@franzanth.bsky.social you may already be aware of the existence of this, but I felt like it needed to be brought to your attention if not: store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

For this #FossilFriday, a #paleoart post of the American cave lion - this time, a video showing the soft tissue reconstruction laid over a reconstructed skeleton based on the specimen LACMP23-555, scaled next to Charles Darwin. It may get a short mane yet..

Everyone go watch 'Nightfall'! I did the majority of the VFX and supervised the animation team for this film! I'm very proud of how all the dinosaurs came out and I hope you like them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...

For #FossilFriday an amazing fossil from the largest dino Museum in the world' Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, China. This Beipiaosaurus specimen knocked my sox off. Play with this 3D model, we made out of my photographs through the glass. sketchfab.com/3d-models/be... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Been building the American cave #lion Panthera atrox from the bones up - still a ways to go, but it’s at least presentable! What I want to know: in your #paleoart, would you give it a mane, or leave it bare?

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

Any tree disease experts able to ID what killed this tree? (I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes) (There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice.bsky.social

Paenungulata is a spectrum

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

Little sketch of some crows Ink and marker on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

#ArtBoost is for Juan Nobre, palaeoartist based - I believe - in Brazil. Is creating wonderful and complex portraits of prehistoric animals of many sorts, often in beautifully rendered environments. Not sure if is on BSky - will tag if I find him :) #paleoart #palaeoart

Ville's art here is outstanding as always!

Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog

Added a couple pink kelp crab beanies to my shop! 🦀🦑🐙🐡 shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/kelp...

#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social #mammals #sciart

#2025MMM #Sweet16 #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social #mammals #sciart

Had a great time teaching my second of 5 classes of my Drawing Shorebirds in Colour course. Everyone had a lot of fun drawing this avocet this evening. 🌿🪶 #SciArt

Deinosuchus, about to smooch the snoot (#paleoart commission!)

"Swimming Duck" Order prints at samuelxl5.darkroom.com/products/the... #photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt

We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning! Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴

I had to reconstruct the new two-fingered therizinosaur Duonychus published yesterday I have been working on various Therizinosaurus for a current commission that I cannot talk much about so I felt I had to reconstruct this taxon as soon as I saw it #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld

Any Dugong fans? These absolute units have a diet consisting of mainly sea grass, they can eat up to 30 kilograms a day. #sciart #dugong #seacow

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Update: after battling with RStudio for hours using apparently conflicting plot functions, I’ve achieved a migraine. I’m retreating to manually doing things in PowerPoint

Studying time

I get the feeling that, aside from getting funding and justifying your research, the biggest hurdle to science is getting RStudio to INCLUDE THAT FIGURE LEGEND YOU NEED

Controversial take but I just don't think we should invest a ton of money in space travel until we take care of our own planet. There's this dangerous idea that we can destroy our home because eventually we'll colonize other planets and frankly? We won't live long enough to do that at this rate.

Science aside. 🧪🦑 The thing that really bugs me about AI images is that REAL IMAGES OF CORAL REEFS EXIST. WHY NOT USE REAL IMAGES INSTEAD OF AI GENERATED GLOSSY UGLY IMAGES THE BURN AN UNREAL AMOUNT OF CARBON EMISSIONS DURING THE PROCESS

This isn't a singular problem. I've seen (bio) academics of all systems using AI images of trees, animals, and other organisms. Where's the pride for the natural REAL beauty of your system? Do you not have a singular image? Are you not able to ask others to use their images with credit?

Look at this totally legitimate skeletal mount of Homotherium serum which is definitely from the early 20th century and is very much real #Sciart #Paleoart #Paleontology

Sneak peek - how muscular was Homotherium serum, exactly? And should we return to the slope-backed look? Skeletal and soft tissue exploration coming soon (when I have some time away from my thesis!)

We say @greenparty.org.uk: #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome. If you want an anti-Reform Party force, that is us. For the future of the UK, we need to take on their narratives, NOT adopt them www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs. And here it is! A nice family portrait. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

I’m not gonna lie losing Wikipedia would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for my mental wellness, so here’s hoping that this article about the right-wing attempt to destroy it (in The Atlantic) persuades people on the fence to protect one of the greatest internet inventions.

"There's so much pressure not to be a luddite" You know what. Read the history of the luddite movement before you feel ashamed about that moniker - the luddites were badass. Also if you don't want to be an artist anymore, don't be a scab. Find somewhere else to work

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

Protip for interacting with artists on social media: If we don't know you, you don't follow us, and you've never, ever interacted with us in the past, don't start offering critiques of our work. Especially critiques that basically amount to "If you changed everything about this, I'd totally buy it."

Finished the reconstruction of a Panthera atrox (American lion) skeleton, a commission I did for someone :) #SciArt #Paleoart

One thing that confuses me in scientific literature is the use of the word "tentatively" to perform certain actions. Like would "I only murdered that man tentatively, your Honour!" hold up in court? #PaleoSky

2025 is almost here, so here is my year-end review of all of the new papers in marine mammal paleontology!

THIS IS HUGE! MIT researchers have developed dual-therapy microparticles that can deliver chemotherapy AND phototherapy WITHOUT harsh side effects. Preclinical studies show this approach completely eradicated tumors AND extended survival more than single treatments alone. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Normally, I hate blue on my big predatory theropod dinosaurs, but I gave my T. rex slightly blue-ish highlights, and it’s not… terrible (I still hate blue)

In addition to having a fabulous operation on YouTube, @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social has a really great store on RedBubble with all kinds of paleontology-themed stickers and diversity color-schemes. www.redbubble.com/people/Skele...

👇 This is very cool! Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The entire dataset and detailed associated metadata is freely available through MorphoSource. A roadmap for future digitization and archiving.

Jefferssons Ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) and living Two-toed sloth