Delayed skeletal maturity in dwarf, medium and giant Pleistocene insular deer (Candiacervus) indicating a slower life history regardless size shift Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 78 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean www.scientificamerican.com/article/biza...

Forever mood

Blocked me. I don’t care. F@ck Israel, f@ck Trump, f@ck Milei, free Palestine and tax the rich.HLVS.

La lógica de X: me amenazaron y me insultaron pero no violaron las “reglas de x”’ Yo hice un chiste sobre los senadores que votaron contra el futuro y la educación y fui bloqueada. Hilarious

December 27, 1831: The HMS Beagle embarks on its second voyage with a young Charles Darwin aboard. wp.me/p3ihHu-ji #OTD #histSTM 🧪⚒️

On #Christmas Day 1833, #Darwin wrote: “Christmas. After dining in the Gun-room, the officers & almost every man in the ship went on shore. — The Captain distributed prizes to the best runners, leapers, wrestlers. — These Olympic games were very amusing.” paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/12/24/c...

Geomythology: On Cyclops and Lestrigons | Letters from Gondwana. paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/g...

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae - Souza - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and polymath, was born OTD, 1780 wp.me/p3ihHu-158 #WomeninSTEM She has been called  “Queen of Nineteenth Century Science.”  Her book “Physical Geography” was the first textbook on the subject in English & her most popular work. 🧪⚒️ #histsci

Dear Santa

Online now: Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics dlvr.it/TQ1T0d

#FossilFriday On New Year’s Eve of 1853 a banquet was held inside the reconstruction of the Iguanodon, which had not yet been completed #histsci wp.me/p3ihHu-4Ii

#FossilFriday Wiped out from delivering presents, little Cambrian arthropod Sanctacaris (aka "Santa Claws") takes a very long (508 million year) rest. Specimen at @romtoronto.bsky.social

The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

‘Love-Letters of a Japanese’ (1911), follows the affair between Mertyl Meredith & Kenjiro Watanabe over 3 consecutive Christmases. The true identity of the infatuated young “Mertyl” is revealed in the book’s foreword, written by Marie Stopes. 🎄🧪⚒️ #Xmas2025 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/c...

#Christmas edition: Xmas love letters, Mary Stopes, and the discovery of the oldest flowers. #histsci #womeninstem wp.me/p3ihHu-5rP

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated due process by deporting Venezuelan men after invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This is an important ruling for these men who were tortured, and for the rule of law.

“In the Original Unity of the First Thing resides the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation.” Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/h...

Postcranial osteology of Manidens condorensis (Ornithischia: Heterodontosauridae) from the Lower Jurassic of Argentina: 3D reconstruction, histology, and phylogenetic implications - Becerra - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Defender el sistema científico argentino es un imperativo moral

Postcranial pneumaticity in abelisaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda): the cases of Tralkasaurus cuyi, Skorpiovenator bustingorryi and Carnotaurus sastrei 🧪⚒️🦖 www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...

An Evolving View of Lineage Diversification academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Spain adapts to extreme heat by creating a network of climate shelters. With rising global temperatures, how many nations will follow suit in preparing for the new normal of heatwaves? www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#FossilFriday A 3D printed model of Caelestiventus hanseni skull, a Late Triassic pterosaur from North America ⚒️🧪 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/o...

#FossilFriday Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️ paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/v...

Some beautiful books for lovers of history of science as lateChristmas gift suggestions! #histsci #books #goodreads thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/a...

Punctuation matters… 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Fascinating 💚 #FossilFriday

Skynet is self-aware. Skynet is self-aware. I repeat: Skynet is self-aware.

I’m really tired of living through historical events, but at the same time

As I've said, Trump's warmongering with Venezuela is not about stopping drug traffickers. The real goal: regime change to grab Venezuelan oil & gas reserves for his billionaire buddies. Putting Americans in harm’s way for the thing Trump cares about most — profits.

Another Republican President starting yet another senseless war over oil. Have we not seen enough? And none of them had an exit plan. Trump would look weak if he turned around and went home... which means, he will take us to war. Just want Maduro to shoot first.

Happy Jane Austen Day!

La desaparición de los glaciares de los Alpes por el calentamiento global. ➡️+1.5 ºC: sólo el 12% de los glaciares permanecerían para 2100 (430 de los 3.000 existentes en 2025). ➡️+2 °C: sobreviviría el 8% (270 glaciares). ➡️+4 °C: desaparición casi total: 1% (20 glaciares).

#Christmas on the HMS Beagle #histsci ⚒️🧪 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/12/24/c...

Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae - Souza - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tomorrow, December 16, at 2 pm ET: 3 former #CDC leaders detail impacts of RFK Jr.’s anti-science agenda arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

On brains and the evolution of flight 🧪⚒️ paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/o...

Late Paleozoic tetrapods in eastern Pangaea: when and how did they get there? 🧪⚒️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Insufficient evidence for spinosaurid survival into the latest Cretaceous: a comment on Olmedo-Romaña et al. (2025) Ameghiniana (advance online publication) doi: 10.5710/AMGH.10.12.2025.3673 www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/am...

Mood

Year-to-year variability with a long-term decline in November #Arctic sea ice volume (bar) and thickness (map). Updated through November 2025 🧊 Additional graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

#FossilFriday The fossil history of the Christmas tree 🎄 ⚒️🧪 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/t...

Alethopteris, a seed fern from the Carboniferous swamp forests 300 million years ago. This specimen is from Kansas. The fossils are on undulating bedding planes, and the specimen has beautiful brown tones (I'm used to darker, flatter UK coal measures material!) #FossilFriday #NotAFernFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🌿🔬