Toruk my 🐐

I’m a very reasonable Swiftie (in that I like her music but will only buy a single copy of each album and won’t get a payday loan for concert tickets), but when it comes to helping James Cameron keep making Avatar movies I’ll go see each installment in theaters like five times

Season’s Eatings 🪶 Our local red-tailed hawk enjoying a holiday feast of his own.

Thinking about the delightful vibes of Yellowstone winter ✨

A tiny Northern Saw-whet Owl, annoyed by my presence. These little murder floofs are so adorable. #birds #wildlife #owl #PhotographersUnited

"I would like to build a university of which the football team could be profoundly ashamed." — Joe Harroz Jr.

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

Go Birds 🦅

Results from the last Flocking #paleostream of the year! Appalachiosaurus, Lijiangosaurus, Teraterpeton and Gerrothorax.

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar A piece from early 2017. The title was "Holocene", but the college zine I sent it to published it as "Hollow Scene". I studied science, but did not go to a science school, clearly.

We’ve been rightfully cursed for the Fulnecky nonsense and will never return to glory until she is expelled

“Boomer Sooner” — Juniper, probably

Avatar 3 was a blast btw. Pandora forever, man.

Sandhill Crane, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. September, 2019. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/500″ – f/9 – ISO 4000 🏷️ #Wildlife #Birds #Photography #SandhillCranes

Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar: One of the fluffiest Grizzly Bear cubs I've ever come across. #wildlife

This zoo visit in October 2019 was the last straw for me getting frustrated with the limits of cellphone photography 😅

Life on the Water 🪶

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art! Okay look the background isn't super detailed but argh I remember the wrist cramps from doing all the details on the grouse feathers! 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Textures 🧊

Morning Flight “The air was crisp and cool beneath wings The sky grew light until the mountains blazed And the mist pulled from the green, deep water The smallest sounds echoed across the lake The whoosh of movement, calm and steady Warmed the muscles, welcomed the new day.” #watercolor #dragons

Go Biden 🦅

Emergency Declared After President Actually Declares Emergency When Blue State Asked: tinyurl.com/4jrsnjzc

Part of the tragedy of this situation is that red states are blowing up public institutions that are drivers of research, economic mobility, and democracy itself. If your reaction is knee-jerk, undifferentiated disparagement OU students and faculty, let me suggest that you are ~misinformed~

the day is finally here: you can order my debut non-fiction, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS: HOW THE DRAKE EQUATION REVEALS THE ODDS OF LIFE IN THE COSMOS from B&N!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...

Time to prove that bullying works

Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.

Living on island time with all the flooding out here 😅

Someone clip JDub’s reaction lol

sherrone moore did what now

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

During public comments, there was a line out the door that they had to eventually cut off - 95% of the comments in support of transparency! We really made an impression on the lawmakers. If you couldn't make it but still want to help, sign this petition, it'll take 1 minute! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 2/2

The hearing on AI dataset transparency on 12/8 was a resounding success! Artists, animators, voice actors, actors, writers, musicians, and other creatives showed up en masse in solidarity with one another and to support more transparency in the AI datasets! There was standing room only! 1/2

Another question came up with a kid going basically "I didn't like the ending of that book" and me saying "Good." I am not here to make people HAPPY with NEAT ENDINGS I am here to ANNOY PEOPLE and write what I WANT

Out here grading himself on that Fulnecky curve

wow, what a title !!! Rutgers University feature on me + GRB 250702B! It was so nice to work with Kitta on this. Hope you enjoy the read ! 🧪🔭👩🏼‍🔬☄️🦖 www.rutgers.edu/news/astroph...

*sigh*

How are you gonna turn it over twice in one play? 😭

New art day from @kamakru.bsky.social 🎨

I stand by this

Do I want to see a snowy owl? Does a highland cow want the lush grasses of the pentland hills? Does a fish want the sweet flow of water through its gills? Does a Viking want the glory of Valhalla? Yes I want to see a snowy owl.

sure, why not lol

Quick, everyone laugh at UVA

Quick, everyone laugh at Duke

Congrats to @homefield.bsky.social 🫡

Portraits! At The @oregonzoo.bsky.social

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Did you know Liberty was the preseason favorite to win Conference USA, which was instead won by Kennesaw State? In fact Liberty went 4-8. One of the country's biggest disappointments. Also disappointing at football