IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age! I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together! #PrehistoricPlanet youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...

Stepped up a notch with the #AI in healthcare course and I’m now well reminded about the different types of regression. But it’s still not AI guys. And I’m thinking, if they insist on tying healthcare algorithms in with AI they’re going to just make everyone think they’re as useless as chatGPT.

So cool. Where an interest in #lichens and #paleontology intersect 😃.

Day 5 of my #AI in healthcare course. I have taken to screaming “that’s not fucking AI, we’ve been able to do that for at least 30 years!!!!” at my iPad. My husband has taking to waving a gin bottle at me…..

Please someone save me, for I did not know what I did when I enrolled on AI systems for healthcare. For now I have completed the first module, and comes “the data to decision path for infusion of AI in healthcare”. I don’t think my soul can take anymore 😱.

If you’d like to hear me talk about what I do, now you can, thanks to Elliot and his fantastic People are Fish YouTube channel (well worth subscribing to if you don’t already): m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...

My GP surgery is advertising for a medical receptionist on minimum wage. No NHS terms and conditions, no pension. FFS - it’s a tough, skilled job and should be a band 4 with NHS pension. Guessing they still get people.

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Here’s a proper Halloween Horror - I’m reduced to doing a course on AI in Healthcare because I realised I need to know more about it, so I can explain effectively using the correct jargon why it’s not the bloody messiah.

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.” Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

Haven’t seen this for years. Still relevant.

Updating my LEGO White House

While the lack of vikings on Holy Island was disappointing, I did acquire this #fossil #coral on the beach.

If you’re feeling a bit down, watch the video at the top of this story. Guarantee it will make you smile. And possible cry a bit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My money is on them spending so much development effort in AI no one wanted that they didn’t do basic maintenance in their cash cow AWS. Amazon web services having a very bad morning.

Looking at the 1930s bus at the motor museum and thinking it’s not that different from the older ones when I was a kid. And then also it’s basically a horse drawn tram with an engine at the front.

Facebook friend giving me advice on diet, I suspect she hasn’t clocked what I do for a living. But since the advice is yoghurt and raw beer, stuff it I’m in

Conodont jaw found at Wren’s Nest in Dudley in 2020. #paleontology #fossil

After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!

Classic First Dog on the Moon cartoon today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy National Fossil Day to me! And the ~30 other sloth researchers. This baby Megalonyx from Prehistoric Planet is too damn cute and I am watching this on repeat for the next 42 days until the new season comes out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=9i0R...

It’s #portfolioday! I’m Luke, a traditional media #illustrator from the UK specialising in #creaturedesign and creation. You can find prints and Apparel via the link below. 😊 linktr.ee/lrillustrati... Commissions open ✏️ #handmade #pencilart #monsters #sciart #artshare #graphiteart #PaleoArt

Was listening to the latest episode of the Weird and Dead podcast on Freaky Fingers yesterday which included the Iguanadon. So while at @morethanadodo.bsky.social yesterday I couldn’t resist having a look. They really are. Fabulous podcast but beware in polite company 😂.

Great talk by @deanrlomax.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social at the @morethanadodo.bsky.social last night. Was a bit outfaced by the queue for signing but got to have a wander round and look at the wonderful collection.

Stampede Summoner, my fifth piece for #Octoby2025 🐎🎠 In the tundra of the Coldgrounds, a summoner invokes the spirit of a great stampede #octoby

Nah, I asked AI. There is no need to worry...

Last week we were told that NHS staff weren’t getting COVID-19 vaccinations. This week an email about a sudden increase in COVID-19 cases on the wards. Do appreciate people trying to staff the wards didn’t make the vaccination decision though. They’re probably livid.

A few from the Viking North exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum

Never not worth sharing when it comes up on your memories.

Useful tip for those in the UK paying for their #COVID-19 #vaccine. Use Patient Access to find the closest pharmacist doing it but then contact them directly. It would have saved me £12.

Just booked my Covid vaccination £97. Work in the NHS, with pregnant women and frail elderly, have totally buggered lungs that really don't like respiratory infections but apparently I don’t need a free one. I’m going to be overdrawn forever.

200 for #Railway200 - a new thread! We're 200 days out from the 200th anniversary of the 1st passenger journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, on 27 September 1825. To mark it, we'll post a person a day from the Railway Work, Life & Death project's research.

I went to Holy Island and there were no Vikings. This is a disgrace!

One year ago since I released the ¨ANTEDILUVIAN¨ animated short 🥳 I don't rely on a distributor for promoting these kind of niche projects, so I apreciate your help inmenssenly. I have similar animations in the works that I hope I get to finish 😃 thank you all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsz...

Our attempt to visit the @merchantshallyork.org to pay tribute to their excellent social media was stuffed by this being the only Sunday they appear to be closed. Hey ho, we’ll be back in York at some point.

You know what I hate most about all the #AI slop and rubbish tech? It makes me feel like some out of touch old fart. Because maybe it isn’t all completely useless and makes life harder, maybe it’s just me? But then I see that rarest of things - something actually good and I know it’s not me.

Anyhow heres some #viking stuff from the Yorkshire museum exhibit Viking North. Well worth a visit. www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk

Technically popped in to see the Viking exhibition in the Yorkshire museum, but they’ve got some great new stuff in the #jurassic #paleontology exhibit. #dinosaurs.

Fossil Friday flashback to Lyme Regis 2024 and one of the displays I’m most proud of, homaging Mary Anning, Walking With Dinosaurs, the incredible @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social and also err Transformers… Really delighted how this came out and it was donated to the brilliant Lyme Regis museum 🏴‍☠️🖤🦖

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

If you can, try and buy something from an artist every month. Many of them sell cards and stickers so it doesn’t need to cost a fortune.

Well apparently NHS staff aren’t getting #covid vaccinations this year. Not even higher risk staff like me. That’s another 100 quid down the drain then.

I’ve just backed @emilyhare.co.uk ‘s new book, and I have a feeling that a LOT of my followers will want to do the same! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...

Full article @PatrickCockburn @ipaper @NHS #immigration #MudtRead

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Competing film producers currently in a race across the Alps to get the rights and be the first to contact Judi Dench www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.