#Iguanodon was formally named 200 years ago today in 1825. The second dinosaur to be named after Megalosaurus, and one of three genera originally used to define Dinosauria.

Hey @wotcmatt.bsky.social just to be sure: the interaction between Aminatou, Veil Piercer & Room enchantments regarding miracle cost works the same as determining flashback cost for Fire//Ice in graveyard with Lier, Disciple of the Drowned on battlefield, right? (CR 702.1b) Thanks for your time🙂

Stark to see Musk stating towards the end his intent to dispassionately manage his fellow human as a trophy hunting entrepreneur manages big game: more meat for capitalism's grinder, more creativity to claim credit for. He believes himself a savior. He's rather another blight on humanity.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Included in my furry resumé: - Not as much the cartoon people angle as the creature feature one - Indulged frankly furry forays even before I knew what a furry was - So much lurking - So much time to figure myself out: the queer in me, especially - A good amount of relevant, moldering WIPs

I've felt it more, I'll admit. It's good though to find a level engagement that doesn't lead to burnout. Knowing how the literature goes, I usually wait for the review papers.

Years ago I tried, similarly, to do #art more consistently: jotting a scribble & working it as pareidolia suggests. The problem is Photoshop allows a lot of refinement & I was then neck deep in my undergrad degree. In other news, doing this with MS Paint's calligraphy brush only was challenging.

Changing things up a bit to keep it interesting on MS Paint: this time with the menu's first brush. Also committing to the bit, as it were, trying to recall as much ray-finned fish anatomy as I could. Probably not enough to make sense, but these are quicker drawings to get back on the #art horse.

Exploring MS Paint more as far as brushes are concerned. This time, something calling back to Barlowe's Darwin IV & a perennial aesthetic fallback, Allosaurus. Tentative takeaways: - Layers in MS Paint are useful but not dependable - I might just enjoy this foray into #art with limited implements

Did you know MS Paint has layers? I didn't until a few months or so ago. So today I picked up an abstract scribble I saved (as one does). Duplicated/reflected layers until the overlap suggested... some sort of ruminant? Then I cleaned it up with the charcoal brush just enough for visual interest.

Idle curiosity had me look into what the Inostrancev part of Inostrancevia means: "Foreigners" in Russian (see declension table on Wiktionary link). Now, with the impression surnames were earned as nicknames by the populace early on, I wonder how insular a community has to be for such a sobriquet.

A reminder that David Peters is a serial purveyor of nonsense, that he shouldn't be taken seriously, and that he is toxic and leading a highly negative campaign of constant criticism. ResearchGate have been alerted to this issue but have yet to take action. Please see... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/...

Explain your username As a longtime fan of dragons & their inspirations, I checked DeviantArt in 2004 to see if "dragon" was in use. It was. So I used my knowledge of Latin & Greek by way of taxonomy to coin a word (I wasn't aware had already been coined). While we're at it, relevant #art of mine.

Lots of #ichnology in this thread!

Neat resources if, like me, you want to keep closer tabs on weather to have a better notion of when to power down computers, etc. - www.lightningmaps.org (Real time lightning monitor) - earth.nullschool.net (Forecast updated every 3 h) (Wouldn't you know it: there's inclement weather approaching!)

🧪“If the continents have moved, then they have drifted like rafts and formed the ocean floors in their wake. It is to this wake that we should look first.” ~ John Tuzo Wilson Canadian geophysicist and geologist, John Tuzo Wilson, posed the question (and the title of his article in 1966)…👇🏼

Google Search AI Overviews have missed me so far. Still, Google's service degradation has been ongoing long enough there's tricks to the trade: like adding &udm=14 to search result URLs to drop the fancy stuff. There's even a site that does this automatically, udm14.com Hat tip to @ernie.tedium.co

Today's little bit of wisdom: Periodically doublecheck things people have told you. Get in the practice of looking things up, either as they're told to you, or at a later time. Some folks may call you rude, BUT, it's always better to cement the most accurate information in your brain

After an early realization I wasn't having it with Catholicism, I stuck with the non-mandatory religious education available in public schools (both societal pressure & curiosity). I walked out in 11th grade, both because of what QRP shows & decreeing that it's gay folk's lot to suffer in celibacy.

New lab pub: Our part, led by Dr. Sarah Lucas, argues that Marsupial mole eyesight degraded stepwise over millions of years... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Enter the year that you turned 10 into the GIF bar to see what was popular back then 💚 For 1993, you'd think there would be more Jurassic Park stuff, but this one also has dinosaurs (kinda). For the record, while I know this one is widely panned, I enjoyed it well enough as a kid in the 1990s.

Just in time for the year's end: an updated geochronology chart from the ICS: stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/Chr...

