Fucking Harry Potter fans are throwing out shit about "well what about this dead asshole's art you're still engaging with it" Motherfucker this ain't about the derivative-ass neoliberal status-quo fondling story where wizards shit in hallways, it's about the fucking money she uses to do harm.

Perfect

One reason Kemi Badenoch is so terrible is that her approach to being in opposition is to oppose first, then think of a reason second. Very often, she doesn‘t even bother with the second step. She’s too lazy to think first, speak second.

Big milestone today; my first conference poster! Thrilled to see my 2nd year geology project up on display at the Lapworth Society conference in Birmingham today. Photo courtesy of @harrybridger.bsky.social

Query for folks who've presented posters at academic conferences. How much notice does one normally get that your poster has been accepted before the conference date?

A much needed clearout of the home studio. I've recently had the kick up the backside necessary to spool up the online scicomm output. Time for a reboot

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime. That puts a whole new spin on things. Propagandists in pocket of regime. It's why all the messaging is the same. www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is what arrives when you order a puma off of Wish. They're the largest apex predator on Madagascar, where they act to control the local lemur population. They're the 'big cat' equivalent in family Eupleridae, which is a sister taxon to the mongoose family.

An excellent three-post take on one of the many facets of the recent Spinosaurus/Myhrvold/Epstein controversy. Science journalists, this story really needs covering! #scicomm #science #ethics #epstein

Do any mammal researchers or museum folks have images of mandibles in lateral view from these little dudes they wouldn't mind sharing or providing a source for? Photos, illustrations and 3D models are all valid

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

A job rejection & a malfunctioning statistical analysis makes for a crap day. The small one patting me on the head while I put her to bed and saying "Sorry you had a sad day, daddy" makes it a little better

In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis. www.newscientist.com/article/2516... I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.

Re: the new Spinosaurus paper and author Nathan Myhrvold. If we're rightly going to scrutinise Jack Horner and the people and institutions that associate with and enable him, we need to hold everyone to the same standard.

If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.

Less than two weeks into my dissertation module and I already have 15 pages of references. I must be mad 😳

I recently got the chance to join a research project with the promise of an author credit. After learning the project is being run through SVP, I'm minded to withdraw my participation given the current climate around the society. Gotta lead by example. Specifics removed for the usual safety reasons

This is incredibly exciting!!! What do you mean there were dinosaurs with hedgehog like spikes?! So cool!!!

Geology project proposal submitted, dissertation research is all but approved 😁

Let‘s open this question up: who are the kindest, most wholesome paleontologists you know (Current/retired/historical/whatever)? Who SHOULD be featured in documentaries? I’m tired of doomering, let’s focus on the bright lights among us.

Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.

Been over a year since this study was published & I feel like it didn't make as big of a splash as it should have. Is there something not kosher about it I'm missing?

Anyone else feel like handing out free training & certifications is another sign of the growing desperation of the AI sector to get normal people to use AI for literally anything?

So WeTransfer, which has been my go-to large file sharing service for over a decade, has decided they now own what you upload & can use it to train AI. Anyone know of any good alternatives?

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

They better have cast a great villain actor as Skeletor in this new Masters of the Universe movie. *One quick IMDB search later*

#DINOCONUK 2026 TICKETS LIVE WITHIN ABOUT 1.5 HOURS... and reminder that venue accommodation is open AND that vendor applications are open too www.dinocon.co.uk

Imagine your house falls down one day and it's because a load of parakeets have been systematically eating your mortar

A few hours learning how to code a morphometric analysis in R, & now my eyes feel like the sun. Lots of work still to do, but promising results so far 🤞🦖

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Buzzing to have scored another distinction-level grade on my latest assignment; two for two in my current Earth Sciences module. Fingers, toes, arms & eyes crossed I can keep it going

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

2025 was a riot! 2026 is the year I have to make it all count. Museum rennovations, events, research & of course the final year of my degree. No pressure

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences Ben Lamm has a history of hyping up “world-changing” ventures that ultimately lead nowhere. Cheerleading false techno-fixes like de-extinction in the media distracts from real attempts to address biodiversity loss and climate change.

Confession time; I've always struggled with the idea that Alvarezsaurs used their arms to dig up insect nests. I don't have a data-based argument to back it up & I know I'm going against the consensus, but it intuitively feels off to me. Their arms are SO short compared to other digging insectivores

I actually had a dream about this critter last night, & I'm now fully convinced Alvarezsaurs weren't nest-cracking insectivores, but travelling trouble-makers. More corvid than pangolin

I think my new years resolution has to be no more new projects. So far for 2026 I have; 3 uni modules including my dissertation; at least 2 research projects; the museum reopening; designing a school workshop; organising a science fair; field work & (potentially) volunteering at a big convention

For #FossilFriday , here's my new animated scicomm video exploring one of my favourite sites of geological interest; The Pisco Basin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oG3...

The live premier of my new video begins in half an hour! Thats 4pm UK time, 8am Pacific time, 11am Eastern time #FossilFriday youtu.be/1oG3i1dKg6M?...

Job alert! I would absolutely apply for this if it wasn't several hours outside if my catchment area www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...

New video this Friday!

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

Life is just one big sensory ick and I think that's horrible 🖤

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology