Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen) @auntbeast Twitter profile

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

I laugh, I cry...

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1 year

So, it sells for $20 billion. Not only is the specimen likely lost to science forever, imagine what $20 billion dollars would mean to vertebrate paleontology. I try to scrape together $100 here, $1000 there, for field work, lab equipment, basic research. This is an abomination,

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3 years

This photo (fungi growing from the corpse of a raccoon) is just about the most @jeffvandermeer thing I can imagine.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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2 years

I fucking hate Twitter. I just learned of Peter Straub's death, before the family could let me know. Peter saved my life, more than once, in more ways than once, and I was never able to pay him back. A great author, a gentle, brilliant man.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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3 years

For #FossilFriday , one of the most unlikely and exqusite discoveries from the Late Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama: the egg of a hadrosaur dinosaur, containing an embryo (!), from the famous Harrell Station outcrops near Selma. Discovered in 1970, still undescribed.

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3 years

For #FossilFriday : In the 1980s, the late Dan Varner and I argued for hypocercal tail fins in mosasaurs, based solely on skeletal evidence. Decades later, this marvelous Prognathodon specimen from Jordan left little doubt we were correct.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

If not for Peter Straub, you would not know who I am. It's as simple as that.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

For #TylosaurusTuesday , one of my favorite painting of the genus (by James Gurney of Dinotopia fame), as a somewhat orca-patterned Tylosaurus seizes a hapless Dolichorhynchops.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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1 year

It is heartening to see the excitement over Bradbury Weather, which contains stories spanning my whole career (almost 30 years now!). With my recent detour back into scientific research, it's nice to be reminded there are still plenty of people who see me as an author!

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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7 years

3. Even w/gerrymandering, Wikileaks, rogue FBI, Putin, Russian hackers, fake news, and voter intimidation, he *still lost* the popular vote.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

8 years

Turns out – #TrumpScaredOffStage by a "Republicans Against Trump" poster. Or a kitten. Details are still unclear.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

7 years

Free speech is useless if it facilitates emergence of a society that suppresses free speech. We have no imperative to tolerate intolerance.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

For #FossilFriday , a crocodilian from one of my favorite sites, the middle Eocene-aged Messl pit.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Get to know me in four books:

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

1 year

Too many people think my fiction sets out to scare them. No. Almost never. My fiction, to the degree that it can be said to have a goal, sets out to make the reader feel awe, wonder. It's just that the path to awe is often disquieting.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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2 years

It's sorta amazing how the five years I spent working with Neil on The Sandman spinoff The Dreaming (and The Girl Who Would Be Death) have kind of been forgotten. Hell, sometimes I forget.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

So, during the reign of Der Trumpenfuhrer, I mostly made myself abandon the toxic cesspool that Twitter too often becomes. Now that the nightmare is ending, I am slowly wading back in. Be gentle.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

In the terrifying chaos of the world right now, my work on mosasaurs & turtles is one of the few precuous things that grounds me & makes moving possibe. Maybe I'm not writing as much fiction these days, but paleo' keeps the crushing depair at bay & allows me to write *something*.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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2 months

In only a little more than a year, 10 new mosasaur taxa (including my 2 new species of Ectenosaurus) have been named. I cannot think of any time in the 200+year history of mosasaur research this has happened, not even during the Bone Wars. '23 really WAS the year of the mosasaur.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

I think we've found Azathoth.

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2 years

The Mystic Mountain region of the Carina Nebula. Credit: Hubble

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2 years

Art courtesy the late, great Richard M. Powers, here's the cover for the forthcoming ENORMOUS collection of most of my science fiction (from @SubPress , no release date yet).

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

For #TylosarusTuesday , how about this close cousin to Tylosaurus, the high-latitude tylosaurine Taniwhasaurus antarcticus, from the Santonian/Campanian of James Ross Island, Antarctica?

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@auntbeast

2 years

It's not that I like playing the heretic or the spoilsport, it just keeps happening. So, I am the mosasaur worker who's fairly convinced that Thalassotitan is a species of Prognathodon. And I mean I'm almost certain.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

Ironically, I don't read a lot of fiction, & I read very, very little 21st Century fiction. That said, I just read, finally, @NBallingrud 's splendid North American Lake Monsters & adored it. Hints of Cormac McCarthy & Nic Pizzolatto, but, in the end Ballingrud, is his on beast.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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1 year

I figure the two most important things I can do with my readers is to a) turn them on to weird fiction and b) turn them on the science. That's my job, tater beans, Lovecraft and paleontology.

