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USAID was doing a fine job keeping millions of people fed and medicated before he “fed it into a wood chipper.” Go fuck yourself, Elon.

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“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”

A portrait of Albertosaurus as seen on Walking with Dinosaurs 2025.

The final portrait I could find from my time on WWD - Rose the Albertosaurus. All of these were done in early 2024, so about a year and a half ago now!

#sciart #paleoart

A screen grab at Viralstyle.com of a T-shirt design I made that is on their site without my permission.

Fuck these fucking fucks to hell.

This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails.

I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com

An absolutely gorgeous #tyrannosaur tooth that I collected from Dinosaur Provincial Park while working with the UofA palaeontology crew under Phil Currie. I found 3 of these beauties but this is the best! #fossilfriday

"To any Americans wondering if democracy is lost or if they can ever make a difference, I’d say this: If the Trump administration was this afraid of one senator w/a question, imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans organizing will do." @padilla.senate.gov

Which is all to say, if we want to avoid future generations thinking the same about us, we all need to get on board with doing more for nature however we can!)

(On a personal note, while dodos are fascinating, they're also v. depressing to paint. We wiped out these remarkable birds so fast that we didn't even collect decent specimens for museums, and it's difficult not to continually reflect on our awful, callous attitudes when researching such animals.

Vignette illustration of a dodo, the famous extinct flightless pigeon of Mauritius. The browns and yellows of this reconstruction are very different to the grey plumage usually ascribed to dodos, and are based on paintings of the bird thought to be drawn from life. Note the blue flash under the beak, which is still observable on the famous Oxford dodo head specimen.

A grey 3D printed head of a dodo held up to a confused greyhound for scale. Dodos were pretty big!

Detail of a large painting of birds by Ustad Mansur, showing a dodo with brown-yellow colours. It is suspected that this image may have faded somewhat over time, with the yellows of the feet and wings especially degraded. Note the intense, colourless iris.

For #FossilFriday: #paleoart adventures with dodos including my latest reconstruction of this famous pigeon with accurate(?) colours, 3D printing a life-sized scanned dodo head (Kolby the greyhound for scale), and upscaling Ustad Mansur's c. 1625 important painting of the bird in life. #sciart

A Pachyrhinosaurus pathological rib with a 10cm scale

Pachyrhinosaurus bones including a complete pathological rib in situ with a 10cm scale

If you’ve seen Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 ep.5 “The Journey North” you would have seen this #Pachyrhinosaurus pathological rib. We had planned to talk about a different pathological rib that filming day but while the crew was setting up the cameras we found this one! Happy #fossilfriday #wwd2025

Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen The second season of BBC’s hit Walking With Dinosaurs features a team of U of A graduate students helping excavate an Albertosaurus and bring it to life on screen.

#WWD2025
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs
With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned
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Thank you!! 💚✊ We asked you to record everything, photos, videos, all of it, and you showed up. You helped us capture the truth. So proud of every one of you. Tomorrow, there will be more of us. We love you all!

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.

Period

Trump even admitted he knew Elon had a drug problem and still gave him access to America’s most sensitive information. You’d think DOGE would be dismantled, not embedded. You’d think Elon’s staffers would be investigated. But nothing is happening. Something is off.

The blowup between Elon and Trump hasn’t ended DOGE, it’s still expanding. Russ Vought now plans to institutionalize DOGE across the federal government, and Elon’s staffers are embedded deep within key agencies.

Fresh from the field! A tiny Boreonykus tooth I found at the Pipestone Creek Bonebed today! It’s less than a centimetre long! #fossilfriday

Using ChatGPT

This is not about saving money, this is about weakening a class of people who have been trained to think independently, are used to speaking out, and whose voices are respected and listened to.

This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.

The last-ditch race to save the Orinoco crocodile For decades, the men and women of the Venezuelan Crocodile Specialist Group have been raising younglings of the critically endangered species in captivity in a race against time to avoid its extinction

A last ditch attempt to save the Orinoco crocodile.

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Welcome to the land of the free, where your social media likes might just determine your visa status.

The State Department has temporarily paused interviews for foreign citizens applying for student visas from abroad as it sets up new procedures to review applicants’ social media activity.

YouTube video by Mark 1333 Mystery of Pachyrhinosaurus (dinosaur) mass grave in Canada/(Global) - 19/May/2025

Only a short time until #walkingwithdinosaurs releases in the UK! Here’s a video from BBC news about our soon to be even more world famous #Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed at Pipestone Creek! It’s hard to keep my excitement contained to have been a part of this project!

I’m sure we all noticed when google started confusing anguid lizards with cordylids.

The Earth doesn’t “go around the Sun” the Earth goes in a straight line through an area of spacetime that bends around the Sun and I think that’s neat.

Even with all the cutting that DOGE has been doing the US government is still on track to spend more this year than last year. The cuts are tiny drops in the federal budget and have done nothing but ruined lives, ruined research, and made the country worse off.

Internal mold of hadrosaurids scales flattened out along top of tail from the hips down the tail. Gryposaurus... Large mid-line spines clearly visible, possible with one for each vertebra. No feathers here on this remarkable specimen!!! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

simply because their research didn’t align with the administration’s narrative. Let that sink in: the federal government is pressuring a medical journal over what it’s allowed to publish. This isn’t about science or national security, it’s about control. It’s about silencing dissent.