I’m reading an issue of National Geographic from 1969, which is focused on the first Lunar Landing. It’s amazing how similar the conversations are between Houston and the astronauts: a mix of mission-related communications, observations, chit chat, and emotional reflections on big ideas.

Coursing river=swift Great typhoon=full of force Raging fire=strong Dark side of the moon? Not so mysterious now.

Our friend the Chachapoyas Stubfoot Toad is also known as the Peruvian Harlequin Frog! They live in a small area in the Andes mountains of northern Peru! They are extremely rare and have only been spotted a few times since they were first discovered in 1989! (photo by andes2amazonexpeditions)

Friends, if you are planning on presenting at the American Elasmobranch Society conference this summer in New Orleans, you have until 4/10 to submit your abstract! (We are assured that this deadline won't be extended again). 🧪🌍🦑🦈

Thinkin about Chuckwallas today. Their main defense strategy is to squeeze into cracks in rocks and then inflate themselves so predators can’t pull them out 📷Polly Conrad

The first person I ever had a crush on who liked me back is ace and is getting married to their long time girlfriend this fall. There are so many different ways to be and it’s all ok.

Out today in Antarctic Science: a description of the first vertebrate assemblage from the middle member of the Triassic Fremouw Formation of Antarctica. New occurrences of Procolophoonidae and Prolacerta, as well as updated paleoenvironmental interpretations! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This was me and I’m not ashamed! I’m sorry Samira for creeping you out. It wasn’t me showing serial killer tendencies, just a budding interest in comparative anatomy.

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

The issue is officially compiled and out, with a very cool cover by @dtobiansky.bsky.social 's student, Tara Barnes-Tompkins anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

I’m happy to see some other paleos noticing this petition to raise awareness about the plight of the academy of natural sciences that some other Drexel BEES students and alumni have shared: www.change.org/p/the-academ...

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

IOB's latest The Peculiar Necks of #Herons and Anhingas: A Study of Cervical #Morphology in Pelecanimorph #Birds by R C Fleming and C R Black doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #ornithology #biomechanics #avian

hey geologists and paleo folks, what’s up with this rock we found

Can you image what it would be like to go from the first image to the second? To literally watch your home planet shrinking behind you until most of what you see is the emptiness of space? For every minute to further hammer in our insignificance against the vastness of the cosmos? (1/2)🧪🔭

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Thinking about academic conferences. Are you planning a conference or planning on attending a conference two years from now? We know where things are headed so make sure conference planners know it’s important to you to avoid states that have expressed antipathy towards specific groups of people.

The 6 arrested yesterday, along with the 9 arrested Wednesday, brings the total to 15 arrested at the Idaho State Capitol building this week in Boise while resisting the extreme anti trans bathroom ban, Idaho HB 752. This law is the most extreme in the country but citizens are not going silently.

Decoupled phenotypic constraints framed by respiratory adaptation in the rise of land vertebrates | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Easter and happy On Sale Easter Candy Eve!

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This is solid creature design

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

Everyone activate their emergency discourse topics. Mine is: Why can’t we have human kibble?

Just saw Project Hail Mary. It made my science brain very happy. I loved the theme of empathy being a key part of good science And the instances of convergent evolution.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

One of the craziest discoveries of a new 'living fossil' and Lazarus taxon - Laotian rock rat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian... the last member of Diatomyidae. Survived in the isolated mountain pockets. And here is fun video about it: youtube.com/shorts/sZI3Z... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

The Tet Zoo 2019 article on sleep behaviour and sleep postures in non-human animals just had an editorial revamp. I will use this as an example to thread some interesting facts and ideas about this subject. The article itself is here... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/4/... #biology #zoolog #animals

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

I think Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” statement is one of the most profoundly moving things our species has ever created for that exact reason:

This is what baby eels looks like. The long trailing tail is its *stomach* (nope, we scientists have no idea why) Eels hold their mysteries close 📽️ by Fan Zhang

This is so, so well-articulated.

The Northern Lights from a different angle. The Earth seen from the Artemis II.

‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved www.scientificamerican.com/article/jaw-...

Internet's too grim today. Time for pygmy-up with pygmy jerboas, the worlds most spherical rodent There are several species of these central Asian/eastern European nocturnal omnivores. They all have a propensity for burrowing and square-cube law maxxing 📷 Juugee Nergui, Klaus Rudloff, Conrad Savy

GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...

This week’s UV copepods! I swear these colours are getting wilder every week. #marineplankton 🦑

lmao this is... grim journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I'm pretty sure the reason to get a Ph.D. is so that you can write a cockamamie email to your city's water department, requesting that they participate in your biodiversity burlesque show that goes like "Ah yes I am Legitimate & Respectable*. Obvi. Please partake in my low brow biodiversitease."

Exciting to finally experience my personal equivalent of ‘is there a doctor on the plane?’ 🕊️

I don't know if it says more about me or about ~society~ but I feel like the vast majority of the time the information I need from published papers – and find useful to cite – is NOT what was framed as the authors' main finding or even in the primary analysis.

In evolution, we see the directionless generation of novelty through mutation, but in order to end up with functional, fit organisms, we need selection to choose what succeeds. AI slop is like radiating C. elegans, but I see little effort spent on selection. A monkey can’t tell if it wrote Hamlet.

#RodentOfTheDay Great Gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) "From S Mongolia and N China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Nei Mongolia) to Kazakhstan, Iran, Afghanistan, and SW Pakistan." Info from: www.mammalsociety.org/image-librar...

🐍 Seasonal Herpetological Technician – Join Illinois Natural History Survey! Assist with reptile and amphibian surveys throughout northern Illinois! Apps due Apr. 10, 2026 👉 Apply now: https://loom.ly/nyKlxKU

SVP is a really important organization to me, so understand that this is all in effort to make it a safer community space long-term. I may not do much research, but I know a thing or two about community interface and brand management. So those are the skills I’m bringing to this ongoing problem.

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

Just got this month’s adderall prescription and it’s orange????? They can’t do this to us poor neurodivergent folks. I’ve been on adderall for about 27 years in four different states. Adderall is blue.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

I just finished reading The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood and I’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of grad school. It discusses imposter syndrome, the importance of friendship, toxic advisors, and career planning. I want to recommend it to my mentees however it’s also grade A smut.