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Dr Dave Hone

@davehone.bsky.social

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Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk

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@eleanorbath.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 8:13 AMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Why do animals fight?

I’m recruiting a PhD student at Durham University to investigate the ecology, evolution and genes underlying aggression in fruit flies

Funded PhD (UK students only).

Details & how to apply 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please share! #PhD #Evolution #BehaviouralEcology

@robertsaunders.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:21 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

"I have said we'd have another election if there was no overall majority". Apparently it is now ok to tell the electorate to vote again if they don't give the right result.

@bbmwong.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 1:57 AMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

@davehone.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:40 PM

Happy to chat by email. I'm on d.hone AT qmul.ac.uk :)

@davehone.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:07 PM

Thanks very much, that's great.

@davehone.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:58 AM

Hi, could I possibly get your permission to use this image for an upcoming project? DMs don't work in the UK, but happy to talk more by email. Thanks.

@spongepaddy.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:43 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider...

@stevebrusatte.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:25 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh!

Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

@ucu.org.ukSep 30, 2026, 6:14 AMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

@thomascullen.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 7:55 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

cover page of the linked paper
@bjenquist.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 2:23 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

@thelabandfield.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 5:36 PMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Our next step in this project is a bibliography of avian type publications. It's incomplete, but 1120+ refs to 210+ collections is a good starting point! Searchable by institution, country, city.

albnd.github.io/bird_types/

#Ornithology #Taxonomy

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 8:31 PM

Love that Orolotitan.

@davehb.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 10:46 AMReposted by @davehone.bsky.social

Major props to Robin and team for this important work. Read it, use it, share it far and wide.

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 3:10 PM

Just think, in another 4 or 5 years, Man City could have to pay a fine that runs to three figures!

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:47 PM

Yeah, it looks like a preprint server, but reads like a journal. Hard to say.

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:42 PM

I also missed intellectual consistency. I'm still annoyed that when we criticised his initial T. rex splitting paper his response was 'well I published a paper so you should stick to it' but his pterosaur book cites, and then ignores, published taxonomy. So are we only using papers or not?

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:40 PM

Is this an actual paper or some kind of preprint server, I don't recognise the host / format.

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 2:03 PM

Thank you, that was very much the intention. I will admit that it's frustrating to still see papers coming out that I think wildly over speculate and I'd hoped more academics (authors, referees or editors) would have read it and used it to develop ideas.

@davehone.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 1:17 PM

You can always buy this one too! :D

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