WIP of a #Quintesson from my #Transformers and #Warhammer40k AU. "Rogue trader Blanche returned from the Halo Stars a changed man with some very close new friends."

fantastic megatronus

Phrases like "Lessons we must learn" etc get right on my chebs. Why must our lives repeatedly be reduced to educational materials for the so-called political elite.

Make Art (1/4)

And yesterday brought me a slime mould, the tiny pinheads of Comatricha nigra in vast profusion in our local Kent woodland. #slimemould #slimemold #fungifriends #naturephotography #myxomycetes #mycology

This looks rad. Nice design for the Lego ship and an all-around nifty illustration by Kim.

A fabulous talk from Ben at @therockpoolproject.bsky.social on zoom this afternoon! 🦑 Check out this amazing citizen science project if you haven’t already!

Hello nerds, my job searching continues, I'm looking for Table Top Miniature Companies in UK, Europe or USA - chances are they are on my list already, but I am not omniscient, so any recommendations or insider knowledge is welcome! Page from my portfolio, unit design for Zeo Genesis!

Another potential shirt or sticker design. Very niche. Wanted to make it look like a retro futuristic racing team sponsor. The circular designs are highly stylised cartoons of the most common Leiosphearidia microfossils found in pre-Cryogenian rocks.

There must have been a #Scottish #Metal band called "War Haggis" at some point. Surely? But metal archives say no. Sadly.

If you want to know what monetization is like on tiktok for geology science communication. I've got 19k+ followers, and I've had over 1 million views. But so far I've earned... £0.68. This is not a joke. #ScienceCommunication #SciCom

🌿 Applications are open for the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs), including the J. S. Karling and AJ Harris awards. BSA supports graduate student research in botanical science with these $1,500 awards. Deadline: February 16, 2026. Apply now: botany.org/home/awards/...

Fab find! I reckon I looked as delighted yesterday with this find at #HookHead #fossils #stonebothering !

Getting ready to restart my YT channel. I've also found a new shirt supplier. Working on revamping the original designs, and putting together some new ones. Who goes in the Archean park slot? Which paleo critter, rock, or time interval do you want to see on a shirt?

Sheesh. "Were the mountains that formed 1.8 billion years ago similar to modern mountain belts?" Well, now I gotta go read the whole darn thing for the answer. "6 Things Your Geologist Doesn't Want You To Know About Orogeny" vibes

DAY 249 SPECIES 249 - Picrophilus oshimae STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, DS & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen. Tombow Colored pencil NOTES: Experimenting with layers P. oshimae is an extremely acidophilic archaeon Isolated from solfataric springs in Hokkaido, Japan.

Don't forget it's the last of our Winter lectures is coming up! Join us and the Friends of the CHCC in Charmouth Village Hall, 7pm, Tuesday 10th, for a talk by Professor James Scourse. Free entry but donations are always welcome!

Accidental Stim Lock. WIP on Magos Perceptorius Maximus. Another #Transformers #Warhammer40k cross over, and based on one of my favourite John Blanche paintings. #SciFi

This is Sea Grave, my first custom TF way back in 2003. The name is a reference to him being a marine marauder and a nod to one of my favourite death metal cover artists. The GW paints didn't work too well, but the Death Guard transfer is still there. #Transformers #customtransformers

DAY 248 SPECIES 248 - Ca. Nanopusillus acidilobi STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor. Sakura & Charsoco pen #sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint

This fossil is an example of what is called a "mortality plate" as it contains the remains of several animals that all died around the same time. Trilobites were some of the first animals to evolve an exoskeleton, and as a result fossilize very well compared to other Cambrian creatures.

Another one for you, for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight Tisha Mark ©2025, With Light, We'll See It Through, oil on linen, 20"x16" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/with... #art #painting #SciArt #ArtSky #bsnm

Looks like a totally normal vertebrate skeleton to me. I like the happy little face.

Another painting to share for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight Tisha Mark ©2023, Awake, Marshlands Series, oil on canvas Limited edition fine art prints available: tishamark.com/product/awak... Original is also available: tishamark.com/product/awak... #art #painting #prints #bsnm #SciArt

Amazing slime moulds.......... A world where we are the giants and these little fellas or literally 1-2mm in height which you can barely see! www.dhphotography.info/macrophotogr... #macro #photography #slimemould #macrophotography #nature #mushrooms

Tripolar mitosis is a great band name.

DAY 247 SPECIES 247 - Nanobdella aerobiophila STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, DS & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen NOTES: Lost track of time and didn't finish #sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint

Fascinating. Nice disc fossils. I'm not familiar with this interval, so I'll have to read up on this when I get the chance.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Tiny Cam or giant fish!?

Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky

#FossilFriday falls with the creeping inevitability of a global glaciation. These Proterozoic stromatolites from Minnesota's Iron Ranges stand as a reminder that, no matter how small we are alone, together we can change the world, making complex relationships possible like a breath of fresh air. 🧪⚒️

My blog post on Ailsa Craig, curling stones, and the weird minerals that make this rock unique. 🥌

New parasitic eulimid snails in South African brittle stars! #molluscmonday #echinoday www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...

Chloritoid crystals in a schist from the Massa Unit, Italy ⚒️ #geology

Love the lighting in this piece.

A male Centropages hamatus copepod under UV light. #marineplankton 🦑

If squid could speak English, they’d say we have our expressions “blood-red” and “baby blues” mixed up. As cephalopods, they prefer “blood-blue” and “baby reds.” All this and more in the latest Octopost! buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

That looks like Pseudopecten equivalvis.

Have you ever seen any one as pleased as @saralilplants.bsky.social finding some crinoids? Probably not. #FossilFriday #geology #paleontology #fossils #crinoids #jurassic #RobinHoodsBay

February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other! #FossilFriday (1/2)

Welcome back to #fossilfriday! Here are the impressions of the Inoceramid clam Mytiloides mytiloides. This specimen comes from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Greenhorn Formation (Colorado Group) in northwestern Nebraska.

For #FossilFriday, exquisitely preserved insect burrows (probably beetles) with backfill structure preserved as bas relief on a sandstone surface, from the Early Cretaceous (~130 mya) Botucatu Formation of Brazil. Specimen on display in the Mário Tolentino Museum of Science, São Carlos, Brazil. 🧪🪲🪨⚒️

#FossilFriday pyritized ammonite from the Punta delle Rocchette Fm. Lower Jurassic.

Where the Arizona Trail crosses the Kaibab Plateau, there's a spot I've dubbed "the fossil switchbacks" where you can see brachiopods, crinoid stems, and other nicely-preserved marine fossils in the 270-million year old Kaibab Limestone. #FossilFriday #backpacking #Arizona

DAY 246 SPECIES 246 - Microcaldus variisymbioticus STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, HWC & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen M. variisymbioticus (shown in blue) is very small archaeon with a reduced genome. #sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint

#FridayFold folded Sinemurian limestones at Punta delle Rocchette, Southern Tuscany, Italy #geology #tectonics #structuralgeology

The only ammonite I ever found was barely there at all.

For #FossilFriday, a cute Didymograptus deflexus collected by William Kinsey Dover and his sister Sarah Anne Willes Dover of Keswick, now in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. One for the graptolite fans.

I grew up surrounded by a lot of people who would always say the edgiest, most out-there thing to get everybody’s attention and gain control of the room So now edgy comedians and musicians just make me feel like I’m at a really boring family reunion