Derek Larson, Ph.D. 🇨🇦

@dlarson.bsky.social

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Collection Manager and Researcher at the Royal BC Museum. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. studying lizards, dinosaur teeth, and fossil turtles. MtG, TTRPG, and boardgame enthusiast. He/him

Magic the Gathering card Sivitri Acarzam 5UB Legendary Creature - Human 6/4 vanilla creature
A windowed storefront for Simply Pure Water, with an external dispenser labelled "Hâ‚‚Oâ‚„U 24 hour", presumably meant to be read "Hâ‚‚O for you" but written as if it's a molecule that contains hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.
Magic the Gathering card, Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists. 2GWU Legendary Creature - Human Scientist T, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Screenshot of YouTube recap. A black screen with the gold and black icon representing RPG miniature terrain company Dwarven Forge. "Top 0.1% of viewers. You watched 210 of their videos this year -- that's dedication."
New edited Bluesky profile, including information about my Ph.D. "Derek Larson, Ph.D. Collection Manager and Researcher at the Royal BC Museum, Ecology and Evolutionary Ph.D. studying lizards, dinosaur teeth, and fossil turtles. MtG, TTRPG, and boardgame enthusiast. He/him"
Me, standing with my PhD diploma in the shade of a tree on a lawn full of families and other other grads at the University of Toronto.
Waiting in front of a pillar with a black mask and black and red robes.
Derek and Julia in front of a University of Toronto sign saying Congratulations Graduates.
Original Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook by Gary Gygax cover featuring the classic artwork of a large fire-lit horned statue being robbed of one of its large red ruby-like eyes while an adventuring party in the foreground plans their next move.
An orange sunlit and shadowed T. rex looms over the title "T. rex 3D - narrated by Sam Neill" Art by Mark Witton.
A Jurassic Park Christmas tree ornament hanging amidst decorated tree branches. T. rex is bursting through the park gates. Green, blue, yellow and red lights, a silver garland, and reflective balls are visible.
A book cover reading, "Golden Age Masterworks" in gold text and, "Arthur C. Clarke Against the Fall of Night" in white text. The image shows a futuristic city skyline with blurring red and orange lights streaking across the foreground and plumes of sparks in the background floating into a deep blue cloudy sky.
Dr. Victoria Arbour, looking happy and cold, pointing to a fossil she just found.
Map of northwestern North America, with Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park highlighted in red. BC, Alaska, Yukon, NWT, and Alberta are visible.
View of a green and brown mountainous landscape taken from a helicopter. White snow patches dot the landscape.
A person in a white hat and a grey shirt looking down through moss-covered trees at a waterfall and pool, Ammonite Falls, BC, Canada.
Northern lights in green and purple just becoming visible.
National Geographic 11 Most Astonishing Scientific Discoveries of 2023. #4 T. rex had lips. Art by Mark Witton.