Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:

The closed captioning is devastating

I'm late to my own party (again, sigh) but my new book on #spinosaurid #dinosaurs (written with @davehone.bsky.social) was officially released yesterday! Tons of info on and #paleoart of spinosaurs therein: research history, evolution, ecology, life appearance etc. Available wherever books are sold.

Planning some Friday-night viewing and this joke will never get old

actual communism

"I like people who don't collapse"

Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.

"Next year, popular board game Clue will be reissued with a footlong sandwich in addition to the traditional candlestick, dagger, lead pipe, revolver, rope, and wrench."

Chicago, 7am. Children have just arrived at daycare. Armed ICE agents storm the classroom, grab a teacher, drag her outside, arrest her. As the children watch. As she screams that she's in the US legally, tries to show her papers. All without a warrant. This is fascism.

This line didn’t make it into many Trump speeches. 🤡

🚨JOB ALERT : ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGIST 🚨 Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey! 💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month 📆 Application due: 11/17/2025 calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.

Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

In the field for the next week. First off, heading down into the Blanding Basin of southeastern Utah with mapping program to field check maps and provide insights of mapping mid Mesozoic formation contacts for up coming mapping projects. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

What could possibly go wrong?

Happy Halloween and spooky Samhain, butterflies! We're back with #FossilFriday and it's another meme on deck. 🧪⚒️🦪🦪 Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve! Someone tag @dantheclamman.blog , I feel like he has relevant interests.

For #FossilFriday, walking with dinosaurs ~100 million years too late at the Davenport Ranch dinosaur tracksite (1st documented in 1940), near Bandera TX on a @geosociety.bsky.social pre-meeting field trip just 2 weeks ago. Tracks show evidence of herding sauropods & big theropods. 🧪🪨⚒️🦖🦕🐾 #ichnology

WAPO: “.. Maduro is reaching out to Russia, China and Iran to enhance its worn military capabilities and solicit assistance, requesting defensive radars, aircraft repairs and potentially missiles ..” 🇻🇪 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The Heritage Foundation’s Bob Peters now recommends that if the US cannot develop the ability to conduct an underground nuclear test in Nevada within 3-6 months of an order to do so, it consider withdrawing from the 1962 Limited Test Ban Treaty and resuming open-air testing in Nevada or the Pacific.

I can totally identify with this feeling. But what the poll misses is that there are no jobs across the world for these 75%. Sure Nobel winners and super top researchers will be poached. But for the majority if they chose to leave, it will mean doing a non research job somewhere else

🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️🧪 Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.

On our way up to Ptarmigan Lake in the Collegiate Range. West of Buena Vista, CO. Two Saturdays ago.

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

Violent J6er takes guns to Obama’s house. Trump admin says, meh, don’t prosecute. Peaceful protester is thrown to the ground by ICE agents. Trump admin says prosecute to full extent of the law.

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

We're having field flashbacks! As it gets colder in our little corners of the world, we're throwing it back to field season: covered in dust, sun-soaked and sunscreened, and taking it one discovery at a time. Who's ready to get back to the quarry next summer!?

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Border Control commander Gregory Bovino, a driving force in the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans, has been ordered to appear in federal court this morning as a judge examines whether he and his thugs violated her court order. Will Bovino show up? 1/3

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

My big takeaway from Trump's lengthy Air Force One gaggle is that he's talking about shredding the Constitution by being in office for a third term increasingly openly. If you don't think he try it, you're in denial.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Percentage Hispanic population Passaic County, NJ: 42.74% Kern County, CA: 54.9% Riverside County, CA: 49.72% Fresno County, CA: 53.61% Orange County, CA: 34.1% Los Angeles County, CA: 48% What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA

For #FossilFriday, a special look at a historic dinosaur trackway at Maya Dude Ranch near Bandera, Texas. Originally interpreted by Roland Bird in 1940 as that of a "swimming sauropod," discovery of more tracks by "Jurassic Judy" (Neuman) confirmed it as a walking (not swimming!) trackway. 🧪🦕🐾

AP: “.. The shift could spell trouble for Republicans looking to cement support ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/hisp...

#FossilFriday Not to be outdone by Isaac Newton who is buried beneath a gastropod fossil in Westminster Abbey, the famous geologist Charles Lyell’s gravestone is Carboniferous crinoidal limestone full of columnals of these ‘sea-lilies’.

Just watched 311 on Tiny Desk from like a year ago. I feel old now. Old and gray and thinking wistfully of the 90s.

13 days until the first-ever ORE CUP! You ready? (We’re not, but we will be!) #OreCup

Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter! We hope to see you there, & safe travels! #PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology

‼️Special volume about arthropod paleontology was published today in the Journal of Paleontology, honoring the late Dr. Rodney Feldmann.🦀🦞🦐 Many of the 20 articles are open access. @paleosoc.bsky.social #paleontology #fossil #crab #lobster #shrimp Full volume: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My first polar bear of the season. Such a privilege and a pleasure to be able to spend time with these guys. #mammals 🌿🐻‍❄️

What, if anything, did the No Kings protests accomplish? I've seen that pop up in everything from genuine inquiry to sneering dismissal. For anyone asking or facing that question, here's an answer. Everything isn't all fixed, of course. But the protests accomplished at least these seven things:

Hahahaha, the corruption is boundless. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

A decade into this, and my jaw still dropped.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

A #TuesdayTempestite in the El Paso group (Ordovician limestone), Franklin Mountains, west Texas: ⚒️

Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution met today at #GSA #GSA2025 and Carl Brett (Universityof Cincinnati), a great friend of PRI gave a speach on why this place is worth saving Part 1 of 2 #SavePRI ⚒️🧪