Um, so good luck with the YouTube comments. 😶

Hey. Not Christian (raised atheist in culturally christian society). It's a me problem that I have to work not to be disappointed when people I like are. Point being, I resemble the reactive atheist archetype but still strongly believe you deserve respect and love for all you are, religion included.

White Sands' Footprints Confirmed as the Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Americas Learn about a new study that confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of the Americas.

White Sands' Footprints Confirmed as the Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Americas - a new study confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of the Americas www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

Yeah, social media obviously needs some sort of tipping point in population (within interests) to get going. I haven't been here much because it's fairly slow, and had to unfollow cool people because I was going to die of depressing politics.

First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ reveals what ancient people looked like Ancient proteins and calcified dental plaque identify heavy-browed fossil from China as a Denisovan.

My children's book about the Stone Age is out in 2 weeks... and it's already out of date!! We joke about that in the book, it was bound to happen!!! Very exciting that molecular techniques have finally identified the 'Dragon Man' skull to be that of Homo Denisova www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ooo, one is obvious, but failing to find a second

A quarter of shaggy scarlet cup mushrooms grows like frosted glass chalices from a buried stick, spiky white eyelashes grow all around their rims, and moist soil fills in a dark background. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I reply “hell yeah” to a lot of mushroom photos because when I see a picture of a mushroom a little voice in my head goes “hell yeah” and then I type that and hit send

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Long gone are the days where a smartphone was a luxury - it's now hard to live without one, VERY hard to job seek without one, and often the cheapest way to access where we now keep a huge amount of information.

And that's before the next step of: poor people are allowed luxuries, damnit.

My car yells at me when I try, so I definitely can't take the credit

Cover of the issue, showing a fly killed by cordiceps.

First page of article Taxonomic trolling.

The summer 2025 ish of The Biologist is out and it includes my article on taxonomic vandalism. Massive thanks to those who helped in getting this piece together. #taxonomy #biology

Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶

Of Zaedyus, the Pichi — Tetrapod Zoology Let’s look at armadillos some more. Or, let’s look at more armadillos. I mean, let’s look more at armadillos. Whatever: armadillos! More.

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Yesyesyes. I sorta want to put in the effort (as a biologist so people ask my opinion) to understand what's going on with microplastics *and* new plastics, but I also can't be booooothered. 😅

Gotta cripple the baby doctors with vocational awe real early. How else could medicine function?? /s

Heard a great talk by a commercial airline pilot about safety regulations for pilots compared to surgeons.

I asked if older pilots get mad when younger pilots voice safety concerns because they think the only way to be a great pilot is to work while exhausted and he looked at me like I was crazy.

Dinopedia cover, with other copies lined up in background.

Open copy of Dinopedia, showing pachycephalosaur pages.

I'm selling and signing my @princetonupress.bsky.social book #Dinopedia at events throughout the year, including at Portsmouth University this week, #GodsHouseTower in Southampton on May 15th, and Lyme Regis Fossil Festival on June 14th :)

Fossil and Diaphonized 🎣

These two will also be available at FWA!
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Noted that the BBC article only touches environmental concerns and not the ethical ones re: theft. A personalised machine learning model will both work better and not involve stealing non-consented material. Conflating all machine learning is intellectually dishonest bullshit.

Oh yeah, Dr Philosophy Professor. I'm sure that replacing the person in charge of preventing brain damage from anaesthesia will go just great.

The idea we're going out of our way to make a stand! to not ask the plagiarism machine questions it will lie to you about is some dodgy framing. I do resent it being work to fully extract the software trying to talk to my friends for me (!), but it's not actually a hardship to think for myself.

Having an onus on me is not as much fun as it sounded

That's so rude. Maybe he'd be down, but even if I liked this creepy shit, you can't get consent for this. Stoooooop.

Thinking about this in the context of the modern internet (full of lies), the explosion of anti-intellectualism, and how slow universities are to adapt even to something much simpler to handle, upsets me enough that I just have to block it out.

Oh man, same

As the only member of the "X-Men" that undergoes true hibernation, pichis were a big point of comparison in the portion of our paper suggesting that some ground sloths could have done the same thing. #Pichisarejustpeachy

Oof, yes. There's a lot of throwing babies out with the bathwater going on ime. "IQ" tests being iffy even when designed with peak attempts to circumvent socialisation and bias does not preclude engaging your brain being a good thing. It's concerning.

I think often about how the pace of progress is so much faster than we think, even with depressions caused by reactionaries. Viewing changes in understanding generationally is illuminating. Tbf Aristarchus of Samos identified we are heliocentric in 310 B.C. to 230 B.C! (Roundly rejected.)

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Albino hognose figurine.

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