Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

No matter how well we think we know dinosaurs, there's so much left to learn. New blog from me about Spicomellus, a dinosaur that knew spiked collars are hot. 🧪

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

I didn't realize @chiitan.love was on bluesky, but they are of course welcome to visit the museum and any help raising money to save the Paleontological Research Institution would be deeply appreciated, with or without @lastweektonight.com #savePRI More info here: www.priweb.org/press-releas...

what type of work does PRI do anyway? Scholars at PRI work on conservation paleobiology (using paleo techniques to address conservation issues), Macroevolution, Paleoclimatology, modern and paleo marine biology, and Science Education #Geoscience ⚒️🦑🧪

Day 143 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) with the jaw of Borealosuchus sternbergi (PRI76863), a potential resident of the much needed #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed ? #SavePRI 🧪⚒️

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Day 142 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) has perfected the shale-grey suit coordinating with Asaphus micropleurus #savePRI #arthropods #LastLateNightHostStanding? #LWT #fossils

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

The writers have gotten lazy this season. Willow Bay. Will O Bay. Will Obey.

I made a new "finding thousands in cephalopod facts" comic to celebrate reaching 1K followers on instagram! 🧪🦑🐡 Please note these are all informed estimates/approximations. 😁References in thread

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

If your work involves Big Palaeo Data, you should be *begging* people to publish little local studies of new observational data, jfc. Without that you have absolutely bupkiss. I say this as someone with a foot in both camps:

Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵

Day141 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution For #FossilFriday, the worm snail that tried to reinvent coiling, Petaloconchus floridanum (PRI113487). John is H. sapiens #snails #SavePRI #fundraising ⚒️🦑

Hey everyone, it’s Round 2 & time to vote for #Stibnite again!! It was Cleopatra’s eyeliner (kohl), adds ✨sparkle✨ to fireworks, plays nicely with #Calcite, & otherwise looks like the Iron Throne!! Vote #MinCup25!!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Day 140 of photoshopping #JohnOliver from @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution/Museum of the Earth One thing you can do to help higher ed/science is save PRI, the home of these graptolites Monograptus clintonensis (PRI76765) ⚒️🧪

Paleo professorship/Museum Curator appointment at College of Charleston. The department has a paleontology concentration so would be great for a paleontologist able to safely live in SC. www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #EarthScience #Paleobiology ⚒️ #GeoscienceJobs #geoscience

Day 139 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John has summoned a fossil oyster, Ostrea sculpturata. Perhaps he can help with the last push to #SavePRI and get the #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🦑⚒️🧪

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 16 - It's a battle of the tiny as bright green #paddlewheelite goes up against jet black #mannardite. Both are small yet mighty minerals, but only one can win! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Who is keeping a list of Universities that have fired faculty? You know, to assure people know what they are getting into if they go there.

Day138 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth, comedian is H. sapiens. PRI still needs help, donate if you can! #SavePRI #dinosaurs #ToothTuesday #Museums #geology

BREAKING NEWS!!! THE PALEOZOIC PALS NAUTILOID PLUSH IS FINALLY BACK IN STOCK!!!! GET IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...

More information on UNL proposed cuts, which include all of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: UNL proposes $27.5 million in ‘devastating’ cuts, six program areas for elimination nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/13/u...

A few people have asked if there is anything that they can do about UNL's decision to cut its Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Department. There is a public feedback from that one can submit to UNL that you can access here: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Clint Rowe (our dept. chair) has asked to get…

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

jesus. we've really got to start building more housing in Canada ASAP

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

Day137 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) is kindly spotlighting PRI's Paleozoic Pal plush Dunkleosteus terrelli, a giant Devonian armored fish #museumMonday #savePRI ⚒️ #LWT

Check out the Fall issue of Learning Earth, PRI's educator newsletter! We're bringing Climate Week to Upstate NY; Teacher Resource Day; and so much more! us20.campaign-archive.com?e=cee4b2c47a...

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about. What's yours?

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 14: It's radioactive #cuprosklodowskite vs ephemeral #ikaite for today's match. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Day136 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is Crenulopteris acadica (PRI42681). Comedians are H. sapiens #fossils #plants #Museums #SavePRI #MuseumoftgeEarth #Ithaca #LWT #StephenColbert #geology

Windows updated and I have spent 3 hours desperately trying to make my computer function. I have sight of my desktop again but it is crawling to even scroll through the task manager. Someone said 30% of the update was AI written? Idk how to make it function again so I can work/ get u John Olivers

UMMP 57588: specimen showing the Late Devonian genera Archaeopteris (fronds) and Callixylon (trunks, branches) belonged to the same plant. This critical discovery by UMMP curator Charles Beck illuminated the structure of trees contributing to some of the planet's most ancient forests. #FossilFriday

Ugh. For shame. source: buff.ly/I4WIuem unpaywalled: buff.ly/B9EXLV8 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #AddToBlackEduSky #FeministSky

This #FossilFriday I have a sneaky surprise to share!! You might THINK this is a funky clam but ....

Happy #FossilFriday from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland. For your enjoyment here is a specimen of the most common form of (as yet undescribed) #Charnia from our Inner Meadow site of #Ediacaran age in Newfoundland. It has J shaped branches and i particularly love the arcs the secondaries describe.

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

#FossilFriday an SEM image of a 1.4 billion year old #acritarch. The first image shows you the surface topography. The other images are pseudo x-rays showing the internal structures. I figured out how to do these tiny x rays on Weds, it's going to be really useful in future. #geology #paleontology

As many I follow also follow this account, just letting you know it is one that attacks climate scientists, as does is the one it’s replying to. Why? Giving up is a defense mechanism against the overwhelming burden of climate anxiety - but it means that anyone who offers hope must be silenced.

Day135 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution For #fossilFriday our fossil is Prososphinctes virguloides(PRI 70577). Comedian is H. sapiens. Don't let the ammonites become homeless! Donate now! 🦑🧪

Day 134 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution Brow blessed with Busycon and barnacles, John (H. sapiens) is ready to face another week #SavePRI #charity #fossils #geoscience ⚒️ #snail #science

My department (ecology and evolution) is hiring a core bioinformatics/comp bio person (not TT but the last person retired after 25+ years). It's a great place to work!: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

Given that professors are being fired for teaching in their field, we have to conclude that Texas A&M is no longer a functional university.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.