Gaf
@gaffamondo.bsky.social
Scientific and natural history illustrator, graphic designer, occasional writer. Interests: palaeontology 🦕 archaeology 💀. Projects: Wisbech & Fenland Museum fundraising, The Google Book Project, Beware! The Radio/Zine. #sciart (Gareth Monger, he/him).
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We also have a huge range of drop in art activities, displays, and some truly incredible colouring sheets from @tetzoo.bsky.social @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social @saralutra.bsky.social @gaffamondo.bsky.social and more!! Such a fantastic way to get creative or just chill down after a busy day! 🦖
July 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We also have a huge range of drop in art activities, displays, and some truly incredible colouring sheets from @tetzoo.bsky.social @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social @saralutra.bsky.social @gaffamondo.bsky.social and more!! Such a fantastic way to get creative or just chill down after a busy day! 🦖
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These absolutely brilliant colouring sheets are part of the art activities at next weekends @dinoconuk.bsky.social found in our creative space to relax, inspire, or chill out. Thanks to incredible @saralutra.bsky.social and the ever lovely @gaffamondo.bsky.social 🏴☠️🖤🦖
August 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
These absolutely brilliant colouring sheets are part of the art activities at next weekends @dinoconuk.bsky.social found in our creative space to relax, inspire, or chill out. Thanks to incredible @saralutra.bsky.social and the ever lovely @gaffamondo.bsky.social 🏴☠️🖤🦖
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So very close to walking out on my job.
April 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So very close to walking out on my job.
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my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
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Sheep don't only devastate ecosystems by eating all tree seedlings and other diverse wild flora, they trample and consume the eggs of ground-nesting birds like curlew.
Time to give farmers the option of being paid for NOT farming, ie rewilding.
youtu.be/6NMHMpuREaw?...
Time to give farmers the option of being paid for NOT farming, ie rewilding.
youtu.be/6NMHMpuREaw?...
sheep eat curlew eggs
YouTube video by innes smith
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March 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sheep don't only devastate ecosystems by eating all tree seedlings and other diverse wild flora, they trample and consume the eggs of ground-nesting birds like curlew.
Time to give farmers the option of being paid for NOT farming, ie rewilding.
youtu.be/6NMHMpuREaw?...
Time to give farmers the option of being paid for NOT farming, ie rewilding.
youtu.be/6NMHMpuREaw?...
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#ArtBoost today is for Firda Assoy aka firdassoy, of mysterious position about the globe, who produces beautiful, complex, colourful images showing #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #marinemammals #fossilfish and more. Main gallery is on Instagram. Real #palaeoart champion, love the work! Not sure if on BSky.
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#ArtBoost today is for Firda Assoy aka firdassoy, of mysterious position about the globe, who produces beautiful, complex, colourful images showing #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #marinemammals #fossilfish and more. Main gallery is on Instagram. Real #palaeoart champion, love the work! Not sure if on BSky.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
How did they go from a reasonable design in #JurassicPark3 to the absolute disaster in #JurassicWorldRebirth? Anyway, #Spinosaurus is trending again.
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#JurassicPark #dinosaur #theropod #palaeontology #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #illustration
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#JurassicPark #dinosaur #theropod #palaeontology #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #illustration
February 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
How did they go from a reasonable design in #JurassicPark3 to the absolute disaster in #JurassicWorldRebirth? Anyway, #Spinosaurus is trending again.
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#JurassicPark #dinosaur #theropod #palaeontology #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #illustration
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#JurassicPark #dinosaur #theropod #palaeontology #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #illustration
Packing up to move house, and classic wooden #Tyrannosaurus kit emerges from the half-finished V1 model and the cobwebs...
January 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Packing up to move house, and classic wooden #Tyrannosaurus kit emerges from the half-finished V1 model and the cobwebs...
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Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create
January 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.
A bit of #specevo, showing a giant land #penguin going at an acacia. Uses its immense frame to down trees for its chicks.
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#dinosaur #theropod #speculativeevolution #sciart #illustration #bird #ornithology
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#dinosaur #theropod #speculativeevolution #sciart #illustration #bird #ornithology
January 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A bit of #specevo, showing a giant land #penguin going at an acacia. Uses its immense frame to down trees for its chicks.
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#dinosaur #theropod #speculativeevolution #sciart #illustration #bird #ornithology
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#dinosaur #theropod #speculativeevolution #sciart #illustration #bird #ornithology
#Pride flag #Spinosaurus I did for a Pride exhibition at #HiveArts, #Blackpool – a last-minute piece to plug a gap on the night. (It’s actually repurposed from a ‘your ad here’ sign.
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#sciart #dinosaur #theropod
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#sciart #dinosaur #theropod
January 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#Pride flag #Spinosaurus I did for a Pride exhibition at #HiveArts, #Blackpool – a last-minute piece to plug a gap on the night. (It’s actually repurposed from a ‘your ad here’ sign.
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#sciart #dinosaur #theropod
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#sciart #dinosaur #theropod
A photo of my Granddad in his flying gear in the early ‘30s and my 13yo daughter at the IBCC in Lincoln.
January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A photo of my Granddad in his flying gear in the early ‘30s and my 13yo daughter at the IBCC in Lincoln.
