She's sleeping in a little blanket fold 🥰

She's been fed and well hydrated. Normally she crawls around, but tonight she's just sitting her chewing on my blanket. Is she doing it out of spite? 😂

She finally decided to want uppies.

Big Bill Com for @authorgenericus.bsky.social (4/4)

The rise of Oguma! (3/6)

The rise of Oguma! (4/6)

The rise of Oguma! (5/6)

Yeah, sadly we can't do this in Mississippi because we're in an abnormally dry autumn. But this is something we should all be doing in the neotropics.

because litter is the problem.

seem to do best on convex slopes and around bases of trees where litter blows away and fire often doesn't reach. Indeed kittentails, birds-foot violets, early buttercups, prairie larkspur, and many others have a lot of winter green, and fire (if frequent enough to be less intense) helps them,

Can't comment at the other place, around that burned sedge pictured, there is a bunch of woodland phlox. Yes, it's overwintering leaves get burned off, but it still does really well. Other things like round-lobed hepatica, which rely a lot on winter photosynthesis

Looks like a fair amount of insect habitat left. Over here I've heard about burn attempts that haven't worked out. I saw a mild frost in the morning on the same day and white oak leaves have been reddening but not falling much.

The first hard freeze was last night. We burned some sedge meadow today.

Is she from Utah

her husband is... five years older than her mother 🤢🤮

Excited to learn about who is in the Epstein files from a woman who’s 32 years younger than her husband

A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally weakened the voting power of minorities. n.pr/44b30At

Couple other shots

Finally finished up painting a little growth series of Renamon printed resin statues ;3 The model creator @chunkerbuns.bsky.social

I’m appalled by the replies of those Neanderthals. Incels are clearly skeered of smart women. Those “men” are too worried about their own failings to congratulate you for your success. Best wishes to you on the next stage of your life.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Sad thing is. You can't dismiss it as internet trolls, because you see this attitude reflected everywhere. By fellow academics, people outside of academia, your family. My parents focused on disparaging comments on my appearance or reproductivity, on my graduation day. This is our reality.

He described Charlie Kirk

God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.

Given (a) they installed Musk as one of their Fellows in a fit of fanboi excitement, and (b) have completely failed to dislodge him even after he went full Nazi on them, I no longer think they can be humiliated.

They have an account on here if you want to try and humiliate them

I'm saying, they evolved multiple times independently.

Say what? You’re suggesting that tetrapods don’t share a common ancestor?

For me it's more fascinating the tetrapods evolved numerous times, convergently.

Right? This is not high effort. I’ll also say that, as someone who has been elbow deep in lizard brains for the past month, these brains are better than I would’ve expected, but still not good.

5 minutes...

It is endlessly funny how AI purposefully enshittified itself to chase very specific marketing trends, and how AI outputs are forever drowning in piss.

Not art, but I think it summarizes the theme of Morrison anky monograph.

Terrible, we must stand together against this and support paleoartists. Sadly, for the cover art in my upcoming Morrison anky monograph. I had to create my own cover figure. I would have loved to have funded someone to create an image of an encounter between Mymoorapelta & Gargoyleosaurus. NO ai!

@royalsocietypublishing.org @royalsociety.org Seems like a reasonable complaint here... any comment?

Absolutely there are human generated images of endocasts. I generated a number of (inner ear) endocasts. Here are a number of marsupial brain endocasts created from digital sectioning of CT skulls. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

doesn't even look good. Big awkward empty space next to the fake shark that a real artist would have mended

It's a plague. From earlier issues this month/October. Argh:

Source royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

It's especially insulting knowing it costs them nothing, and I mean nothing, to platform a real artist.

Getting a cover issue would've been a formative experience for an artist or a photographer. Instead we're impeding someone's career using slop art.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.

They shall be remembered as The Ridiculous Society Publishing.

It's not even cheap or easy here, they don't pay people, they just use "donated" artworks. They paid nothing, waited nothing, and yet, still chose to dehumanise.

Everywhere I see institutions eroding because they can’t resist one cheap or easy temptation.

The worst thing about it. Is that the journals don't hire artists. Or pay royalties. Or grant copyright. And yet, where no financial effort is required, they still selected to use AI multiple times. Showing thet they see contributions as free content. Not humans with something to say.

One from a few days ago.

You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️ But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold. So take care of yourself. Your soul is beautiful.

Mother Pigeon from NYC made that pigeon 😍 I hope to buy one from her in person one day. Located in NOLA

Elora the Faun with a larger Satyr who is probably some spin-off of Spinner.