if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
Ben Miller
@extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Thinking about the art and history of paleontology in museums. Exhibit developer at the Field Museum, opinions my own. he/him Website: extinctmonsters.net
Paleoparadoxia, a bizarre marine mammal with bizarre teeth and jaws and bizarre giant hands and- you get it, its got nothing to do with hippos lol (paleoart comm)
Says good things about a workplace that in 153 years, everyone’s had the good sense not to release a curse
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot@devinfitz.bsky.social · 2d agoI like working in a place with boxes labeled 'do not open.' We discussed opening it today, but with the hellmouth just up in Sunnydale, decided against it.
I must have a writing deadline coming up because I found time to finish a months old blog post. A discussion of the "twin exhibits" on the end-Cretaceous extinction and Paleogene recovery currently at AMNH and the Field Museum: extinctmonsters.net/2026/08/03/t...
Two museums, two exhibits, one story
“Twin films” is a term that refers to a pair of movies released by different studios around the same time, which have similar plots or are inspired by the same source material. Museums …
extinctmonsters.net
I must have a writing deadline coming up because I found time to finish a months old blog post. A discussion of the "twin exhibits" on the end-Cretaceous extinction and Paleogene recovery currently at AMNH and the Field Museum: extinctmonsters.net/2026/08/03/t...
Two museums, two exhibits, one story
“Twin films” is a term that refers to a pair of movies released by different studios around the same time, which have similar plots or are inspired by the same source material. Museums …
extinctmonsters.net
Heads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
Shenzhen Natural History Museum, the largest museum of such nature in South China. Opening this week. Thread part 2 🧵 Mammals!
Mildly surprised nobody’s fessed up to buying Gus yet
@museumoftherockies.bsky.social was packed & stacked today! 1715 people in attendance to check out the new Dinosaur Makeover: Face to Face with Big AL exhibit! New retrodeformed 3D print & gorgeous #BrianEngh fleshed-out, life reconstruction! New things happening at MOR! #paleontology #dinosaurs
Utterly shook by the interns calling me out for ending every conversation with “take it easy” 🫠
If a Lepidodendron falls in a forest and no one has evolved ears that can hear it, does it still make a sound?
Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵
Pam Gaible is probably the best natural history mountmaker there ever was. I've been admiring her work since I was a kid and it's been such a privilege to work with her. Wishing Pam a happy retirement this #FossilFriday!
Shout-out to the kids I overheard asking really excellent questions about the Field Museum exhibits as I was touring around today. (I only jumped in to help a couple times.) Keep looking for those answers to things that don't make sense yet!
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Thinking about the spectacular mix of irrelevance, tastelessness, historical inaccuracy, and aesthetic unpleasantness that is the “children of stardust” conclusion to the NCMNS fossil exhibit. (The rest of the exhibit quite nice).
My colleagues at the Field recently completed this display with Native collaborators. It replaces a section of Ancient Americas that previously included items removed from graves. A small but important step in the right direction.
Human skeleton reads a list of animal names Title page for: Cornelius van Dyk's "Osteologia", 1680 (Rijksmuseum)
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains (quoted post is the other correct answer)
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · last wk.Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Narrative damage control is just another more way one person using genAI to take a “shortcut” creates way more work for everyone around them
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.One thing I’m noticing is that one rogue person not embedded with the team (or on the team but not empowered to drive decisions) will do or say some bullshit with genAI, even if it doesn’t reflect the team’s practices. and it is MUCH harder to dispel that narrative once it’s out there.
