#FossilFriday 🤝 #GarWeek

PS - Dear EVERY, SINGLE WEBSITE WITH "How to de-skunk" DOGS INFO: These instructions are being read: 1. By people who are in a TOTAL STATE OF PANIC 2. Either at 5 a.m. or 11 p.m. We do NOT need 5 paragraphs on "Why skunks smell, how to keep your dog away from skunks, etc." before the FORMULA 1/2

Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.

sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin

me at 16: my stomach is an indomitable furnace on a steam engine anything I throw in there will be annihilated into fuel me at 38: I have to actively maintain the bacterial balance on my gut biome or I don't get to poop right

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.

Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?

everyone who profits from this should be forced to suffer instead

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

Fantastic new slab of eensy little sea urchin fossils from Oregon, courtesy of @smilodonichthys.bsky.social #FossilFriday ⚒️

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Sketched some animals I got to see in Australia. There’s probably more bin chickens to come those guys are fun.

Once saw somebody answer "what did Watson and Crick discover?" with "Rosalind Franklin's notes," that's always been a favorite of mine.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

oh no he’s loose

we dont talk enough about clocky lee pace

The same formation (Zagaje) has probable theropod swimming tracks.

And there were things out of horrors, in the Early Jurassic from the North of the Holy Cross Mountain region, with the nearby Hettangian and Pliensbachian deposits yielding massive theropod prints (40 to 60 cm)

The (Hettangian) Zagaje Formation represents an alluvium dominated by large sauropod & theropod trackways, transitioning to lagoonal deposits dominated by ornithischians. The bird-like footprints dotting the Holy Cross Mountains might have inspired the local myth of a bird-footed monster (chort).

Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The Palaeolithic Mosotho Dinosaurs vibing with the Neolithic Slavic Dinosaurs

Huge thanks to @kakapojay.bsky.social for forwarding another paper with similar occurences of fossil-inspired art in Paleolithic caves of Mokhali, is Lesotho. With "dinosaur [reconstructions] as elegant, erect, bird-like creatures" Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

I'm late to my own party (again, sigh) but my new book on #spinosaurid #dinosaurs (written with @davehone.bsky.social) was officially released yesterday! Tons of info on and #paleoart of spinosaurs therein: research history, evolution, ecology, life appearance etc. Available wherever books are sold.

BREAKING: First Circuit denies DOJ's request for an administrative stay of the SNAP benefits TRO out of Rhode Island. DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.

Meanwhile, this coming January, I've the Up Helly Aa winter tour I co-lead here in Shetland for Shetland Nature with my good pal Kate to look forward to. There are still some places available if you fancy a wild and wintery #Shetland adventure with us. www.shetlandnature.net/holidays/she...

Mara Brown Mosasaurus design. More de-extinct creatures in the backlog I need to post still. @marabrownwd.bsky.social #paleoart #Mosasaurus #mosasaur

The 6-ish metre long Kem Kem crocodylomorph Laganosuchus represents a bizarre lineage known primarily from their elongated, flattened, U-shaped heads. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

#Dinovember2025 Day 7: Megatherium Just a sketch will have to do today #Paleoart

Aaaand I had to pay 244 dollars for 5 pills Help a sad author and preorder Children of Owl, coming in 2026! XD bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

consumer spending sentiment is at the lowest since both 2008 and 2020. did something bad happen in both those periods

A group of otters is called: A. A bevy B. A romp C. Adorable D. All of the above

Incredible stuff happening just outside your door

is this why every rich neighborhood I've driven through has tiny winding streets with no sidewalks or bike paths and are genuinely some of the scariest neighborhoods deliver in due to my constant terror of hitting a parked car or a child riding their bike and everyone acts like that's fine

I remember when I was in college my mom told me about an article she'd read where a group of millionaires and a group of middle-class people were asked the same set of extremely basic questions and all the millionaires failed. stuff like "how much does a stamp cost" or "where's your nearest library"

I was curious after doing a similar commission, so hand finished one of the Klimt my buns prints with gold ink to give it the full Gustav style Midas touch. Might do a limited run. If anyone would like it, shout up BUN ME below A4 - £55 + uk postage #bunny #art #bsnm #artforsale #ukgiftam

Reminder that she is 32

Every time the media presents Kevin O'Leary as a good business person I like to remind people of how he got rich, by selling a sketchy software company to Mattel (who did no due diligence) for billions they had to write down a few months later. archive.is/HL67I#select...

TW suicide People have gone to prison for encouraging others to take their lives like this. Absolutely disgusting this is allowed to just continue

If your checking account goes underwater by $400 you get hit with fees that make your life harder, but if you lose $12 billion in 3 months you are a Visionary Genius

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

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Hey hey #FossilFriday . A beautiful Discoscaphites conradi from the Fox Hills Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of South Dakota. Not pictured: on the opposite side is nice partial Sphenodiscus. Personal collection, my own photo. #ammonite #fossil #geology #paleontology #cretaceous

I made the otter a sibling

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.

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.