@caitlinrkiernan
Paleontologist & 2-time World Fantasy Award winning F&SF author. McWane Sci. Center & University of Ala. research assoc. (mosasaurs, turtles, PETM). Humanist. Classical liberal. Irish Appalachian. Math nerd. Anti-fascist. Trans; LGBTQ+ They/them/she/her.
Grandmother Fish is the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers. Kids love learning that they are part of the great family of life on Earth, and they love wiggling like Grandmother Fish and hooting like Grandmother Ape. Now in Chinese, Japanese, and Italian.
www.powells.com/book/grandmo...
My long review of the 2025 edition of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs has just been published in Historical Biology. What is the 'use' of Speculative Zoology and how does this book connect to the history of dinosaur research? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YTPSK... #SpecZoo #SpecBio
Amazing how much damage one malignant narcissist can cause.
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Republicans thought they had Texas on lock—they were WRONG. Nearly 4.5 million voters just turned the state upside down, and for the first time since 2020, Democrats actually OUTNUMBERED the GOP. This isn't just a record; it's the regime’s worst nightmare.
See the numbers they’re trying to hide:
This is figure 8. Artistic reconstruction of the filter-feeding pterosaur Barikibu waridza gen et sp. nov. in the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation environment. The spinosaurid in the background represents the putative predator that produced the regurgitalite described herein. Author: Julio Lacerda.
A paper in Scientific Reports presents the discovery of the first known filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics, called Bakiribu waridza, which was found in the Santana Group of Brazil. go.nature.com/3LFon6L #Paleosky 🧪
New paper out in JSP!
Xu et al. report the first fossil true cricket (Grylloidea, †Baissogryllidae) from the Middle Jurassic of north-western China and its systematic implications, based on exquisite forewing fossils.
Read the full study here: buff.ly/Vq5GO02
#PaleoSky #FossilsFriday #MindBlown
I've finished a new Dancy Flammarion novelette, "Gethsemane," to be released later this year by Subterranean Press as a small hardback. Illustrator to be announced (the below illustration was done by Steve Leiber for the Dark Horse Alabaster comic). This is my first Dancy story since 2019.
Perspective.
New Hampshire House Passes Trans Public Bathroom Ban That Bans "Asserting" Ones Identity
www.erininthemorning...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives
This post is not about airships
A study in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had uniquely elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪
🦖 Free Webinar: 200 Years of Vertebrate Paleontology in South Asia
Join Dr. Advait Jukar for a fascinating look at the history and future of vertebrate paleontology in South Asia.
📅 March 11 | 12-1 PM ET
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watch this super cool trailer @briansiano.bsky.social did for "the Drowning Girl" by Caitlin R. Kiernan!
AND Mississippi. Not sure how I left that out, as that state's produced some of the best material from the group.
FABL = fore-aft basal length.
Since this find, remains of eudromaeosaurian theropods have turned up in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, as well as other localities in Alabama, all once a part of the Appalachian subcontinent during the Late Cretaceous.
The cf. Saurornithoides sp. tooth I recovered from the Mooreville Chalk of W. Alabama in '98, first evidence of Troodontidae from SE Appalachia. So tiny (2.8mm FABL), I first mistook it for an odd fish tooth. SEM photomicrograph courtesy Fernbank Sci. Center, ATL. Pub. in '04. #paleosky #dinosaurs
Kansas immediately revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses
www.advocate.com/pol...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
A feature in Nature reports on discoveries in Jurassic rocks that are expanding scientists’ knowledge in how birds evolved. #Paleosky 🧪
What am I writing now? Failure Protocols, to be the fourth and final volume in the Tinfoil Dossier series. With luck I'll finish by the end of March.
MAGA Unreality vs the World
The U.S. government is in the hands of people who are fully detached from reality. That is a major weakness for the regime – but also a source of further radicalization.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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An embarrassment of riches: currently working on a new plioplatecarpin (Demopolis Chalk), a new selmasaurin (Niobrara Fm.), and the solution to a longstanding mystery regarding halisauromorph taxonomy (Mooreville Chalk). All I need are more hours in the day. #paleosky #mosasaurs
Did you know..?
Today more species of frogs exist than mammals 🐸
Frogs have been evolving and diversifying for over 250 million years! Hop on over to JSP to find out about a slightly younger (100 million year old) ancient frog: buff.ly/uZx2JCe
#Paleosky #FunFact #MindBlown
Republicans Send Federal “Don’t Say Trans” Act to Committee
www.transvitae.com/r...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
A new hadrosauroid ornithopod species from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Densuș-Ciula Formation, Romania
Kryptohadros kallaiae gen et sp. nov.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Research shows how social media algorithms such as that of Twitter shift users toward more right wing views.
#SocialMedia 🧪
A good argument for keeping AI out of classrooms...and lots of other places.
SHOULDN'T FUCK CHEAT!
*mutter*
