Epstein and Maxwell were also apparently on the board of SEED Media Group, with influence over SEED magazine and ScienceBlogs dot com, which is where I blogged in the very early days of my career.
It’s infuriating and dispiriting how cozy scientists and science communicators were with Epstein. Not just creeps like Krauss and Horner, but former SciAm editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina corresponding with Epstein in 2014-2015. “He’s done so much for science, I think that deserves some fun!”
1996 was when I really started developing my musical taste so from here on out it's going to be record release anniversaries that hit hard
Wowza, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture by 3RA1N1AC turns 30 in like 3 weeks. Hard to know how to feel about that!
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Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Part One of my extensive interview with Colin Blunstone of The Zombies, in which we (among other things) go track-by-track through Odessey and Oracle!
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I was listening to Deep Breakfast and decided to read about Ray Lynch on Wikipedia and somehow in only two clicks I was in the article about gas gangrene 😐
Blue Aster Studio table filled with nature inspired stickers, magnets, buttons, tote bags, stationery, ornaments, and screen printed art
National Wildlife Rehabilitators Symposium we are in the house! Baton Rouge 2026 starts bright and early tomorrow.
Three stickers: a leaping fox, chipmunk with full cheeks holding a peanut, and mama skunk with baby chasing after her
Three rectangular magnets: a fox leaping with text Dive Right In, a toad with text Toad You So, and a flying sandhill crane with text Migrate to Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area, Greene County, Indiana
It's been a busy day at Marsh Madness, the annual sandhill crane festival hosted by Friends of Goose Pond. It's our first big show of the year and we debuted a few new magnets and stickers! 🐡🎨🪶
Sleeping dragon with skull in claw and framed with mushrooms
“In the untouched western forests, where mountains cradle mist and time has little meaning, dragons no longer rule the skies. Instead, they root themselves into the land, choosing sleep over fire.“
- Aconite
#dunegonsnyth #printmaking
Very good representation of how that "crinoid mouth" that's really an angled (rounded?) slice through a set of crinoid stalk segments works.
The "slice" is an erosion related thing that's probably pretty recent (caused by the formation of the little rock clast the crinoid is preserved in).
If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.
I am also pretty stunned that
Myhrvold’s name wasn’t pulled from authorship prior to printing given the Epstein connection revelations. Presumably this will be the last time his name appears on the author list of any respectable publication… Right?
In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.
Got a Dr.'s appt today to go over the results of my bloodwork I ran a crowdfunder for last month. Pretty sure they're going to want payment for some other past due bills, so buying one of my pins, #suncatchers, or #art prints will go a long way to help!
Here's a megathread of my Etsy listings: /1
A digital painting of a small fluffy heterodontosaur dinosaur leaping across snow-covered ground. The dinosaur's colouration is based on the puna tinamou, an Andean bird.
Tianyulong confuciusi, a tiny heterodontosaur dinosaur, looking about as happy in the snow as I. Based on an undescribed specimen at the Beijing Museum of Natural History.
Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation is considered warm temperate to subtropical: mostly mild, but occasional snow days are possible.
This Reddit thread is amazing. Literally 100+ people directly telling Adobe how much they suck
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One of the all time great underrated birds
Mammothssss
From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social.
You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social.
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Older male paleontologists don't be fucking creeps challenge
Well I've listened to this new Kashus Culpepper album 3 times this week, I think we've got a banger on our hands
Minimalist microraptor, around two blue spheres with black wings
Minimalist Microraptor
Jack Horner Facebook post from 12 Feb. So, while I'm being investigated by SVP, why don't you outraged paleo-people get back to doing some factual science, using the scientific method. You seem to have forgotten how that works, you know, using actual evidence? For Darren, I think this is essential, as I get the impression from his DinoCon disinvite, he's still cheesed off from Kevin and I pummeling him over the whole Darwin sexual selection argument back in 2013. But, I do thank you Darren, for weeding out the invasive nuisances from my social media platforms, I was curious as to how I was going to do that on my own.
For people outside of paleontology:
This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.
Waiting Room by Fugazi on Steel Pan.
Fuente: @cotepercussion
Palaeoart, on paper, should not have the same systemic barriers of academia, ergo, be quite diverse. There's no staff hierarchy, lower financial barriers, most is online ergo relatively decentralised. And yet, looking at available stats, palaeoart is as bad as paleontological academia. Why?
Yes and yes
A bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.
40th anniversary edition of the Dead Milkmen’s Big Lizard in My Backyard
This record has been making me happy for 40 years.
