Academic Societies when a young woman dares to be slightly outspoken (left) the same Societies when a misogynistic controversial geriatric is openly affiliated with a high-profile peadophile sex trafficker (right)

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 - women in palaeo(art) Annualy, on February 11th is "𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦" to raise awareness that shaping a future where science and gender equality advance together has not been reached yet - by far. Cont.

Phrases like "Lessons we must learn" etc get right on my chebs. Why must our lives repeatedly be reduced to educational materials for the so-called political elite.

Zack Polanski demands Palantir be removed from £240m NHS data contract — awarded without tender. Links to Peter Mandelson + serious concerns over surveillance & data misuse. “The stench of corruption runs through this government.” Urges Wes Streeting to ditch the deal.

Terrorsaur variety 🩸 #Art #CreatureDesign

Living fossils

I can’t do every day of these prompt months but I did doodle this weird bird for #Dinovember Day 1 : Velociraptor ! #animation #dinosaur #anthroartist #scalieart #scalie #freelance #animator

10 y.o. Mykhailo and his mother were killed by a russian drone in their home in Bohodukhiv near Kharkiv. russia made it their mission to murder as many Ukrainians as they can. Our mission is to protect the innocent from their barbaric attacks: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

Back in stock. My Venice Greengrocer poster prints. jonathanestore.bigcartel.com/product/extr... Also available in the regular A3 size.

Neo-Nazi associate and nepo baby Hugo Lennon has unmasked himself as the person behind an offensive series of posters depicting the Bondi shooter which had appeared at night around Melbourne recently. www.smh.com.au/national/pos...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Good to see solar and onshore wind coming in a lot cheaper than offshore here. They are by some distance the cheapest new electricity generation capacity we can build in Britain.

I think if Professor Challenger had brought that thing back from the lost world I'd have asked if he had anything else in the crate.

Yep www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

🦃 #dino #dinosaur #paleoart #microraptor

Conversely, Chappell Roan is as ethically sound as DinoCon

Setting the standard for basically everyone

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

YouTube just terminated PlainSite's YouTube channel, which posted certain Epstein Files video directly as provided by the government, because doing so purportedly violated YouTube's "spam, deceptive practices and scams" policy. For real. Providing the Epstein Files is a "scam" according to Google.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Happy #PortfolioDay! My name's Hayden and stylized creature modeling is my specialty. I am eternally fascinated by those who lived before us. I'll be available for work this coming August! [ #paleoart | #3Dart | #art ] ✉️: [email protected] 🔗: fossillad123.carrd.co

I cannot abide this wanton cruelty to ceratopsians

Jeremy Corbyn’s “Peace and Justice Project” have just memoryholed Noam Chomsky out of existence and purged mentions of him from their website.

Shocked to hear that Noam Chomsky is a deeply unpleasant person. Who could have guessed it.

i’ve known about STOs glowing pink for ages but never bothered to check for myself with hannibal. since i finally got a uv light to check my specimens i figured i’d take a couple seconds to peek at dolarhyde

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

When starting this thread, I had maybe 5 key figures in mind, but a quick dig let me down a dark rabbithole that keeps going. There were many paleontologists that inspired/or were Nazis (this didn't harm their future careers), that led to murders of paleontologists. But it's not a widely known topic

Indeed, Czech journalist Saša Uhlová argues that the ‘iron wage curtain’, maintaining stark economic East-West inequalities through the systemic reliance of Western industries on exploited East-European labour, is one of the biggest threats to social cohesion and stability in today’s Europe

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

#MolluscMonday 99% of visitors to the Egyptian and Greek galleries in the British Museum will be too focused on the items displayed in the cabinets to notice the Jurassic gastropods and Cretaceous rudist bivalves in the flooring beneath.

A group of male harlequin ducks cruising the waves in the Norwegian Sea at the mouth of Seyðisfjörður, part of Austfirðir in Eastern Iceland. These badass ducks specialize in rough water, well known for living in fast-moving sections of rivers, and are gorgeous on top of their hardcore habitats.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

One of my favorite anecdotes from Proto Anime Cut is the one explaining how GITS background painter Hiromasa Ogura's decision to give the film's scenes a hazy look was inspired by his camera fogging up in Hong Kong's humid summer air after walking out from an A/Ced building during a '93 trip.

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

a custom cover for a book! it was very interesting to draw it! 🐉 1/2 Naga

Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)

This just happened with the pronoun labeler being deleted

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

Kinda weird Ghost in the Shell influenced people's perception of Japan, which included landscape of Hong Kong with Bulgarian ethnic singing, now associated with ✨Japan✨

doodlin

any excuse to post the Machine

AI slop at the Olympics opening ceremony.

There's a lot of cum in Hong Kong. Cum, in the western anglophone world (since 1920s) had been used as a slang term for reproductive fluid. Cum itself comes from Latin, meaning "with/and". Hong Kong English uses a lot of terms from British colonial period, which since went out of fashion. 🧵

I love Olympic posters and iconography, they are like a temperature check for the world of design. So. Immeasurable disappointment with AI slop segment in the opening ceremony.

Kite idea. To-scale Azhdarchid, or Microraptor.

Unusual palaeoart. The trilobite kite was designed by Ma Qinghua, with body measuring 3 meters.

Not everyday you dee a giant trilobite in the sky