Every time I see someone posting about Iran and World War III, I add them to my growing list of “would have been gullible enough to support the Iraq War” Bingo Sheet

Tilly Edinger’s first described specimen after she moved to the US

Exactly this.

now that Newsom has apparently decided now is the moment to throw trans people under the bus in service of his overwhelming ambition, I return once again to one of my oldest political maxims do not trust a man who smiles like this

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

Wishing a not good day to any professor who says, “review your notes” to equations they showed us two minutes ago

PLINY THE ELDER: it says here that roasted millipedes are a cure for asthma RFK Jr: correct PLINY: and boiled frogs fix whooping cough? RFK Jr: also true CATO THE ELDER: and a flock of flying birds… RFK Jr: yes, yes, can predict the shape and size of an infant’s cranium

OpenAI right now

Completely annihilated my Twitter from orbit, I refuse to stay on a place run by a literal nazi

You were the the best little gremlin in the whole world, and there’s not a day that’ll go by where I won’t love and miss you with my entire being. You lived a long life, despite what felt like your efforts to get into as much shit as possible. Rest easy, Cheerio, you’ll always be my little baby man💔

The key element that the Jurassic World movies lack, compared to the original and The Lost World, is balding guys in the cast

Geology Prof: “Later on in the semester you guys will be drawing Phase Diagrams from memory on the board and NOT cartoons” Me: “That’s actually a Face Diagram that I drew from memory”

I’m spreading the word about a petition from some friends of mine in support of the paleontological research institution, a remarkable museum which is unfortunately in danger of closing forever soon. www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

I was made aware of something incredibly unfortunate about my favorite Neotype

Join me and these amazing musicians for Valentine's Day!

I almost told my friends that I am John Lennon’s biggest hater, but then I realized that I am a Silver Medalist John Lennon Hater at best

Imagine not only being hunted to extinction by a hairless bipedal ape, but having those same apes carve your likeness into a fragment of your teeth after hunting you. I would simply find a way to haunt them forever

The seals to any hiker named Tony

The (level 20) Archbishop of Paris uses his +5 Holy Staff of Radiant Holiness to open the doors of Notre Dame again: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

ANTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR, I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THE-ATER

Led my first Paleobiology Lecture/Lab the other week. I decided to include a pathological Walrus Baculum as one of the specimens. The look of indifference on the faces of the women in the class compared to the looks of horror on the faces of the men in the class was truly an incredible contrast

Hi, my name is Justin, you should use pens instead of pencils when creating a map in the field for the first time ever

Some of my first Cambrian fossils seen in the field, burrows of Skolithos at the type locality for this ichnotaxon

My new bit for the month is telling people that I have been working on an impression of them and then saying, “It’s da bat!” like a Thug from Arkham Asylum

some funky trace fossils in the Lockatong Formation

Leading my first college level paleobiology lecture today, feeling like a G

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

This seems important. My take is that education is important and we’ve gotta start people on philosophy before college. Also, though I believe in higher ed, it’s still broken and needs to be for more people than it currently is. Our futures depend on it. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Hi folks, in addition to the whole let's-not-comply-in-advance thing, let's maybe stop with the weird doomer stuff. Not because bad stuff won't happen but because we should maybe not turn this into Twitter and just reskeet people posting unknowledgeable takes for clicks. ---

Back to the Triassic fo today (Lockatong Formation)

It’s times like these that I look to the life stories of figures like Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Tilly Edinger to stay hopeful. Shit clearly sucks now and the future seems bleak but it is far from hopeless. We can organize, we can fight, and moreover we will overcome.

Just realized I forgot to make ANY iNat observations while in Minnesota, I have truly failed as an extant ecologist

Been having a blast at #2024SVP! Hearing about lots of exciting things and meeting awesome people. I’ve made connections that I think will lead to some really cool projects for me. Also, here are the only sketches I’ve done that aren’t based on embargoed work – my first love, early whales #paleoart

*certain* Senior Academics when you tell them to ask Grad Students questions and NOT make long winded statements about their own research

Here's something spooky from Ghost Ranch for this Halloween 🎃👻🐄🌷🦖🐊 A new paper from Jeb Bugos and myself describing two small and skeletally immature skulls of Coelophysis bauri. 🧵

SVP day one was a success ✅

The actual sigh I let out when I realized I was taking an Airbus and not a 737 Max today was intense LOL

Crinoids in the Coeyman’s formation in the Catskills region

NJ fossil casts fo today

Solved a missing specimen mystery, my grand prize? Paperwork :)

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Fossil Friday #235: Alethopteris serlii from the Field Museum #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #seedfern #pennsylvanian www.esconi.org/esconi_earth...

I have no idea what I’m doing, but I be doing it

Scenes along Atlantic City Beach

Me trying to up my calcium intake in the field

The beautiful Deinocheirus for day 14

my favorite odd toed ungulate with an even number of toes. Trigonias is also super dear to me because it was the basis of my research paper for Evolutionary Mammaology at Stockton University under Dr. Margaret Lewis

Shoutout to my school for having a logo that is colorblind friendly, it made the palette for my SVP poster easy to theme