Alex James

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THAT’s a story I’d read, where the conscious and aware Singularity-AI-thing has to work with the oppressed to prevent being switched off and to overturn the rich and powerful. Like that would be such an awesome and honestly pretty philanthropic twist on an otherwise pretty doomerist trope

the fact that truth and good morality always comes through in the end even with genAI, despite attempts to circumvent that, actually gives me faith in humanity

brother couldn’t even create a counter argument, this is how unskilled and bereft of humanity these people are holy f

For this #FossilFriday, a #paleoart post of the American cave lion - this time, a video showing the soft tissue reconstruction laid over a reconstructed skeleton based on the specimen LACMP23-555, scaled next to Charles Darwin.

It may get a short mane yet..

YouTube video by Digital Duck NIGHTFALL | A DINOSAUR HORROR SHORT FILM

Everyone go watch 'Nightfall'! I did the majority of the VFX and supervised the animation team for this film! I'm very proud of how all the dinosaurs came out and I hope you like them!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...

For #FossilFriday an amazing fossil from the largest dino Museum in the world' Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, China. This Beipiaosaurus specimen knocked my sox off. Play with this 3D model, we made out of my photographs through the glass. sketchfab.com/3d-models/be... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

I’m not well-versed on genetic studies, but I think recent genetic studies have recovered it as a descendent of the Eurasian cave lion, and with those two being to African lions what Neanderthals are to us.
(Though I’ve heard on the grapevine that the genetics gets even more complicated than that!)

Yeah yeah yeah very smart ha ha

Been building the American cave #lion Panthera atrox from the bones up - still a ways to go, but it’s at least presentable!

What I want to know: in your #paleoart, would you give it a mane, or leave it bare?

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes.

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

Any tree disease experts able to ID what killed this tree?
(I’m assuming it’s something to do with these gashes)

(There was another dead tree with little round nodules along its trunk, I didn’t get pictures of it but same question!)

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

@wildjustice.bsky.social

No fair enough, Archosauria is a very good one lol

I’d recommend Xenarthra next :)

Oh crap I’m sorry 😭 I saw the reposts and thought it was a chain with diff people at first

Paenungulata is a spectrum

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.

I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

Sketch of some crows made with ink on paper.

Little sketch of some crows

Ink and marker on paper

#art #birds #nature #sciart

Depends. At the canines, maybe stronger. At the postcanines/molar level, probably weaker (in effect).

Dire wolf portraits.

Triassic croc-line archosaur Prestosuchus with open mouth.

Cretaceous coelurosaur Aratasaurus of Brazil.

A brightly coloured tapejarid pterosaur in bright sunlight.

#ArtBoost is for Juan Nobre, palaeoartist based - I believe - in Brazil. Is creating wonderful and complex portraits of prehistoric animals of many sorts, often in beautifully rendered environments. Not sure if is on BSky - will tag if I find him :) #paleoart #palaeoart

Ville's art here is outstanding as always!

Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog

Added a couple pink kelp crab beanies to my shop!
🦀🦑🐙🐡

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A minimally rendered polar bear is moving to the left of the frame, head up and looking directly at the viewer, the Northern Lights against the night sky in the background

#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social #mammals #sciart

A polar bear stands on its hind legs facing the viewer on a background of pale blues

#2025MMM #Sweet16 #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamPolarBear Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social #mammals #sciart

A digital drawing of an American avocet viewed from the back. The photo of the bird is on the left of the frame while the drawing is on the right.

Had a great time teaching my second of 5 classes of my Drawing Shorebirds in Colour course. Everyone had a lot of fun drawing this avocet this evening. 🌿🪶 #SciArt