Zombie PSA 🧟: The human brain 🧠 is only 2% of total body weight, but contains 25% of all the cholesterol in the body, mostly in myelin sheaths around brain neurons. Because cholesterol can't cross the blood-brain barrier, it has be made locally by support cells: astrocytes & oligodendrocytes.

The Stockton Icthyosaur at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. It’s a shame for it to be stuck well above eye level - would like it to be moved to the Warwick museum near where it was found but I guess it’s impractical. #fossil #paleontology #icthyosaur #palaeontology

I was going to post an expletive laden rant about I know I’m old and stop reminding me. But actually this isn’t the worst service ever as although I’ve only met about two antivaxxers in the flesh in years, we've somehow ended up in the situation where there is rampant misinformation about statins.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

I'm enjoying the "Top 100 Bluesky responses to a top 100 cultural list bait of all time, of all time."

These are Vietnamese Mossy Frogs.

New paper in Nature uses broad study of physiology of extant insect species to *reject* the popular hypothesis that insect gigantism during the Carboniferous (2-foot dragonflies!) had anything to do with atmospheric oxygen concentrations www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am so looking forward to the new series

However tossing weasels is perfectly acceptable.

Do not throw the rat, I repeat, do NOT throw the rat.

Perhaps she could have tried losing some weight? FFS 🤦‍♀️

Of course some hospitals do a slightly more upmarket Carboniferous in the car park.

For a country that can’t stop wanging on about how they defeated the Nazis, England sure does like Nazis.

Which is your favourite design for this month? #allosaurus #paleoart #dinosaurart #dinosaurs

It’s a little known fact that hospital carparks always have a little patch of the Carboniferous growing somewhere behind them.

Registrations for the Marine Reptile Conference at the Oxford Museum of Natural History are open. Just booked for me and the long suffering other half. Looks like extremely good value for money. www.geocollections.org/events/190-m...

Gotta love Rebrickable. Plesiosaur made from the dinosaurs set.

We all have days like this

… Move forward, run my hand around the font. From where I stand, the roof looks -What the fucking hell!

Wealthy medieval sauropods would commission effigies of themselves above their in-church resting places in the belief it would make the prayers on their behalf more targeted at them and therefore more effective.

Tax Dodge Tice.

More Paragotitan at Peterborough.

Talking of walking under a masssive sauropod. This Paragotitan is at Peterborough Cathederal in the Uk.

Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇! Takahashi Bihō (Japan, b.1873) #Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30 Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachō-e), ink & color on paper Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm) MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba... #JapaneseArt

For those of you whose Kindle is expiring, the Kobo has a remote control. You can prop it up and read in bed without having to move to change the page.

Are you interested in #dinosaurs, or in prehistoric animals, fossils, palaeoart, and the natural world in general? You really must attend #DinoCon 2026, happening July 25th-26th at Hilton Birmingham Metropole - a huge event with tons happening. Here are scenes from DinoCon 2025...

Testing out it out, looks good. I can finally get to finishing this up. Very pleased with how it’s turning out even though it was a bit more difficult than the flying crocodile mobile

But in the end I signed more books than clothing! The gorgeous Japanese editions of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs & The Rise and Reign of the Mammals!

A single mushroom can release 3 BLLION spores a day at a rate of 30,000 PER SECOND. A single giant puffball can produce 7 TRILLION spores in its lifetime. Each year, fungi collectively produce 50 million TONS of them, enough to coat every square mm of Earth with 1,000 spores. Let's talk about it.

Last Wednesday of the month is #TerribleLizards day and here's the latest episode where @iszi.com and I interview the all-round crocodylian supremo Chris Brochu about his research on these amazing animals (both living and ancient) terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s12e03-crocs

First look at the printed test cards for my Tiktaalik’s Tea Room collection! The collection is still up for preorder but there are only a couple of days left! ☕️🫖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cle... #paleoart #tiktaalik #deinosuchus #nanuqsaurus #prehistoricart

Super excited to reveal my new collection I’ve been working on! Tiktaalik’s Tea Room! Combining cute Paleoart with cosy tea room vibes ☕️🫖 Now available for preorder! 🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cle... #paleoart #Archaeopteryx #kaprosuchus #tiktaalik #latenivenatrix

🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨 Abstract submission now open for a symposium meeting on #MarineReptile palaeontology hosted at @morethanadodo.bsky.social from 7-8th October 2026. Abstract deadline: 1st June 2026 #Palaeontology #Science #SciComm

A Leeds man has donated an ancient coin given to him by his grandfather -- who found it in a pile of bus fare in the 1950s. 🧪🏺

Can someone take Netflix’s #dinosaurs scrub the very, very slow Morgan Freeman voiceover that says nothing and still manages to be repetitive and replace it with an intelligent commentary explaining things in detail? #paleontology, #palaeontology, #fossils .

Often try and work out why I just cannot seem to get into TV series anymore. It’s easy to think I‘m just getting old. But there I am, watching #Monarch Legacy of Monsters, whooping like a 15 year old at Kirk Russell, living his best life, in a speedboat, with a baby monster wrapped in a towel.

The man on the Clapham omnibus just got off. muttering that he had no idea what was happening anymore, so for heaven's sake don't ask him.

I am in this photo and I don’t like it.

Yay, Monarch Legacy of Monsters is back for a new season. It’s pretty much the only fiction TV program that I’ve got past a couple of episodes of in a while.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

Apparently you can get a Gideon Mantell Toby Jug. #paleontology #palaeontology #fossils shop.harveys.org.uk/products/gid...

Say hi to Damon, Perry, Piper and Sally! All from my new plush series Yuri&Friends 2, they´re all now waiting for new homes now in my shop 🦖 therbisstudio.com

A curse on you Microsoft unto the 95th generation, may you have perpetual toe sores and be doomed to spend the afterlife failing to format a recalcitrant table in Word while it continually asks you to summarise it with copilot.

My new Mother’s Day cards, featuring Maiasaura; the “Good Mother Lizard” 🪺 #maiasaura #paleoart #dinosaurs

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