I was listening to Deep Breakfast and decided to read about Ray Lynch on Wikipedia and somehow in only two clicks I was in the article about gas gangrene 😐

National Wildlife Rehabilitators Symposium we are in the house! Baton Rouge 2026 starts bright and early tomorrow.

It's been a busy day at Marsh Madness, the annual sandhill crane festival hosted by Friends of Goose Pond. It's our first big show of the year and we debuted a few new magnets and stickers! 🐡🎨🪶

“In the untouched western forests, where mountains cradle mist and time has little meaning, dragons no longer rule the skies. Instead, they root themselves into the land, choosing sleep over fire.“ - Aconite #dunegonsnyth #printmaking

Very good representation of how that "crinoid mouth" that's really an angled (rounded?) slice through a set of crinoid stalk segments works. The "slice" is an erosion related thing that's probably pretty recent (caused by the formation of the little rock clast the crinoid is preserved in).

If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.

I am also pretty stunned that Myhrvold’s name wasn’t pulled from authorship prior to printing given the Epstein connection revelations. Presumably this will be the last time his name appears on the author list of any respectable publication… Right?

In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis. www.newscientist.com/article/2516... I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.

Got a Dr.'s appt today to go over the results of my bloodwork I ran a crowdfunder for last month. Pretty sure they're going to want payment for some other past due bills, so buying one of my pins, #suncatchers, or #art prints will go a long way to help! Here's a megathread of my Etsy listings: /1

Tianyulong confuciusi, a tiny heterodontosaur dinosaur, looking about as happy in the snow as I. Based on an undescribed specimen at the Beijing Museum of Natural History. Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation is considered warm temperate to subtropical: mostly mild, but occasional snow days are possible.

This Reddit thread is amazing. Literally 100+ people directly telling Adobe how much they suck www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/s/G2...

One of the all time great underrated birds

Mammothssss

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

Older male paleontologists don't be fucking creeps challenge

Well I've listened to this new Kashus Culpepper album 3 times this week, I think we've got a banger on our hands

Minimalist Microraptor

For people outside of paleontology: This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.

Waiting Room by Fugazi on Steel Pan. Fuente: @cotepercussion

Palaeoart, on paper, should not have the same systemic barriers of academia, ergo, be quite diverse. There's no staff hierarchy, lower financial barriers, most is online ergo relatively decentralised. And yet, looking at available stats, palaeoart is as bad as paleontological academia. Why?

A bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.

This record has been making me happy for 40 years.

New listing on my Etsy shop! A one-off signed 12" x 24" giclee print of "A Cold Day Out", featuring a mother Albertosaurus and her 3 chicks on a walk thru the dawn redwood trees of Denali Park, 70 mil. years ago. #BSNM alaskanime.etsy.com/listing/4445280882/albertosaurus-family-giclee-canvas-print

Packing up a house you've been in for 17 years (aka by far the longest time you've lived in one domicile): a complete trip!

Judas Priest have a couple with their covers of Fleetwood Mac's Green Manalishi and Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust, and I love that they're back to back on Unleashed in the East

The subconscious DJ in my head had me play Hejira after Maps. Appreciate the thematic resonance, subconscious DJ!

Hell yeah (awesome cover art by Adam Burke, Nightjar Illustration)

Jimbacrinus is a really strange, alien looking crinoid. Permian aged crinoids are uncommon. These are from Australia. Keep creating and sharing your art. #FossilFriday #SciArt

Heads up, we have a sale on right now before we shut down for a bit to move to a new home studio!

Heads up, we have a sale on right now before we shut down for a bit to move to a new home studio!

NEW ARTWORK TO START 2026 Here's "Deep Blue Buffet," commissioned by The Etches Collection. Featured, from the Late #Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay, are #SeaRex #Hybodus #Hypsocormus #Metriorhynchus #Aspidorhynchus & #Allothrissops #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurs #Pliosaurus #JurassicWorld

Meant to post this some days ago but I got distracted. My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Art #SciArt #FossilFriday

Had a medical bill come up that I was not expecting because of ACA tax credit fuckery - please consider purchasing a pin, shirt, or sun catcher from my Etsy storefront and help me get this paid down. #art #crafts #enamelpin #pinlife #pincollecting #suncatcher alaskanime.etsy.com

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

When he died, I got all my dad's old audio gear like this Kenwood tape deck, a Lenco phonograph, a couple receivers and an equalizer and I haven't done anything with them yet. I'm about to move to a new place with enough room for them. But I'm kind of overwhelmed by the thought of setting them up.

In 1990 I taught an Environmental Geology class for the first time, & for that class I put together a lesson plan showing how U.S. control of fossil fuels was the main incentive for the Persian Gulf War. In 10 days I'll teach the same topic for the same class, just using a different place.

What if its not that some people don't fail to learn the lessons of history, but they just like the spectacle of killing?

What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.

If you have a Shopify store, better go read this Reddit thread and watch the referenced Instagram reel. 😬

It's January 1st, have some of my old Silmarillion chapter illustrations! Valaquenta: "Account of the Valar and Maiar in according to the lore of the Eldar” (1/6)

In case anyone isn't aware, this is the latest Amazon fuckery. Blue Aster Studio doesn't seem to have been sucked into it but we do come up if you search our name on Amazon, with "buy directly" links for a small number of random items.

Reply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Does video media count? Because this is it for most Italians, hands down.

Reply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Luis V Rey's Therizinosaurus.

Utter loser freaks Though it does make me imagine walking into a bathroom and seeing a Komodo dragon, which I'd frankly prefer

Reply with a piece of paleoart that deeply influenced you as a child. The obvious answer is Dinotopia but I’ll mention this giant 20 piece floor puzzle I had that’s apparently from 1977. I know I drew an active volcano in all my dino drawings as a kid because of this thing.

Reply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. First specific thing that came to mind aside from Charles R Knight was these animations from the PBS documentary series The Dinosaurs: youtu.be/dPcKc3rn6ps