Everyone doing this just needs to understand that they are actively skipping the thinking step

@easymac5.bsky.social · 2w ago

All I’m saying is that I can source info faster using an LLM than manually. Evaluating sources, putting together a bibliography, ensuring accuracy, none of that changes. It’s using the technology to automate the grunt work.

in memory of peter cullen let's remember one of his best line reads

The DinoCon vendors have started sharing their table allocations. I wonder how many there are in total. *Checks vendor hall map* Nice

Are you coming to #DinoCon next month and fancy trying your hand at palaeoart? I'll be running the beginner's art workshop in the York suite three times over the weekend, so come along, flex your creative muscles, but most importantly have fun! Tickets and more details at www.dinocon.co.uk 🦕🦖

"You control it with an app on your phone" Then I am no longer interested

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...

Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC

Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

lbc.co.uk

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

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

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

Per Ahlberg@perahlberg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is very unfortunate, because we are facing a big and largely unexplored issue in research ethics that goes way beyond the individual case. It could really do with being widely debated in public. We are used to thinking of research ethics mostly in terms of the research itself (no cheating, no

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.

New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

newscientist.com

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.

Former Microsoft executive’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny

Seattle Times business reporter Alex Halverson has written about connections between Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold.

kuow.org

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!!!

Darren Naish@tetzoo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really taken with Haolong dongi, out today from Jiandong Huang, Pascal Godefroit and team. Just submitted news article on it. An iguanodontian with abundant hollow spikes across the neck and body, projecting from among conventional basement scales, and with rows of plate-like scales along the tail.

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

a cartoon character with the words oh yeah it 's all coming together behind him

ALT: a cartoon character with the words oh yeah it 's all coming together behind him

media.tenor.com

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.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ok, so is there any non-creep paleo figure the public would recognize from the 80s through 2000s?

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.