In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

O American Museum of Natural History (EUA) e o Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Alemanha; o mesmo museu que ainda detém Irritator) são os museus estrangeiros que mais possuem fósseis de macroinvertebrados do Araripe. #IrritatorBelongstoBR

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration This is what I explore here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Trump: "why is it called Gulf of Mexico if we own 92% of it..." He could just say "because I wanted so". But in his fantasy world he needs to have a reason that seems fair and in that fantasy world, of his own creation, having 44% of the shoreline is not a good reason, so he lies. What a sad man.

You didn’t think you were just getting one dinosaur article from me today, did you? In another for NatGeo, I dig into how dinosaur “mummies” are preserved - and why there are probably many more exceptional dinosaur fossils out there than we ever dreamed. 🧪

Since Spotify has gotten cozy with ICE, I am looking for alternatives to cancel it for good. Does anyone know of apps I can migrate my playlists and libraries to? I think Deezer seems to be the option, but not really sure how to migrate this from Spotify Android.

May this be the end of the trope "it is safer in European museums". Heritage protection is a public policy issue and not a socioecomomic or cultural one.

Mexican Senators Propose Pay Transparency Senators highlight that without salary transparency, it's virtually impossible to file a claim for unfair pay, thus perpetuating the gender pay gap. mexicosolidarity.com/mexican-sena...

Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils! Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I think that how people talk about colonialism I think is one of the better tells for what their politics actually are. ymmv

"...regional extinction rate of between 75 and 84% for squamates in the Western Interior of North America and suggests this group was more severely impacted across the K/Pg boundary than other small-bodied vertebrates." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology

Despite all of the threats and nasty messages I have received, I’ve actually received more notes of support and solidarity. So I just wanted to take a moment amidst a hectic time to thank everyone who has reached out. I don’t know when I will have the time to reply to everyone, but I intend to.

Let Palestinians lead: Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

"Give me a Nobel Peace Prize or I attack your country" is a very bad strategy to win a Nobel Peace Prize "Tell us where the talking lama is and we'll burn your house to the ground" level of bad.

#paleoctober2025 day 9 : Protobalanus spinicoronatus ! Despite its name, this animal is a devonian mollusk, more specifically a basal polyplacophoran. You may know its current day relatives as little criters on the beaches called "chitons" (that are not slugs with shells nor crustaceans).

Open Access UCL Research: Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

If you attend or work at a university in the UK, chances are you know someone who is on Indefinite Leave to Remain. Please consider what the recent attacks on ILR from both Reform and Labour are doing to those people you probably know.

I have little respect for El Chavo del Ocho. That SNL got El Chavo del Ocho wrong is just beyond me. And on top of that, I feel the need to defend it! But then I remember it's a concept created so that the audience will be dormant as the fascist regimes in LatAm opressed us and then I let go

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …

I bought myself Outer Wilds this summer to treat myself and finally got to play it... Such a fun game!

#FossilFriday A 2-year-long project reaches the end. A new Cretaceous collection found a new home.

Huh? No, no, if Nintendo, a super litigious company, doesn't enforce their IP protection when *checks notes* a fascist government uses it in fascist propaganda... Then it is added to the boycott list of this Mexican.

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The Stupidest Speech in UN History! “Everyone’s saying so,” writes @billmckibben.bsky.social “the shots of delegates looking on in disbelief as Trump vented about broken escalators, MAGA hats, & his general greatness for nearly an hour (ignoring the 15min time limit…)” Global embarrassment. Joke.

Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind (and seeing all the bigoted disappointed millennial dispensalists pondering whether they were also left behind)

Dropped off the grid? In the colonised world often referred to as "the thirld world", we call that 'forced disappearance', a crime against humanity. I guess this is the kind of concepts that are easier to identify if the perpetrator is not white? Rookie mistake www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It is with great regret that I announce that he died... without facing any consequences for his actions. – “El País. The extravagant mayor of San Pedro Garza García, dies." elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Wondering why @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is closed this week? Case refurbishments and new displays on the way!

Like Angela Bassett, I did the thing. I am knackered but yesterday morning I heard a group of 10 children screaming with excitement and suddenly everything was worth it.

The video of the Scottish women at Thatcher's funeral has lived in my head rent free recently. “Too bad! Too bad!"

I actually think we really do need to draw a line in the sand here because if you feel so compelled to eulogise and mourn someone who was literally a white supremacist and fascist by all definitions of those words, maybe we should just consider you a white suprematicist and fascist too.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Presidents? SCOTUS grants them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. Hello?

Now, for a complaint: this is, quite obviously, a paleontology paper. It deals with taphonomy. We had desk-rejections from two paleontology journals because of the actualistic experiments. An editor told me the paper "had no fossils". We analyzed 306 fossils. So disappointing.

Charlie Kirk started the Professor Watchlist, which caused friends of mine and their families to be terrorized by right-wing assholes. So, you know, fuck everyone trying to find some nugget of decency in that shitpile.

Y'all want to pretend like Charlie Kirk wasn't Charlie Kirk, that's fine. Delete posts, ban people, wave the flag at half-mast, call for unity, all of that. Show him more veneration you ever did for other victims, and do it loudly and blatantly, sure. By all means, break any last trust you had.

great day to repost people saying the thing you wanna say rather than saying the thing yourself

I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.

Playing Stardew Valley with bf. Bf: "I am going to build a silo!" ⛏️ Me: "I am flirting with that insufferable jock"

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

Turns out "I Will Survive" was about him. And the scourge is pretty much still alive. “Gloria Gaynor revealed as MAGA donor after being picked by Trump for Kennedy Center Honor | The Independent” www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

“From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go!” youtu.be/lq8WIxIyfGc?...

I want to believe. I will eat the rumours like they are tortas de chilaquiles.

Do you have a conference in the US coming up? My advice to you, as a US visa holder that clearly has what ICE agents will assume is a "hostile phenotype": do not go. If you've been detained in the past, like me, you know it's not worth it. If not, trust me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...