Thomas Scaife
@rommel5patton.bsky.social
Paleontologist (🦥🦏) & media nerd
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Look at them!!!!! 😍🐟
I've made some smaller beanie versions of the Devonian jawless fish - Zenaspis!
At 25cm long, these are lifesize! www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/zenaspis
I ship worldwide from the UK, US tariffs collected and pre-paid for easy delivery!
At 25cm long, these are lifesize! www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/zenaspis
I ship worldwide from the UK, US tariffs collected and pre-paid for easy delivery!
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Look at them!!!!! 😍🐟
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I'm so terribly funny
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I'm so terribly funny
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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Megafauna are cool and all, but a habitat is only as good as its Little Guys™
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Megafauna are cool and all, but a habitat is only as good as its Little Guys™
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For those who wish to contribute further to the art budget of the Fable of Fai Zhemi, or who have already done so: I'm putting together credits now. I've got how some folks would like to be referred in the episodes based on knowing them or listed in memos.
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For those who wish to contribute further to the art budget of the Fable of Fai Zhemi, or who have already done so: I'm putting together credits now. I've got how some folks would like to be referred in the episodes based on knowing them or listed in memos.
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I am sorry to report I have to postpone the Fable of Fai Zhemi by a week. The series will arrive in four weekly chapters starting the 9th. I'm almost done with the first chapter, but I'd have to cut corners to get the others to the original schedule, and I'd rather it be as written.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am sorry to report I have to postpone the Fable of Fai Zhemi by a week. The series will arrive in four weekly chapters starting the 9th. I'm almost done with the first chapter, but I'd have to cut corners to get the others to the original schedule, and I'd rather it be as written.
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Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
September 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
deepmind.google.com/science/weat...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Getting excited... for #FossilFriday ! Our Morrison Ankylosaur monograph may be published online in a week. Hopefully, this will lead to a fix in many ankylosaur phylogenies. A dozen known Morrison ankylosaur sites spanning 4 states. Who would have think it 35 years ago?
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Getting excited... for #FossilFriday ! Our Morrison Ankylosaur monograph may be published online in a week. Hopefully, this will lead to a fix in many ankylosaur phylogenies. A dozen known Morrison ankylosaur sites spanning 4 states. Who would have think it 35 years ago?
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Its my birthday today! More importantly I finally got the new pins I teased up on my shop, my birthday gift to you all!!
rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...
rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Its my birthday today! More importantly I finally got the new pins I teased up on my shop, my birthday gift to you all!!
rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...
rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...
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Common Trees of the Seridic Swamps!
These might all get profiles (depends on time before the episode), but if nothing else, wanted to put this together. Shows more or less average specimens, but some like the village cypress can get a LOT bigger.
These might all get profiles (depends on time before the episode), but if nothing else, wanted to put this together. Shows more or less average specimens, but some like the village cypress can get a LOT bigger.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Common Trees of the Seridic Swamps!
These might all get profiles (depends on time before the episode), but if nothing else, wanted to put this together. Shows more or less average specimens, but some like the village cypress can get a LOT bigger.
These might all get profiles (depends on time before the episode), but if nothing else, wanted to put this together. Shows more or less average specimens, but some like the village cypress can get a LOT bigger.
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Spirit drakes are an enigmatic group of ornithischian dinosaurs found throughout the wetlands of the known world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2nA...
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Spirit drakes are an enigmatic group of ornithischian dinosaurs found throughout the wetlands of the known world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2nA...
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A few Seridic, uh… we’ll call them birds.
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
A few Seridic, uh… we’ll call them birds.
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And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
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Some more water bird progress:
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Some more water bird progress:
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![Barbie crying [edited]: He thinks I'm megafauna? I don't suppress the growth of woody vegetation or stabilize the abundance of smaller animals.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wpdti66qcvzywaum55sucghw/bafkreid33rymnixdez3rme5jbyhrvmymugiq7bqfnyxmz2pjh6tpoicrnq@jpeg)
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Four species of cetacean can be found in the Seridic wetlands. Only the Seridic river dolphin (top) is a permanent resident. The other three (estuarine dolphin, river whale, and Crescent narwhal) venture with high waters during the wet season then retreat to estuaries and the gulf during dry months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Four species of cetacean can be found in the Seridic wetlands. Only the Seridic river dolphin (top) is a permanent resident. The other three (estuarine dolphin, river whale, and Crescent narwhal) venture with high waters during the wet season then retreat to estuaries and the gulf during dry months.
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Homologous structure day.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Homologous structure day.
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A pair of juvenile ba’khar:
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A pair of juvenile ba’khar: