Northern lights in the Triassic period
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Northern lights in the Triassic period
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Snow on the ground around bare bushes and branches. A stone wall with a lone conifer. A blue sky over a dark blue ocean.
Snow is still everywhere, despite the warmth. Gazing out at the sea, I contemplate the creatures within it (whales, sharks, fish, etc) and the people across the ocean at the other side.
Deep blue, cloudless sky over a dark blue ocean and a lot of rocks in low tide.
Beautiful day (60s/70s) so I took the day off and went to the ocean.
There, I can think, read, (and sometimes write) to the music of the waves, the birds, the wind.
It's where I feel most peaceful.
His repeated use of the word "females" is all I need to see.
What I gather from this ancient Babylonian dialogue (and others) is that we have grappled with injustice for millennia. We've talked about it with our friends, and we've felt understandably depressed. How can we not?
But we will keep fighting, and the smoke will clear one day...
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
Despite the #ceasefire agreement, we continue to see attacks throughout the #GazaStrip. More than 618 Palestinians have been killed in #Gaza by Israeli attacks since the ceasefire.
There is no safety in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation remains catastrophic.
La Brea Tar Pits ~ megafauna 🐻🦁🦥🐴🐺🦬
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After watching Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, I was inspired to do a big piece based around my fascination with the La Brea tar pits and all the incredible creatures and flora that have been claimed by the tar ⚫️🌿🦴
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#paleoart #iceage #prehistoricplanet
I am pointing at an Emydops (small dicynodont) skull in a drawer. It’s in the 3-4 cm range. Very small. You can see other, slightly bigger dicynodonts elsewhere in the drawer
I don’t think you all understand how small Emydops is. It’s little. It’s babie
Glad to see published a new #GRAVIBONE paper, which is the first paper from @clementine-tetaert.bsky.social, co-1st with @camillebader.bsky.social, and with Charlene Verbeke, on ankle bone adaptation to heavy weight in proboscideans. Congrats!! Well done!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
COULD YOU MAKE GOOD WRITING BY STEALING GOOD WRITING AND JUST SAYING YOU WROTE IT? GOOD. LET'S SPEND $4 BILLION ON THIS AS AN INDUSTRY.
My Infernodrakon life reconstruction during the presentation by
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social, from the 2026 Paleofest. Special thanks to @toddrockford.bsky.social for taking photos.
Size chart of Tyrannosauroid dinosaurs
#Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur Collaborative work: Tyrannosauroid dinosaurs
Jeholopterus
Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper
11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm)
Original sold
#paleoart #SciArt #paleoillustration #paleontology #animalart
"It’s almost as though the government’s lawyers don’t know there’s a Constitution out there..." @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
part of the fauna is probably in the sharks and rays. Keen eyes will notice that some prominent taxa are missing here. This is mostly due to the stratigraphy of the Wadi being an absolute nightmare.While single members are relatively well defined, how they relate to each other...
Result from the Wadi al Hitan #paleostream!
The "valley of the whales" as it is better known is a classic locality from the late Eocene of Egypt. Most famously it is place filled with the remains of early whales, Archaeoceti, but it's less straight forward as a piece than one...
A black-and-white pencil sketch of a shark, Physogaleus, nibbling on the tattered edge of a severed head of the whale Basilosaurus. The large head is lying on its side on the seafloor with mouth wide open, while the shark’s body is very curvy as it attempts to slice off a bite. Near the head on the seafloor is a much smaller crab.
Quick sketch of the tiger-shark-cousin Physogaleus nibbling on the severed head of what would normally be its predator, Basilosaurus. A scene in the shallow waters of late Eocene Egypt, sketched during the Wadi-El-Hitan formation #Paleostream. #paleoart #sciart #shark #whale
Happy #FossilFriday here is a wee climate paper that I coauthored. We found that 20kya eastern Washington was drying and warming up and chasing away all the pesky pine trees (ew, trees).
As usual with pleistocene stuff, my job was figuring out how old all the dirt was (age-depth modelling)
How I always imagined it happened. Dangerous large mammals.
Spent some time in Iowa and went long on Iowa State’s Audi Crooks. Despite her dominance, she deals with a lot of negativity, especially about her body. But no matter what is said about her, Audi Crooks wears a smile. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
Ah. This is 'that' skull. One of two records of the southern mammoth in North America....or not? (depends on who you ask).
Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Leticia Rezende de Oliveira from Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. Sign up here: https://paleopercs.com/participate/
These cancellations were so much more horrible for other people than for me personally, as my fellowship was coming to an end. Huge losses to hundreds of people and dozens of long term projects and ongoing relationships. The loss to humanities has been incalculable
"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects. Two weeks later, they sent a master list of 1,477 problematic awards — nearly every active grant made during the Biden administration..." - Jennifer Schuessler
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
I'm sorry you're having a rough time. Hope all improves.
Early Polish women in Sciences, slide presentation
Palaeontology of Poland presentation slide
I'm having a really rough personal time.
But, on positive personal note, I've started talks with both Polish Consulate in Hong Kong and Beijing Women's Federation, to start series of activities related to promoting historical women in geosciences and palaeontology across China.
Peek-a-boo! Two hunting Cryolophosaurus peer through a hollow log at the viewer.
POV you are a little Jurassic cynodont who has chosen a poor hiding spot