Andrew Christopher Knapp
Stop-and-chat avoider. Lido afficionado. Was once world's youngest person, albeit briefly.
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappLunchtime #bittern at London Wetland Centre and a better shot of a cousin. @wwtworldwide.bsky.social @everyheron.bsky.social
- As it's #FossilFriday, why not share this wonderful artwork of objectively the best group of #dinosaurs?
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThis shot of a heron passing across the aptly named Heron Pond in Bushy Park is one of my favourites from a magical early morning shoot last week. I love the silhouette effect and the mystical atmosphere created by the morning mist and reflections in the water.❤️ @theroyalparks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher Knapp🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity. Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher Knapp🔍Home PhD opportunity with funding to start in October 2026: "Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss" 🧬📊🐛🌳🪿supervised by me, Charlie Outhwaite (ZSL) and Eleni Matechou (School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL).
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappAll Reform councils to raise taxes despite campaign pledges Who would have guessed www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- This tweet was deleted while he was in the press conference announcing he was defecting!
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- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThe Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThese roles are now live! 🚨 Come join the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team at @es-ucl.bsky.social. Research Software Engineer: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Community Engagement Coordinator: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Closing date: 18-Jan-2026
- 🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn
- Some excellent work by Susie and colleagues, and some fantastic ceratopsian news (for those who partake)!
- Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappI just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThis is really cool, it's a display of all the bugs found on a single tree. #Invertebrate
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappAvian cranial evolution is influenced by shape interactions between hard and soft tissue traits #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution @knapprew.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappA Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappRight. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappCalling all model makers, 3D scanners, anatomists, digital dissecters❗️❗️❗️ I'm the organiser of the symposium "Digital Resilience: Immortalising biodiversity through 3D anatomical models". Most of my network on here have incredible work that I'd love to see, so submit an abstract! Open 7th Jan 😁
- It's a frigid day in #Colchester today, and the pair of #Peregrines on Jumbo are doing a much better job of enduring the cold than I managed! #birds #birdsofbluesky
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappAnnual reminder that the world didn't crash on Y2K because countless people put in countless hours of work to ensure computer systems were updated to handle the date switch from 1999 to 2000. It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
- Colchester, site of the UK's only recorded earthquake fatality
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- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappHello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher Knappit's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappLooking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappDo not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThe story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
- Had a productive day yesterday and I'm now the proud owner of a substantial amount of ragù Knappolitana!
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappIf you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappAbsolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
- You wait ages for a paper, and two come along (almost) at once! This is the first publication from the project we're currently working on, where we're investigating the relationship between different regions of the avian head. 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- We know that the brain forms very early in vertebrate embryos and plays a big role in shaping the formation of the surrounding tissues in the head, including the skull, eye and jaw muscles. What we don't really know is how this translates into evolutionary change across many species. 2/n
- Why is this important? Drastic changes in brain size and shape are one of the most obvious patterns we observe during the early evolution of birds. Are these changes in brain morphology responsible for the other distinctive evolutionary changes we see in the bird head?
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View full threadBig thanks to my colleagues @rnf.bsky.social , Catherine, and especially super-segmenter Taylor! And I'd also like to show appreciation for all the researchers who have uploaded their scans to Morphosource. We couldn't have done this without your hard work and generosity.
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappWhose rock is it? A standoff between a Great Egret and a Snowy Egret. #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings
- This is a wonderful thread. Years of working in retail has taught me that the customer is rarely, if ever, right.
- Regular conversation in a bar where we did half price drinks on Thursday nights if you won a coin toss: "Tails" "Bad luck, it's heads" "It's a double-sided coin!" "All coins are double sided" "You know what I mean..!" ??? "...Double-headed coin!" "Well say heads then"
- I'd guess that 70-80% of people would go for tails because, quote, "Tails never fails!" Except for the 50% of the time when it very much does fail!
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher Knapp🎉It's here!🎉 This year's annual roundup of new species described by @nhm-london.bsky.social's curators, researchers and scientific associates! We've got butterflies! We've got wasps! We've even got the odd dinosaur as I know people like those. Check it out! 🐝🧪🦕
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher Knappthis field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappGreat news! We can now publish full details of our timetable for our Annual #Symposium on Th 19Feb2026 in London, celebrating #UCL200 and focusing on #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future. Please order your FREE ticket and obtain further info: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappThe K/Pg extinction created a buffet for open-ocean fishes. A new paper shows that Pelagiaria underwent an adaptive radiation following the extinction based on new jaw shapes to fill the vacuum @knapprew.bsky.social @evoswami.bsky.social @sternarchella.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappOlfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬 Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thread 👇
- New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
- ... which is likely due to recently-vacated ecological niches due to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. We find that shape is strongly correlated with mechanical performance (i.e. force transmission in jaw closing and opening), and that some taxa have evolved relatively high force transmission...
- ...via completely different jaw shapes! Another interesting finding is that jaw shape is correlated with habitat depth. We think this is because of the different feeding strategies that are available at different depths in the ocean, e.g. fast-swimming predators in shallow, well-lit...
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View full threadThis paper has been in the works for a long time for various pandemicky and other reasons, and I thank all of my excellent coauthors for their hard work and patience! @evoswami.bsky.social @friedmanlab.bsky.social @sternarchella.bsky.social @gilespalaeo.bsky.social @gizehrdelazaro.bsky.social
- If I made something this bad, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night either!
- Reposted by Andrew Christopher KnappJeremy is a wonderful person doing some great science.
- A great article about @nhm-london.bsky.social Scientific Assiciate and generally fabulous human @valdosaurus.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Nice article about Jeremy's (@valdosaurus.bsky.social) amazing work discovering new dinosaurs on the Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- A sky scragger, doing its job
- Amazing to watch this Peregrine hunting and catching a Snipe over Stanpit Marsh and then watched as it landed on The Priory to feast on its prey @chogbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
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