Geology Johnson

I think my name and Bsky handle is probs best. Thanks!

Digital colour sketch of a robotic version of a chain-like diatom micro eukaryote and the same diatom in a humanoid robotic form.

I'm happy for you to share it. But use this higher res version. The previous one is a screencap of a screencap. 😅

Digital painting of a blue, grey and gold decepticon transformer in a beast mode based on extinct glass sponges

No prizes for guessing which #Transformer this is disguised as a #hexactinelid #sponge.This beast mode is a hybrid of the extinct sponges Hydnoceras sp and Helicolocellus sp from the devonian and ediacaran respectively. #TransformersPrimordial #Maccadam #Maccadams

Thanks, glad you like it!

That looks great. Nice work!

Interesting. I see what you mean.

A #Diatom #Minicon based on Elizabeth's image. Minicons are the smallest type of #transformer so I imagine them as the equivalent of protists. The head of this one is based on a different diatom. #Maccadam #TransformersPrimordial

This explains a lot. I've been struggling for months with regular intense dissociative episodes and negative thought spirals. Just about the only thing I can do is fine motor repetitive stuff like drawing, or playing guitar. And repetitively going over my fossil and data collection.

Ooooh good shout

Messy seascape in oils: viewed from a beach, waves breaking onto the rocks in the foreground with dark, sheer cliffs either side. An ochre sky, with dark clouds to the left, with an orange sun appearing; patches of blue, white and pale yellow - also reflected off the ocean.

I may have tweaked this a little after a glass of wine 🙄

Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm

#oilpainting #seascape #irishart #coast

Me at the start of my post doc vs me at the end of it.

YouTube video by Hopscotch Animal Classification: The Invertebrates Song

An ex-colleague/friend with kids has just forwarded this to the rest of us and I'm going to need it retracted immediately because this is going to be stuck in my head for MONTHS youtu.be/bXhtViWYlXs?...

They’re talking about banning ADHD meds now as well and I’ve seen a bunch of cis acquaintances who thought they were Normal because they didn’t have one of the Embarrassing disorders and weren’t trannies suddenly find out that it’s showtime for them too

Pixel art of a scene under the Cambrian sea showing strange alien-like creatures of the Cambrian Period including Vauxia in the foreground, a pinkish-purple Anomalocaris, deep blue Opabinia, violet Nectocaris, bright green Pectocaris, blue-grey Banffia, and Wiwaxia on the rocks in the background.

Theme: The #Weirdness of Cambrian life
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #paleoart
@pixeldailies.bsky.social

Good shout, never thought of them as building designs. But they would totally work as a city scape.

A helluva chonk of a bristle worm! This is the larva of a polychaete from the genus Scolelepis and it was hard to miss!

#marineplankton 🦑

Some of the prices on line for these lads are bonkers. Actually gonzo. I saw SS86 Snarl the other day for £250 on Hamazon.

For sure. I'll be interested to read how the authors tackle that and volcanic/hydrothermal input too.

Oooh this is my jam. Gonna give this a read. I've been working on paleoarchean stuff where exposed land is minimal. But there is plenty of life based on the fossils we find. So it seems like P was not limiting back then.

Some of my mid-Proterozoic fossils are (potentially) multicellular. They are most abundant in dynamic redox environments. So this paper makes sense to me.

My favourite sponges, they are so weird. For a while, I thought my odd precambrian fossils might be glass sponges. But now it think the silica in those is secondary.

Glass sponges were one of the first groups I picked out for my Transformers project.

The monkey side eye meme.

Nice wee haul. Cy-kill in the line up like.

Wow, amazing preservation! I've never found a blastoid so they are on my bucket list.

I think I need to make some of these little lads into Transformers too.

Thanks. I want to concentrate on inverts but there are some paleo fish I want to include too.

DAY 268
SPECIES 268 - Hyperthermus butylicus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Tombow pencil

H. butylicus is an hyperthermophilic archaeon found on the sea floor near the coast of the island São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.

#sciart #watercolor #archaea #art #paint

Happy #FossilFriday

This is a beautiful Hexagonaria (colonial horn coral) from the Middle Devonian Cedar Valley Formation from Coralville, Iowa. There is a location in Iowa City, Iowa known as the Devonian Fossil Gorge where you can see an intact coral 390 million year old coral reef like this one.

4 creatures drawn in biro. One is a weird fish with stripy fins, one a stumpy crocodile covered in grass, third is a flying triangular headed creature with two legs and one tooth, last is biggest covered in broken horn or rocks standing on two legs with large mouth.

Am lost

If this was in a cartoon, the fish face would have independently moving eyes and expressions while Megs was speaking etc. Megs would treat it like a little pet.

First pass at Megalotron. Alt mode is a stylised #Dunkleosteus Bot mode is based around the model of megs from TF: Animated. Needs more work but it's a good start. #Transformers, #TransformersPrimordial, #Maccadam

Lovely work, #FossilFriday #SciArt