Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández
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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández
@mathchaos.bsky.social
I'm a Palaeobiologist working on #dinosaur evolution and #phylogenetics (🧁🍇🥤). 🇲🇽

Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him).

ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
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Colonial heritage in natural history

Thread 1 - Poinsettia and Monroe's Doctrine
Thread 1 (from 12 September 2022)
This flower is called a Poinsettia in English. September is the best time to discuss the name's connection to colonialism and why I would never call this plant a poinsettia.
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¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Sheinbaum debería de sacar a Mexico del Mundial en protesta de esta invasión.

No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas.

Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.
¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.
January 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Fox News sycophants framing things more accurately than Reuters—"those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."

May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!
Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I am paralysed with anger and fear...
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)

#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Every person, company and institution that went out of their way to suck up to Donald Trump and the New American Reich stuck a target on their back that they will not find easy to remove
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Outer Wilds is frustratingly fun... "Oh, I get it... I have to..." *Explosion*
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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🎆NEW YEAR, NEW VIDEO!🎆 We are halfway to fascism... here's a one year update on Project 2025 from a class conscious perspective! Join us for the premiere!

youtu.be/sId_CBceFtA
Decoding the Fascist Program
YouTube video by NonCompete
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A year of intense creative energy ends with a look at the staging of Rocky Horror in Luxembourg.

I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.
a woman with curly hair is waiting in a room .
Alt: A scene from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter saying "I'm waiting in antici- pation". Cut to Susan Sarandon face as Janet between "antici-" and "-pation"
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.
December 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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⏳ Only days left in 2025! 🌿
BHL becomes independent on 1 Jan 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings and keep biodiversity knowledge open for future generations. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸
🌍 Donate to make a difference: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... #ILoveBHL
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Historian here people forget the immigration regime being championed by the Trump regime and its bigoted heart in Miller. Make America 1924 again.
December 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses.
London, W. Pickering, 1840.

[Source]
December 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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😸 ... Animaux venimeux et venins: la fonction venimeuse chez tous les animaux;.
Paris, Masson & co., [1922].

[Source]
December 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🌍 Almost USD 35,000 raised — from supporters in 35 countries! 🌏
Your global support is helping #GiveBHLWings as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026. #BHLTransition 🌱

📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide.
💚 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... 🧪
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:

Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.

Make. Friends.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Happy holidays!

Riding towards 2026 on a purple dinosaur
December 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🦕 The dinosaurs of North America /.
Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1896..

[Source]
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Most people confuse subject expertise with instantaneous encyclopaedic recollection. If that’s what an expert is, then yes, LLMs can definitely replace experts. But thats not what subject expertise is.
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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It’s long past time we stop pretending the right-wing crackdown on higher education had anything to do with “fighting antisemitism.”
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"Brian Eno, Celeste, Dan Smith (Bastille), Nai Barghouti and more have come together to release LULLABY, a new version of a Palestinian folk song.
Help make it Xmas No.1 by downloading [before the 19th of December] here: lnk.to/T4PLullabyIn...
via @pscupdates.bsky.social
Together For Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne, Neneh Cherry - Lullaby
Listen to Lullaby by Together For Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne, Neneh Cherry.
lnk.to
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM