davehone.bsky.social
Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk
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And *especially* not while being bitchy about definitions of species.
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Yeah, they absolutely definitely didn't say they were dire wolves. Nope, never.
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This would have any dire wolf connections would it?
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I messaged a friend of mine the other day saying it would be coming soon.
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And you can't really expect TV critics to keep up with the dinosaur literature. This kind of headline is inevitable even with science writers who can't be an expert in everything.
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The font of the number is pretty horrific too.
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Have you caught this episode of Terrible Lizards? We discuss this whole general problem with @irishpalaeo.bsky.social and you might find it of interest: terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e02-din...
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Thank you! That's really great to hear. I hope your own studies are going well.
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Yes, I'd agree with b), but a lot of those edits are pretty objectively bad.
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If you don't want to suffer through the advert, this is, allegedly, a Deinonychus.
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There's some already on there. I've seen a bunch of 'reviews' of dinosaurs appear in the last year or so that are all incredibly generically written with no details, a bunch of made up references, and from an author I've never heard of.
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We just need to introduce some crocodiles to keep the moose population down.
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Just a weekend break to visit a friend of my partner. Not palaeo related sadly.
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Then maybe we should stop drawing them like they've been crucified:
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I have little evidence that they weren't...
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It's not hard to look back to things like the Royal Institution lectures or contemporary pamphlets and books to see that scientists have always been open to sharing information with the public.
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Ah yes, the good old 'scientists really should try and communicate' canard. It comes round again and again and it's so painfully obviously false. Even before social media gave us a massive new platform, as you say there were always lots of people doing so much stuff through different kinds of media.
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It might be hard to detect any slowing of the glacial UK housebuilding plan.
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Can't feather a Velociraptor but can have full pennaceous feathers on a hypsilophdontid. Hmmmm.
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Very cool!
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Yup. That was from another channel which is a bit different to taking stuff from papers etc., but it's not ideal.
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There was a reason for my ;) at the end...
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London is pretty good though. ;)
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Contains much swearing and my kind of humour that may not appeal to all, but even if that grates, this is really *really* worth watching.
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You can do owls too?
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How will the so-called printing press affect traditional oral storytelling?
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Apart from the dreads, I can totally imagine you wearing that outfit.