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2 years

Sometimes the scale of tylosaurines is simply disorienting. Here's the right pterygoid of "Alfred" the Tylosaurs proriger, from the basal Mooreville Chalk of Greene County, AL, @Mcwane for #TylosaurTuesday .

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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1 year

I know I can't be the only person who finds deep time a comfort. It seems to freak out a lot of folks, or their mind just bounces off the very idea. But it makes me feel grounded, pun unintended. (Art by the amazing @ratfishray .)

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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3 years

For #FossilFriday , a vintage shot of the Smithsonian's composite Basilosaurus from Clarke County, Alabama.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

"Now that you're a paleontologists again, are you still a writer?" Two part answer: 1) I was never NOT a paleontologist and 2) YES. Short fiction aside, I am currently at work on my next novel, The Night Watchers, which I hope will be out late in 2022. How? I never sleep.

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2 years

On the one hand, working with mosasaurs & not dinosaurs, I don't have to constantly explain that dinosaurs are not lizards. On the *other* hand, I have to frequently explain that mosasaurs are lizards, NOT dinosaurs.

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1 year

"We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." ~ Franz Kafka

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2 years

On this Earth Day, I see that @jeffvandermeer is gathering his alligator troops, led by a trusted capybara sergeant...

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

1 year

Finally, I have @TetZoo 's marvelous volume on marine reptiles! It was an pleasure and an honor helping out with the mosasurs. Get this book!

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@auntbeast

7 years

Trump's transgender ban just got halted

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@auntbeast

3 years

For #FossilFriday , from the Lower Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of Voulte-sur-Rhône in France, Proteroctopus ribeti, described in 1982.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Eight short stories in three months. Go me.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Very depressed today, and both these quotes are in my head. I was pleased to find them together in a single graphic.

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8 years

But let's hope it's not his worst ever.

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@TheAtlantic

8 years

This may be the Trump campaign's worst day yet:

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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7 years

The damage that Nader's idiots did to Florida in 2000 is being replayed tonight with Stein's idiots.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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9 years

Thursday morn, @neilhimself trudging back to the house after reciting "The Jabberwocky." http://t.co/L0AS05OFNk

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3 years

My partner and I just got our second shots. Booya.

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1 year

I have spent my life fighting clinical depression, and it appalls to see the hate and ignorance levelled at John Fetterman. The complete lack of basic humanity displayed by so many for a genuinely great man.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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3 years

For #FossilFriday , I'm gonna cheat & share one of my favorite mosasaur fossils, even though this isn't #MosasaurMonday , because this Plotosaurus skull is, I think, one of the most singularly beautiful fossils even found.

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1 year

My message to all those undergrad and grad students hoping to be full-time pro paleontologists: Have *good* plan Bs and Plan Cs, because odds are you'll need them. I have spent most of my adult life on my Plan B (fiction), doing paleontology when life allows. Do not fear options.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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1 year

Okay. A serious one. I hate the way that good, solid anatomical description has lost ground to phylogenetics (which, of course, in theory, is built on good, solid anatomical work). In a description of a new taxon, the morphology should not be overwhelmed by cladograms.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

Probably my personal favorite from my run on The Dreaming, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, the story of Edgar Allen Poe's cat, Catterina, in her battle against the "Conqueror Worm" to save Poe's wife, Virginia, from tuberculosis.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

10 years

“Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.” ~ Samuel R. Delany

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@auntbeast

3 years

For #MosasaurMonday , James Carter Beard's 1898 depiction of a crowded, chaotic Cretaceous ocean, including Mosasaurus (center), Tylosaurus (two at left), and Clidastes (bottom).

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

6 years

After five years in production, this afternoon I finally held in my hands a copy of Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales. Centipede Press has published what is undoubtedly the most beautiful book ever to bear my name.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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1 year

Truly, there is likely no single threat to modern literature greater than "sensativity readers." I would rather have my books banned outright. At least they would remain intact.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

In 2021, there is almost no imaginable, reasonable excuse for hunting large carnivorous mammals, such as the 200+ wolves recently killed in Wisconsin (in 3 days). It is not sport. It is slaughter. The most noble intent I can ascribe to such "hunters" is dick measuring.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

So, FoxNews is now whining about the new #StarTrek series being "woke." All I can say is these folks have clearly *never* watched Star Trek. The series has challenged prejudices and addressed social causes since the 1960s, including those concerning PoC and LGBT people.

