Richard Fallon
@richardfallon.bsky.social
Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
I didn't think there was a Burroughs-authored Tarzan novel featuring a T. rex but, having now looked it up, yes, this cover doesn't lie.
KDS 📖 🎲 🎮@kdsbooks.bsky.social · 5h agoScrew it again, here are the matching Tarzan books I own. Somehow I’m missing more than I thought. This is not good…!!! @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social 🪐📚💙 #booksky
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 · 13h agoCambrian SSFs from North Greenland (eastern Laurentia) with regional & global correlations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
Join me and Roland Squire for a discussion of (what else?) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World on the latest episode of 'The Pirates Don't Eat the Tourists: Jurassic Park and Prehistroic Fiction'. Check out the whole brilliant series: open.spotify.com/episode/5V7J...
The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle with Richard Fallon
The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction · Episode
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This 1901 BAAS meeting had a strong programme of geology, & John Horne, President of the Geology Section, gave an excellent summary of progress in Scottish geology. It was at this meeting that the NW Highlands controversy was really laid to rest, a triumph for Nicol, Lapworth & Peach & Horne.
Richard Fallon@richardfallon.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's extremely neat that the scientific volumes prepared for the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 1901 Glasgow meeting had covers in the ultra-cool Glasgow Style. Just stumbled across this, so I don't know which artist is responsible.
Some profound OCR here. From 'Elles (Gertrude L.) and Wood (Ethel M. R.). British Graptolites. Edited by Charles Lapworth' we get 'Exes (Gerrrupe L.) and Woop (Erner M. R.). British Graptolites. Edited by Cuartus Larworm'. Actually, Exes, Woop, and Larworm still sound like Edwardian geologists.
It's extremely neat that the scientific volumes prepared for the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 1901 Glasgow meeting had covers in the ultra-cool Glasgow Style. Just stumbled across this, so I don't know which artist is responsible.
The great expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, smoking away at a lithographic press in Zurich, 1957: www.alamy.com/oskar-kokosc...
A lithographer at work, from the title page of Charles Hullmandell's The Art of Drawing on Stone: Giving a Full Explanation of the Various Styles, of the Different Methods to be Employed to Ensure Success, and of the Modes of Correcting, as Well as of the Several Causes of Failure (1824).
So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
I should mention I finished The Greatest Adventure by John Taine (Eric Temple Bell), pub 1929 Whilst inconsistent and poorly written at times, there were plenty of cool moments involving weird dinosaurs, lost civilisations, evil spores and giant fire geysers. Oh and they blow up Antarctica. 🪐📚💙
Delighted to share that my article on Mina Loy's conversion to Christian Science in Florence around 1909 has been published in Feminist Modernist Studies! Thanks to @euilibrary.bsky.social, the article is Open Access so is free to read & download (see below): doi.org/10.1080/2469...
The making of Mina Loy’s Christian Science in Florence, Italy
The poet and painter Mina Loy (1882–1966) maintained a life-long, idiosyncratic belief in Christian Science. However, little is known of her formative introduction to the faith in Florence, Italy, ...
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 01,1945
Found a 1980 calendar card from a TG&Y Family Center in Parsons, Kansas, in my used book.
I finally wrote something new! This one's short, and full of images-- most notably, a "lost" image of the Burgess critter Sidneyia bearing the feeding appendages of a radiodont (a relative of Anomalocaris), published in 1918. Cambrian buffs, this one's for you... www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026...
All the better to catch you with, my dear — Extinct
In which Max presents a lost picture from the history of paleontology: Charles Walcott’s “Sidney crab” complete with massive claws (actually the appendages of a large radiodont)
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If you are looking to learn more about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Egyptian-themed works, then The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate is for you! Order here or recommend to your library:
The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate
The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate
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Every one of these headlines points to the continued relevance of Thomas Hawkins in shaping our language. But they forgot to add that this 'sea dragon' was an 'ardent Monster fleeting through the expanse of Seas like lightning to his distant prey, with a lust quenchable alone in gore’.
Very much looking forward to seeing this new Mary Anning exhibition @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social which opens 6 months today, on 30 January 2027. More on it here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/mar... where you'll also find a link to contribute to the museum's fundraising campaign for the exhibition.
As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)
John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · last wk.Really one of the most important postwar sites in Britain
‘Fossils Unearthed’: a new blogpost written by three of this year’s Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, @arnoldke.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hoiem and Conall Treen. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/ccc-ecr...
CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed - Collections Connections Communities
CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed Dr Katharine Arnold, Dr Elizabeth Hoiem, Dr Conall Treen, Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, 2025-2026 During the first we...
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Insightful slop article really breaking down the difference between dinosaurs and dragons. I especially like the commentary on tails. What a world.
Annual reminder that readers interested in weird people like H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes, and Robert E. Howard might find my Twentieth-Century Literature article on 'Decadent Dinosaurs' relevant to their interests: read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-ce....
Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
Despite paying concerted attention to evolutionary mechanisms, literary scholars have rarely focused on forms of “directed evolution” like orthogenesis (evolution along a linear track) and phylogeront...
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Feeling 'crabby' in the heat? Meet Japanese ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige's 'Grand Series of Fishes' (1832-1840). Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes, and for his depictions of birds and flowers, so this series is quite rare. (Image details continued in comments).
High(ly) Victorian book cover: Margaret Plues's Rambles in Search of Ferns (1861).
