An odd bony fish from the Kem Kem, Concavotectum. I'm still very out of my element with illustrating fish, but this fella had some very fun shapes to work with. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

#2025SVP travel advice: as soon as you get to your hotel room find the ironing board and iron and iron all your shirts and suit jacket, if you plan on dressing to impress. Hang everything up in the hotel closet and it will stay wrinkle free until you need it. Then go and hang out (or nap)

I've been avoiding reading articles on the death of James Watson, co-discoverer of #DNA's structure. That is, until I saw that @statnews.com published one by Sharon Begley, a renowned science writer who passed in 2021. Yes, you read that right. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... 🧪 (1/5)

Average #socal sunset. In Laguna Beach for my cousin's wedding

Yellow Flat winkle on kelp. Taken on The Skerries. Anglesey, Wales. #anglesey #wales #nature #invertebrates #yellowflatwinkle #winkles #intertidal

#FossilFriday Here are 3 beautiful Pentremites sp. Blastoids I collected from the Upper Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous, Serpukhovian) Lower Bangor Limestone in Russellville, Alabama.

It's a #GarWeek #FossilFriday! Here's some of the ganoid scales off of gar that we routinely find when scouting in the Hell Creek. So far only 1 complete gar skeleton has been found in the HCF, and I found it a full 10 years before I found my first Tyrannosaurus.

Happy #FossilFriday! These are tail vertebrae of the duck-billed #dinosaur #Hypacrosaurus (#MOR549). The arrows highlight #pathologies (injuries). This week, a new study by Bertozzo et al., suggests these pathologies may be caused by mating, indicating this dinosaur is a female.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

#FossilFriday José Bonaparte and Carnotaurus sastrei (Photo by Louie Psihoyos). bit.ly/2bRsAAd 🧪⚒️🦖

10/10 take. No notes.

#fossilfriday An early fossil dolphin earbone (tympanic bulla) with the middle ear sinus just completely filled with little fecal pellets, revealed by acid preparation. From the Oligocene (26 myo) Pysht Formation of Washington. More on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/11/acid...

For this #FossilFriday a Stegodon tooth from the Siwaliks of Nepal on display at the International Mountain Museum, Pokhara

#FossilFriday: As it's his 338th birthday today, here's William Stukeley's 1719 illustration of a slab of Lias limestone from Fulbeck in Lincolnshire with the bones of 'a Crocodile or Porpoise' (a plesiosaur, in fact), 100 years before Mary Anning's discoveries. Specimen now @nhm-london.bsky.social

Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday

Fossil seashell cross sections on the beach at a super-moon low tide in between king tides this week. Delmar Formation, 48 million years old, Torrey Pines State Beach, San Diego. A beautiful afternoon walk across what is normally the sea floor 𓇼🌊🐚🐬 #FossilFriday #MolluscMonday @kingtides.bsky.social

Today's aesthetic for #FossilFriday is more beautiful in death.

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's an *enormous* ichthyosaur skull from the Triassic of Nevada, USA. This one might be a new species? I was lucky enough to see this at an awesome temporary ichthyosaur exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno a couple months ago. Highly recommended

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Some of the earliest wave power devices constructed were built along this section of coastline.. to harness this wave power. 🌊 This wave machine used blow holes to hydraulically lift water to the top of a tower that could be used for dust control on the dirt wagon roads.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Breakers erupting into chaotic pyramidal waves, Its Beach. 🌊

FLAG: Sandwich guy has been found not guilty.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Just saw the new Prehistoric Planet trailer and you may have missed it, but this is, for me, the most important part. Steller's sea cow finally brought back to life, at least on screen.

My second #2025SVP poster is off to the printers! Poster #2 all about some really old #2's! come see me at the Friday session, I'll even have props!

An absolutely stunning #thylacine at @nhmwien.bsky.social, which hasn't been posed to convey the impression that #thylacines were dangerous or threatening in the way that so many other #taxidermy specimens do. That idea was central to the false claim that they threatened #Tasmania's sheep industry.

Wonder what’s in here? If you’re at #2025SVP and would like to know, drop my by Friday poster in the Turts and Crocs space, board B301. I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.

Funds available for grads and postdocs to visit @burkemuseum.bsky.social collections! Applications due Dec. 15th. Please share!

oh my god they actually did it lmao

It's the time of year when I think people are posting maps of isostatic rebound again.

@brandonbird.bsky.social I think there's an idea for an abdurdist Law and Order illustration somewhere in here 🤔🥪

Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

This defense attorney is a hero—on a roll in a real grinder of a case. The prosecutor’s argument is shockingly sub parm. I’d never be so patient. They’d have to banh mi from the courtroom.

Fossilized masses of little tiny egg-shaped poops keep showing up in surprising places - inside fish braincases, inside pulp cavities of whale and dolphin teeth, and now, within the middle ear sinus of an extinct dolphin. Who, uh, dealt these? coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/11/acid...

No plans to change course whatsoever, brilliant. I'm fully on board

Problem for centrist Dems is their entire pitch has been "OK, we offer nothing but *only we* can win elections and defeat Trump" and then they lost 2/3 times to Trump and failed to prosecute or halt him in one time they won. If your pitch is competence and you're incompetent...

it is righteous for paleontologists to proselytize to other biologists about the fossil record

Once again I am taking my special traditional role in a malacological conference of being the person who asks bewildered students if they're aware that molluscs have a fossil record 😂

Dust off your wellies, throw on some layers, and grab a flashlight, because winter tide pool season is officially here! 🐚🪸🐙🦀🌊 November through December is your best shot at seeing unique intertidal creatures along the California Coast—like colorful nudibranchs, sea stars, kelp forests, and more.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

My prediction is that tonight marks the beginning of the end of Trumpism.

My allonautilus portion of the painting is finish. Now I just need to add three big atomic diagrams before I can call it done. #wildlifeart #oilpainting #marinelife #nautilus #allonautilus 🐡 🦑 #animalart #mollusks #cephalopods #girlthatgoldenspiralthough