Beanie monster
@og-beanie.bsky.social
He/they | Bi-pan mess 🏳🌈 | just a floofy art tramp n' monster kisser | no DMs plz
Reposted by Beanie monster
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Beanie monster
#ArtAdventCalendar day 18 is one I believe I’ve featured here before. From June of 2024. Still one of my favourite manis - this one is known by my nail friends as my “Priders” mani. For Pride spiders, naturally.
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 18 is one I believe I’ve featured here before. From June of 2024. Still one of my favourite manis - this one is known by my nail friends as my “Priders” mani. For Pride spiders, naturally.
Reposted by Beanie monster
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
Reposted by Beanie monster
And this is exactly the reason why there should be a professional ethics framework agreed with urgency for #gen-AI, in particular photo-realistic stuff : archaeologists and heritage orgs who use it for general outreach & #SciComm are contributing to this problem.
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by Beanie monster
🏺🧪 I'll also note that in a lot of recent #gen-AI content I've seen specifically created for human origins /palaeoanth outreach, the extent of stereotypes and racial bias in images is striking (apparently unnoticed or ignored by producers)
And this is exactly the reason why there should be a professional ethics framework agreed with urgency for #gen-AI, in particular photo-realistic stuff : archaeologists and heritage orgs who use it for general outreach & #SciComm are contributing to this problem.
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
December 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🏺🧪 I'll also note that in a lot of recent #gen-AI content I've seen specifically created for human origins /palaeoanth outreach, the extent of stereotypes and racial bias in images is striking (apparently unnoticed or ignored by producers)
Reposted by Beanie monster
As someone who doubted that Putin would invade until a week before he did because he simply did not allot enough troops to achieve a stable occupation, the core lesson from 2022 is that even if a course of action is strategically stupid doesn't mean that a solipsistically deluded leader won't do it
ok so maybe I was wrong when I said Putin would never invade. and maybe I was wrong when I said Putin will win in a week and we should not help. But now we’re here, and I'm going to tell you what putin is thinking, and I’m going to do it in the most patronizing way possible
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As someone who doubted that Putin would invade until a week before he did because he simply did not allot enough troops to achieve a stable occupation, the core lesson from 2022 is that even if a course of action is strategically stupid doesn't mean that a solipsistically deluded leader won't do it
Reposted by Beanie monster
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Reposted by Beanie monster
Magnificent artwork from projects with which I was involved in 2025, by @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social @maijakarala.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Magnificent artwork from projects with which I was involved in 2025, by @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social @maijakarala.bsky.social
Reposted by Beanie monster
it’s a genuine societal catastrophy that gambling apps report on news and can influence their audiences to spend and lose money like this
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
it’s a genuine societal catastrophy that gambling apps report on news and can influence their audiences to spend and lose money like this
Reposted by Beanie monster
Reposted by Beanie monster
Once I'll find time I'll create a mass master post on British migrants in palaeontology, palaeoart and scicomm.
18th of December is the International Migrants Day 💼 I've migrated to England, alongside thousands of Poles escaping poverty, in the 2000s. I've learned English after three years of residency. Named first Scottish pterosaur. Carried on the legacy of Mary Anning. Spent hours volunteering in museums.
December 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Once I'll find time I'll create a mass master post on British migrants in palaeontology, palaeoart and scicomm.
Reposted by Beanie monster
Posting again on IG to have another more "public" social media.
I'd appreciate a follow if you use the site 💜
www.instagram.com/sarahsmithna...
I'd appreciate a follow if you use the site 💜
www.instagram.com/sarahsmithna...
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Posting again on IG to have another more "public" social media.
I'd appreciate a follow if you use the site 💜
www.instagram.com/sarahsmithna...
I'd appreciate a follow if you use the site 💜
www.instagram.com/sarahsmithna...
Reposted by Beanie monster
In China (East Coast) people will look weird at you if you start heading home at 5. And your employers recommend you work Saturdays, at minium. Hate 9-5, you've not seen 996 yet.
December 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In China (East Coast) people will look weird at you if you start heading home at 5. And your employers recommend you work Saturdays, at minium. Hate 9-5, you've not seen 996 yet.
Reposted by Beanie monster
🧪🦣 🏺 Super thread on complexity & pitfalls in using genetics to - crudely put - explain why H. sapiens are here but #Neanderthals aren't.
For me, it underlines as usual that while the DNA revolution has been amazing, the #archaeology - what humans actually did - remains central to understanding.
For me, it underlines as usual that while the DNA revolution has been amazing, the #archaeology - what humans actually did - remains central to understanding.
