Was waiting patiently for the Danna view to drop - paleo is so often beyond my ken and knew Danna would be able to break more of it down for us.

I came to a cafe to do art and writing - for the first time in weeks. Brought all my sketchbooks and notebooks. Brought ZERO pencils, pens or other marking tools. *sigh*

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

Happy Book Birthday to Puffins! It’s my new picture book with @gianferrari-m.bsky.social ! Request it from your local library or get your own copy from your favorite bookstore!

There are quite a few splash pages in Science Comics: Whales and Still Not Announced that I would love to buy from the artists as prints/posters.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A week ago I found out that the grant I was confident would fund our spring mural will not, bc we're 2 blocks too deep into Kensington. This STINKS. This project rocks bc it's community driven, biodiversity-focused (& more! read on!) We're raising money to make it happen givebutter.com/KenzoMural

🎄 in the deep sea

Highly recommend!

Casual reminder…

I had believed the survivors about Neil Gaiman already - but hadn’t listened to the podcasts. I read the full article… just utterly horrifying. Monster is almost too kind a word for him.

Academia: Your focus on communication and education is a distraction and won’t be valuable for your career. Industry: Your communication and education skills are SO valuable and really rare and we are so happy you have them.

Gotta enjoy a D&D session that entirely takes place within a giant turtle’s liver. Nearly killed two party members - did lose one NPC accompanying them.

So far the limited scope of Bluesky (especially in not having reposts) has been good for a sense of keeping to community - it also reduces the ability to doom scroll. I can’t help but feel this state is incredibly temporary until this place is popular enough and capitalism sets in though.

I have closed the bird app, which at this point I was only doomscrolling on anyway. I’ve been thinking about how I want to interact with/use social media these days…

A small, male cuttlefish sneaks into a bar. He had a very convincing fake ID.

An octopus crawls into a bar. It was a hollow tube with an inner diameter wider than its beak.

A squid jets into a bar. This is the problem with swimming backwards.