So, Xena might actually be a little more accurate than 300. Who knew?

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖 Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com! We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago. 1/7

For generations the Univ of Leicester has been a global leader in geology, Earth science & climate research Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs Sign this to stop this madness: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260. Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked! Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

I checked and this was true for my email as well. Turned that right off. Is it even legal in the EU to automatically opt people into this?

NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0

Another EU5 surprise, wasn't paying attention to attrition and I'm running an oversized navy as Norway to deter Scotland. Now suddenly, the attrition is so bad I've entirely depleted my sailor reserves. Didn't even notice it happening. Going to see if I can't solve this one as well.

My own response would be: "How about no? I write what I want to write, and if you want to waste the few dollars you spent on my book by feeding it through the literary equivalent of a woodchipper just to make it shorter, that's your loss."

I adore miniminuteman and his efforts as a science/history communicator, fighting the tide of bullshit out there. But he left one important note out of his vid on the "mystery" out the Roanoke colony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...

Which is, ironically, a statement based not on evidence. There have been plenty of studies, and there has been 0 evidence that any vaccine causes autism.

Forty hours of EU5, and I don't have a clue why I'm still not making that much money. Apparently, it's supposed to be easy to break the economy and make a lot of money. I thought I was getting it, and then my income plummeted again. Ah well, at least I'm out of the PU with Sweden.

Painted wooden toy-horse on wheels. 1stC-3rd century AD. Excavated/Findspot: Akhmim Africa: Egypt: Sohag © The Trustees of the British Museum

New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals

Post a female character you love.

Let me count the ways this is a bad idea, just starting from handing over very sensitive personal information in an insecure format, to all the ways an LLM can and will screw up. You can't ever trust what an LLM tells you.

Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS? Of course you bloody do. Come with me. Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake. Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday

Graham Hancock's absolutely wild Sphinx conspiracy theory from 1996. He claims a multi-millionaire from a secret religious sect had taken over archaeological work at Giza in Egypt. See the full video "The Birth of Graham Hancock's Doomsday Cult" LINK: youtu.be/X104ovO3q4w

I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome. youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo?...

In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!

What scenes are the hardest and easiest for you to write? Hardest: Environmental descriptions, placing a scene in a location. I tend to be sparse with it, but I'm working on it. Easiest: Fight scenes. I'm a visual person and have an active imagination.

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

Results from the #paleostream! Dodo, Oneirosaurus, Thikarisuchus and Bakiribu

Two views of Dresden from the right bank of the Elbe, above the Augustusbrücke & below, painted in 1747 & 1748 by Bernardo Bellotto, pupil and nephew of Canaletto, died #OTD 1780; used as important references in the reconstruction of Dresden after World War II bombing. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

It's a beautiful artifact, which I had the good fortune to see at an exhibition in the RMO last year. The cape was apparently further decorated with textile and hundreds of amber beads. Here's a photo where you can see a bit of the inside of it. In the same exhibit was this golden hat.🗃️

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

Here the result of the Seaham Formation #paleostream, maybe the most relaxing formation stream we will ever have! This Carboniferous tundra wasn't chosen because of it's fossils, but because of its setting.

We shouldn't just assume when interpreting the past. I love a good story, especially when based on the facts, but modern fashion and standards are just that. Modern. We have a kinship with our ancestors, but the past remains a foreign country.

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

It's so obvious when you put it like that. Still can't get over the fact that a judge in the USA came to a different conclusion.

It's a beautiful artifact, which I had the good fortune to see at an exhibition in the RMO last year. The cape was apparently further decorated with textile and hundreds of amber beads. Here's a photo where you can see a bit of the inside of it. In the same exhibit was this golden hat.🗃️

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And this is just what it costs to run the current model. Training the new one, adds even more costs. If anybody wonders what it looks like when a bubble swallows up a significant portion of a nation's GDP. Look at the South Sea Company.

Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏 www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Any paleo folks in the Chicagoland area- this afternoon is our final Open House of 2025 - come see what we’ve been working on at the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash (just West of UChicago main campus). We’ll continue hosting our monthly Open Houses in the spring of 2026! 🦕🦖

Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new! In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine. 🗃️🧪

And here is my previous one, from back in 2024.

Utrecht's Domtoren — always a good reminder of the importance of looking up now and then

Elderberry sauce, perhaps?

The American government removed 2 monuments to Black American Soldiers in the Netherlands. Now the *Dutch* government is demanding they be returned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out! That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5 🗃️🧪

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

Hit exactly 8K followers this morning! Let's do an Artshare before the bots unfollow and I fall below 🤪 Share and like each others' art No AI No NFT

I sat down for an in-depth discussion with anthropologist Dr Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social to discuss the phenomenon of modern, secular gurus and their influence on our world cc: @guruspod.bsky.social youtu.be/j4S--I7mx0g

I could play it back to listen in on the whole conversation but I could also punch myself in the head with a sampling drill and I was not going to do that, either.

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators. 📷 C. Bredfeldt 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

Here's an interactive project I'm working on right now! It's an epistolary novel with accompanying illustrations by our narrator as she travels across a fantasy world, writing to a boy who is too ill to go on adventures himself but can pay her to adventure for him. #LettersfromÁine

Winter landscape with skaters, painted c. 1665 by Aert van der Neer, Dutch Golden Age artist who worked in and around Amsterdam, known for lively winter scenes on frozen rivers; died #OTD 1670. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam