I am also now small time invested in this story.
Geologist of Precambrian mud and tiny fossils. Working Class. Northern. ND. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/worksofein
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I am also now small time invested in this story.
Also, right, it's #portfolioday ! I'm the Captain, and I draw spaceships and robots.
Thanks! Probably, but I wonder how the fossilisation process will change the plastics.
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Interesting! I'll check it out!
Not yet. I'm hoping to try that on individual fossils in the near future. It just depends if I can get a postdoc or fellowship to continue doing science after this funding ends in December.
That's why I like them.
It's incredible, isn't it!? I can't discuss their biological affinity at the moment. We'll be submitting a paper in the next week or so. At best, they would be super distant ancestors.
I'm not sure I agree, but I like this kind of chaos.
14 panels inked and ready for colours 🍄 ☁️
Hey, me too. The amount of snobby dick heads I've had to deal with at Oxford and then in wider academia who jump on any chance to put the boot when I mispronounced a word, or they didn't like my accent. This includes pronouncing my own name.
One time, when I was wee, I had a very earnest discussion with the vicar at Sunday school about the similarity between Jesus and Optimus Prime.
Autistic Me: “ … … …” Me: “What” Autistic Me: “Nevermind … … …” Me & ADHD Me: “What!?!” Autistic Me: “ … is this a safe space?” Me: “… yyyeah.” Autistic Me: “Based on the Annunciation … isn’t Jesus … like … Isekai'd to Earth … and the Bible is a … well … he does …” Me: “Stop”
Forbidden Syrup
Here's an extreme close up of the wall of a 3 billion year old micro #fossil. The view is 10 microns, or 0.01 mm across. Some of the structures you can see here are in the nanometre scale. The little red-orange bits are the mineral titanite #geology #paleontology
Sneak peek at new exhibition at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum for the #ScotGeolFest25 Pop by and see if you’re up in the highlands! Running until October 12th @scottishgeology.bsky.social #ScottishGeologyFestival
#Smol
Mobile Armoured Cat Transporter Module
The boys are back in town dot mp3. @drskyskull.bsky.social the new Ultra Magnus has come a long way from the one we had as kids. #Transformers #StudioSeries86
Love my ocean art but live outside the US or want it in a different format than I offer directly, like a canvas or metal print? Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc... They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
Why would you call me out like this 😅
Current vibe
Totes jelly.
"You know how it is. Monday morning, right!?" Then I do double finger guns and moon walk away.
he has the perfect amount of fingers
An Orthoconic nautiloid fossil (wet and dry). "The curved septae separating the chambers are distinctive and the blobs in the centre are parts of deposits along the central siphuncle which is what connects all the chambers." Thanks to @burrengeopark for the ID and info. County Donegal, Ireland.
That would be super fun.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
The Glowspine Beetle is one of the many insects to be found in Strangehollow. Learn about it and the creatures it preys upon in my book launching on 16th Sept! You can get notified of launch here: buff.ly/jpbhbUT #watercolour #insect #artbook #creatureart #crowdfunding
In the UK we also call these birds "Spuggies". Do you have other names for them where you are?
New #ISEPpapers! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives" #protists #microbes
The Age of Hog is over. This is the Dawn of the Wattoning.
I feel all that. Everything I've ever created is just a pile of flaws to me. 😅
There another two days of #InverteFest if you want to request an invert painting.
A pair of beautiful Carboniferous tetrapod skulls on display at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum for #FossilFriday
Life in 2025:
All sorts of things include algae and something else. We are trying infrared analysis atm, but so far, they are proving difficult to characterise.
"A small Boulder the size of a large Boulder is worth its wait in Boulder"
Logging on to Bluesky.
I can't believe mincup has been going for 35 years already! I remember when I was a kid, before the Internet, mincup was a panini sticker book, which was the style at the time.
Love this movie
The most famous hunting behaviour for cuttlefish is the Broadclub Cuttlefish's (Ascarosepion latimanus) "passing-stripe" display. The cuttlefish will extend its arms and create a pattern of downward moving stripes, which confuses prey long enough for the cuttlefish to strike. 🦑📽️Julian Finn
we've identified a hole in the greeting card market and i intend to exploit it #comic
Love my ocean art but live outside the US or want it in a different format than I offer directly, like a canvas or metal print? Check out my InPRNT shop! www.inprnt.com/gallery/nonc... They are running a sale this weekend, with up to 40% off depending on print type. 🦑🐙🐡 #InverteFest
#FossilFriday An #Acritarch from the Cambrian Wheeler Shale. This example has an age of about 508 million of your Earth years. This is a stack of about 15 images at 100x mag
The last time I painted a #tardigrade was in 2021. I begrudgingly accept that there *may* have been a tiny bit of improvement. 😅 #OneHourAnimal #SciArt
Arthrotardigrade for #InverteFest as requested by @jopabinia.bsky.social This was from an SEM image hence the funky colours. tried to make this one looser and more painterly. Couldn't find a credit for the original SEM image #SciArt #tardigrade
🚨 Science-y family event alert! 🚨 For children 7-10, September 20th, at the Geological Society of London. Spaces are limited, and I hear that two of my four workshops are fully booked...so if you want to join me don't wait too long!! programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/4938
Same applies in STEM too.
It's variable price but inexpensive. www.heliconsoft.com/helicon-focu...
