paleodude.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

There's nothing more heartbreaking than finding out that you've missed out on a PhD position thanks in entirety to the hell that is the federal government at this point. Science in the states is basically dead or dying.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hoping all of you stayed warm this #FamilyDay with Alberta's last cold snap of the year hitting hard. Luckily I was able to escape the cold at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where I didn't have it as bad as these snowy Pachyrhinosaurus. #paleoart #paleontology #museum

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone who uses any other palico voice besides the funny meows in Wilds is insane and I do not trust their moral character.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Pair of small dicynodonts Diictodon snoozing in their comfy burrow

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Any recommendations for reliable phones? Thoroughly disappointed by Google Pixel having to replace a screen due to a manufacturing error and now dealing with the phone not charging properly.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Homo sapiens

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 31 days ago • 1664 comments

Looks like with the NSF funding freeze I'll really have no other option than to remain in Canada for graduate studies. What an absolutely devastating and cruel administration the GOP has run.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I made a Lythronax

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Who has two thumbs and submitted his first manuscript? This guy! Stay tuned for the deep history of bad luck within Synapsida. #paleontology

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Day 5 of rebuilding a #LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the largest lizard Varanus priscus (the artist formerly known as Megalania). Larger than today's Komodo dragon, V. priscus would've been the top predator of the Ice Age outback. 🧪

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Day 4 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Finally decided to build a dinosaur out of the dinosaur set, that being the Mongolian weirdo Therizinosaurus. When it's extremely long claws we're found scientists thought they belonged to a giant turtle! 🧪

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Day 3 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the "first apex predator" Anomalocaris. With complex eyes and a set of grasping claws it was the terror of the Cambrian seas. 🧪

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

Day 2 of rebuilding the same LEGO set into different critters. This time it's a life size Tully monster! These weirdos are found only in Illinois and for the longest time people weren't sure what kind of animal they were. Recent studies suggest they are chordates. 🧪

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Having found a site which gives you alternative instructions for LEGO sets I've decided to do one for the Creator Dinosaur set daily. Day 1 this awesome Diplocaulus by Ambrosino.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Slow year for dinosaurs if "Labocania aguillonae" is considered news worthy, let alone in the Top Ten Discoveries. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I may have just turned 24 today but this funny little robot toy is still cool as hell. Here's hoping 2025 has even more cool robot toys.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #FossilFriday! This terror bird at the Science Museum of Minnesota is harassing a glyptodont, an enormous armadillo relative. While the group is extinct their closest relatives, the seriema, still terrorizes small prey across South America. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Can we talk people out of donating to Salvation Army entirely, please! They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance. AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic! Fund better charities!

submitted 80 days ago • 45 comments

Are you a fan of Warhammer 40k, Dinosaurs, or tabletop games in general? Then check out Clone-A-Saurus! It was a pleasure working with the team to ensure that you learn a thing or two about dinosaurs while mobilizing your units. #paleoart #dinosaurs

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take; the response people have to weight loss through Ozempic really shows that people don't want to see people get healthier they just want to belittle and mock us for being fat.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Post-Thanksgiving #FossilFriday! Not quite a turkey, this New Zealand Giant Moa at the Museum of Comparative Zoology would've been one hell of a dinner with direct evidence of human hunting. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Thanksgiving

submitted 91 days ago • 49 comments

Finally making the transition from the other site to here, thought I should share some recent art for my first post. I designed this colour scheme for Torvosaurus tanneri, definitely amongst my favourite jurassic theropods. #paleontology #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Next up is Deltadromeus agilis, definitely an interesting taxon to try to reconstruct! We went down the carnivorous noasaurid route in the end. This colour scheme was partially inspired by the Tigrisoma heron species, particularly the Fasciated Tiger-Heron. #paleontology #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Drawing the rhinos and associated fauna of the ashfall beds. I would love to recreate this in 3d but I think to do it justice I would need more info and data than currently is available to me

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Allosaurus fragilis at the @natural-history.bsky.social looming and conniving over a similarly dead sauropod. Note the large and boxy head, an outdated holdover of scarce Allosaurus skull material in the early 1900s. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe I'm wrong but a lot of the times with spec evo people just make weird hodgepodges of extinct and extant animals and this is especially noticeable when reinterpreting designs from popular media. I don't know maybe have a little joy and whimsy?

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Oh look at the time, it's #FossilFriday. This week it's Dimetrodon milleri at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. With a stout skull and relatively large orbits, D. milleri is considered the most basal Dimetrodon species and adorable. #paleontology #paleoart #fossil 🧪

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments