Happy #fossilfriday I’ve spent the last few days cutting down the jacket and airscribing around the orbit and nasal bones of this Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai skull. Big Sam is looking fantastic and has some very interesting features for future study. #dinosaur

With the first #fossilfriday of the year this is a #troodon tooth collected last year from one of our most exciting sites in the Wapiti Formation that I prepared last week. It’s so cute and tiny.

What he said: 💯 🎯

I decided to do a bit of an outfit this Halloween so I made myself a Captian Pike uniform while working on dinosaur fossils today. (Pike cause he is canonically bearded for a while unlike Kirk 😂) #startrek #dinosaur

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

USAID was doing a fine job keeping millions of people fed and medicated before he “fed it into a wood chipper.” Go fuck yourself, Elon.

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“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”

The final portrait I could find from my time on WWD - Rose the Albertosaurus. All of these were done in early 2024, so about a year and a half ago now! #sciart #paleoart

Fuck these fucking fucks to hell. This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails. I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com

An absolutely gorgeous #tyrannosaur tooth that I collected from Dinosaur Provincial Park while working with the UofA palaeontology crew under Phil Currie. I found 3 of these beauties but this is the best! #fossilfriday

"To any Americans wondering if democracy is lost or if they can ever make a difference, I’d say this: If the Trump administration was this afraid of one senator w/a question, imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans organizing will do." @padilla.senate.gov

Which is all to say, if we want to avoid future generations thinking the same about us, we all need to get on board with doing more for nature however we can!)

(On a personal note, while dodos are fascinating, they're also v. depressing to paint. We wiped out these remarkable birds so fast that we didn't even collect decent specimens for museums, and it's difficult not to continually reflect on our awful, callous attitudes when researching such animals.

For #FossilFriday: #paleoart adventures with dodos including my latest reconstruction of this famous pigeon with accurate(?) colours, 3D printing a life-sized scanned dodo head (Kolby the greyhound for scale), and upscaling Ustad Mansur's c. 1625 important painting of the bird in life. #sciart

If you’ve seen Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 ep.5 “The Journey North” you would have seen this #Pachyrhinosaurus pathological rib. We had planned to talk about a different pathological rib that filming day but while the crew was setting up the cameras we found this one! Happy #fossilfriday #wwd2025

#WWD2025 Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

Thank you!! 💚✊ We asked you to record everything, photos, videos, all of it, and you showed up. You helped us capture the truth. So proud of every one of you. Tomorrow, there will be more of us. We love you all!

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

Trump even admitted he knew Elon had a drug problem and still gave him access to America’s most sensitive information. You’d think DOGE would be dismantled, not embedded. You’d think Elon’s staffers would be investigated. But nothing is happening. Something is off.

The blowup between Elon and Trump hasn’t ended DOGE, it’s still expanding. Russ Vought now plans to institutionalize DOGE across the federal government, and Elon’s staffers are embedded deep within key agencies.

Fresh from the field! A tiny Boreonykus tooth I found at the Pipestone Creek Bonebed today! It’s less than a centimetre long! #fossilfriday

Using ChatGPT

This is not about saving money, this is about weakening a class of people who have been trained to think independently, are used to speaking out, and whose voices are respected and listened to. This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.

A last ditch attempt to save the Orinoco crocodile. 🐊 www.reuters.com/investigates...

Welcome to the land of the free, where your social media likes might just determine your visa status.

The State Department has temporarily paused interviews for foreign citizens applying for student visas from abroad as it sets up new procedures to review applicants’ social media activity.

Only a short time until #walkingwithdinosaurs releases in the UK! Here’s a video from BBC news about our soon to be even more world famous #Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed at Pipestone Creek! It’s hard to keep my excitement contained to have been a part of this project!

I’m sure we all noticed when google started confusing anguid lizards with cordylids.

The Earth doesn’t “go around the Sun” the Earth goes in a straight line through an area of spacetime that bends around the Sun and I think that’s neat.

Even with all the cutting that DOGE has been doing the US government is still on track to spend more this year than last year. The cuts are tiny drops in the federal budget and have done nothing but ruined lives, ruined research, and made the country worse off.

Internal mold of hadrosaurids scales flattened out along top of tail from the hips down the tail. Gryposaurus... Large mid-line spines clearly visible, possible with one for each vertebra. No feathers here on this remarkable specimen!!! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

simply because their research didn’t align with the administration’s narrative. Let that sink in: the federal government is pressuring a medical journal over what it’s allowed to publish. This isn’t about science or national security, it’s about control. It’s about silencing dissent.

We’ve talked about Operation Whirlwind before, but the mission keeps expanding, now it’s targeting scientific journals. This week, Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for D.C., sent an unprecedented letter to CHEST, a medical journal focused on respiratory science, questioning their editorial policies

Here’s what they’re stealing from us today. We paid for these data. They were collected for the public good. The Trump Administration are a bunch of petty burglars doing a smash-and-grab on the American people.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

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

Here we are Walking With Dinosaurs! 🦖 I’m so excited I got to help bring more love to Pachyrhinosaurus!

Behold! With lots of dino 🦕love 💕 youtu.be/VAVp_1-Aqc8?...

How I feel about AI slop..

They’re attacking the Smithsonian. “Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.” ~ 1984 Orwell

Because we live in litigious times I wish to clarify my remarks: obviously I am not seriously offering to slap an AI user with a wet fish for $9. That would be outrageous and very, very wrong. I’ll do it for free.

Last week, while visiting several Smithsonian museums, I kept wondering how long it would take for this administration to direct exhibits to be pulled. Not long, it turns out. 🗃️ www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

“This is a crisis,” said Jim Kirkland, state paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey. “And one of my jobs is to attract attention to this so we can save as much of it as we can.”