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It's almost as if it's a prototype tucked away in a remote area, while other volant swamphens look more finished.

Former Microsoft executive’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny Seattle Times business reporter Alex Halverson has written about connections between Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold.

If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.

Pretty much this. NS's refusal to acknowledge it AND how senior palaeontologists rushed to their colleague's defense mean this thing might keep going for longer.

1 year only??? So like it's back to bussiness as usual on year 2?

(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...

Jim. Type A-B-C personalities is a relic of decades past. It's both invalid and unsafe to maintain these categories. You can call out creeps in the field without attempting to establish a link with their success.

Ingomar Gutmann (@gutmann.bsky.social) European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️ They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Here’s someone who needed funding but said no and is an absolute hero.

bsky.app/profile/gutman…

Early career scientists, note all these names down.

Did they detail how they keep the model "unbiased"?

Mongolian Titan 🦕

Rip Alberta chasers... Unless this thing extends to a second night.

Sincere temporary suggestion if you cannot afford to pay for stock photos: put out a call for artist and paleoartists for donations; then allocate a bit of your budget to actually pay/license/hire artists properly in your next funding proposal.

That is... worse. You are using an unethical tool to avoid obtaining licenses. This adoption only gives the impression to other palaeontologists that you do not have any funding to compensate artist properly or value quality, professionalism, and rights of attribution.

Nice! I was sure that the 3rd one would only be a partial duplicate but still missed it.

Thank you. This image forensic thing really taps into the figure making and photography side of my brain.

Waiting for someone to find the 3rd problem

Paleontologists Are Fuming Over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals As AI technology advances, scientists and illustrators are grappling with the future of visual communication.

gizmodo.com/paleontologi...

Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? We Asked The Artists Scientifically, artistically, and environmentally speaking, there’s a lot to take into account.

I strongly suggest that you refrain from using genAI assets in any elements of your websites and social media presence, especially when this is a field strongly tied with natural history illustration.
www.iflscience.com/bringing-ext...

All current models from major players are dumpster fire and contribute to users flocking to Firefox. The current ML chat sidebar is unpopular precisely because it signals Firefox's friendliness towards those players.

I personally do not want Firefox to be working on AI at all and prefer that Firefox continue spending its resources on optimization, user-friendly features, and performance. But, if Firefox continues with AI development, the only path that could fly is developing its own model.

Which is also kinda worrying/sad that you aren't the one personally working on this stuff? Just the shift in communication principle between "opt-in" and "opt-out" is already a massively different approach.

You are the first Firefox person that talks in the same language with its user base. I bet the blowback would not have been this extreme had it been someone like you and not your CEO who was in charge of that public statement.

You listened to an advertiser to prevent the thing that stops advertisers. By that logic no adblocker works. uBO is one of the best platforms where you can block/bypass adblock detectors. You can either ask the community for a solution or report the specific websites you have trouble with.

Then honestly something is really wrong with your implementation because this is not the case with the majority of userbase, me included. Do you have any other blockers/privacy extensions installed? Have you reached out to the uBlock community to help block specific cases?

pain 😂

Sharing some of my favourites from a friend - Hoang Dao. I like the complex flora depicted and how he frequently camouflages the animals a bit.
(In order) Alert - Ghost of the Annamites - Forest Floor - Son Tra Spring.

A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface.

This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

oh my god

Artist name?