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davidj98.bsky.social
A ginger with a soul enjoying dinosaurs, Legos, art, and rocks.
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 24 days ago • 284 comments

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 24 days ago • 445 comments

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

submitted 34 days ago • 307 comments

JFC. I mean, not a surprise, but the Mauna Loa CO2 observation started by Keeling in the 1950s has been the longest continuous monitoring of atmospheric greenhouse gases in the world.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 77 days ago • 433 comments

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

submitted 78 days ago • 296 comments

So we have joined the Russian Mafia. Not a question!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I've exhausted every possible expression for what we're seeing. Fresh f*ckery every f*cking day. Hard won progress — testaments to the triumph of endeavour, of science, of compassion, of understanding; beacons of comfort, joy, and celebration — being violently demolished at a stroke.

submitted 78 days ago • 14 comments

Enjoy Ukrainian palaeoart 🇺🇦 from the 1930-1960s gracing the halls of Kyiv Natural History Museum. Featuring works of Ukrainian Greats, like Іван Їжакевич or Федора Кричевського. Also А. Л. Эккерт and Наталья Покатаева.

submitted 79 days ago • 11 comments

And Stalinism, in one. There's reason Prussia doesn't exist and native residents of Crimea are somewhere off in Central Asia (along with displaced Volga Germans).

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Since algorithms across various social media platforms are making it harder to see what you enjoy, here's a thread of #paleoart I think is underrated or a tad overlooked. Kicking things off with Sam Milkovits' azhdarchid portrait

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

submitted 98 days ago • 743 comments

Hey chat, do you ever just -gets ripped in two by the existential horrors-

submitted 100 days ago • 84 comments

The day when Elon dies will be so righteous and I cannot wait

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

submitted 109 days ago • 10 comments

BBC Earth doesn’t seem to have an active account on here, so I thought I’d share the news. First look at Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)!

submitted 115 days ago • 12 comments

I am alarmingly heterosexual man but I am prepared to explode in a cloud of gay anger on behalf of my friends tonight

submitted 117 days ago • 83 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 117 days ago • 527 comments

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

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Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol... Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome palaeos! Remember to find the starter packs on palaeontology to find more of us! @alinemghilardi.bsky.social's pack is a good start! go.bsky.app/QWhLarC

submitted 183 days ago • 5 comments

Been a year of the dinosaurs for me!

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment