Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Honestly 15 years of sci comm and in the end we just ended up with this

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

If there's one thing the US knows how to do, it's pour a horrifying amount of money and resources into a war, and then lose.

Vietnam.
Drugs.
Now immigration.

Get ready to lose again, assholes.

Keep your eye on the donut, not on the hole

keep it up man

#JurassicWorldRebirth Round 2. Thanks @colliderfrosty @collider @pnemiroff @jurassicworld

Keep your eye on the donut, not on the hole

I told you guys

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

We're not sure if a hummingbird is more closely related to a pigeon or to a penguin. 🪶🧪

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Curious bsky.app/profile/asha...

I will note for the record that Andy Kim hasn't said shit about any of this

Mr. Moore said it better than I ever could:

glycon.livejournal.com/13888.html

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

Infernodrakon gets chomped

Finished ep1 of #WWD2025. Pretty good! The interplay between the Cretaceous story and the IRL digsite segments was obviously the highlight - if anything I wish those segments were expanded upon instead of just being narrated over most of the time.

Covid killed millions of people worldwide and the damage that it did to societal cohesion and democratic governance may still have eclipsed the physical damage

illustration of a snake being held by a gauntlet, the snake's long tongue is out

I had to do some warm up drawing to get back into it before a month ahead of head down at the drafting table and this one got me back into the swing of things

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

LLMs are "’extremely good at playing into cognitive biases because of their ability to respond and adapt quickly to the user.’ She [Dr. Christin Chong] likens this to a psychic or medium performing a ‘cold reading’ on a customer to create the illusion of special knowledge about them.”

The new Walking With Dinosaurs is here!

A quarter century ago the original inspired this geeky teenager to study dinosaurs. I hope this series does the same for a new generation!

A special full circle moment to work on the series & consult with @arctomet.bsky.social & @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

If you use AI you are supporting artistic theft and killing the planet.

Surely this is crowdfundable

in the lost world: jurassic park, jeff goldblum tells vince vaughn that the island full of dinosaurs isn't a "wild goose chase" but rather "the only place in the world where the geese chase you" which begs the question: has ian malcolm ever even interacted with a goose

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Sovereignty defeats Journalism is a bit on the nose.