I encourage you to stop on in to the 'Shale and Well Met' for a pint of.. well, I'm not sure what. But boy is the company great!

A 95 million year old angiosperm leaf preserved as an impression in an iron-cemented sandstone. The original leaf may have gone, but you can still see where invertebrates nibbled it. From Dakota Formation, Kansas. Cenomanian, probably. #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🔬🌱🍃🌳

Opportunity for women students in paleontology! The Winifred Goldring Award will be presented to three women graduate students and the AWG Undergraduate Paleontology Award will be presented to a student pursuing a career in paleontology. Due April 30th. More information here: tinyurl.com/msdc3m68

New paper with @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, @wrightam.bsky.social, Jen Bauer, and Maggie Limbeck! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

[New Paper] From over 8000 nominations for the new chiton species naming competition with Ze Frank -- the winner is Ferreiraella populi ("chiton of the people")! The paper officially naming this species was just published: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14 @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social

I once got in a Slack debate with the editor-in-chief of a publication, a woman, who believed that for society to benefit from genius men those men's abuse of women might need to be tolerated. I argued that the loss of contributions of the women they abused could easily be worth 10x their own.

This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Attention Artists of Philadelphia! The time has come to find an artist for our next Philly Biodiversity Mural! This project will take place in April/May. Pay = $20k The form to apply is as short as I could possibly make it. Please tell your friends and apply! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Important new @annualreviews.bsky.social review on #AMOC collapse. 🌊⚠️ 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Here are 8 key takeaways from Dijkstra & van Westen (2026) on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its risks. 👇🧵

2️⃣ "AMOC strength will decline over the twenty-first century under all SSP scenarios" All future scenarios show weakening of the #AMOC, though the exact magnitude and timing remain uncertain.

Really SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

"Therefore, we caution against considering our present understanding of organismal natural history and taxonomic sampling sufficiently complete to focus research support *sole*ly on meta-analyses" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_(f...

Also reposting James' summary of our paper

New paper out: The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation with @fossildetective.bsky.social, @bigfacecats.bsky.social, Curtis Congreve & @jonhendricks.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🦑⚒️

New #paleoart at #Patreon for #FossilFriday: Caudipteryx encounters a frozen lake, is unsure, prob. makes wee bokking noises as its feet slide apart hilariously. Lots of discussion about the colour data of this animal in my Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/149439... #sciart #fossil #dinosaurs

I absolutely adore this idea!!!

The Paleontological Research Institution invites applications from undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers for the 2026 John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program who want to visit PRI collections www.priweb.org/collections/... Deadline is March 2, 2026.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

[Staring at Senate Dems]

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like

Conchologists of America Grants are also Due Feb 28th; any mollusk research is eligible, and this one is open to postdocs/museum researchers as well as students. Rec letters needed for students but not those not currently seeking a degree. www.conchologistsofamerica.org/grants/

Western Society of Malacologists has a research travel grant for students heading to LACM or other museums to work on extant or extinct mollusks that live(d) in western North America -$1500 max Proposal and rec letter are due March 1st 2025: westernsocietymalacology.org/grants/james...

Hey, let’s go to Maine in the dead of winter, a time of year that certainly won’t make us more recognizable to a populace that has the ability to spot an out-of-stater from 500 yards away.

I LOVE @zefrank.bsky.social videos!! 😁 youtu.be/G7HkBBJO7ZU

Apparently January 25 is Moose Day. 🤷‍♀️ Enjoy this Moose. A moose lino block print is hand printed on delicate, translucent, handmade Japanese paper with a deckle edge. Each print is 9.5” tall and 12” wide (24.1 cm by 30.5 cm).

"The bill provides a new definition of an accrediting agency. " so they can join with the southern states that started their own board, living in a totally different world of what defines university education from the past or the rest of the modern world

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

In a new special issue, Science’s news reporters take stock of the impacts that Trump's year in office has had on research and the scientific workforce, forecast what lies ahead, and assess the scientific community’s efforts to mitigate or reverse the harms. https://scim.ag/4pPtks0

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social

This is brilliant.

Sharing this brilliance with the SciArt Feed 🐡:

20 / 23 We looked to other groups of complex multicellular organisms and found that Prototaxites also couldn’t be placed there, suggesting that Prototaxites is best considered as a member of an independent and now entirely extinct lineage of eukaryotes.

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

Kavanaugh is the SCOTUS Justice overseeing the 8th Circuit. You know, the guy who said it was legal for law enforcement to harass people based on skin color and accent. We had Kavanaugh Stops. Now we have Kavanaugh Beatings, Kavaugh Terrorizing, and Kavanaugh Murders. Shameful. Maine, take note...

8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

We got a box of Lorwyn Eclipsed last night while kid was away at a competition and held a "littlest guy competition" (vibes based) First the non-creatures... dont worry it gets better from here.

YIKES. Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license. Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help. Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️

SPPOOOSSSHHH... PHHHFFFFFFF... SSSSSSHHHHHHHH... To paraphrase Bob Ross, you have to make the noises when looking at #paleoart, otherwise it doesn't work. 2018 illustration of giant Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, surfacing in waters that once covered Nevada. #art #fossil #paleontology #sciart

Its #FossilFriday ! Aria and Caron (2024) reported the deep origin of articulation strategies in panarthropods: evidence from a new luolishaniid lobopodian (Panarthropoda) from the Tulip Beds, Burgess Shale. Read the study here: buff.ly/BJazJ5G #PaleoSky #PaleoArt #NewSpecies #Fossils #Cambrian

Knowing that the earliest form of art in human and pre-human history could be an Indonesian shell that some Homo erectus dude engraved with zigzags 500,000 years ago definitely satisfies the shell nerd in me. #FossilFriday #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑

Also, people going hard for Newsom, who are never, ever from California, have you noticed how many of the people who hate him are FROM California? THAT'S B/C WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT GAVIN NEWSOM AS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS & IT IS VERY NOT GREAT & WE ARE TRYING TO TELL YOU TO AVOID THAT.

"The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses." Properly disposing of this hexavalent chromium costs millions. Dumping it in the river is free. Therefore, EPA says do the latter. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

This story about the Right’s ousting of a new law dean before she even started is insane. Cancel culture much? arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

What we need is the episode of West Wing where CJ meets the Cartographers for Social Equality.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this