Palaeobio Msc from @BristolUni who specializes in 🦕 skin. Working at Edelman Fossil Park | Artist| Favorite dinosaurs=Spinosaurus+Diplodocus
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Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety!! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26
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Next week’s hearing to save the Academy of Natural Sciences is officially scheduled for 10/7/26 from 2-5 pm! If you’re interested in providing written or video testimony, you can contact grace.savage@phila.gov. And if you can’t attend, watch at phlcouncil.com/watch-city-co…!
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this is how to make gork refuse to modify your art on here btw
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For those of you following along at home, being the "dinosaur museum" wasn't a problem for the Academy right up until the the appointment of the first new president entirely under Drexel's stewardship
drexel wants you to think the academy closed because of declining attendance. And yet, they purposefully wanted to push themselves away from being the "dinosaur museum" in philadelphia, and cut programs like the live animal exhibits to appeal to adults......
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palaeoartists who dont realise what's missing from their work should read this imo
Lukewarm take: I think much of the amateur paleontological community would benefit from touching grass. Literally going outside and feeling dirt crunch under their feet. Running after a bug or perhaps a small lizard. Watching a bird in a tree—maybe even catching a fish or two!
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Would it piss you guys off more if I told you I had approached the Academy on two separate occasions asking to give a talk on the science of dinosaur skin and color patterning, and was told "we don't really do that here", and was spoken too as if I was a high schooler 🫠
drexel wants you to think the academy closed because of declining attendance. And yet, they purposefully wanted to push themselves away from being the "dinosaur museum" in philadelphia, and cut programs like the live animal exhibits to appeal to adults......
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The museum may be closed, but we will not give up the fight. Life will find a way. #SaveTheAcademy
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My message to the Drexel (and ANSP!) administrators who were ashamed that the Academy was perceived as "Philly's Dinosaur Museum":
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"There is considerable evidence of unresolved problems in governance, fundraising, financial management and decision-making over the last decade. Those questions now require independent examination" save-the-academy.org/stateme…
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I have come to realize that it is low key criminal I have not drawn a proper, fully rendered hadrosaurus.......
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drexel wants you to think the academy closed because of declining attendance. And yet, they purposefully wanted to push themselves away from being the "dinosaur museum" in philadelphia, and cut programs like the live animal exhibits to appeal to adults......
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Tess Gallagher🦕(@tessasaurus.bsky.social) retweeted
Tromerosaurus solumons, gen. et sp. nov
Powers et al. 2026
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People who pretend that dinosaurs aren't the coolest thing ever are actually ruining the world
drexel wants you to think the academy closed because of declining attendance. And yet, they purposefully wanted to push themselves away from being the "dinosaur museum" in philadelphia, and cut programs like the live animal exhibits to appeal to adults......
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I know one thing that’s going right - people are rallying all over Philly & beyond to #SaveTheAcademy! Because this isn’t over, & we’re not giving up. Join the fight save-the-academy.org to help keep America’s oldest natural history museum open for kids, families, & adults!
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