Anthony (Tony) J. Martin
@ichnologist.bsky.social
Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft-beer imbibing, childless cat dude, 🚫AI. 🧪🐾🦖🦕🪨⚒️🌍📚✍️ 🖖 https://ajmartinauthor.com
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Hello Bluesky science appreciators! I'm a geologist, paleontologist, & (most importantly) an ichnologist, which means I study modern traces (tracks, burrows, etc.) & trace fossils. I teach undergrad students in environmental sciences, write books about ichnology, & do lots of public outreach. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾🦕🦖
Deeply grateful to @ugapress.bsky.social for publishing a paperback edition of my book 'Tracking the Golden Isles' (2020), out in March 2026. This edition will give it a second chance so folks who were (understandably) too distracted in 2020 can enjoy its stories. www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Deeply grateful to @ugapress.bsky.social for publishing a paperback edition of my book 'Tracking the Golden Isles' (2020), out in March 2026. This edition will give it a second chance so folks who were (understandably) too distracted in 2020 can enjoy its stories. www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
OK then, I WILL promote my book!
'Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast' was first published in hardback May 2020 (gee, was anything else happening then?). But a PAPERBACK edition is coming out in March 2026! Preorder here: www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
'Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast' was first published in hardback May 2020 (gee, was anything else happening then?). But a PAPERBACK edition is coming out in March 2026! Preorder here: www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
OK then, I WILL promote my book!
'Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast' was first published in hardback May 2020 (gee, was anything else happening then?). But a PAPERBACK edition is coming out in March 2026! Preorder here: www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
'Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast' was first published in hardback May 2020 (gee, was anything else happening then?). But a PAPERBACK edition is coming out in March 2026! Preorder here: www.ugapress.org/978082037806... 📚
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With #Theropodsgiving tomorrow, we're talking all about the dinosaurian origin of avian features like feathers, wishbones, the avian respiratory system, and birds themselves!
Tune in now for theropod-bird discussion and paleo camaraderie @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Tune in now for theropod-bird discussion and paleo camaraderie @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
With #Theropodsgiving tomorrow, we're talking all about the dinosaurian origin of avian features like feathers, wishbones, the avian respiratory system, and birds themselves!
Tune in now for theropod-bird discussion and paleo camaraderie @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Tune in now for theropod-bird discussion and paleo camaraderie @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Most importantly, Hans really likes cats.
Did you know? Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues named several of your favorite dinosaurs 🦖 including Anzu, Saurornitholestes, and Zephyrosaurus?
He has a genus of pachycephalosaur named for him--Hansuessia!
📸: Hans holding a cast of a baby Triceratops skull.
🔊 Listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...
He has a genus of pachycephalosaur named for him--Hansuessia!
📸: Hans holding a cast of a baby Triceratops skull.
🔊 Listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Most importantly, Hans really likes cats.
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
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You'll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
You'll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Made you a podcast episode to chop veggies to and commute to family to this holiday season. 🍠🥦🧅🥕
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Made you a podcast episode to chop veggies to and commute to family to this holiday season. 🍠🥦🧅🥕
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
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You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
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I’ll have what she’s having
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll have what she’s having
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I made an infographic for this very reason!
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I made an infographic for this very reason!
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
Tracking Wild Turkeys on the Georgia Coast
Of the many traditions associated with the celebration of Thanksgiving in the U.S., the most commonly mentioned one is the ritual consumption of an avian theropod, Meleagris gallopavo, simply known…
www.georgialifetraces.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
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As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
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three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
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We’ve now produced a toolkit to guide science communicators through (critically) using certain strategies. It has been beautifully illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social (in collab with @rikworth.bsky.social) and can be downloaded as a PDF here:
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We’ve now produced a toolkit to guide science communicators through (critically) using certain strategies. It has been beautifully illustrated by @jordancollver.bsky.social (in collab with @rikworth.bsky.social) and can be downloaded as a PDF here:
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
It's the most wonderful day of the year for paleo-philes: #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge Day! Based on the preview & advance buzz, looks like a stunning series about our much-more-recently departed megafaunas. 🧪🦥🦣🦘🦬
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's the most wonderful day of the year for paleo-philes: #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge Day! Based on the preview & advance buzz, looks like a stunning series about our much-more-recently departed megafaunas. 🧪🦥🦣🦘🦬
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Herbivore Dinos grazing in a Cretaceous Period paradise! Illustration from my book: DINOSAURS
Link to buy here: a.co/d/b5XhJp2
#prehistoric #dinosaurs #fossil #fossiladdict #paleontology #evolution #sciart #paleoart
Link to buy here: a.co/d/b5XhJp2
#prehistoric #dinosaurs #fossil #fossiladdict #paleontology #evolution #sciart #paleoart
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Herbivore Dinos grazing in a Cretaceous Period paradise! Illustration from my book: DINOSAURS
Link to buy here: a.co/d/b5XhJp2
#prehistoric #dinosaurs #fossil #fossiladdict #paleontology #evolution #sciart #paleoart
Link to buy here: a.co/d/b5XhJp2
#prehistoric #dinosaurs #fossil #fossiladdict #paleontology #evolution #sciart #paleoart
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Book piracy is so specifically weird to me. We have whole buildings where you walk in and get books for free. And if they don't have what you want, often they will find it for you. And libraries help authors. And libraries build communities.
We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.
We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Book piracy is so specifically weird to me. We have whole buildings where you walk in and get books for free. And if they don't have what you want, often they will find it for you. And libraries help authors. And libraries build communities.
We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.
We already made books a common good, no piracy needed.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Yup. Authors should talk more about how most of us make a living not writing so we can live to write. I'm very lucky to get paid for 9 months of university teaching (with benefits), which allows me to write during not-teaching times. Otherwise advances & royalties are too small & rare. 🧪📚✍️ #Booksky
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yup. Authors should talk more about how most of us make a living not writing so we can live to write. I'm very lucky to get paid for 9 months of university teaching (with benefits), which allows me to write during not-teaching times. Otherwise advances & royalties are too small & rare. 🧪📚✍️ #Booksky
One point I've tried to emphasize this semester with my #ENVSCOMM25-2 students is how "skeptic" is too generous when the word "denier" is right there.
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One point I've tried to emphasize this semester with my #ENVSCOMM25-2 students is how "skeptic" is too generous when the word "denier" is right there.
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill