Just finished this painting called ‘The Rivals’ inspired heavily by the Crystal Palace Iguanodon!
Graeme T. Lloyd
@graemetlloyd.bsky.social
Recovering academic | Amateur mathematician | #RStats | Claddis | Lungfish/Shoebill Supremacist | 茶 | Boardgames | Hoops | Lego | (Tiberius) | He/Him
A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk keeps an eye on a Red-winged Blackbird that is in hot pursuit. The Red-winged Blackbird stopped the chase once the hawk left the blackbird's territory.
For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology
Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵
Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …
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NEW PAINTING TIME! Here is "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 different species of marine vertebrates and invertebrates. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #SeaRex #Pliosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Thalassodraco #Sharks
Aberdeen is genuinely a fantastic place to live and Vicky is a top-tier human. Apply apply apply!
Vicky & The Sleight Lab@vs-marine.bsky.social · last wk.Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
#MolluscMonday Section of a high-spired gastropod fossil in a paving stone adjacent to the National Theatre, London. #PavementGeology
Chippy Open, Uppermill, Saddleworth, painting by Roger Needham (Gallery Oldham).
Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》
Cool detailed account by @sobralg.bsky.social on some of the back stage stories behind our paper
Gabriela Sobral@sobralg.bsky.social · 2w agoSo, I will take the opportunity to write about our paper on the new fossil snake 🐍 from Brazil out in @nature.com today. Tiago wrote on the science itself here 👇 so I will tell a bit about the behind the scene stages, especially segmentation and anatomical interpretation bsky.app/profile/trsi...
Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪
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#TrilobiteTuesday Magnificent slab awash with trilobites from the Ordovician of Morocco. On display at the Palaeontological Museum in Oslo.
🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...
Paleontology term from the native Siberians: Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them a name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become the word MAMMOTH! 📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia
In case anyone wants to see something not related to that sports thing, here's another swirly reflection photo from #CanaryWharf. Back there this week so will try some different areas. #abstract #creativephotography
England’s strategy of being shit at defending somehow hasn’t come off this time.
Countdown continues: NINE DAYS to #DinoConUK 2026! Talks, events, quiz, exhibitions, a giant vendor hall, costumes, book signings and more: like Comic Con but devoted to #dinosaurs... join us July 25th-26th, Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Scenes from 2025 (photos by Alfred Barwick)
For reasons best known only to himself, in this week's Fossil Files, @fossilrob.bsky.social chose a paper neither of us understood. There are some surprising revelations about my sex life, however. Also, slug sex facts ("facts") open.spotify.com/episode/4ikt...
Did a lack of sex hold back the evolution of the first animals?
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Seals have a superpower: they are the only mammals with amphibious hearing! They hear well both in-air and underwater. My collagues and I have a new study in Proceedings B on the origins and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds 🦭🔊🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
The origin and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds
Abstract. Pinnipeds (true seals, eared seals and walruses) are the only mammals that can hear effectively in both air and water. How and when they achieved
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French should have spent more time in training learning to kick the ball instead of Lamine Yamal.
RIP Sam Neill. So many great, knotty performances, so many bold choices, such a consistently interesting career & still - shamefully - this interview snippet was the first thing I thought of
