The photoluminescence paper is out (Patreon)

Dear patrons - as you know, your funding helps me complete and publish research (mostly because it means that I don't have to spend all my time on more menial tasks, like editing children's books). Any scientific research I get published is therefore a consequence of your  funding, please remember this :)

Today see the advance digital publication of my speculative article - co-authored with Cary Woodruff and Jamie Dunning - on the possibility of photoluminescence in extinct archosaurs (the montage above, compositing images created for The Big Book, is used in the paper to illustrate the diversity of relevant structures in extinct archosaurs). Inspired by a Twitter conversation, we ended up collaborating on a technical paper - it's mostly about possibilities and avenues for further research, but we think that the general point is important enough to get into print. At the time of writing I intend to publish a TetZoo article (I haven't had the chance to write it yet). The paper itself is paywalled but I've illegally uploaded a copy to my publications site, here:  https://darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/ 

That's it for now. Thanks again for your support.

More soon. I'm aware that I owe some of you book! I haven't forgotten, I just haven't had time to get it sorted, I'm sorry.