Claude ✡️🦖🦕

Picture of a small green parrot standing on my arm looking at camera in front of a Christmas tree It took (no joke) around 50 attempts to get a non blurry photo because she kept moving and she is kind of the same colour of the tree

Small grey parrot with yellow face standing on my finger in front of a Christmas tree In contrast it only too 4 attempts to get this photo

The bird's Christmas pictures are here #parrotsky #birdsky #conure #cockatiel

Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs

@ichnologist.bsky.social Sea turtle traces in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/s... ⚒️

oh i hate our media so much.

they really are the problem.

if we got rid of our media the country would improve almost overnight.

DWP Plans for Bank Account Surveillance Likely to Breach Privacy Law

#BankServeillance

The DWP bank Spying Bill is now law. Read the blog from @disrightsuk.bsky.social on the concerns around this terrible bill and the devastating impacts

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dwp-pla...

‘Prehistoric Planet’ Defrosts Strange Animals Of The Ice Age The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back to life.

The Science Friday interview I did with Dr Emily Lindsey of La Brea Tar Pits and Museum on #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is now online ... watch the series on Apple TV ! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/pre...

とーん。

早く元気になりますように。

#セキセイインコ #birds

a photograph of wisdom with her hatchling, which is fuzzy and brown in contrast to its mother's predominantly white plumage

congratulations to wisdom, the laysan albatross who is the oldest-known bird living in the wild at 75 years of age, on the hatching of her newest chick! wisdom has outlived at least one mate in her lifetime, and has mothered around 60 offspring
📸 by dan rapp

We're going to look back on this period of Labour government in the same way we view Thatcher's Tory period of Section 28 bigotry.
Starmer and his cabinet absolutely own the current trans-hostile nature of the now-ironically named Equality and Human Rights Council.

think you made a bit of a typo with ophiacodon here

PELYCOSAURIA, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWx... dedicated to early Synapsids. Many more more kinds of Synapsids are included there. 🐉 Pelycosaurs are known for their back sails, very trendy in the early Permian 🐉 #pelycosauria #synapsids #permian #dimetrodon #paleoart

a yellow-eyed tuxedo cat named luna sits on the edge of the kitchen sink

happy #caturday from luna, the perfect lifeform

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

so many cool, inventive and interesting animated projects none of you even knew were being made for the past few years just got shitcanned because of this netflix/wb merger

When you're like "geez there's no animation jobs" "geez there's like no new shows anymore", this is why

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

#PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!'

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Volume renderings of CT scan data of the holotype skull of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541). The top image is mostly a left lateral view. The bottom image is a ventral view showing the caudal half of the hyoid bone preserved in place.

Additional images (all in ventral view) of the holotype skull of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541). The top right image is from the original 1946 article by Charles Gilmore showing the full ceratobranchial hyoid bone in place. The bottom photograph (that I snapped in 2005 when I had the skull on loan for study & CT scanning) shows the caudal half of the hyoid bone preserved in place. The top left image is similar to the bottom image but is grayscale except for the hyoid bone.

The main photograph (again, that I snapped in 2005 when I had the skull on loan for study & CT scanning) shows the caudal half of the hyoid bone of Nanotyrannus (CMNH 7541) preserved in place, but it's more of a front view. Notice the broken end of the ceratobranchial in a close-up in the inset.

#FossilFriday The awesome new article in Science by
@griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social et al. adds more evidence for the validity of Nanotyrannus by showing that the hyoid bone in the holotype has adult bone histology. Here are some more images showing the ceratobranchial bone in place in the skull. 🦖

Becoming A Monster

Becoming A Monster
Part 1 of 3
#art

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Neither Donald Trump nor any Supreme Court majority can “roll back” birthright citizenship. It’s a power the people have never granted them.

One Tech Tip: Want to turn off Meta AI? You can't — but there are some workarounds If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram. you probably noticed a new character pop up — answering search queries, entering your group chats and eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds.

I'm old enough to remember when tech reporting helped you learn how to use new features as they came out.

Now it helps you AVOID new features the tech companies are trying to force upon you.

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Photo of 3 Black vultures, with their black plumage and naked black heads, all sitting on the same branch. They remind me of the scene in the Disney animation "The Jungle book" where 4 vultures, drawn and voiced to have a resemblance to the Liverpool band The Beatles, bored from doing nothing, argue over what they might do before spotting and singing to Mowgli

#Brazil #Pantanal 2019

"What we gonna do?" "I don't know what d'you wanna do?" "I asked first, what we gonna do?"

Canon 5Dmk4 360mm f/9 1:400s ISO10,000

#TheJungleBook #BirdOfTheDay #Black #Birds #Disney #Travel #TheBeatles

Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San Martín region, following the trail of a squirrel species first described from there in the 1990s. At the…

On an expedition to a remote Peruvian reserve to search for a squirrel last seen 30 years ago, researcher Silvia Pavan’s team instead discovered a new mouse opossum species, Marmosa chachapoya.

With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.

A plump, ground-dwelling bird with rich brown and patterned plumage stands among leaf litter on the forest floor, surrounded by scattered dry leaves and earthy tones.

Here's a bonus #borbs for #BirdoftheDay

I had just entered this trail in the forest at San Gerardo de Dota a few days ago, very early in the morning, and found a small covey of Spotted Wood-quail. These delightful (and extremely loud) birds live in the dark cloud forests at high elevations.

#birds

What the actual fuck are we doing as a species

Telkaralura, the largest we know of the gracilisuchids, a Triassic lineage of crocodile relatives.

You will be visited by three spirits

The spirits:

A digitally painted portrait of a Daemonosaurus

Did a 2nd Daemonosaurus just for fun

Infographic explanation The same image across the top is a crop of the maxilla and nasal of Tyrannosaurus rex (AMNH 5027), the first being a crop from Osborn 1912 (plate, digitally made available by the AMNH). It's separated into A, B, C, with the latter two faded and overlain with tracings and sketches, describing fine vascular features (in B) and large "pits" (in C). Below it, is the inset text: "Tyrannosaurus rex AMNH 5027 (maxilla). Osteological correlates to a dense, keratinized facial dermis inferred from low and high-relief structures (large "pits") and extensive vascular grooves surrounding antorbital fossa." Image sup-parts D includes a key for E-H, describing layers of bone and integument (dermis, scales, cornified structures), described various hues of red, orange, and yellow. From bottom up, bone in black, deep dermis in orange (where Sharpey's fibres are most common), yellow in the middle for the meso and epidermis, red for the cornified epidermis, and dark red for scales, which sometimes have bony cores in crocodilians and lizards. Bottom right are E-H, showing various thicknesses and bone "texture" related to relief of structures. E: glabular, labile, or squamous skin. This is shown with a thick dermis and vague correlation between bone and scale placement. F: ridged and corrugated bone is related to a thicker, sometimes cornified (keratinized) epidermis. G: canaliculate or grooves bone texture is associated with more extensive cornified dermis, related to increased vascularization and reduced meso and deep dermis depth. H: high-relief corrugated with secondary grooves, depicted strongly ridged bone with grooves incised into them, an exagerration of G.

#FossilFriday and #SciArt

The maxilla of various Tyrannosaurus specimens (perhaps or not "rex") have several peculiar, and possibly diagnostic, surface features relating to their integument (skin, horn, whatnot).

We begin with, and perhaps best with, AMNH 5027, the "archetypal" T. rex skull.