Meig Dickson (ey/em)

Welp, today I learned that outlook email reactions get sent back to the entire DMG and not just the sender

Not making that mistake again lol

can't believe it took until someone said "hand me the goat and the pig" for me to realize that the specimens I pulled for the museum haunted house were in love this entire time

Hooty from #OwlHouse might just be one of my favorite characters in anything ever

Guest: so why’d you become a paleontologist?
Me: I was born in 1992 so I was assigned paleontologist at birth
Guest group: *loud long laughter*
Me internally: I’ve done it. I have finally mastered human interaction

The worst part about Simchat Torah ending is that, unless you count/observe Sigd, it’s the last Yom Tov till Pesach 😬😬😬😬

Song lyric: when it all boils down there's nothing but bones left

me, a person who studies paleocene birds: if you're fucking LUCKY

I need a #GravityFalls / #DeadEndParanormalPark / #OwlHouse crossover

If nothing else I just need teenage!Mabel, Norma, and Luz all being friends going on a wacky adventure

These changes pretty much mean that if you enroll in an MS program, you will never get the NSF GRFP. The GRFP more typically covers PhD projects than MS because they cover 3 years of funding, so you are already less likely to get it for an MS project, but now you can’t apply if you have an MS…

YouTube video by Vivziepop HOMESTUCK - The Animated Pilot

AHHHHHHHHH

youtu.be/vQszKkN6Jb0?...

Me: reads the word “linoleum”
My Brain: *deep breath*
Me: No Don’t -
My Brain: LA LA LA
LINOLEEEUUUUM
Me: gd fcking dammit

"For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the 'giant squid', Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…"

- Awesome stuff.

Yall just lost the game

Kate Caldwell: How our health information can be used to criminalize us Executive orders on health technology and crime are the first steps toward health data becoming a tool of surveillance.

Commentary: When health data is funneled into law enforcement, we blur the line between patient and suspect. The result? People seeking care may become targets of surveillance; entrenching existing patterns where disability and poverty are not only criminalized — but now automated and scaled.

Necessary reading.

YouTube video by Johnny Yanko Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs?

When I was a kid, this video made such an impression on me - for many reasons, but one was the process of paleontological science, demonstrated by Mark

May his memory be a blessing

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I love teaching the bird behavior lab, not for the obvious reasons (though those are reasons)

but because I get to demonstrate how humans have actually extremely little sexual dimorphism through bird of paradise dancing videos

Feeling the incalculable loss of Mark Norell (1957-2025): wonderful scientist and cherished friend. His influence will continue through his many mentees and the science he did and inspired.

YouTube video by Nirami Homestuck lore #homestuck

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Feel free to DM me if you need more information or want to discuss further.

Given the shittiness of the paleontology job market; and my desire to move abroad; this is my official post asking people to keep an ear out for job ops I might be good for.

Soooooo there’s a nonzero chance I’ll be graduating at the end of this academic year (if not spring 26, then almost definitely at the end of fall 26).

I’ve planned a decent amount of Maastuck (Maastrichtian #Homestuck, ie life from the very end of the #Cretaceous play Sburb)

And I need someone to stop me before I write the whole damn thing

Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won" Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.

Uhhhhhhhh

thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whi...

Given the presence of exiles on post-sburb planets and the logical impossibility of proving a negative such as “there was no chance of any life sapient enough to play sburb”; we cannot currently completely rule out that the end Cretaceous extinction was caused by sburb. In this essay, I will -

😭😭😭😭 #homestuck

YouTube video by Vivziepop Homestuck the Animated Pilot Trailer

UHHHHHHHHHHHH

youtu.be/Yl5x8jpiOsg?...

Yep, there’s a whole chapter about it in Anti-Judaism

Cover of the latest issue of Nature, showing my illustration of Mirasaura

I’m so excited and proud to have my illustration of Mirasaura in the cover of NATURE! Just wow! Especially happy to do that with such an amazing species and such wonderful research!

#paleoart #art