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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳

@pseudoryx.bsky.social
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Ceratopsid paleobiology @ University of Alberta Endlessly chronicling nature with my camera 🇻🇳🇨🇦

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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Does this behaviour apply with other reloading/refreshing methods? (right click - reload tab or Windows + F5)
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Link is not working
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Right. I think I commented on the wrong comment trail even if it is still the same paper.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I want to highlight that this specimen was first described in 1985 (or 86?) and got discussed a few times afterwards. Other authors have seen the markings but dismissed the possibility of feather impressions.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Table S4 has the reconstructed HL and ML estimations. S5 shows an average TL/ML ratio based on extant species. Might be of relevance if you want to run the numbers again.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
and?
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It's almost as if it's a prototype tucked away in a remote area, while other volant swamphens look more finished.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.
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Former Microsoft executive’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny
Seattle Times business reporter Alex Halverson has written about connections between Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Pretty much this. NS's refusal to acknowledge it AND how senior palaeontologists rushed to their colleague's defense mean this thing might keep going for longer.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
1 year only??? So like it's back to bussiness as usual on year 2?
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Dr. Rich B @morphometrich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
(1) Long 🧵 Time. Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Jim. Type A-B-C personalities is a relic of decades past. It's both invalid and unsafe to maintain these categories. You can call out creeps in the field without attempting to establish a link with their success.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here’s someone who needed funding but said no and is an absolute hero. bsky.app/profile/gutman…
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Ingomar Gutmann (@gutmann.bsky.social)
European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️ They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Early career scientists, note all these names down.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Did they detail how they keep the model "unbiased"?
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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mongolian Titan 🦕
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Rip Alberta chasers... Unless this thing extends to a second night.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Sincere temporary suggestion if you cannot afford to pay for stock photos: put out a call for artist and paleoartists for donations; then allocate a bit of your budget to actually pay/license/hire artists properly in your next funding proposal.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
That is... worse. You are using an unethical tool to avoid obtaining licenses. This adoption only gives the impression to other palaeontologists that you do not have any funding to compensate artist properly or value quality, professionalism, and rights of attribution.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Nice! I was sure that the 3rd one would only be a partial duplicate but still missed it.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thank you. This image forensic thing really taps into the figure making and photography side of my brain.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Waiting for someone to find the 3rd problem
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
gizmodo.com/paleontologi...
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Paleontologists Are Fuming Over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals
As AI technology advances, scientists and illustrators are grappling with the future of visual communication.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I strongly suggest that you refrain from using genAI assets in any elements of your websites and social media presence, especially when this is a field strongly tied with natural history illustration. www.iflscience.com/bringing-ext...
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Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? We Asked The Artists
Scientifically, artistically, and environmentally speaking, there’s a lot to take into account.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
All current models from major players are dumpster fire and contribute to users flocking to Firefox. The current ML chat sidebar is unpopular precisely because it signals Firefox's friendliness towards those players.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I personally do not want Firefox to be working on AI at all and prefer that Firefox continue spending its resources on optimization, user-friendly features, and performance. But, if Firefox continues with AI development, the only path that could fly is developing its own model.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Which is also kinda worrying/sad that you aren't the one personally working on this stuff? Just the shift in communication principle between "opt-in" and "opt-out" is already a massively different approach.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
You are the first Firefox person that talks in the same language with its user base. I bet the blowback would not have been this extreme had it been someone like you and not your CEO who was in charge of that public statement.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
You listened to an advertiser to prevent the thing that stops advertisers. By that logic no adblocker works. uBO is one of the best platforms where you can block/bypass adblock detectors. You can either ask the community for a solution or report the specific websites you have trouble with.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Then honestly something is really wrong with your implementation because this is not the case with the majority of userbase, me included. Do you have any other blockers/privacy extensions installed? Have you reached out to the uBlock community to help block specific cases?
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
pain 😂
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Sharing some of my favourites from a friend - Hoang Dao. I like the complex flora depicted and how he frequently camouflages the animals a bit. (In order) Alert - Ghost of the Annamites - Forest Floor - Son Tra Spring.
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Peter Nickolaus @peternickolaus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A group of Dorygnathus use a Seirocrinus raft as a hunting ground for fish, when a big Eurhinosaurus suddenly breaches the surface. This scene takes place in Germany during the Early Jurassic, around 180 million years ago. Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
oh my god
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Artist name?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2025
We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.
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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Would you believe that we don't have an evolutionary tree for the biggest group of fossil jawless fish? UNTIL NOW THAT IS! Our new paper "A Phylogeny for Heterostraci" 10+ years in development, 100+ taxa, is finally out (thread)
Ctenaspis by Nobu TamuraAnglaspis by Nobu TamuraPteraspis by Nobu TamuraLepidaspis by Nobu Tamura
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor:

I was quoted in your publication:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/

Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies.

"They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said.

The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution.
However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/08/2025
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted. Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Pertinent editorial of conflicts between the fossil trade and conducting science stimulated by the important fossils of Shri rapax. Sadly, the distinctive skull was lost and is presumed to be in a private collection. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Phil R Bell, D Cary Woodruff, Khoi Nguyen, Buuvei Mainbayar & Philip J Currie (2025) Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia. doi.org/10.1093/zool... academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia
Abstract. Dinosaur footprints can provide important palaeobiological information, including the speed, behaviour, limb kinematics, and soft tissue anatomy
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I have not done #FossilFriday in a while, so here is a never-before-seen close-up of the metapodial hummocky scales from our Nemegt titanosaur manus ES-4, as described in our paper last month.
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Khôi Nguyễn 🇻🇳 @pseudoryx.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
If it's any consolation, the locals don't take any portrayal of the war from Western movies seriously. Domestic reception of the trailer seems mild. Nobody thinks it will get past censorship, and people were chill when Pettus gave an interview about the war setting.
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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Qilin tungurensis (formally Palaeotragus tungurensis) have a new genus name now! Mainly based on the holotype and paratype AMNH 26582/26583, the part of horn core based on the refered IVPP V33851.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/08/2025
Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
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