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Georgia Witton-Maclean
@gizz47.bsky.social
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Natural History, Metal, Star Trek. Not necessarily in that order. ☽❍☾
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It's been a while since I smacked @deanrlomax.bsky.social in the head, but I managed to catch up with him at #2025SVP #SVP2025. You can't escape, Dean!
Me smacking Dean Lomax in the head with a poster tube at Birmingham SVP 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Kicking off #2025SVP with a Palaeoart workshop hosted by @markwitton.bsky.social. Smuggled in our #SVPCA mugs for rebellious reasons. 🦕🦖
SVPCA mugs in front of the SVP logo at the SVP Palaeoart Workshop.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I suspect this will get worse.
An art teacher describes a surprising problem of generative AI images: her students now don't believe any art is made by a human. And that's sad.
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The scariest part of #October for me has been having my eyeball cut to pieces and sewn back together. So here it is ...in #pumpkin form! Happy #Halloween! 🎃
Lit up pumpkin eyeball with stitches - from the side. Lit up pumpkin eyeball with stitches - straight on view. Pumpkin eyeball with stitches - straight on view. Pumpkin eyeball with stitches - side view.
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The first DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social went off with a bang. A bunch of dinosaur/prehistoric life related talks, stalls and activities to keep the palaeonerd community out of mischief for a weekend. Thanks to everyone for making it enjoyable and hope to see you again next year!
Making friends with Big Al outside the Great Hall. Darren takes centre stage to kick start the first of several great talks at DinoCon. A whole heap of DinoCon attendees in the pub. Bob Nicholls visits Mark Witton's stall in the vendor hall at DinoCon. There are approximately 150 artwork prints on this table!
August 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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96 days!
(Oh, and happy birthday. 🍻)
Calendar entry to remind me when the International Kite Festival is.
April 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Just found our pond absolutely bursting with frog spawn, with a pretty chuffed looking frog sat in the middle of it all. And it turns out ...it's #WorldFrogDay today! Nicely done, mate. 🐸 #amphibians #wildlife #pondlife
Wildlife pond on a sunny day, surrounded by vegetation, with many clumps of frogspawn in the water. A common frog sits under a leaf, overlooking the spawn.
March 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Happy World Pangolin Day! This image is from a CT scan of a preserved specimen from Cameroon in West Africa of the white-bellied pangolin, Phataginus tricuspis, from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
#Pangolins #WorldPangolinDay #Wildlife #Conservation
A CT scan of a pangolin curled up in a ball, showing bones and some of the scales.
February 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Happy #HornbillsDay! Here's some Malabar pied hornbills from our trip to Sri Lanka. @markwitton.bsky.social
#birds #Hornbills
Malabar pied hornbill on a branch. The head of a Malabar pied hornbill is visible through a gap in the tree. It has something in its beak, and looks pretty happy with itself.
February 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Thumbs (spike) up for Iguanodon on their 200th birthday! 🎂
📷 Taken at the Horsham Museum & Art Gallery Discovering Dinosaurs Exhibition.
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#dinosaurs #history #museums
The Iguanodon thumb spike with my hand (giving a thumbs up) for scale.
February 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Found out I passed the penultimate unit of my Electrical Engineering course. The end is in sight! Also, our dog did this:
A brindle greyhound making a stupid face.
February 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Celebrating the Year of the Snake 🐍 with a visit to Oxford University Museum of Natural History for a panel on the amazing Oxfordshire dinosaur trackways. 🦕🦖 #Palaeontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs Featuring @markwitton.bsky.social and @dremmanicholls.bsky.social
Mark, me, and Emma. Megalosaurus display with painting, fossil replica, footprint cast and tools from the excavation site. Panel of experts with art of the theropod and sauropod walking along the beach (by Mark Witton) in the background. The Jurassic Highway panel of experts, talking about the Oxfordshire dinosaur trackways discovery and excavation.
January 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Happy Burns Night ya wee bawbags! #BurnsNight @markwitton.bsky.social
Table set with two plates of haggis, neeps and tatties. Vegetarian haggis ready to be cooked.
January 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃
#Pumpkin #Freddy #Nightmare #Horror
Freddy Krueger pumpkin lit up Freddy Krueger pumpkin
October 31, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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Found a little gang of Ivy mining bees coming to and from their burrows whilst on our dog walk. Watch where you step! #bees #nature #invertober 🐝
An Ivy mining bee on a patch of grassy earth with burrows in. Hampshire, UK. Ivy mining bee on the ground. Hampshire, UK.
October 3, 2023 at 2:14 PM
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Wentworth says hello! 🦎
Wentworth the sandfish skink sticking her tongue out at the camera.
September 12, 2023 at 10:46 PM
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Plain and simple alignment chart! 😆🖖
#StarTrek #DS9 #Garak
The Alignment Chart of Elim Garak (spoiler alert: he's all of them).
September 12, 2023 at 7:46 PM
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Kicking off SVPCA in Lincoln...my old stamping ground! With fellow reprobates @markwitton.bsky.social and the rest. Here's to a fun few days of palaeontology! 🦕🦖
Eight palaeos in the Cardinal's Hat pub in Lincoln. Lincoln Cathedral (UK)
September 6, 2023 at 11:31 PM
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One of the regular visitors to our birdbath is this little fellow. Wasps get thirsty too! 🐝 #Wildlife #Gardening
Common wasp drinking from a birdbath (UK)
September 3, 2023 at 11:53 AM
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Hi! If you like chicken photos, I've got lots. 😆🐔
Some of our chickens: Goose, Herman, Bort, Hermes and Kali roosting in a place which is not their nice safe coop. 🙄
September 3, 2023 at 10:56 AM
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First post time! I'm a relatively recent escapee from academia, now working for the Ministry of Defence. I'm interested in wildlife conservation, palaeontology entomology, ornithology, wildlife gardening, chicken keeping, animal rescue, industrial metal, horror and Star Trek. Hi Bluesky! 🖖
Some of our chickens (from right to left) Hermes the Vorwerk, Medea the Light Sussex and Kali the ex-caged ginger hybrid.
September 3, 2023 at 10:35 AM