Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. He/him. Views my own. Enemy of AI slop. The photo is me, not some random bloke. Background image from Ymer Island, north-East Greenland.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧https://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mvpfwthrnk2oWatching Mark Carney live, addressing the European Parliament, outlining the new Canada-EU alliance. The breadth and depth of vision is jaw-dropping. The world order is shifting on its axis.17 Sep 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpfwthrnk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mvljdkc4ks2cAutumn in the garden. There are not many flowers now, but a few are at their best, one has just opened and one is still to come (so you will have to wait for that one). In the sunny south bed, the last of the dahlias - Pooh - is still in bloom.15 Sep 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvljdkc4ks2chttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mvgl2sby5c2bWell, we voted this morning, then headed off to the forest to look for mushrooms. And they have started to come! After a rainy week the forest soil is moist again and all of a sudden the hidden fungal diversity becomes visible. Fly agarics, Amanita muscaria, are easy to spot:13 Sep 2026 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgl2sby5c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mv677bfnrs2rOne thing that intrigues me about the "AI will exterminate humanity within 10 years!" panic is the hopelessly online and computer-centered vision behind it. Do they really think Amazonian tribes, or New Guinea highlanders, or Mongolian camel herders, are susceptible to extermination by AI? I don't.10 Sep 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv677bfnrs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3muzdvsf4h22gWeird report in The Guardian about an Italian man apprehended smuggling the head of a "critically endangered crocodile" into Italy, and now facing a fine or prison. In fact it's an American alligator, classed as "least concern" by IUCN, & probably captive-bred. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/08/crocodile-head-seized-luggage-italy-airport08 Sep 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzdvsf4h22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3muusfkrtoc2cI spent most of the weekend (except Saturday afternoon when I made jam) at a pottery studio in Stockholm learning to make nerikomi pottery - a traditional Japanese technique using colored clays on mosaic fashion, rather than coloured glazes. I’m pretty pleased with the results!06 Sep 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3muusfkrtoc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3muruncxc3s2cAt last, it’s time for lingon (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), often called ‘lingonberries’ in English, though strictly speaking the correct name is the rather less inspiring ‘cowberry’. Also known as “the red gold of the forest”. The last of the Swedish forest berries to ripen.05 Sep 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3muruncxc3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3muifb7xki22oAs the #SciArtSeptember Day 1 theme is malachite, I’m posting a fake-malachite panel on a key cabinet I made and painted back in the 90s. Because why not.01 Sep 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3muifb7xki22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mu36fuwqt22lApocalypse Next Thursday. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu36fuwqt22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mu36bzkqv22lStar Trek II: The Annoyance of Khan [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu36bzkqv22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mu35llovbk2l2001: a Space Excursion [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu35llovbk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mtvzuwofks2e🧪 The latest from the Origin of Tetrapods project! For decades our Latvian colleagues have been excavating at Pavari, a Devonian locality yielding the tetrapod Ventastega. Here's a new lungfish from the same fauna, described by @draliceclement.bsky.social and the rest of us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvzuwofks2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mteuoyhqik2oThe English Patient. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mteuoyhqik2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mt2gfhj7bc2kHi, I’m seagulls on the runway at Akureyri Airport! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Aug 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2gfhj7bc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3msvidulh4c25🧪Another open-access paper from our lab came out a while ago but I forgot to post a link, so here it is. Ossification of the pectoral fin skeleton of a phylogenetically basal stem lungfish. Based on the same material as my very first paper, from 1989! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13227-026-00264-y12 Aug 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvidulh4c25https://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mss6wv6udl2o🧪I'm delighted to present a new open-access paper from our team, describing the contents of a fish coprolite assemblage from the beginning of the Late Devonian, about 382-380 million years old, in northern Russia. Data collected in happier days before the war. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-63718-211 Aug 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mss6wv6udl2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3msndifkt522wBilberries: endgame. We returned to the forest armed with berrypickers for a final serious blitz that would yield enough for a batch of jam.09 Aug 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msndifkt522whttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3msl2jfjfws2cQuiz time! What links these two photos? @demiurg.bsky.social knows, but can anyone else figure it out?08 Aug 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msl2jfjfws2chttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3msguyp362k2d@christophermberry.bsky.social, here’s one for you! We were in Stockholm today and were lucky to catch the departure of SS Blidösund, built in 1910, one of very few archipelago steamers that hasn’t been converted to diesel. Enjoy!06 Aug 2026 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msguyp362k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3msauandq7c2tIn the lovely city of Örebro today, with @janetahlberg.bsky.social. The city center is dominated by the looming bulk of the castle, medieval with later additions.04 Aug 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msauandq7c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3ms77q6m3722tThe Swedish Football Association has declared that it has no confidence in Infantino. 👍03 Aug 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms77q6m3722thttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3ms4cbh6vas2aOut in the forest again for more bilberries, and this time we chanced upon a stand of peach-leaved bellflower (stor blåklocka in Swedish), Campanula persicifolia. It was the favourite flower of my grandfather, Rudolf Forssell (born 1889), and always flowers around his birthday.02 Aug 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4cbh6vas2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrz56kvrhs2aArtificial grass. Fake ‘antique patina’ and hand-tool marks on machine-made modern junk. Failure to distinguish between ‘principle’ and ‘principal’. Sorry, couldn’t stop at one. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrz56kvrhs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrsxqluwvs2aHaving seen Nolan's Odyssey today, in its IMAX glory, I'm minded to share my thoughts about it. My qualifications for joining the furious hubbub are an interested-amateur knowledge of Greek mythology and Bronze Age archaeology, and...err...that's it. But lack of expertise hasn't stopped anyone else,29 Jul 2026 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsxqluwvs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrnhfw3juc2iOff to the local forest today with @janetahlberg.bsky.social to pick bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus).27 Jul 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnhfw3juc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrkzmn6e4s2uDahlias on the kitchen table. From left to right, Bishop of York, Mexican Star, Bishop of Oxford. Cut and arranged by @janetahlberg.bsky.social26 Jul 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkzmn6e4s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrkhlmcpmk2uA bit of a tough day for various reasons, but at least there are water lilies! James Brydon.26 Jul 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkhlmcpmk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/perahlberg.bsky.social/post/3mrju4fzp522kPride and/or Prejudice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 07:26 +0000at://did:plc:gd54e72qw4eelmiklzdmcybf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrju4fzp522k