Michael Irving

@mikeirvo.bsky.social

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Science journalist and copy editor at ScienceAlert. Attempted author. Obsessive Simpsons collector.

An open suitcase full of clothes - and a ginger cat sitting in it.
A married couple walking down the aisle in an old prison.
Overseas on census night: if you're overseas on census night, you don't need to complete the census.
A cheap off-brand Lego set, called Ideas Block, depicting the Titanic partway through sinking. Little not-Lego figures are drowning and freezing in the seas below.
A smiling groom and laughing bride in a limo.
A couple sitting behind a chair, with a ginger cat in a hat making a weird face.
A newspaper from 1945 declaring "War Ends in Europe".
A photo from a conference panel titled To Rhyme or Not To Rhyme.
The before pic, of two strips of gold and rose gold.
Bob Hoskins as Mario in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie, on a TV screen.
A Jurassic World Evolution 3 screenshot showing a swampy ecosystem full of dinosaurs.
A phylogenetic tree showing Supersaurus and Diplodocus as fairly closely related.
A section of a diagram from the paper with a silhouette of a small herbivorous dinosaur labelled "Nanosaurus."
A phylogenetic tree with Guanlong and Stokesosaurus highlighted.
A phylogenetic tree with Camptosaurus and Iguanodon highlighted. They aren't really close together.
A phylogenetic tree, showing Gargoyleosaurus and Sauropelta are reasonably closely related.
A screenshot from Jurassic World Evolution 3 of Ceratosaurus.
A screenshot from Jurassic World Evolution 3 of a Stegosaurus.
A screenshot from Jurassic World Evolution 3 of Brachiosaurus grazing.
A baby Brachiosaurus with an adult in the game Jurassic World Evolution 3.
The nodosauridae phylogenetic tree, including Gargoyleosaurus and Nodosaurus.
A figure from the paper. Silhouettes of the different dinosaur species that lived in Jurassic era Montana.
My 2025 Playstation wrap up: Number 1: Crash Bandicoot 4, 87 hours played. Number 2: Blue Prince, 79 hours. Number 3: Jurassic World Evolution 3, 59 hours. Number 4: No Man's Sky, 51 hours. Number 5: Soul Reaver remake, 22 hours.
Bagend from Lord of the Rings, made out of gingerbread and icing, complete with sculpted Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf and Gollum.
A big ginger cat stares at a shelf of Simpsons Funko Pops.
A small door in a wall in a loft bedroom of an old church.
A work station that looks sad and not-yet-moved-into properly, with a large stained glass window of Jesus in the background.
A building with a Blockbuster Video sign
"The Worst Guy You Know Just Made a Good Point" meme.
A screenshot of a sponsored tweet from someone called MysticMonkey which says "Never Kill Yourself" above a photo of a TV showing MythBusters, and a plate of fast food. Genuinely mystifying.
A train passing by camera really close in Hanoi's Train Street.
A panning shot of mountains and ocean in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.
A bar on a cruise ship rooftop, with islands of Ha Long Bay in the background.
Our guide and the village kitchen.
Angkor Wat's three towers reflected in a lake
A smiling couple at a resort in Cambodia with a very prominent engagement ring!
The outside of the Okay Boutique hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia