitic wasps. Crushed up galls like these, for more than 1,500 years, provided the BEST ink. Shakespeare, the US Declaration of Independence, early copies of the Bible. All written with squashed wasp juice. (Model by Abby Crawford).

My new thing is going on TikTok and pointing out minor zoological mistakes for no reason.

Just learned that the red stuff you see in a squashed fly is actually its eyeball juice. But, more importantly, how is everyone?

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Can't wait to see the twists and turns, mirroring the movement of a journey through a duck's vagina, that your bluesky journey takes.

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“THE QUESTION THOUGH, IS THE OSPREY A PROTOSTOME OR A DEUTEROSTOME? DOES THE TUBE START WITH THE ARSE FIRST? COME WITH ME AS WE FIND OUT TOGETHER ON BBC’S ‘THEY’RE ALL REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF DAMN TUBES’”

PITCH: Attenborough looks at all animals and, rather than celebrating tiny irreverent differences, only notices the commonalities: "BEHOLD, AN OSPREY. LIKE EVERY ANIMAL, A MERE TUBE. A MOUTH AND ANUS. CONNECTED BY A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM."

*SCREAMS INTO THIS NEW VOID* Hey! HEY! Does anyone like slug mites in here? [echoes]. Did I tell you about my VR Duck vagina experience? [...ECHOES]

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