Per Ahlberg

@perahlberg.bsky.social

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Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. Views my own.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱

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Per Erik Ahlberg is a Swedish palaeontologist working with the earliest tetrapods. He took his Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Cambridge in 1989 under English palaeontologist Jenny Clack. He is currently professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, University of Uppsala. He has collaborated with Clack on a number of projects. .. more

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8h

Best of luck! These are hard times for so many. My wife’s previously thriving translation/editing business has completely dried up over the past 6 months, apparently because everyone’s using AI🤬.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8h

“Made from girders” used to be their marketing slogan. Drinkable bubblegum is a very apt description.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8h

Such a shame you can’t be here. What are you doing these days?

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 11h

Pets and small children start disappearing in the vicinity…

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d

Also, 80s poodle-rock hairstyles were weirdly convergent on Iron Age warrior hair.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d

My PhD student Rebecca Sheng is attending for the first time and is presenting a poster in the Colbert Prize session on a real rarity: a new, articulated, Devonian tetrapod. So go along, be amazed, and show your appreciation!

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous painting! Is that Irritator in the background?

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna make a subsonic man out of you, eh?

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 4d

You're not travelling at the speed of light though, are you?

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 4d

OK, that's a genuine surprise. One of their periodic 'non-evil' decisions intended to throw the opposition off the scent?

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

And you need to go to a British newspaper to read about it. That also says something.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

I think you missed the point: this, right here, is an AI image of fake flowers.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

But exactly how it had been done and that it was only one of a large number of similar videos (many featuring the same guy). Hopefully it will have made some viewers think.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

I’m pleased to say that Sweden is starting to take this seriously. Just the other evening the main TV news programme (‘Aktuellt’) ran a segment on the viral fake video of the weeping 🇺🇦 conscript, explaining in detail not only that this was 🇷🇺 propaganda featuring the face of an influencer,

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

In the first few centuries AD there was a ferment of ideas about who Jesus actually had been and what he had meant: a flowering of different “christianities” if you like. You could make a case that Nicean Christianity (i.e. “our version”) and Islam are the two main survivors of this flowering.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d

Totally beside the point, but I DO appreciate a passing Lovecraft reference!

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe they should look at historical precedents for what a hungry, desperate populace tend to do to their rulers once they have been pushed past the limit of endurance.

But then again, that would require them to read.

a picture of a ladder that says mnf on the top

Alt: A guillotine against an evening sky, the blade falling again and again.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d

"Small" is probably being generous.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d

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