A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.

Out September 2025. Pre-order now!

Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.

Ana Alcântara foi entrevistada pel'O Setubalense a propósito do lançamento do primeiro volume do “Dicionário de História de Setúbal", a 19 de Julho. A obra, que assinala o 170º aniversário do jornal regional, está a ser coordenada por Albérico Afonso Costa e a Ana Alcântara foi uma das autoras convidadas.

https://osetubalense.com/local/setubal/ana-alcantara-este-dicionario-permite-tirar-da-invisibilidade-alguns-acontecimentos-e-personagens-que-de-outra-maneira-nao-teriam-eco/

It's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.

A teaser for our THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.

Out September 2025. Pre-order now!

Crime Investigation Tool Reveals Origins Of UK’s Feral Parrots

"A recent study identified where the UK’s naturalized parakeets came from by adapting a powerful crime investigation technique designed to locate and identify serial criminals"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#ForensicTools #FeralParrots #genetics #UK https://medium.com/the-academic/crime-investigation-tool-reveals-origins-of-uks-feral-parrots-aed0a29fea8d

My latest for @IEEESpectrum is about an #NZ company turning olivine into a whole host of other valuable materials, while generating no waste.
#EV #science #scicomm #batteries #criticalminerals

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The limited edition DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series print. I designed it in 2023, for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London, featured are Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, and Stegosaurus.

#PPOD: This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two layers indicate that the now-dead star exploded with a double-detonation. Hydrogen (H alpha) is shown in orange. Credit: ESO/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.

Crime Investigation Tool Reveals Origins Of UK’s Feral Parrots

"A recent study identified where the UK’s naturalized parakeets came from by adapting a powerful crime investigation technique designed to locate and identify serial criminals"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#ForensicTools #FeralParrots #genetics #UK https://medium.com/the-academic/crime-investigation-tool-reveals-origins-of-uks-feral-parrots-aed0a29fea8d

Rathenau: "Vertrouwen in wetenschap licht gestegen - de groep mensen met veel vertrouwen is flink gegroeid, maar de groep met weinig vertrouwen ook."

https://www.rathenau.nl/nl/werking-van-het-wetenschapssysteem/vertrouwen-wetenschap-licht-gestegen

Crime Investigation Tool Reveals Origins Of UK’s Feral Parrots

"A recent study identified where the UK’s naturalized parakeets came from by adapting a powerful crime investigation technique designed to locate and identify serial criminals"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#ForensicTools #FeralParrots #genetics #UK https://medium.com/the-academic/crime-investigation-tool-reveals-origins-of-uks-feral-parrots-aed0a29fea8d

#Arctic climate rankings are in for June 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/. While sea ice remained low, it was an unusually cool month temperature-wise. This was especially notable north of 75°N latitude.

This week's #NewBooks at the library: One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward from @princetonupress that I hope to review in the near future; the second volume of the beautifully illustrated variorum version of the collected fiction of #HPLovecraft from Chiroptera Press (volume 3 is on order); and Mammouth de Durfort, a little memento from my visit a few months ago to the Paris Museum of Natural History about their exceptional mounted #Mammoth skeleton.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Biography #Evolution #Horror #Paleontology #Palaeontology #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Museology @bookstodon

Just finished this book. A lot of really important information within it and references to explore further. Will be recommending it to my Institution library and in my class to students curious to learn more. Check it out!!
#SexEd #Science #Scicomm #SexAndGender #ReproSci #Anthropology

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909798/agustin-fuentes-on-why-sex-is-a-spectrum

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the Diplodocus packaging art from the 2023 DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them (also Tyrannosaurus & Stegosaurus) for The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum, London.

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