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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

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Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 21/05/2026

I’ll take their spots. I would love nothing more than for making knowledge through research to be the thing I do with my time, and which feels like it is firmly out of reach because I have to fight for an industry job, while the people in those spots are prompting a bot to do it for them :(

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When PhD students copy Al texts and are unable to answer what's in a quoted source... it's the end of the research degree

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Studying transitional whales with Maiacetus #sciart #paleoart

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Study of Homo erectus, based in approximation off of some of the Dmanisi skulls. #sciart #paleoart

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Studying pinniped anatomy (using Titanotaria) #sciart #paleoart

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renée 🌊🌈🍀 @gelatobear.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

a soirée of seals!! ✨🦭🌊 new poster done just in time for Illo Mart this weekend!! I had fun looking up so many different species 🥹💙 blobs of the sea… #art

An illustrated watercolor-like poster showing different types of seals!

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's still a work in progress with several kinks and wobbles to iron out, but I'm close to acheiving a fully dynamic wing membrane for my Pterosaur rig. No shape keys or parts swapping here, all cloth simulation plus laplacian smoothing.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Joermungandr bolti, Carboniferous 'amphibian' from Mazon creek. #sciart

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Little Baardo @littlebaardo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Had the pleasure of making a sculpture of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex for SHOWANNA Studio. 🦖 Pretty pleased with how this one turned out, I got to nerd out on all of her unique pathologies. The old girl lived a hard life!

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK

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Sign the Petition

Save Geology at the University of Leicester

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Jordan Bestwick @jordanbestwick1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

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Save Geology at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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..

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Amber Bellomio @digitalduck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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...

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NIGHTFALL | A DINOSAUR HORROR SHORT FILM

YouTube video by Digital Duck

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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?

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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?

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.

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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!)

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Little sketch of some crows Ink and marker on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Sketch of some crows made with ink on paper.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

#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

Triassic croc-line archosaur Prestosuchus with open mouth.

Cretaceous coelurosaur Aratasaurus of Brazil.

A brightly coloured tapejarid pterosaur in bright sunlight.

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Ville's art here is outstanding as always!

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Added a couple pink kelp crab beanies to my shop! 🦀🦑🐙🐡 shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/kelp...

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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.

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Deinosuchus, about to smooch the snoot (#paleoart commission!)

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Samuel Benjamin @samuelxl5.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"Swimming Duck" Order prints at samuelxl5.darkroom.com/products/the... #photography #art #birds #wildlife #SciArt

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning! Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴

A painting of a portrait of the palaeontologist Mary Anning. She is wearing a long, tiered dark dress, a bonnet and a red scarf. She’s holding a wicker basket around her elbow and a hold a hammer in her hand. Her other hand points to a small dog on the ground.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I had to reconstruct the new two-fingered therizinosaur Duonychus published yesterday I have been working on various Therizinosaurus for a current commission that I cannot talk much about so I felt I had to reconstruct this taxon as soon as I saw it #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur

Reconstruction of Duonychus standing next to the silhouette of a ca. 1.8 m tall human

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a #Thescelosaurus amidst the #Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous #Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are #Triceratops and #Quetzalcoatlus. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld

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Drollbarracuda @barracudagames.ca · 26/03/2025

Any Dugong fans? These absolute units have a diet consisting of mainly sea grass, they can eat up to 30 kilograms a day. #sciart #dugong #seacow

An illustration of a big round dugong floating under the water.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Update: after battling with RStudio for hours using apparently conflicting plot functions, I’ve achieved a migraine. I’m retreating to manually doing things in PowerPoint

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I get the feeling that, aside from getting funding and justifying your research, the biggest hurdle to science is getting RStudio to INCLUDE THAT FIGURE LEGEND YOU NEED

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Controversial take but I just don't think we should invest a ton of money in space travel until we take care of our own planet. There's this dangerous idea that we can destroy our home because eventually we'll colonize other planets and frankly? We won't live long enough to do that at this rate.

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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 18/03/2025

Science aside. 🧪🦑 The thing that really bugs me about AI images is that REAL IMAGES OF CORAL REEFS EXIST. WHY NOT USE REAL IMAGES INSTEAD OF AI GENERATED GLOSSY UGLY IMAGES THE BURN AN UNREAL AMOUNT OF CARBON EMISSIONS DURING THE PROCESS

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Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com · 18/03/2025

This isn't a singular problem. I've seen (bio) academics of all systems using AI images of trees, animals, and other organisms. Where's the pride for the natural REAL beauty of your system? Do you not have a singular image? Are you not able to ask others to use their images with credit?

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Look at this totally legitimate skeletal mount of Homotherium serum which is definitely from the early 20th century and is very much real #Sciart #Paleoart #Paleontology

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Alex J @palaeosculpting.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sneak peek - how muscular was Homotherium serum, exactly? And should we return to the slope-backed look? Skeletal and soft tissue exploration coming soon (when I have some time away from my thesis!)

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs. And here it is! A nice family portrait. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

A momma Homotherium accompanied by her two playful cubs on a snowy field. The animals are rusty-colored with some light cream and white lighlights, mirroring the colors of the environment around them.

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