By criminy, it looks like I've got another book to proofread.
Tess Gallagher
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
Paleontologist that specializes in Diplodocus skin. Currently working at Edelman Fossil Museum
Cover Design for Aeons magazine issue 3 - ‘Exceptional Preservation’ Concavenator lays dead in a shallow river, Pelecanimimus is snagged by dead wood.
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To celebrate the announcement of my #specevo #dinosaur book this #FossilFriday, here's my giant Olymposaurus, a modern-day abelisaur. The proportions were predicted using real abelisaur scaling regimes: that short, upturned face, enormous thigh etc. are expected features of a 13 m abelisaur. #sciart
Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart: John Sibbick’s Tyrannosaurus and Edmontosaurus, Bernard Long’s Tanystropheus, @tessasaurus.bsky.social’s Allosaurus, and Brian Engh’s Megalonyx!
I applied for both a grant and PhD program, and got zero emails from EITHER of them. Not rejection or acceptance emails, just nothing. Wtf is going on.
Sauropod and whale paleontologists battling to see which giants would win. I’m rooting for @tessasaurus.bsky.social but I’m dinosaur biased, sorry Piero
what is this? some sort of... 'time of the titans'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett
Women in Palaeo - Part 2 On Feb 11th, we talked about the current state of women in palaeontology. This session is now online, featuring @amandalocaris.bsky.social, @tessasaurus.bsky.social, @ppaleoartist.bsky.social, Natalie Lawrence, and @women-archeopal.bsky.social.
Call for help: If anyone has prior experience for vending at conventions in the UK as a non-UK-resident or citizen, could you please reach out? I am currently trying to brave the UK government webpages to figure out how to legally stay within what's sensible for me as a business to vend at DinoCon!
Usually when talking about misogyny in palaeontology, it's women that speak about own experience, guys stay silent. Reverse is needed. So, cis guys in palaeo. What do you do when you see (numerous and obvious) breaches of professional conduct from your colleagues, in field, conferences or private?
Our new 3D printed Abydosaurus skull for the mini museum. We recently realized Abydosaurus is EXTREMELY close to our local Astrodon and is therefore the best analog right now. 🦕
I knew using ChatGPT was bad for ones brain but this is REALLY FREAKIN' BAD. Wow. Added alt text:
BreadPanes 🍔🏳️🌈@breadpanes.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.
Tom Fletcher will be hosting a talk at #DinoConUK 2026 about his experiences in moving from academia to film making. Tom's research focussed on fossil shark hydrodynamics. Tom now works at Silverback Films, a natural history filmmaking company in Bristol.
Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.
Been wild to see that horrid word come roaring back. Just stop using it; its trashy. Has no place in Leftist circles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUbu...
Can We Stop Saying the R-Word (Again)?
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New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades
By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of
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What the fuck do you mean the earliest possible evidence of feathers in dinosaurs comes from the east coast
"there are good uses for gAI--" I don't care. the damage already done is so significant and obscene that I need the tech banned outright and use cases to be proved/vetted before implementation like we do with UBI, which is to say never but it'll be because gAI doesn't actually work while UBI does
A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart
Dean Lomax will be hosting a talk on his book, The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs, at #DinoConUK 2026. Dean is an acclaimed palaeontologist, author, a leading authority on ichthyosaurs, and TV presenter affiliated with the University of Manchester and the University of Bristol.
