Question for Palaeontologists. Is the waffle like texture of the Stegosaurus plates in Netflix’s “The Dinosaurs” realistic? I’ve never seen them depicted that way before so it threw me off a little bit.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: young man in a hoodie looking morose and sitting on a swing set. He says “she’s breaking up with me…” Panel 2: next to him is a glyptodon, an early ancestor of armadillos. With his head in his hands, the young man says “what do I do glyptodon?” Panel 3: the glyptodon says “I’m like an early ancestor of armadillos. The young man angrily replies, “are you even listening man?”
We 👥 present 🪄 the discovery 🔬of a long 📏period ⏰ transiting 🚎 exoplanet 🪐…
Switching from MNRAS so I can turn all of my abstracts into horrific emojipastas
While we were in competition I want to commend them on their clear, prompt and professional conduct through the whole process. This is how science ought to be done! Independent verification of results done in a spirit of openness!
There is also another paper by Felipe Rojas et al on the same object. The papers are independent but we agreed a simultaneous submission. Give theirs a read too: arxiv.org/abs/2602.13125
My third first author paper “TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter” is now on the arXiv!!!
arxiv.org/abs/2602.12977
Me and my emotional support power wash simulator
How much did it take for Patrick Stewart to say “lewtenant” instead of “left tenant” on the set of Star Trek the next Generation.
Damn right!
When I was a kid I thought divorces involved a ceremony where you break up in a church in front of all your family and friends
I am begging, pleading for conference organisers to start including live captioning.
Old Luke shouting “The sacred texts!” meme from The Last Jedi
citing an exoplanet paper from 2010
Plant based? Yeah they’re pretty cool I guess…
This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance
Good thing this isn’t going to be the norm for summers into the future…
The power of humidity + infrastructure completely unequipped to cope with heat I guess.
How is the heat in Belfast more punishing than Albuquerque?!
Why is Walmart so expensive?!
Grateful to whoever lit up a joint on my street because at least something is masking the smell of sun baked split rubbish bags
Also I enjoyed the new movie a lot. Bright hopeful superman is back!
It’s interesting comic book writers in the 50s wrote around superman coming from an inhospitable planet due to its “red sun” and being stronger from Earth’s “yellow sun”. Given all the current scientific debate about the (un)habitability of planets around red M dwarf stars.
Praying for @davehone.bsky.social in this trying time with the two largest most recent paleomedia projects featuring spinosaurus as an aquatic pursuit predator
If you can’t to the time (gestures to end credits of return of the king extended edition) don’t do the crime (gestures to myself)
I want to go see superman this weekend but unfortunately, I live in Belfast
It’s also very mid
Trigger warning for those of us in Academia.
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”
Anyone else ever have that experience where you slip in the bathtub or shower and are overcome with the feeling that in some parallel universe you didn’t catch yourself and your parallel universe housemates are about to find your naked pruning corpse? Embarrassing
Never let RTD cook again