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Recent unsealed internal messages from Facebook expose FB 100% knew they trained their GenAi on stolen works. It also shows how concerned FB is that lawmakers listen to rightholders (creatives, academics, etc) of the works they stole.
Never stop calling GenAi what it is: Theft!
Never stop calling GenAi what it is: Theft!
Facebook walks through its risk mitigation in detail in this evidence previously marked, "attorneys eyes only." I'm super interested in this note which reads as if they established a threshold on memorization rate which Zuckerberg and leadership decided was acceptable risk. /4
January 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Recent unsealed internal messages from Facebook expose FB 100% knew they trained their GenAi on stolen works. It also shows how concerned FB is that lawmakers listen to rightholders (creatives, academics, etc) of the works they stole.
Never stop calling GenAi what it is: Theft!
Never stop calling GenAi what it is: Theft!
For #museumselfieday: Andy Brain (@bewaretheradio.bsky.social) and me at Preston’s Harris Museum, running a #poetry and #illustration workshop in support of our 2019 edition of Vincent Cartwright Vickers’s #TheGoogleBook. #sciart
January 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
For #museumselfieday: Andy Brain (@bewaretheradio.bsky.social) and me at Preston’s Harris Museum, running a #poetry and #illustration workshop in support of our 2019 edition of Vincent Cartwright Vickers’s #TheGoogleBook. #sciart
My grandparents had this back in '85. The idea of pterosaurs existing in my lifetime (the radio-controlled Pteranodon was pretty convincing to nearly-five-year-old me) blew me away.
#pterosaur #dimorphodon #pteranodon #palaeontology #paleontology #bbc #davidattenborough #sciart
#pterosaur #dimorphodon #pteranodon #palaeontology #paleontology #bbc #davidattenborough #sciart
January 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My grandparents had this back in '85. The idea of pterosaurs existing in my lifetime (the radio-controlled Pteranodon was pretty convincing to nearly-five-year-old me) blew me away.
#pterosaur #dimorphodon #pteranodon #palaeontology #paleontology #bbc #davidattenborough #sciart
#pterosaur #dimorphodon #pteranodon #palaeontology #paleontology #bbc #davidattenborough #sciart
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Republicans are continuing their push to sort everyone by sex assigned at birth and erase trans people. Their focus on enforcing a strict, unchangable binary is an effort to prevent anyone from seeing the further cruelty they intend on. If we don’t legally exist, who is going to notice what happens?
Biden protections for transgender students struck down by US judge
A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down a Biden administration rule barring discrimination by schools and colleges against transgender students, saying it clashes with the federal law banning sex bias in education.
www.reuters.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Republicans are continuing their push to sort everyone by sex assigned at birth and erase trans people. Their focus on enforcing a strict, unchangable binary is an effort to prevent anyone from seeing the further cruelty they intend on. If we don’t legally exist, who is going to notice what happens?
The set I made with Alice for the cover of my #illustration book, ‘A Disarray Of #Palaeoart’ (available via Lulu).
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#sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #ichthyosaur #palaeontology #paleontology #art
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#sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #ichthyosaur #palaeontology #paleontology #art
January 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The set I made with Alice for the cover of my #illustration book, ‘A Disarray Of #Palaeoart’ (available via Lulu).
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#sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #ichthyosaur #palaeontology #paleontology #art
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#sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #ichthyosaur #palaeontology #paleontology #art
One of the earliest surviving drawings by me – and it’s not a dinosaur! Sketched on tissue paper when I was 4 in 1984, presumably of an #AvroLancaster. (A few of my family served in the RAF, so I was surrounded by #aviationart.) Grateful to my grandmother for hanging on to this. #art #illustration
January 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
One of the earliest surviving drawings by me – and it’s not a dinosaur! Sketched on tissue paper when I was 4 in 1984, presumably of an #AvroLancaster. (A few of my family served in the RAF, so I was surrounded by #aviationart.) Grateful to my grandmother for hanging on to this. #art #illustration
Responding to a ‘draw a peacock’ prompt (not a recent one). Apparently, she (my lovely wife) wanted a serious natural history illustration.
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#peafowl #peacock #illustration #sciart
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#peafowl #peacock #illustration #sciart
January 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Responding to a ‘draw a peacock’ prompt (not a recent one). Apparently, she (my lovely wife) wanted a serious natural history illustration.
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#peafowl #peacock #illustration #sciart
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#peafowl #peacock #illustration #sciart
Some social media graphics and #illustration work from Christmas and New Year, for #TheGoogleBookProject and #StarWarsMeetUpNiamos respectively.
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#starwars #thegooglebook
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#starwars #thegooglebook
January 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some social media graphics and #illustration work from Christmas and New Year, for #TheGoogleBookProject and #StarWarsMeetUpNiamos respectively.
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#starwars #thegooglebook
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#starwars #thegooglebook
If you see this, post a dino:
Anatotitan (?) diorama from the Liverpool World Museum.
Anatotitan (?) diorama from the Liverpool World Museum.
December 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
If you see this, post a dino:
Anatotitan (?) diorama from the Liverpool World Museum.
Anatotitan (?) diorama from the Liverpool World Museum.
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NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵
December 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM
NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