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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Correction: we had an October 1st fundraiser. Already hit the goal, wow!

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And, it’s done! Wow. I can’t believe that took less than one day. Thanks, everyone!

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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PhyloPic

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What percentage of quotes attributed to Albert Einstein are things he actually said? Maybe 50%? Lower?

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silhouette I made of a new fossil species named this year, Chosha praecursor. It’s a stem-insect that preserves the paddle-like abdominal legs of earlier crustaceans along with the 6 thoracic limbs of hexapods. www.phylopic.org/images/bbd4f...

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Chosha praecursor (CC0 1.0) - PhyloPic

A free silhouette image of Chosha praecursor (License: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Guys, someone made a list and THE ORDER IS WRONG.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not inform me what the iced coffee discourse is about. I prefer not to know. Or any discourse, really.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)

section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

None, but every paper on the phylogeny of reptomammals uses my silhouettes in their figures.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cleaning out old files and came across one of these. Anyone else remember them? These were a major source of inspiration in conceiving of PhyloPic.

The card for Birds I from the Safari Cards set.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Name an animated film you grew up with.

Bilbo hosts the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves, from the Rankin-Bass animated film of The Hobbit.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am just now discovering the Narnia fandom and hoo boy…

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Transforming turtle systematics: challenges, opportunities and the path ahead by Evers and Joyce 🔗 buff.ly/9dnDRTc #PaleoSky #turtles #systematics #phylogeny #morphology View the full series here: Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities: buff.ly/qiJ0XUO

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16/09/2026

While new things hit the fan every day in America, let's take a moment to remember that when we fight back, we win. The Senate paused the Science-Destroying OMB Proposal's implementation till December. The proposal will put ALL federal grant funding in the hands of Trump's political appointees. 🧵

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#SciArtSeptember 10: Woad Convergent evolution can produce similar body shapes from different starting points, when animals adapt to the same ways of life independently. These are four iterations of otter: a true otter, rakali or water rat, otter civet, and giant otter shrew, related to tenrecs.

A children’s book style illustration of four swimming animals on a blue background: top, Eurasian river otter, then rakali, an aquatic rat with brown and orange fur, then an otter civet with bluish black fur and a grumpy-looking face, and bottom, the giant otter shrew with tiny eyes and a forest of whiskers.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨THERIZINOSAUR NEWS🚨 an incredible study by liao et al. describes kayrasaurus changliensis from the early cretaceous yixian formation of china! the holotype is almost complete, missing only a few hand bones as well as the legs, offering valuable insight into its biology 😍 (art by kohei futaka)

art depicting the newly described kayrasaurus alongside other therizinosaurians from the yixian formation, including beipiaosaurus, jianchangosaurus, and lingyuanosaurus

a skeletal diagram showing the known material from kayrasaurus

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remains of a hesperornithiform (diving theropod closely related to modern birds) including feathers preserved in a coprolite from the Hell Creek Formation: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)

Preserved feathers from a diving bird-like dinosaur contained within fossilized feces, along with a map showing where the specimen was discovered in Montana, U.S.A.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, shoot, I thought I had done a better job keeping my Maryland (Merlin) accent than this! I still say “harrible” and “care-a-mel” and preserve the cot/caught merger. I blame the vocabulary questions.

U.S. heat map. Hotspots: California, Alaska. Cold spots: Dakotas, just west of the Appalachians, Florida, New England coast.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 03/09/2026

Hey... don't do this. This is a recipe for readers misinterpreting morphology based on your figures. Get a human scientific illustrator. We know how to illustrate things in such a way that they won't be misinterpreted.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ekembo nyanzae, previously known as Proconsul nyanzae. Early Hominoid from Rusinga island, Kenya

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here’s my review of Speed Thief: Volume 2, featuring more of Sean Hennessy’s witty and scientifically informed dinosaur comics. 🦕📖🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/08/31/s...

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Speed Thief: Volume 2

More of Sean Hennessy’s entertaining dinosaur comics.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fuck you, Google Maps. Fuck you, Apple Maps. Fuck you, Waze. You utter craven cowards. Making the switch.

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Hudsonia @bopstyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In fact, Dem response should be to expand national parks and animal habitats. Put on platform. Start now for 2028. Make repubs vote against popular ideas.

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#FossilFriday Kutchicetus minimus, a sea otter-sized remingtonocetid whale from Eocene India. #paleoart #paleontology #whale

Illustration of Kutchicetus, a primitive whale that looks like an otter. It has a large head with wide a long, narrow, flute-shaped snout, wide cheekbones, and tiny eyes near the top of its head. It has four short legs with webbed feet and a long, flattened tail like that of an otter or beaver. It has short fur that is light brown with a cream-colored underbelly. Four rows of cream-colored spots go down the animal’s back and sides. It’s depicted in a swimming pose as if it’s diving in search of prey.

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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.

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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most of the top of my head: 5. I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T! 4. Thanks for the nose news, neighbors! 3. Hot stuff, coming through. 2. I was saying Boo-urns… 1. Smell you later, Bart! Smell you later forever!

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s been two years and I don’t think I’ve ever shared this story here: When we were making an animated mural for the Chicago Archaeopteryx display, we wanted to make sure it didn’t upstage or compete with the 1920s Charles Knight paintings it would share space with. 🧵

Rich oil painting of a seaside scene with prehistoric plants, birds, small dinosaurs, and pterosaurs.

Museum display with projected sea side scene overhead. Bronze Archaeopteryx on a pedestal beneath.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...

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U.S. deportees assaulted, threatened at gunpoint in Equatorial Guinea, three say

Immigrants deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea say they have been threatened at gunpoint and fear for their lives while detained at a former hotel.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 19/08/2026

NEW: At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes. www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

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As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t see anything in here, apart from gaps in our knowledge, that would prevent expanding Homo further to the whole total group, or even to including chimps, or beyond. We have to let go of the idea that there is anything behind the designation of “genus” beyond bookkeeping.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here's a chart of US measles cases per year since 2000. Note that 2026 is already a record, and we're barely halfway thru the year. And here's state vaccination rates. Basically, every state that's not green does not have rates high enough for herd immunity. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Chart shows series of waves of measles cases, with the first in 2012-25, the second in 2017-18, and the third one beginning last year and continuing to this year. Every wave is higher than its predecessor.

Chart shows state vaccination rates. Typically, 95% is the standard threshold for herd immunity. Only 10 states are at that level. 13 are below 90%. The trend is bad.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the little legs kicking

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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