Gemma Hazeborg
@gemmachaos.bsky.social
Musician, Nature Nerd, World Appreciator, blogs and podcasts at chasmosaurs.com
Special interests include but not limited to: Animals, dinosaurs, theme parks, music, prog rock, infrastructure
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Special interests include but not limited to: Animals, dinosaurs, theme parks, music, prog rock, infrastructure
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Gemma Chaos - All The Good Folks
YouTube video by Gemma Chaos
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It's a song about the good folks. You know who you are.
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Got informed about some sad news. Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller, special effects and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away at age of 58.
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Got informed about some sad news. Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller, special effects and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away at age of 58.
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A Graveyard of Dinosaurs
There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...
There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...
A Graveyard of Dinosaurs
When the days get shorter and leaves start to fall, there’s always a zoo somewhere in the Netherlands that gets taken over by dinosaurs. In previous years, I’ve covered dinosaur events …
chasmosaurs.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A Graveyard of Dinosaurs
There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...
There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...
Spotted at the zoo today: a kid dessed as an undead clown cat witch. She could have picked a lane, but she went for all of the above. I respect that. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Spotted at the zoo today: a kid dessed as an undead clown cat witch. She could have picked a lane, but she went for all of the above. I respect that. Happy Halloween!
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Podcast Episode 44!
We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!
We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 – Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II
Your Charmosaurs crew is here again with a cool new episode. This month, we’re discussing the works of the late, great Brian Franczak as it appears in The National Audubon Pocket Guide: Dinos…
chasmosaurs.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Podcast Episode 44!
We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!
We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!
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Prehistoric Planet season three has released its first clip, showing a family of North American ground sloths frolicking in the snowy landscape of the late Pleistocene.
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 "Roll Around" Clip | Apple TV
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October 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Prehistoric Planet season three has released its first clip, showing a family of North American ground sloths frolicking in the snowy landscape of the late Pleistocene.
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Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!
Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 3
It’s time to bring it home, the big project of discussing the seven massive paintings by Marie Hubrecht on the walls of the Joke Smit College, once the Girl’s Lyceum, in Amsterdam. Havi…
chasmosaurs.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!
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New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate!
experiment.com/projects/rea...
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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea
We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...
experiment.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate!
experiment.com/projects/rea...
experiment.com/projects/rea...
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A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...
Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!
It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…
chasmosaurs.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...
They finally found a cure for neurotypicality then? About time them poor sods got some help.
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
They finally found a cure for neurotypicality then? About time them poor sods got some help.
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Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social
Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!
It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…
chasmosaurs.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social
Nobody:
Media:
Was it a trans person?
Are you sure it wasn't a trans person?
Seriously, it was a trans person, right?
But surely he was dating a trans person?
Maybe his neighbour's second cousin's goldfishes' nephew was a trans person?
It was a trans person, everybody. Somehow.
Media:
Was it a trans person?
Are you sure it wasn't a trans person?
Seriously, it was a trans person, right?
But surely he was dating a trans person?
Maybe his neighbour's second cousin's goldfishes' nephew was a trans person?
It was a trans person, everybody. Somehow.
September 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Nobody:
Media:
Was it a trans person?
Are you sure it wasn't a trans person?
Seriously, it was a trans person, right?
But surely he was dating a trans person?
Maybe his neighbour's second cousin's goldfishes' nephew was a trans person?
It was a trans person, everybody. Somehow.
Media:
Was it a trans person?
Are you sure it wasn't a trans person?
Seriously, it was a trans person, right?
But surely he was dating a trans person?
Maybe his neighbour's second cousin's goldfishes' nephew was a trans person?
It was a trans person, everybody. Somehow.
Sorry I can't come to work today, it's too cold for molecules to move.
September 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sorry I can't come to work today, it's too cold for molecules to move.
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I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
It's a song about the good folks. You know who you are.
Gemma Chaos - All The Good Folks
YouTube video by Gemma Chaos
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's a song about the good folks. You know who you are.
Reposted by Gemma Hazeborg
Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tiere der Urwelt (Reichardt) – Part 1
And it’s a proper Vintage Dinosaur Art as today, we’re looking at a rather obscure collection of paleoart from the very beginning of the 20th century. Let’s lay down some groundwo…
chasmosaurs.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social
chasmosaurs.com/2023/11/28/v...
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chasmosaurs.com/2023/11/28/v...
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Nobody gets mad when clownfish change their gender. You shouldn't get mad when people do it.
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Nobody gets mad when clownfish change their gender. You shouldn't get mad when people do it.
It's a misty day in Massachusetts in the summer of 2025, and I'm tackling my very first true-blue all-American roller coaster amuseument park! I've been to some of the former Six Flags parks in Europe, but this is my first taste of the brand in its land of birth. Big thread!
August 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It's a misty day in Massachusetts in the summer of 2025, and I'm tackling my very first true-blue all-American roller coaster amuseument park! I've been to some of the former Six Flags parks in Europe, but this is my first taste of the brand in its land of birth. Big thread!
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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And that's the first ever #DinoConUK the bag! Did you go? Did you enjoy it? How much swag did you get? Expect our thoughts in podcast form soon! (And thanks to Sara for taking the picture)
August 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
And that's the first ever #DinoConUK the bag! Did you go? Did you enjoy it? How much swag did you get? Expect our thoughts in podcast form soon! (And thanks to Sara for taking the picture)
I'm at the end of my roller coaster season for 2025! And look at this, my count has come riiiiight up to 199! What should my 200th roller coaster be?
August 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm at the end of my roller coaster season for 2025! And look at this, my count has come riiiiight up to 199! What should my 200th roller coaster be?
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Another museum? Another museum. Featuring mastodons, moas, plateosaurs and, of course, Plasterosarus himself.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Usually I’m perfectly happy to stay in my lane and review Euro-kitsch. I didn’t really expect to be visiting the United States any time soon. Life takes some unexpected turns, though, a…
chasmosaurs.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Another museum? Another museum. Featuring mastodons, moas, plateosaurs and, of course, Plasterosarus himself.
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¡Hola! ¡Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ¿Did we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ¿Is there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ¿And is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
¡Hola! Here at Chasmosaurs we observe a Golden Rule when traveling abroad: “any opportunity must be taken to visit a park exhibiting model dinosaurs in the woods, so long as it is within a re…
chasmosaurs.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
¡Hola! ¡Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ¿Did we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ¿Is there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ¿And is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)
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To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
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"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
Reposted by Gemma Hazeborg
If you haven't seen these Marie Hubrecht palaeontology murals before — do.
Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...
Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 2
It’s high time we go back to Amsterdam and talk about the Marie Hubrecht murals at the Joke Smit College. You may or may not recall me talking about the amazing Jurassic/Cretaceous mural. If …
chasmosaurs.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you haven't seen these Marie Hubrecht palaeontology murals before — do.
Reposted by Gemma Hazeborg
Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...
Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 2
It’s high time we go back to Amsterdam and talk about the Marie Hubrecht murals at the Joke Smit College. You may or may not recall me talking about the amazing Jurassic/Cretaceous mural. If …
chasmosaurs.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...