If you are in Eastern Oregon today, stop by the C2C project’s booth at the Watershed Festival, where we explore how ancient volcanic eruptions have shaped climate and life. Volcanoes, Lava, and Life—words to live by! Featuring Leif Karlstrom, Lauren Adamo, & @pedromonarrez.bsky.social

Good article on the importance of basic science and how it benefits society www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Let's continue National Snail Day Shellebrations with the snails in short series, where I collaborated with @franzanth.bsky.social 🐌🦑 #nationalsnailday first up some snail basics

Abstract submissions for GSA Connects 2025 in San Antonio are open now through August 5. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the two sessions I’m co-convening. Or don’t, that’s cool too. connects.geosociety.org/program/tech... #GSAConnects #paleobiology #extinction #stratigraphy #strapaleo

Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪

When we take measures to address the racial bias that has allowed whites to enjoy privilege, they call our survival mechanisms 'racial bias.' Pure hypocrisy. www.science.org/content/arti... #saveNSF #NSF

It's official. 15% ICR on NSF grants. My favorite line: "Reducing administrative burdens for awardee institutions." Say the opposite of what is true... the communication strategy of our time: www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Day 4 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver onto fossils (badly) in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is PRI's newest plush paleozoic pal of Diplocaulus salamandroides, comedian is H. sapiens #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🧪 almost #fossilfriday

Physiology and climate change explain unusually high similarity across marine communities after end-Permian mass extinction | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy #taxonomistappreciationday! Taxonomy is the science that names and identifies species, forming the basis of communication in other fields of biology. My own expertise is in marine snails, especially the Turritellidae.

If trans people are going to perpetually catch so much shit for existing, we may as well be bold. We may as well own that we are exceptional, we shine, and we carry deep knowledge the rest of the world wishes they could comprehend.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

A historic milestone for #AGU! 🚀🌍 Dr. Brandon Jones has officially taken the helm as AGU’s President, bringing a bold vision for the future of Earth and space science. Read more about his leadership and impact in this #Forbes feature: www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... #Leadership #ScienceMatters

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

A court hearing this afternoon could be pivotal for NSF staff terminated illegally. A colleague’s declaration of harm is in Document 18, attachment 9 and speaks for a lot of us who were fired from NSF. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69655...

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟 March 7, 2025, DC and state capitals ! standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

First day as an assistant professor and I couldn’t have asked for better colleagues!

We are looking for geoscientists who are or were in the workforce to take a participate in a survey about their experiences. There is almost no data on disabled geos beyond the student level and we aim to change that. Please share widely!

A colleague, Tamara Pico, is conducting a study about potentially gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences: ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Responses welcome from subtle to more memorable, and even if you have not heard this language!

Reminder I'm recruiting a graduate student to join the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social lab in fall '25. My lab uses fossils, fieldwork, & statistical phylogenetic methods to study macroevolutionary processes in marine invertebrates, especially echinoderms. Please share & feel free to reach out! 🧪

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25. That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

Saber-toothed toe beans. Saber-toothed toe beans

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Indigenous knowledge of palaeontology in Africa | Geological Society, London, Special Publications www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/...

Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future tinyurl.com/yfrbx344

Abstract submissions for NAPC 2024 are live now through January 20th. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the two symposium sessions I’m co-convening! #napc2024 #stratpaleo #education #dei #stratigraphy #paleobiology #outreach Abstract submission link: t.ly/4Nhee

Some of the great paleontologists working to change this whitewashed history are here & a link to their great academic paper cited in above article #paleosky @pedromonarrez.bsky.social @ashpoust.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My first post is to share my new paper out today on how extinction selectivity reduces in strength and increases in variability across different marine groups during mass extinctions relative to background intervals. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...