Ran across this section from Muybridge's classic "Animals in Motion" volume. Quite a few words to say, "I don't know anything here, really" on how hippos move. And a poignant little quotable about extinction... 🦛
(those skulls in the pic w/the link are NOT Riojasuchus-- this is it below!)
🧵 at twitter.com/JohnRHutchin...; sorry, I am too tired to do threads on all social media.
At the Royal Society in London for this event featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, "Scientific, Public Health, and Policy Lessons from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19". I've been looking forward to this!
Coincidentally, I received a NHS invite for a fresh COVID-19 booster shot today and booked it.
ISVM members/interested scientists in morphology: as per email just sent out, we're looking for a Communications Officer. See image below. Please disseminate. This should be a fun role to do. Contact me for further info.
Farewell to Japanese Fellow (JSPS funding) Masaya Iijima, and hello to visiting Shin-ichi Fujiwara, who was our JSPS Fellow back in 2011-12 but now is Iijima's mentor at Nagoya University and visiting in London for a few months! Life is a circle.
(famous SMLab whiteboard in background: ooh, ahh!)
Sir Andrew F Huxley FRS, RSoc President 1980-1985, Nobel Prize for Physiology 1963. Yes, of the Huxley Model of muscle contraction; that dude. Grandpa TH Huxley in background. Painting in the Fellows Room, Royal Society.
I am in London for 4 days with a little free time, so I finally am taking advantage of my privilege as FRS to work in the Fellows Room at the Royal Society. Free good coffee and biscuits, too.
We saw many Greater flamingos feeding, honking, flying and more feeding st the Parc Ornithologique in the Camargue (marshes, Provence, France). More Grey herons than I'd ever seen in one spot, too.
Is "Spirited Away" your fave Studio Ghibli film and if so, why?
(Totoro is in a class of its own, so it's not in this fight)
For me, it's "Princess Mononoke".
I was cleaning up my files in my office today and ran across this gem.
Perhaps my greatest achievement.
Or circumcising I mean circumscribing a fine embarrassment.
(read the handwriting here)
What a bruiser of a day. It wasn't healthy levels of stress, with 8 hrs practicing our 10min talk and me stressing WAY too much about memorising my 3mins of that. But the interview seemed to go as well as it reasonably could, we had beers and a very nice Peruvian dinner, and now we're done!!!!
