Heather ⛏️
@fossilised-heather.bsky.social
Geology master's graduate, UEA 🪨 | Hydrogeologist | Fossil enthusiast 🦣| Occasional poster of doodles 🖌️
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Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Reposted by Heather ⛏️
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 24, 2024 at 1:53 PM
May I interest you in a terror bird sketch this evening? 🪶
* not fossil accurate! And side note, this colour scheme is loosely based on a secretary bird :) #palaeoart
* not fossil accurate! And side note, this colour scheme is loosely based on a secretary bird :) #palaeoart
November 11, 2024 at 8:25 PM
May I interest you in a terror bird sketch this evening? 🪶
* not fossil accurate! And side note, this colour scheme is loosely based on a secretary bird :) #palaeoart
* not fossil accurate! And side note, this colour scheme is loosely based on a secretary bird :) #palaeoart
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A Sarcosuchus sketch I made today, based on a photo I took some years ago.
November 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
A Sarcosuchus sketch I made today, based on a photo I took some years ago.
Reposted by Heather ⛏️
Reposted by Heather ⛏️
Writing some dino history and it always makes me shake my head that we had hot-blooded dinosaurs by 1897, Leaping Laelaps the embodiment of what was becoming clear.
Then early 20th century paleos went "Nah, dinosaurs were big boogers that lived in the swamps because reptiles suck" until about 1969
Then early 20th century paleos went "Nah, dinosaurs were big boogers that lived in the swamps because reptiles suck" until about 1969
October 25, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Writing some dino history and it always makes me shake my head that we had hot-blooded dinosaurs by 1897, Leaping Laelaps the embodiment of what was becoming clear.
Then early 20th century paleos went "Nah, dinosaurs were big boogers that lived in the swamps because reptiles suck" until about 1969
Then early 20th century paleos went "Nah, dinosaurs were big boogers that lived in the swamps because reptiles suck" until about 1969
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This always blows the minds of my environmental-science majors when we cover it in my 'Evolution of the Earth' class, that the Siberian flood basalts were burning Carboniferous coal 250 million years before we did. And it had consequences then, too. 🧪⚒️🪨🔥🌋
Burning coal and wiping out species: a 250-million-year-old classic. ⚒️🧪
October 24, 2024 at 12:15 PM
This always blows the minds of my environmental-science majors when we cover it in my 'Evolution of the Earth' class, that the Siberian flood basalts were burning Carboniferous coal 250 million years before we did. And it had consequences then, too. 🧪⚒️🪨🔥🌋
👋 Bluesky! I’m a geologist/palaeontologist in training..
..sometimes I do quirky little 3D models and arty things 🎨
..sometimes I do quirky little 3D models and arty things 🎨
October 18, 2024 at 7:28 AM
👋 Bluesky! I’m a geologist/palaeontologist in training..
..sometimes I do quirky little 3D models and arty things 🎨
..sometimes I do quirky little 3D models and arty things 🎨