I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Would like to find time to revisit these Pokémon aliens I drew... #Pokemon

Last week, amidst the hoopla over a new Speen, @fishfetisher.bsky.social suggested a review of naming papers in fancy journals in response to a post by @daveyfwright.bsky.social - I got bored after work and now I have (some) data! 🧵👇 #FossilFriday #CharismaticTaxaAreOverrated

Coelophysis jumping (for joy?)!

Arquebusier with squire

How to fall in love with the world, step 1: come to the museum.

"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever" #prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

The @techconnectify.bsky.social socks do not disappoint

WHY THE FUCK would you even go to university if you intend use this? Part of this is because education is so geared toward getting a good grade and not the process of learning but MY GOD how stupid can you be to think this is a good idea?!

"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia" www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Work alongside New York City's Strongest as we get through this historic storm.    Emergency shoveling pay is now $30/hour. Walk into any sanitation garage to sign up TODAY BY 8PM or TOMORROW from 9AM to 8PM.    Let's get NYC back on its feet— together. bit.ly/NYCShovel

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

a painful but necessary part of thet skeletal-making process is to realize that everyone has been drawing a certain prehistoric creature really wrong

Literal desperation.

Some creatures I've been working on for my fantasy setting On one hand, there are chimeras, artificial hybrids created through magic for different purposes, from guarding to military use, and on the other hand, there is a basilisk and a salamander. #worldbuilding #fantasy

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS. WE EAT THEM.

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Happy Chinese New Year! As we enter the Year of the Horse, we meet the equids of Kaimere. There are familiar horses in the known world, but in the realms beyond, many are so strange they could hardly be recognized without close inspection. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1E...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Commission for @/deeds in Vgen Oc dragon ref sheet This has been a challenging commission, not so much because of its complexity but because of the number of drawings, but I'm quite happy with the result! #commission

Certified Little Guy™

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

I love how Americans just straight up don’t know that the rest of the world has been comfortably listening to foreign music in languages we don’t all speak for like 70 years

This is another very important and revealing exchange. Rep. Scanlon is making a crucial point, one well worth listening to. And she does it calmly. But Trump has created a market for obnoxious, childish defiance of Congress. The Attorney General‘s response is outrageous, even impeachment-worthy.

Revamped skeletal drawing of a little known dinosaur named Velociraptor.

There are two chalicotheres of the known world: the hugor and the ghlanos, each representing one of the two major chalicothere lineages. Beyond the known world, many cousins of the ghlanos can be found. Link to episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tug...

Why are there 1000 kelp crabs at Fossil Point today? It was incredible, I’ve never seen more than a handful at a time.

Post credits scene is just Kermit sitting and waiting for his travel reimbursement

Statler: “What’s the theme of this conference?” Waldorf: “Interdisciplinarity.” Statler: “Ah… so everyone’s confused together.” “Ohhh hohohohoho!!”

The panel chair who is a gazillion years old and not happy. Not happy at all at these young whippersnapper academics and their new fangled methods overturning the discipline.

Excited to see this article led by @seishirotada.bsky.social out in @anatrecord.bsky.social. Triceratops and their ceratopsian kin are more than horns and frills! Check out their narial regions! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Leverage

Torrent

Splinter and shatter

Haolong dongi with bit of color #sciart

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

始祖马

"If somebody tells you that this one particular mechanism is so important that other drivers aren't even worth considering, mistrust them. They are telling you to stop being curious." youtube.com/shorts/YRurL...

happy #FossilFriday. It is very early in the year and I already have a favorite paper with the newly described Haolong. HOWEVER, this is *not* a feathered dinosaur! The structures on Haolong are very different from filaments. A 🧵

Every American needs to watch this:

“I was born to fight your brand of order.” Spruced it up a little.

Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

a very warm welcome to haolong dongi, a fascinating hadrosauroid from the early cretaceous yixian formation described by huang et al. 🎉 the near-complete holotype preserves highly unique integumentary structures unknown in other dinosaurs www.nature.com/articles/s41 (art by fabio manucci)

Threadfins look like you plucked an early ray finned fish from the Permian or Triassic and brought it to the modern day Close enough, welcome back Pteronisculus

WIP of a little woolly boy