Less than three months now until Tyrant Lizard Queen stomps your way! It’s a toxic yuri dinosaur tale founded in the latest science, depicting a cast of Cretaceous characters not often seen together, illustrated by the amazing @korybing.bsky.social. Something to sink your teeth into.

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length ...

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Big congrats & Happy Pub Day to @stephenbheard.bsky.social on the release of his book 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing' (3rd Edition)! 📚✍️ #Booksky

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 1h ago

A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists. The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 3rd Edition by @stephenbheard.bsky.social is out now! Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Science #Education #Writing

SSFs stands for small shelly fossils*. This is genuinely the terminology, just in case you thought palaeontology was too sophisticated or complex. *Sometimes it's small shelly fauna, to pre-empt the "actually"

The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 6h ago

Cambrian SSFs from North Greenland (eastern Laurentia) with regional & global correlations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

Snowball Earth (Huronian Glaciation) could have given the GOE its shaky start ⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...

What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?

New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago

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With August already 16.1% done (but who's counting?), figured I need to do some academic stuff. Today a colleague & I are meeting so we can plan our co-teaching a Summer Collaborative Teaching workshop for faculty on Aug. 17. Topic: "Student Engagement Inside and Outside of the Classroom."

⚒️ Based on this thread, it might be time to update your historical geology slides. The peril of proxies: the relationship between the thing you want to measure and the thing you can measure is not always straightforward.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 23h ago

Not remotely clear oxygen levels at any point in the Paleozoic were above modern levels. Direct samples preserved in halite do not show this at all outside of the mid-Silurian.

What I’m trying to say—writing should be a human endeavor. There is no place for LLMs in ANY step of the process because these are tools that are built on theft of creative work. As scientists we should be rejecting the use of LLMs! We should be holding a higher standard because it’s right.

A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵 Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:

avi 🌧️@barghest-land.bsky.social · 2y ago

i think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :) more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️ #paleoart #sciart

New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...

Guest #100 on the podcast is paleontologist Phil Currie! 🎉 His incredible contributions to science 🔬 have yielded an institution that carries his name, the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum 🏛 in Wembley, Alberta. Learn more: dinomuseum.ca Listen to Episode #100: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/phil...

Forgotten fossil from 1950s is actually a new species of Ice Age frog www.popsci.com/science/forg...

Forgotten fossil from 1950s is actually a new species of Ice Age frog

The spadefoot toad is the second Ice Age amphibian ever found in North America.

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It's publication day! The 3rd edition of "The Scientist's Guide to Writing" is available TODAY. It's expanded and it's as up-to-date as I can make it. If you've been using this book - thank you. If you haven't: today is a great time to start! scientistseessquirre... 🧪🌍

It’s publication day! “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing”, 3rd edition

Some things don’t ever get old, and I can tell you that publication day for one of your books is one of those things. Today is that day: the new 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is o…

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Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday

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And here the conversation article accompanying our paper: ON THE ORIGIN OF FECES theconversation.com/on-the-origi...

On the origin of feces: how animal poo drove Earth’s greatest evolutionary event

Is the evolution of excrement the reason we exist?

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One of my favorite photos from the bygone era of 2008-2016. Happy 65th b-day to 44, & RIP to GOAT Communications Officer Lt. Uhura/Nichelle Nichols. 🖖

Mike Okuda@mikeokuda.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy Birthday, Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.

Feeling a bit melancholy today. Tell me about your favorite rock. Can be your favorite rock type, rock formation, or even a very specific hunk of rock. I will also accept minerals. Photos welcome.

When I first heard about this, my brain looked at the numbers, 476 over millions of years, and concluded this was actually "That Spot Where All The Other Wales Told Them Not To Go, But They Went Anyway And Were Never Seen Again." I realise it's not as catchy as WHALE NECROPOLIS, obviously.

@thefossilfiles.bsky.social · yesterday

How could 476 whale skeletons accumulate at the bottom of 6km ocean trench over 5 million years? Introducing the WHALE NECROPOLIS

Hello Dino Friends and DI-KNOW-IT-ALLs! I Know Dino is an independent podcast and we rely mostly on listeners. We have a big goal for this month: to get to 1000 members on our Patreon. If we make our goal, we’ll have a vote on how to celebrate! We’re only about 150 members away 🤞

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

Velvet worms shoot rapid-hardening glue at their prey (other invertebrates). Within seconds, the sprayed liquid hardens to plastic-like consistency, trapping or slowing the target. This marvelous glue has possible human applications in recyclable bioplastics & surgical sutures that dissolve.

a close up of a slug with netflix written on the bottom right

Alt: A velvet worm, which resembles a centipede crossed with a slug: long red cylindrical body with stubby white legs and darker colored antennae. It's spraying clear liquid from nozzles on either side of its face, projecting past the camera at a surprising level of force.

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Frank Ashwood@frankashwood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I appreciate all the love for my previous post, so, here's a little more velvet worm / Peripatus cuteness to start your weekend off right! Beneath that adorable little eye, you can see the stumpy glue cannon, which it uses to subdue prey! #Macrophotography #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪

It's Trilobite Tuesday! Trilobites, while commonly seen fossilized as single individuals, were highly social animals—gathering together to mate, molt, or feed. On occasion, fossils are unearthed featuring multiple trilobites on a single slab, like these ornate 1-in- (2.5-cm-) long Devonian lichids.

This a.m., continued editing & finessing of a sample chapter to accompany a new book proposal. After a short hiatus from book-writing, this will be my first book proposal represented by my new literary agent, Camille Kantor, who's with Kimberley Cameron & Associates. 📚✍️ #Booksky kimberleycameron.com

Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency

Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency

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It’s impossible to know the impact our stories have, but I honestly believe this story is some small part of the reason we have not yet had a nuclear apocalypse. Hope is a hell of a thing to fuel a lifestyle with, but it’s why I will always be a science fiction writer.

Sam J Miller@sentencebender.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.

“[Reefs of Time] conveys a sense of humanity, portraying scientists not as distant figures but as creative, diverse, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers working together toward a solution to combat reef mortality” - @paleosoc.bsky.social book review at www.paleosoc.org/index.php?op... #booksky 💙📚

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-i...

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

A rare fossil find shows a tooth embedded an ichthyosaur’s vertebra, where it was likely left when a giant pliosaurid chomped down on this dolphin-resembling reptile

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Halite shows up without requiring life in the evolution of minerals. Meanwhile, halite is a highly effective trap that may capture evidence of early life: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres... So… yeah, plausible.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Remember folks:

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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🦖🦑🧪🦈New blog post! I wrote about a paper my student Addie Miller published a few years ago, all about the concentration of juvenile giant shark teeth in the Oligocene (25 myo) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina - a nursery for giant sharks. coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-nu...