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2 years

"In the end, the work is all that matters. When it's over and you're dead, the work is all that anyone will remember." ~ Neil Gaiman to me, from a phone conversation regarding writing that took place sometime in 1998. (This is the hardcore truth of it.)

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@auntbeast

3 years

Finally, I have an appointment to get my first shot on Saturday morning. There was a great sigh of relief.

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@auntbeast

3 years

I just got my first shot.

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@auntbeast

2 years

Cover reveal! The cover for Living a Boy's Adventure Tale, art by @thejohnconway , w/interiors by @sharkbitesteve , a HB chabook to accompany the deluxe ed. of Bradbury Weather, my next science-fiction collection from @SubPress . I love this Triceratops.

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@auntbeast

5 years

Before I made my first fiction sale in 1993 at age 29, I'd worked many jobs and had nine years of college. I didn't sell my first novel until 1997, at age 32. Good writers are born from the experience of living, and that takes time.

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6 months

For #MosasaurMonday , a very young "Clidastes" from the Mooreville Chalk of Ala. The skull would have been about the length of my hand, but narrower, w/a body ~5 ft. long (1.5m). We've found them even smaller here.

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@auntbeast

10 months

When I first read the LotR is the mid-1970s, these were the editions.

70s Sci-Fi Art 🛸

@70sscifi

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Barbara Remington's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy covers

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2 years

“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” --- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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@auntbeast

3 years

For #FossilFriday , the iconic Xiphactinus audax (I have always preferred the name Portheus, but this one goes to Leidy, not Cope). Sternberg's classic "fish within a fish." And I'm not choosing Xiphactinus just to pick on the Xiphactophobic @Mosasaurologist . Probably.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

8 months

Today is it. No more Twitter, after more than 14 years here. There's just too much hatred, too much backbiting, too much cruelty and ignorance, and too much misinformation. It's a shame. I'll still be on Facebook (friends only).

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1 year

For #TrilobiteTuesday , tiny Ditymopyge, one of the youngest & last of the dynasty of Tribobita & the only trilobite from Alabama's Pennsyvanian-aged Pottsville Formation. Before the catacylsmic Permian extinction, which took out 90-96% of all life, trilobites were already scarce.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

I do not, as a rule, dispense writing advice. But. If I were to do such a thing, the first thing I would say is toss that bullshit about the necessity of character "arcs" out the damn window. We do not live in arcs.

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@auntbeast

3 years

How badass are mosasaurs? What about a second set of teeth to help pull struggling prey down their throats, as if maybe H.R. Giger had a hand in their design? #MosasarMonday

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@auntbeast

2 years

Happy birthday to Clive Barker, who helped me get my start, what now seems like many, many years ago.

Tristram P. Amberson 🤓📚📖☕️

@TDogAllen9

2 years

October 5th marks Clive Barker’s 70th birthday. Barker’s work has been a huge influence on my love of literature, film, the visual arts. 🔥🖤💀⛓

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1 year

Starting today I'm going to post photos of the reconstruction of the "Greene County Mosasaur," Red Mountain Museum's _Clidastes_ now on display at @McWane . These date from 1977. I was there as a 13yr-old volunteer. Here the tooth-bearing pterygoids. Yellow= plaster. Brown = bone.

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1 year

People kept asking yesterday, "Is that Richard Powers?" Yes, the cover is a previously unused painting by Richard Powers. Getting it was a dream come true. (Sorry for accidentally deleting this tweet.)

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3 years

Speaking of Ray Harryhausen's birthday, one night in 1998, Harlan Ellison introduced me to both Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury, *at the same time*. It was one of those magical moments that you spend the rest of your life doubting actually hapened.

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@auntbeast

3 years

When basic democracy hangs by a thread, you do not make things worse by fighting for Utopia.

