Gold Rush San Francisco had a protein problem. The solution? Seabird eggs. If you were an egg in the city back then, odds are you were a common murre egg from the Farallones—harvested by the hundreds of thousands. A strange Bay Area history, with a Marin park and one mysterious egg at its heart. 🥚🌊
Y’all have been so sweet about my website errors recently, please enjoy 10% off all paper originals through 3/21!
I don’t normally discount originals but I just feel awful about the website hiding them from you. Thank you all!
www.beastieandbone.com/gallery
It's exciting to see snippets of #SurvivingEarth coming out from #ImpossiblePictures (www.instagram.com/picturesimpo...). One of the clips features #Arctodus, the #ShortFacedBear, here's my design sheet, which was used by the production team.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PaleopArt #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me
For #BirdOfTheDay the theme is #Corvidae and I thought I would show you my entry to the #postcardartexhibit which is currently in The Netherlands, vs the reference photo I took.
#birds #birdart #art #painting
#EQHistory: 3/10/1933 M6.4 Long Beach. This EQ destroyed several school buildings. Had it struck during school hours, the death toll would have been far higher. Just 30 days later, California passed the Field Act — one of the first US laws mandating seismic building standards. buff.ly/cKH6m49
oh god!
Elevated water table triggering an idealised 3D-printed rotational landslide. Complete with a Monopoly house on top.
A paper, presenting six different 3D-printable landslide models, has now been submitted for review. Once it is published, they will all be made freely available.
Get printing!
Tree trunk being transported by bike using a trailer.
"But what if I want to transport a huge tree trunk?"
www.facebook.com/groups/carry...
People where I live have admitted to hitting flex posts on purpose to make cycle lanes accessible to cars and to discourage cycling. If they can do that without fear of consequence (neither damage to their vehicle nor social, other financial or legal consequences), flex posts aren't up to the job.
Global distribution of female scholars in vertebrate palaeontology research in 2023, displayed as the proportion of female authors by country. The pie charts illustrate regional variations, while the line graphs show the temporal trends in female scholar proportions among the top five countries by publication volume (2014−2023). Research articles| 14 May 2025 A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies by Haohan Wang ; Juliana Sterli ; Vincent Dupret ; Henning Blom ; Annalisa Berta ; Susan Turner ; Daoming Han ; Luyan Xu ; Zhaohui Pan
Happy International Women's Day 💐
Did you know, for every 7 men in palaeontology, there are ~3 women. Women make up 25-35% of global vertebrate palaeontological publishing output. And are most likely to study mammals, while men, reptiles.
Felted nudibranchs!!!!!!!! 😍🌊🐌🦑🐡
Death Valley wildflower bloom
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“Wildflowers, South Death Valley” — A flower-covered landscape.
Is this a so-called “super bloom” year…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/07/w...
#deathvalley #wildflowers #superbloom #photo #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography
👀 the elevated chainstays!
screen cap of Watch Duty app map showing high winds moving sw across the San Gabriel mountains
Yikes...does everyone in southern California have Watch Duty open? #wind #CAwx
Oh, of course they are here on Bluesky already:
@hey.cafe
Polished section of a fossil fern showing the internal structure of the trunk. There is a thick mantle of small roots (R) surrounding the trunk. The vascular tissues of several leaf bases are visible. Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit.
Of course the best fossils are always ✨Paleozoic plants✨ This is a polished section of a Psaronius tree fern from the early Permian (~290 million years) of the Czech Republic 🌿⛏️ We can see the root mantle (R) and the base of several leaves (arrows). Happy #FossilFriday & #FernFriday! #paleobotany
laser scan showing a Fractofusus
Laser scanning Johnson surface
This #FossilFriday we have a fantastic post as part of our 5 year project on Understanding selection in the early animals of the #Ediacaran. This research technician post will process our #Ediacaran laser scan data - DM/email: ek338@cam.ac.uk, deadline 12th April 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
A mosasaur skull biting an opalised ammonite fossil Source : https://korite.com/blogs/news/ammonites-with-mosasaur-bite-marks?srsltid=AfmBOoqTN4Qe49bVvReHFPzimOh67nwYzY17F6F_9MFe8P_miYSqZ-5j
🧵A scientific cold case for #FossilFriday
For decades, mysterious holes in fossil ammonite shells were attributed to mosasaur bites.
But what if the real culprit was even more terrifying...
Let me tell you about one of these little debates that makes palaeontology so cool👇
Image of an apple watch tied to a prototype wave buoy floating in water. The buoy is actually a pool chlorinator.
What can you do with all the sensors on your smartwatch? Here are some ideas to get you started.
- Build a Wave Buoy
- Measure Tidal Inundation
- Deploy as a stream gauge
- Classify road quality while bicycling
and 10 additional projects below.
www.tiniscientific.com/field-projects
Small shallow murky narrow pond in low spot along the fault. The background hills parallel to the length of the pond glow gold in spots, covered with yellow flowers.
😍 Seismology 🤝 Hydrology
+ Botany
Sag pond along the San Andreas fault. Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Can't believe this was my first visit here, it's definitely good geophysics site seeing! Will definitely come back.
Prepare for flood of photos as I eventually sort through them 😆
Late night B-movie idea: "The Pelecypod From Hell" ⚒️
Oh, I'm so sorry.
It's been a rough week or so for me and the most generous, supportive folks have shown up in the best ways. That's been giving me hope.
👀 another reason for my declining running pace? CO2’s messing with my blood and bones 🤯
The extent of 11 geomorphic classes used to classify seabed Features. Geomorphic classes demonstrate considerable overlap in their distribution, particularly on the continental shelf and upper slope. Geomorphic units are generally smaller than their Physiographic context. NB *terms are not included in the ISGM vocabulary.
🚨 New paper! 🚨
We now have a unified and comprehensive classification framework for seafloor #geomorphology, which will, with a bit of luck, get us all naming things the same way.
Major step forwards to be able to study the ocean's floor consistently. 🌊🧪
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
*Very* disappointed that the #OSM26 team didn't make this advice clearer earlier. I mean, there's a sign opposite the #ScottishEventCampus and everything. What am I supposed to do with my radioactive sea monster now?!? 🌊
🍩DYK Small Spotted Catsharks are known to curl up into a protective circle/doughnut shape when they feel threatened?
I have only ever seen this once diving all others have behaved like this one - not the slightest bit bothered by this neoprene clad air breather!
🤿🌊🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
And for fuck’s sake don’t upload photos of people to AI without their consent
Oh holy hell, this is so f*cked up. Damn it.