A substantial proportion of people with archaic TKTL1 had college/university degrees, arguing against big impacts on cognition. The results show that the sometimes dramatic effects seen in lab-based experiments on evolutionary variants may not be a guide to real-world impacts in living humans. 11/n
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🧪🦣 🏺 Super thread on complexity & pitfalls in using genetics to - crudely put - explain why H. sapiens are here but #Neanderthals aren't.
For me, it underlines as usual that while the DNA revolution has been amazing, the #archaeology - what humans actually did - remains central to understanding.
For me, it underlines as usual that while the DNA revolution has been amazing, the #archaeology - what humans actually did - remains central to understanding.
Reposted by Beanie monster
Boreal owl. I drew this with a grid which is something I never to and I was curious to try for a change. Inked with fineliners
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Boreal owl. I drew this with a grid which is something I never to and I was curious to try for a change. Inked with fineliners
Reposted by Beanie monster
Nice puppy... I hope.
Borophagines, or bone-crushing dogs, are an extinct group of canids with hyena-like teeth, wide skulls and high foreheads, somewhat resembling domestic dogs such as Rottweilers and mastiffs. I wonder if they had the same powerful-but-cute look?
Just a goofy little doodle.
Borophagines, or bone-crushing dogs, are an extinct group of canids with hyena-like teeth, wide skulls and high foreheads, somewhat resembling domestic dogs such as Rottweilers and mastiffs. I wonder if they had the same powerful-but-cute look?
Just a goofy little doodle.
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Nice puppy... I hope.
Borophagines, or bone-crushing dogs, are an extinct group of canids with hyena-like teeth, wide skulls and high foreheads, somewhat resembling domestic dogs such as Rottweilers and mastiffs. I wonder if they had the same powerful-but-cute look?
Just a goofy little doodle.
Borophagines, or bone-crushing dogs, are an extinct group of canids with hyena-like teeth, wide skulls and high foreheads, somewhat resembling domestic dogs such as Rottweilers and mastiffs. I wonder if they had the same powerful-but-cute look?
Just a goofy little doodle.
Reposted by Beanie monster
Dinosaur ready-to-hatch embryos known from actual fossils
www.palaeonavix.org
www.palaeonavix.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dinosaur ready-to-hatch embryos known from actual fossils
www.palaeonavix.org
www.palaeonavix.org
Reposted by Beanie monster
I spent way too much time on this 😅
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I spent way too much time on this 😅
Reposted by Beanie monster
A Pteranodon longiceps just messing around in the water. This sub-adult’s crest is not yet as large or as brightly coloured as those of more mature individuals.
#SciArt
#SciArt
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A Pteranodon longiceps just messing around in the water. This sub-adult’s crest is not yet as large or as brightly coloured as those of more mature individuals.
#SciArt
#SciArt
Reposted by Beanie monster
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Beanie monster
@tetzoo.bsky.social look who I rescued from the charity shop I work in!
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@tetzoo.bsky.social look who I rescued from the charity shop I work in!
Reposted by Beanie monster
Unfortunately we have no dragons here, but we can offer to share dinosaurs instead!
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Unfortunately we have no dragons here, but we can offer to share dinosaurs instead!
Reposted by Beanie monster
May I offer you vintage #paleoart in a form of 1963’s soviet animation from my homeland (Poland)?
youtu.be/EZk06BjFp8U?...
youtu.be/EZk06BjFp8U?...
DINOZAURY I (1963) | Animacja | reż. Witold Giersz
YouTube video by SMF ART
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
May I offer you vintage #paleoart in a form of 1963’s soviet animation from my homeland (Poland)?
youtu.be/EZk06BjFp8U?...
youtu.be/EZk06BjFp8U?...
Reposted by Beanie monster
I re-illustrated #Anchiornis again, and it looks quite a bit different from usual!!! This still matches the known data for this #dinosaur, but I really wanted to avoid it looking copy-pasted this time. I've given a full description of it on my Patreon.
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I re-illustrated #Anchiornis again, and it looks quite a bit different from usual!!! This still matches the known data for this #dinosaur, but I really wanted to avoid it looking copy-pasted this time. I've given a full description of it on my Patreon.
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
#FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart
Reposted by Beanie monster
Spent #FossilFriday tweaking my Anchiornis colour reconstruction. The black+white+red intepretation does entirely match the melanosome data recorded for this species, as there's evidence of phaeomelanin (= rufous hues) on the arm, and lots of grey across the body. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Spent #FossilFriday tweaking my Anchiornis colour reconstruction. The black+white+red intepretation does entirely match the melanosome data recorded for this species, as there's evidence of phaeomelanin (= rufous hues) on the arm, and lots of grey across the body. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology