Dr Dave Hone
@davehone.bsky.social
Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk
I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 22h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
New at Tetrapod Zoology, a longish discussion of what happened at #DinoConUK 2026.... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/8/...
DinoCon 2026, a Giant Event at Hilton Birmingham Metropole — Tetrapod Zoology
Bigger, better… in fact, around twice the size of DinoCon 2025. Let’s discuss what happened at DinoCon 2026…
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Having recently stayed at a 'Best Western' hotel, I'd like to start a campaign to rename them 'Well Below Average Western' for greater accuracy.
Latest Terrible Lizards podcast is about billionaires buying fossils. Find us on your podcast app or watch us here: Who Should Own Dinosaur Fossils? The Gus T. rex Controversy youtu.be/TaLWBc-4vvE (with @davehone.bsky.social)
[2/2] Sound on! 🔊 Singing with its wings: display behavior of the club-winged manakin. #birds 📹https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfCGhjv9H0c?feature=share 📄https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/singing-with-his-wings-the-club-winged-manakins-display/
The club-winged manakin sounds #shorts #shortvideo
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Then the Democrats should ask for a re-fund.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup
I'll be doing a very brief spot at 1:55 today on Times Radio about the sale of dinosaur fossils at auction.
Not counting today, THREE days until #DinoConUK 2026. Tickets go off sale 12pm (UK time) Thurs; a few are still available. A huge event, this year at Hilton Birmingham Metropole, with loads of vendors, events, talks, activities, exhibitions and more, designed for everyone interested in #dinosaurs...
I know I shouldn't, but got into a thread on Spinosaurus on Reddit that made some claims about my paper with @arctomet.bsky.social on tail anatomy. Posted quotes from the paper directly showing this is not what we said and that offered an interpretation of the features. Result? Downvoted.
By simply supporting Spurs for 35 years I was able to avoid watching that match with any hope and so remove the sting if defeat in advance.
One of these is a football. The other is the England team. Someone might want to let Argentina know which is which so they stop kicking the wrong one.
Gus the t. rex sold for a record $50 million. We'll be talking about him in the next episode of Terrible Lizards but here is @davehone.bsky.social reaction to Stan's sale back in 2020… www.patreon.com/terribleliza...
S12DB15 Dinos under the hammer | Terrible Lizards
With another Tyrannosaurus rex making headlines at auction, we’re revisiting this discussion from 2020, recorded just after the famous sale
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I've helped out with the design of another models with Dino & Dog. The alvarezsaurs don't get the love they deserve so it's great to see a lovely model of one of them becoming available, so here's Linhenykus and a short video I recorded about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1gL...
The cruise episode of Columbo is on and Dean Stockwell is about to make a cakeyshoe.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't to stop to think if they should". www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWRf...
Creep but it's YMCA
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Auction ends today, 17:00 BST. 🙏 www.facebook.com/share/p/1D3a...
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Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · last mo.Splendid Fairy Wren (_Malurus splendens_) Watercolour & De Mairo genuine lapis lazuli Ultramarine on silk mounted on paper, 88 × 120 mm. The scan does no justice and flattens the subtly varied blues too uniformly. I tried to edit it as well as I could. 1/
Based on the recent Pereyra et al. paper on abelisaur ornamentation, for #FossilFriday I've written a big review / synthesis of the evidence for sexual selection in dinosaurs and the evidence against species recognition. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/s...
Sexual selection and the end of species recognition
Protoceratops has become something of a model organism for assessing sexual selection in dinosaurs A new paper came out recently looking at the cranial ornamentation of abelisaurids (Pereyra et al.…
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UK universities bring so much value it's absurd and yet they are attacked again and again by governments and policy makers.
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 4w agoImagine killing and eating the goose the lays golden eggs.
Number crunching: “Reform is now the party of workers” From the new Private Eye, out now.
Why are small internal grants for public engagement so important? Since 2012, the CPE has awarded over 420 grants, enabling our researchers to engage with the public in a multitude of ways. But what happens after these funding pots end? Read more on our blog: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...
What we’re learning about long‑term public engagement impact
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I really enjoyed being an editor for J Zool, the range of stuff you got to see was incredible and it was a great team to work with.
Journal of Zoology@jzoology.bsky.social · last mo.📣OPEN CALL for Associate Editors for the Journal of Zoology📣 We are looking for active researchers with relevant expertise to join our editorial team! For more information and how to apply, please visit zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... @elissazcameron.bsky.social