I'd you're focal stacking, I'd recommend a dedicated program like helicon focus, over photoshop. There's much more control over the final image.
If you've ever struggled to take good photographs of fossils (or other reasonably stationary natural history objects), here's a beginner's guide to scientific fossil photography I wrote a while ago (and should probably update). coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2016/02/pale...
This sounds really cool. Wish I knew enough about bacteria to apply.
We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG... #Art #SciArt
Oh boy, I felt that.
Dusk stories✨ ...phone, iPad and desktop wallpaper size available, link in bio! ^o^
Thanks, I wish I could see it the way folks see it!
Wow, thanks. I genuinely thought it was one of my worst quick paintings 😅
This is an extreme close up of a 3 billion year old microfossil for a bonus #InvertFest The view is about 50 microns across. #Geology #Paleontology
Thanks, this one was a total beast. I really struggled with it.
Cladorhizidae sponge as requested by @apxperfectionist.bsky.social from an image by Ivan Marin. This was a real challenge so it's not my best. This is as good as I could get it in the time available. About 3 hours in total. #InvertFest #OneHourAnimal #Sponge #SciArt
Painting sponges is surprisingly challenging. This is as far as I could get in an hour. #InvertFest #OneHourAnimal #Sponge
Uh oh, what did startrek do?
So at grad school I met a guy who was willing to pay £££ for salt from my Precambrian rocks because he thought it would be more "pure" and have less "bad ions".
Sorry pal, I'm not hiring any one for the foreseeable future.
Thanks. It's going to be literally years before I can think about hiring anybody. I'm broke and my day job is taking up all my time and mental capacity. :)
I love everything about this piece. Every aspect works together to unify the whole and tell a story without words. I aspire to be this good.
Thanks, that's very kind to say.
My latest! I wrote about a newly-discovered land crocodile the size of a siberian tiger, part of a larger story of competition between galloping crocodiles and predatory dinosaurs in South America that lasted well into the Cenozoic
My test prints for acrylic charms arrived! Is this the sort of thing anyone would be interested in buying if I sold them?
Totes jelly, I've yet to get a single version of this mold.
realistic Star Trek
This month's #BirdWhisperer is the Pompadour Cotinga, a little lad from a amazonian rainforest. Reference photo by Mike Goad. #Bird #art 🦢
It’s the season for dig-day cicadas for #invertefest 🧪🐡
Sickos dot Jay peg
The heft on that! Wasn't expecting it to be so big!
Thank you!
I look forward to seeing the video!
Yeah, one of my #OneHourAnimals. I just copy a photo
#InvertFest Neverita duplicata as requested by @joxter.bsky.social it was difficult to find a good picture of the live animal. See pinned comment if you want to request a critter for the August Invert Fest
Listen, NT's, you've got a choice. Either I keep my "resting misery face" or I look like a mutant from an Aphex Twin video.
Really nice work, well done!
There was an injured pigeon on my commute near home. It was too timid for us to help it. I left fruit, and other people left water and nuts. But it still died. This morning, someone left a little pile of flowers for it. So now I'm sat on a packed bus trying not to have emotions about a wee pigeon. 😭
Oh HIIEEEEEE!!!! Yeah, here it is; this is the talk I gave and an additional diagram I made. I hope they're helpful! youtu.be/_p4jmlj-Fkk?... #paleoart #paleontology
Asking for myself: does anyone know an Indigenous women in science at an Ivy League? I am looking for mentoring around navigating the specific elements of Ivy institutions as an early career rooted in community work… and I don’t seem to have any one to ask for advice. It’s lonely out here 🥺
I put this on Medium so it's easier to share: medium.com/@duncanvm/th... @clearautism.bsky.social
Another beautiful and mysterious protist brought into the light!!
I'm sorry they did this to you. It's really crappy and bang out of order.
Mossworm has spent the past week finding errors in iDigBio's new AI search tool and criticizing both the rationale and the implentation of AI in this widely used biodiversity database.
Massive colour appreciation of this polychaete larva (probably family Capitellidae). Loving your look, you gorgeous worm! #marineplankton 🦑
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Loved the Dirty Pair when I was a kid.
you think you're safe from clams on land? behold, TREE CLAMS #InverteFest
Glad to share our latest article on the statistical structure of geological time scales. doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... time scales are defined by the most extreme epoch defining events, while we've found that the distribution of the boundaries is itself extreme multifractal! 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
Excited to share our pre-print examining microbial activity and carbon utilization in the serpentinizing subsurface! Tl;dr: Serpentinite-hosted microbes are notably active, thriving on DIC despite alkalinity. Implications for #astrobiology, #carboncapture, and #GeoH2! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I see similar trends in my proterozoic material. The coarser "detrital" kaolinite on the low TOC shelf is relatively permeable. But the "authigenic" kaolinite in the high TOC basinal regions is very fine grained, silica cemented, and super tight.
Interesting. I see similar things in my proterozoic material.
"-nobody likes basalt blocks" Inverts of the Labrador sea know what's up. Respect.
Perfect timing for #InverteFest because my second thesis paper is out! TLDR; I counted two bajillion hydrozoans and about a dozen guys of every other species combined on four different types of substrate (rock, mesh, plastic, and wood) to see if larvae have preferences! peerj.com/articles/198...
