Tinguish
@tinguish.bsky.social
Conlanging, specevo, phylogenetics & palaeontology
Art when I can be arsed
he/him
Art when I can be arsed
he/him
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The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) | Past Lives
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December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
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Had tons of fun talking to @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the past few hundred million years or so for his great Tides of History podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Tides of History
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we s...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Had tons of fun talking to @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the past few hundred million years or so for his great Tides of History podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Great time at #Kopikon II, motivation and inspiration to con some langs has been fully replenished. Was lucky enough to get a copy of @quothalinguist.bsky.social ‘s new book: How to Create a Language The Conlang Guide! Can already tell it’s going to be a vital part the discerning conlanger’s arsenal
October 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great time at #Kopikon II, motivation and inspiration to con some langs has been fully replenished. Was lucky enough to get a copy of @quothalinguist.bsky.social ‘s new book: How to Create a Language The Conlang Guide! Can already tell it’s going to be a vital part the discerning conlanger’s arsenal
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My book officially out! #conlang
Hey @quothalinguist.bsky.social , I just got your book. It'll give me plenty to do during the gov shutdown. 👍
September 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My book officially out! #conlang
Great time at first #DinoConUK really enjoyed the talks (especially @grahancock.bsky.social on camouflage). Mostly restrained myself in the vendor hall, but had to get these excellent specbio zines from @jayeatonart.bsky.social Also had to grow my unread books pile whilst wandering about in Exeter.
August 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Great time at first #DinoConUK really enjoyed the talks (especially @grahancock.bsky.social on camouflage). Mostly restrained myself in the vendor hall, but had to get these excellent specbio zines from @jayeatonart.bsky.social Also had to grow my unread books pile whilst wandering about in Exeter.
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#DinoConUK 2025 is over, and what an amazing success, we the organising team are very proud :) Thanks to everyone who attended and took part - here's to an even bigger and better 2026!
August 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#DinoConUK 2025 is over, and what an amazing success, we the organising team are very proud :) Thanks to everyone who attended and took part - here's to an even bigger and better 2026!
Just saw a badger on the walk back to Holland Hall #DinoConUK
August 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Just saw a badger on the walk back to Holland Hall #DinoConUK
Looking forward to being able to uninstall the EA launcher thingy once I’ve finished the mass effect legendary edition trilogy. Had to disable the in-game overlay to stop ME2 running like shit
August 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Looking forward to being able to uninstall the EA launcher thingy once I’ve finished the mass effect legendary edition trilogy. Had to disable the in-game overlay to stop ME2 running like shit
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Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!
I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
VERY slow, but I managed to do it with one reactor which was a fun challenge. Enjoying this game a lot considering how cheap it was in summer sale.
July 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
VERY slow, but I managed to do it with one reactor which was a fun challenge. Enjoying this game a lot considering how cheap it was in summer sale.
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🦕DinoCon is happening this time NEXT MONTH!!! Get your tickets now and don't miss out on our first year!🦖
July 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🦕DinoCon is happening this time NEXT MONTH!!! Get your tickets now and don't miss out on our first year!🦖
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Fresh off the presses in @currentbiology.bsky.social : Is the deuterostome clade an artefact? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.
Why? (1/12)
We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.
Why? (1/12)
Is the deuterostome clade an artifact?
There is a long-standing consensus that the animal phyla closest to our own phylum of Chordata are the Echinodermata and Hemichordata. These three phy…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fresh off the presses in @currentbiology.bsky.social : Is the deuterostome clade an artefact? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.
Why? (1/12)
We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.
Why? (1/12)
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Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
A new Cambrian stem-group echinoderm reveals the evolution of the anteroposterior axis
Woodgate et al. describe a new bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm, Atlascystis acantha,
from the Cambrian of Morocco. Comparisons of plate growth with other echinoderms reveal
that Atlascystis possess...
www.cell.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
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Folks. Check your feeds. It's done
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Folks. Check your feeds. It's done
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this is premiering in half an hour lol. we did it youtu.be/Tn04UwfKk9o
I finished GTA 4 with all the cars at 9999x speed.
YouTube video by Tom Walker
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May 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
this is premiering in half an hour lol. we did it youtu.be/Tn04UwfKk9o
Taking prodigious levels of self-control not to overdo it with the Europa ice war posting back on the other site
April 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Taking prodigious levels of self-control not to overdo it with the Europa ice war posting back on the other site
The UK is a dreary, vindictive little splatter of islands ruled by dead-eyed careerist worms whose sole political instinct is to immediately capitulate to the cruelest whims of monomaniacal bigots and myopic quislings. Trans rights forever! 🏳️⚧️
April 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The UK is a dreary, vindictive little splatter of islands ruled by dead-eyed careerist worms whose sole political instinct is to immediately capitulate to the cruelest whims of monomaniacal bigots and myopic quislings. Trans rights forever! 🏳️⚧️
Hey @gliese1337.bsky.social just saw your talk on omnipredicationality and really enjoyed it, lots of good inspiration. Was just wondering on the status of particles.
Do they count as a part of speech? Can they act as predicates? Can you do an omnipredicational language without them?
Do they count as a part of speech? Can they act as predicates? Can you do an omnipredicational language without them?
April 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hey @gliese1337.bsky.social just saw your talk on omnipredicationality and really enjoyed it, lots of good inspiration. Was just wondering on the status of particles.
Do they count as a part of speech? Can they act as predicates? Can you do an omnipredicational language without them?
Do they count as a part of speech? Can they act as predicates? Can you do an omnipredicational language without them?
Wrote up all my sound changes into lexurgy (92 of the bastards never again) and now I want to go back to the start and simplify my vowel system because dealing with mixed ATR words popping up everywhere is annoying. Maybe I'm just procrastinating on the actually difficult part (the wretched grammar)
March 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wrote up all my sound changes into lexurgy (92 of the bastards never again) and now I want to go back to the start and simplify my vowel system because dealing with mixed ATR words popping up everywhere is annoying. Maybe I'm just procrastinating on the actually difficult part (the wretched grammar)
Try to check my conlang notes and onenote stops syncing, try to learn how to use lexurgy and my laptop bluescreens after working for an hour without saving. Some sort of technological homunculus is conspiring against me :/
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Try to check my conlang notes and onenote stops syncing, try to learn how to use lexurgy and my laptop bluescreens after working for an hour without saving. Some sort of technological homunculus is conspiring against me :/
Finished reading through ASOIAF for the first time and annoyingly it was just as good as everyone says so now I’m stuck waiting for the next one with everyone else
March 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Finished reading through ASOIAF for the first time and annoyingly it was just as good as everyone says so now I’m stuck waiting for the next one with everyone else
Staring at air pressure maps from 2014 to try and understand how to approximate it better for fantasy maps and giving myself a bastard of a headache
March 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Staring at air pressure maps from 2014 to try and understand how to approximate it better for fantasy maps and giving myself a bastard of a headache
I’m free! I can finally give up! :D
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I’m free! I can finally give up! :D