So many extinct Australasian taxa in the new Prehistoric Planet 3 trailer, including Thylacoleo as a 'dropbear'! Let the ambush predator arguments begin ⚒️🧪🦴 #palaeontology #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #fossils

Just got my new drivers license and the picture is so washed out I'm sure the DMV staff member must be dabbling in spirit photography.

Hearing about the Victorian meteorite everyone's hunting for inspired me to delve into the Queensland Museum collections and examine the Tenham Meteorite that lit up Queensland's skies in 1879. ☄️ Read more here → bit.ly/4fOJDlh #QMKurilpa #QldMuseum #Meteorites #TenhamMeteorite #DinosUnearthed 🧪⚒️☄️

Had an awesome time at Chinchilla Fossil Finders this past weekend! The Queensland Museum put on an activity day where the community helped sieve for microfossils and learn about Pliocene megafauna. The local TV network covered it too ⚒️🦴 #palaeontology #fossils www.facebook.com/share/v/1B3s...

Tune in to the original #MoonDay by visiting apolloinrealtime.org/11/

OK…I know. This is a preprint. Not peer-reviewed/not the final version/all of that & etc. So, we shouldn’t be discussing any of the science or results at-large… (/many)

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint. so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality. also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

🐾 Are #direwolves alive again? Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno. youtube.com/shorts/8KAYl...

A new therizinosaur just dropped! This group is already pretty bizarre, but Duonychus tsogtbaatari joins the two-fingered theropod club, with 2 giant claws instead of the usual 3, which seem to have been pretty dexterous for grasping plants! 🦖🧪⚒️ www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

I managed to get my video done before cyclone Alfred hits - just a few hours until pandemonium in the city itself. Until then, enjoy my #FossilFriday review of Two Point Museum (as a palaeo who works at a museum!) youtu.be/OaOG8LM_AU4?... @twopointstudios.bsky.social ⚒️🧪🎮🦖

Trying to focus on work and planning to film a video for the YouTube channel I’m part of, but Alfred is making me anxious:

Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment doi.org/10.1111/pala... @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday

George B. Sowerby (1812-1884) produced these beautiful watercolour drawings of fossil remains from the Cheltenham area about 1840. View all 148 watercolours via our #DigitisedCollections https://buff.ly/4aPzanv #FossilFriday #Palaeontology #SpecialCollections #Fossils

"The Curator's Egg" - a book I found in a second-hand bookshop the other day - has some beautiful insights into the everpresent problems faced by museums. In 1793, Jean-Jaques David said of the Louvre, "The museum is not supposed to be a vain assemblage of frivolous luxury objects (cont...)

I spent my #FossilFriday cataloguing Queensland's newest fossil species - Palaeospondylus australis! Palaeospondylus had previously only been found in Scotland, so this new Early Devonian (late Emsian) species is a fascinating find! academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-... #palaeontology #fossils 🧪⚒️

A favourite page of mine from Johs. Gessner's "Museum" for this #FossilFriday - pieces of amber with inclusions on the page with fossil insects from his collection. They look like you could pick them up off the page 💚(ZBZ NFF4, mid-1700s) #SciArt #EarlyModern #InverteFest

This #FossilFriday, watch the SUPRISINGLY addictive CREATURES OF WAR playthrough from the Palaeocast Gaming Channel! I play as a very manly soldier dude with a deep voice sprinting at an ungodly speed around an island while being chased by dinosaurs. It's actually quite fun! youtu.be/x0An8Tbf2gg

A piece of history: the first science journal

This is an absolutely fascinating and beautiful animation & summary of the findings from El Albani et al 2024 - Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites 👇

I've updated this starter pack for all interested! Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky www.science.org/content/arti...

For #FossilFriday, here’s something fun I found in the collection - GSQF13122, a little pyritised actinopterygian smack bang in the middle of a drill core sample through the Allaru Mudstone, from 615m underground! How lucky is that? 🧪⚒️

Real palaeontologist and offshore oil rig worker Dave Marshall has just played Still Wakes the Deep - a horror game set on an oil rig… Dave talks about what life is really like offshore and the important role that palaeontologists play in the safe extraction of oil and gas. 🧪 ⚒️ 🎮 #paleontology

Fish/ Wet collection folks! Where do you source your largest jars from (5-10g+)? Please rt!

I created this painting "Dinosaur Parade" in 1990, before I invented the whole concept of Dinotopia. I just wanted to give a glimpse of a lost empire that humans shared with peaceful dinosaurs. Jumping through that picture frame and living inside the painting changed my life.

Totally forgot about this game, so re-posting again! Good nerdy guessing-game animal wordle-esque fun :) 🧪

Joining in - Introduce yourself with 4 video games. A blend of palaeontology, archaeology, ancient history and fantasy for me! 🎮

Tried to pull together a pack of AU/NZ palaeo crew - there's gotta be more, who have I missed? 🦘🥝🦕 go.bsky.app/JU83Md1

I love that there are more people here now, so I’m gonna be more active here too! So hi 👋 I’m a Collection Manager for the Geosciences collection at the Queensland Museum, and I look after the state’s treasure trove of fossils and minerals, including this tiny agnostid trilobite:

It's time for another Real Palaeontologists Plays vid, and this week it's the Tempus Triad demo! It's got some surprisingly accurate extinct animals (just excuse the wing tips of Hatzegopteryx/Quetzalcoatlus) Watch here 👇 🦖⚒️🧪🎮 #dinosaur #palaeontology #gaming #earthscience

After a little hiatus, the Palaeocast Gaming Network is back! In this vid, I explore the flooded secret laboratories of the Waldorp-Verr Aerospace Corporation in 'Primal Rift', and find all sorts of ancient critters! youtu.be/IbYFM90zERA?...

Heard someone refer to the “Cybertruck” as a “sport-futility vehicle,” and that one is gonna take.

I’m often stalking but never posting on social media these days, but felt compelled to say what a great conference CAVEPS 2023 has been! A bunch of palaeontologists catching up and sharing their passion for their projects has been invigorating ⚒️🧪

Just watched a rapture film (I have a thing for christian propaganda) and the highlight was watching an innocent 12 ish year old kid get full screen blown away by holy lightning. Yeah, that converted me! :P

I love what Twitter removing headlines from link cards has done to my old pals at PC Gamer's timeline.

if i ever post something that can be interpreted in more than one way, then i definitely wrote it with the intention of grievously wounding you, a stranger i have never spoken to before and whose existence i was previously not aware of

The pic can’t do it justice, but this uvite + olenite on petanite really does look like raspberries and ice cream in person! ⚒️🧪

Ancient-human fossils sent to space: scientists slam ‘publicity stunt’ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02882-1

This new, open access paper the Geological Society of London is promoting on a different platform might be interesting for people beyond fluvial geomorphologists. It's trying to draw on philosophy of science insights to solve a long standing geological problem: what the hell are river meanders?

Captain Planet whenever he’s summoned:

Ok now this is super cool! New daily game where you guess the Mystery Animal of the day, and each wrong answer narrows it down by showing the closest taxonomic classification! 🧪 🦆🐊🐠🦡🪲🪸 metazooa.com

This Fossil Friday I’m celebrating my 1 year anniversary working at the Queensland Museum! So fortunate to have found a museum gig ⚒️ 🧪 🦖🦕

Having a great time out at Chinchilla doing a fossil dig! First travelled to the type section of the Chinchilla Sand, before heading off to our megafauna dig site for the next few days. ⚒️🧪

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Hi @earth-science.bsky.social 👋 I'd love to be added to the Earth Scientists feed! I'm a palaeo and geosciences collection manager at the Queensland Museum :)

Hiya danirabaiotti.bsky.social - can I please be added to the What's Science feed? I'm a palaeo and geosciences collection manager :)