Oh my god. We knew this was coming, but it still hurts. Mark was among the first paleo grad students I met (he was wrapping up his grad work when I was just starting, and his was the first Ph.D. defense I ever saw.) A great scientist and wonderful person. He will be missed.

rest in peace, no combination of words that could fit in the word count of a single tweet could ever hope to properly convey how influential he was on the field and how influential he was to the people around him and that looked up to him 🕊️🕊️🕊️

you know what? hell yeah

Oh my god they got his ass

Scrolling TikTok today there is obviously a lot of commentary on the Charlie Kirk situation and aftermath and I'm sorry but I just cannot take peoples political commentary seriously when they say "unalived"

i love this photo sm why are they in little chud cups 😭😭

I don't know how controversial of a point this is, I don't read conic books, but even with the knowledge that the artists are under immense time pressure I don't think tracing over random google image results should be considered acceptable or even ethical.

so much discourse is caused by the fact that people dont read. not comics, not books, not articles, not papers, not literary fiction, not non fiction, not academic works, nothing.

Smdh he'll do anything except finish The Winds of Winter 😒

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane.

The bit I love from watching talks by Dave Hone or Tom Holtz about tyrannosaurs is that they talk about T. rex with the same passion as a younger NBA player talking about Michael Jordan.

nice try however i have already depicted you as the barren and beaverless river and myself as the bountifully beavered oasis

I'm undecided but possibly my favourite game of all time

A lot of cheering for Geelong’s demise because of rorts, which I get, but not a lot of realising Brisbane are pretty much an exact replica. They are going to overlord the league for many years

Jane Goodall’s contributions to primatology and science communication as a whole can’t be understated. Truly pushed the mark

It's so funny that the AI-pushers cannot help but be weird little freaks about it. Why would they say that??

every australian band is like g’day we’re The Fucked Cunts and this is our song Drinking Bong Water