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@auntbeast

4 years

If you're being honest, it's impossible to "incorrectly" write about your own gender or sexuality. The object is to record your unique perspective, not parrot someone else's political agenda. YOU write YOU. Otherwise, you're wasting your own time and that of your readers.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

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2 years

I still get these folks telling me that correct punctuation (periods, especially) should be avoided in tweets, etc., because they're "aggressive" or "passive-aggressive." One person even told me it was classist! Me, I'll keep using correct punctuation, & social media be damned.

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6 years

Once upon a time, American racists considered nations like Ireland, Italy, Hungary, *and* (cough cough) Norway #ShitHoleCountiries . We are all immigrants here. Many of us are the children of refugees. Fuck you, @realDonaldTrump .

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“Pure genius, an underappreciated master whose vision expresses itself through vast geographic expanses, gender fluidity, geological upheaval,the horror &beauty of the natural world& mythic architecture of the mind.Kiernan is transformative. Read her & be changed.” New York Times

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1 year

Sometimes I realize how genuinely fortunate I was to be where I was in my high school/early college years. Among other things it meant I was involved in the excavation of surch luminary taxa as Georgiacetus & Appalachiosaurus. I wish I had time to write a book about those years.

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A first look at @Lost_Machine 's cover for the forthcoming trade paperback edition of my short story collection, The Dinosaur Tourist.

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3 years

For this #TylosaurusTuesday , one of my favorite _T. proriger_ photographs: Levi, Charles Mortram, & Ethel Sternberg, w/the skull of an iconic @SternbergMuseum specimen collected by their father George F. Sternberg, ca. 1926.

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3 years

For #FossilFriday , tracks of the temnospondyl amphibian Nanopus reidiae from the early Pennsylvanian-age Pottsville Formation of Alabama.

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3 years

You want to unfollow me for be pro-vaccine, pro-masking, pro-lockdwon, pro-travel restructions, pro-vaccine passports, pro-science? Yes, please do. The sooner the better.

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2 years

Finally seeing the first episode of #PrehistoricPlanet last night was an utter delight, start to finish. I kinda feel I've waited my whole life to see that. And I have no complaints worth mentioning re: the mosasaurs. It was all simply beautiful.

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1 year

My fiction writing duties aside, it does look like I will be greatly increasing the time and energy I am able to spend on paleontology (mosasaurs, turtles) enormoulsy in 2023. If American democracy will holds together, I'll bring the science. Mosasaur mysteries, beware.

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@auntbeast

3 years

Pretty much every time I say something like, "Hey, dumb ass. Yeah, you. Please stop buying this bullshit, whackadoo, anti-vaxer conspiracy-theory nonsense and get your damn COVID vaccination," about 10 people "unfriend" me w/in an hr. I wear these losses like a badge of honor.

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8 years

So far, we have exactly zero reports of PoC, LGBT folks, or women trying to frighten white men away from polling places. How can that be?

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Not sure if I've missed #AnkylosaurWeek or not, but here's a subadult nodosaur from the Ripley Fm. (Late Campanian) of Ala. that I prepped way back in 1983, but that remains undescribed, on display @Mcwane in Birmingham.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

I get it. This is a bummer, my going on about COVID & anti-vaxer/anti-mask idiots & climate change. It's a lot more fun when I post about writing & mosasaurs & herpetology. Sure. But the world is more fucked than @ any time in my 57 yrs. & NOT talking about that seems very wrong.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

But yes, the fiction will keep coming. In fact, I am starting a new novel on Wednesday. Never fear.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Back in ''88 Dan Varner did 4 paintings intended for my AL mosasur biostrat study (2002). None made the final paper due to prohibitive cost & comments fr. a particular reviewer. But here's Tylosaurus proriger in the Eutaw Fm., w/Eonatator & an unidentified ray. #TylosaurusTuesday

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

3 years

Humanity is a muddy, messy affair. There are no neat boxes. There are no clear-cut lines.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

1 year

I'm going to repeat what @jeffvandermeer just said. As long as I am alive, no AI-generated art will appear on my books. Living, human artists only. And, for that matter, I will do whatever I can to prevent it after I die.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan (Plioplatecarqueen)

@auntbeast

2 years

Happy Holidays to you all! (And, for the record, the earliest recorded use of "Happy Holidays" dates to 1863 and became widespread in the 30s and 40s. Also, birds are real.)