Astrid Lundberg

@oddpride.com

Paleontology and evolution content creator (TikTok: @oddpride, 700k. Instagram: @astrid_lundberg, 295k. YouTube: astrid_lundberg, 19k). The worst part of the science history fandom. She/her (yes, really).

oh also! I'm less than 500 away from 50k on YouTube, so if you didn't know I had a YouTube account, now is your last chance to say you got in at the ground floor!

I can't help but think about the nerves of steel those people had to cultivate to do high-speed flips on a slippery surface with blades on their feet only for figure skating to have a reputation as a sissy sport

instead of arguing about whether AI art is art we should put to bed the asinine question of what "counts" as "art" and just all agree that AI art sucks

full respect to that second group's intentions but please do not accuse me of not caring about my appearance lmfao i put a lot of work into being this cute ✨✌🏻

epic handshake meme. One arm is labelled "neurotypical women trying to hurt your feelings on purpose." The other arm is labelled "autistic men trying to pay a sincere compliment." The handshake is labelled, in quotation marks, "'It's really cool how you don't care too much about how you look!'"

LOVE when insects are so fuzzy and round and big-eyed they actually manage to activate my maternal instincts. Ten million generations of foremothers sitting in my brainstem trying to convince me this moth can breastfeed. Being a living thing is so unserious <3

somebody is in my youtube comments replying to dozens of unrelated comment threads to say that Jesus and Elijah are about to be reincarnated as women and then join together in a lesbian marriage, and I just wanna say this is one of the best psychoses I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing

i didn't THINK i was systematically collecting all the men with scandinavian names in the dc area and then i hopped on partiful and added a harald, hans, anders, and gustav to an event and uhhhhh

making a video about Charon and Pluto and being flooded with comments saying "this is why Charon should've been called Proserpina" is making me ornery all over again about the internet romanticisation of the myth that was, until very recently, known as "the rape of Persephone"

as a woman on the internet, there's no amount of stupid that you can sarcastically pretend to be that will actually read as sarcasm, because there's no limit to how stupid your interlocutor is willing to believe you are. In a sane world this would be funny but this guy WOULD just believe me 😭

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demanding science explain human consciousness is like demanding science explain constellations. you drew a picture around the stars and then asked why the stars have a picture on them. checkmate atheists, i guess

Astrid Lundberg@oddpride.com · 11mo ago

love telling the "humans can't be animals because we have consciousness" crowd that I also don't believe in consciousness like it's kind of an oversimplification of my actual beliefs, but it makes them 404 so bad I LOVE it

i love social media scicomm cause sometimes you're blowing people's minds with mass extinction poetry and sometimes you're scrolling through science papers idly wondering if you could get away with naming your daughter "oscarella"

love telling the "humans can't be animals because we have consciousness" crowd that I also don't believe in consciousness like it's kind of an oversimplification of my actual beliefs, but it makes them 404 so bad I LOVE it

The UK's biggest and best dinosaur-themed event - #DinoConUK - happens July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Tickets aren't yet on sale but places for accommodation are, and we're taking vendor applications too. Put it in the diary now, we can't wait to see you!

DinoConUK 2026 promo image, showing Allosaurus and two people in front of Hilton in Birmingham.

friend of a friend: wait, you're THIRTY?? me: yep him: I thought you were like. At MOST 22. me: ...is that why you were mansplaining so bad earlier? him: no I do that to everyone

scientists should study why putting on a waistcoat makes me feel like the most attractive person in the world. why is the most robust guard against my self-image issues... a jacket with no sleeves. how does this work. it shouldn't.

"you're not allowed to reply until you demonstrate an understanding of what OP was actually saying" ... probably wouldn't actually fix social media because people will find ways to dig their heels in and die on stupid hills no matter what, BUT god I wish we had this feature anyway 😭

Joshysmoshie@fubkymonk84.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As a teacher, I wholeheartedly agree. Reading comprehension is poor and growing worse as the years go by. I wish there was an option for micro posts: add a reading comprehension quiz which would lock people from leaving a comment until complete.

I'm one stupidass reply away from a very public and embarrassing crashout and I think that's a sign I need to step away from the microblogging apps we are in a reading comprehension crisis

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my bitchy too-woke opinion is that people find it harder to clock satire by women because deep down they don't believe that women are smart enough to be funny on purpose

coffee with cream and no sugar is superior to both coffee with cream and sugar, and coffee with nothing, but they're all pretty good and I respect all three choices coffee with sugar and no cream is an insane drink for psychopaths

Unless the 19 year old who explained this to me the other day was lying to take the mickey (which would be hilarious and she's so valid if that was indeed the plan), the 6 7 joke is that it doesn't mean anything. In case anyone else was wondering. On a semi-related note, you just lost the game.

the electronic signs on DC metro platforms say "BRD" while the train is at the platform, which always unscrolled into "Be Right Dere" in my head. I didn't think it actually stood for that, but I couldn't think of anything else that made sense and I'd never bothered to ask. Anyway it's "boarding"

was completely fine but now i'm sobbing bc i remembered that (as far as i know) every language has a word for mother that sounds something like "mama" because that's the first consonant that babies can reliably produce