Reacquainting myself with Blender 3D: how it started vs how it's going. It's been quite the crash course which probably isn't helped by my foray being a free association exercise vaguely constrained by "dragon skull". Retopologizing such a complex shape is promising to be a slog.

Quote with a fantasy being that’s NOT a vampire or werewolf (Dragons, as popular as they are, do feel a bit like cheating. But, amid the diminishing returns of how bloated Peter Jackson's The Hobbit was, Smaug was a highlight.)

Before we're old enough to know/care about perceived accuracy in palaeoart, it's aesthetics and moods that shape our childhood image of prehistoric life. Here's a thread of images that, during my early childhood, felt like glimpses into the past. THE definitive images of the animals depicted. (1/x)

A sleeper "Oh no! He's hot!" moment from late 1990s commercials. Also: If only snacks did that! (No, I don't think I ever had this one.) Also also: Great show with the creature practical effects. A short breakdown of the polar bear mask for those interested, asylumsfx.com/work/walls-w...

Hi all, this is my first post on this website! Here are examples of my works. I love drawing theropods, as I said in profile description, but these are not only subjects I depict. I work both in traditional and digital media (but these pics are mostly tradtitional).

Happy Holidays to all! Here’s a little 🎄 gift for those who enjoy the anatomy of extant animals: a PDF of a really great atlas of avian anatomy (Ghetie 1976)— bit.ly/3rs3xrA. For the story behind this PDF, check this out: bit.ly/4gPt6Nr.

Corythoraptor. I posted a WIP of this ludicrous animal a couple of days ago. I’m calling it finished for now. #SciArt

Post your most popular art from Twitter! I don’t know what sorcery possessed me to be able to paint this wave but I want it back

This (Eurasian) blackbird is definitely intense. Back in 2009, this male had just alighted on a dead almond tree beside my home. I was on the driveway fiddling with my camera. I had to take the opportunity, gently falling back onto a dry stone wall to set myself up. The bird was nobody's fool.

My first art in here. AMNH 5027.

Should probably remind folks I’m also an illustrator, you might see my work out in the wild on a cover like this recent one for Scientific American

A result from those first forays into digital simulation of traditional art: an ArtRage painting of my monogram as a metal sculpture in my favorite colors (and red). At some point I should figure out how it really works in 3D, to have something ready for this newfangled age of printing objects.

Thinking back to early college (~2004~2006): I didn't care for having my browsing history distributed over University computers, so I looked up how to run Firefox from a USB drive. Boy, did it heat up with that sort of use. Oh, I also ran ArtRage on it. Not sure how well that would work nowadays.

Let's see... - 1st from 2004: sort of digital mixed media, MS Paint + Microsoft Photo Editor with computer mouse on college computer. - 2nd from 2020: Photoshop CS3 with Wacom tablet on my computer. Yeah, I haven't done much in the way of art, except maybe photography, since the pandemic started.

Is there such a thing as an "ugly laugh"? Because I'm pretty sure I did that the first time (1990s) I watched this scene from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York with the swinging/rolling pipe. Impeccable comedic timing in a Christmas classic.

An exploration of facial ornamentation and integument among abelisaurids. Pick your favourite! #sciart #paleoart

Daspletosaurus wilsoni. Paleoart by me. #Daspletosaurus #paleoart #dinosaur

Art vs artist 🐉 #SciArt #Paleoart

For any residual Elon Musk fans who were inspired by him back in 2013, and have turned a blind eye because you like Tesla or SpaceX (including several YouTubers), examine his overt support for far right parties, now in at least 3 major economies. Trumpism, Reform (UK), AfD (Germany). Please wake up.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I'm sorry. Wasn't the explanation _in_ the resume enough? It's nice and short. (I actually have a pretty big gap in my resume so I decided to sidestep the whole issue.)

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

There is strong masculine-skew in palaeoart, and many palaeoart lists. Balancing the scales with this list of madly talented women in palaeoart (or, scientific necromancy!) 🤗

It's been a decade since I complained about it on Twitter... er, Xitter, but it needs to be expanded upon I guess: Journalists, for professionalism's sake, just going "[academic institution] study" and then describing results is _not_ a proper citation for either newscopy or books. Do better.

In case you didn't know: - there's a SciArt Feed - you can ask Glendon to be added to it - I want the feed to have 20k likes, not 2k

I should catch up with the recent videos on @somemorenews.bsky.social , but there's always time for this classic. Prof. Scott Bugg is definitely a favorite of mine from the SMN Cinematic Universe. Do mind the blue humor.

Friendly reminder that day-jobs are good and valid and do not diminish your value or identity as a “real” artist, because sometimes being a freelance artist means 5-figures worth of payments all getting delayed, for reasons completely independent of each other 🫠

And for the longest time (since middle school?) I've thought Sacabambaspis is a fun name to say.