And the next 2 meetings are a few hours drive from this guys home. And they will give no indication that he is not welcome back

3 days later, the Horner - Epstein timeline has been viewed 114,000 times. Thanks to everyone who shared to help ensure that this information was not buried. I do not have power to enact change on my own, but I do have the research skills to bring facts to light.

Pretty sure nothing happened to this individual. The guy had guns in his hotel room. SVP knew he was an issue in advance and instead of rejecting his abstract, they asked him to edit it to not name specific people in his weird manifesto.

★"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."

Wikipedia, which in the teens became the 5th most visited website, had this as the second sentence on JE's page: "He served 13 months in jail of an 18-month sentence as a convicted sex offender in the state of Florida for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution" web.archive.org/web/20111124...

A big take-home message: most field work is organised and led by men, and men are bad at ensuring the physiological needs of their students are met. Male scientists still find natural phenomena like menstruation and maternity to be taboo.

While no harassment in international forums has been experienced by the 39 women asked, half of them have experienced some sort of discrimination during the peer review or publication process. 64.1% considered that age also plays a factor in how they are treated and seen by their colleagues.

Of the 39 women asked, 72% has experienced some misogynistic in nature harassment. 22 have experienced psychological or verbal harassment in academia. 5 have experienced sexual harassment. Gender and race are intertwined in the type of harassment experienced.

New paper to reflect on during the International Women in Science Day. 🧪⛏️⚒️🦕🦖 "Barriers Affecting Mexican Women in Paleontology: Challenges and Proposals for Building a Women’s Support Network" paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx/index.php/pa...

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?

Over the years I’ve filled two reports of serious misconduct at SVP meetings and barely gotten acknowledgment of receipt. No consequences.

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

Guess who gets applauded on their rational response to Jack Horner being in the Epstein files? Not SVP, that's for sure. But good job @dinoconuk.bsky.social ! youtu.be/4Y9NnzkxamQ?...

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I’ve already been incredibly disappointed by @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social’s handling (and lack of accountability) on serious safety and ethical issues. This latest statement is the final straw.

(1) Another long 🧵 because @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social finally put out a statement on Jack Horner's association with Jeffrey Epstein and this is about the most spineless pooh poohing of a serious safety and moral issue I have read. I guess studying vertebrates does not require a backbone...

The world can be scary for a newborn Moropus, but not with her mother by her side!

(11) In 2013, Horner was awarded the Romer-Simpson Medal by the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social (its highest honor). I was at the meeting and saw his acceptance speech. Given this, I would urge those still in SVP to perhaps call on the Society to RESCIND the Medal and suspend his membership...

Dinosaur paleontology is rife with sex pests and bullies. Men who have the academy on their side and count on the benefit of the doubt, usually keeping their jobs and prestige even when their abuses come to light. I hope we get some daylight because I’m not kidding, the science needs a reckoning.

This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.

Geoscience and paleontology in general, not just vert paleo and specifically dino paleo, have long been "boys clubs" with high creep levels. It's not restricted to those that do a lot of fieldwork, either.

(1) Long 🧵 Time. Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Huh. Didn’t have Jack Horner telling Jeffery Epstein that he could keep dinosaur fossils on my 2006 bingo card

MDPI also published the Kraken hypothesis about Berlin Icthyosaur state park. The 'beak' is now a 'peer reviewed' publication. I think a lot of paleontologists when they hear the word predatory publishing don't really know what to look for, so this article is a worthwhile read.

As such Agate features a very mixed community, ancient lineages like oreodonts were still thriving along newcomers like camels. And clades, like the horses, have grazers as well as browsers in their ranks. These herbivores have been found in some cases in large bonebeds...

Result from the Agate Fossil Beds #paleostream! This early Miocene lagerstätte from Nebraska (USA) is a fantastic window into our understanding of the transition from forest communities to grassland biomes...

FYI for all who celebrate: your annual reports for your federal Paleontology permits are due soon!

What type of black cloth do you all use as a background for your fossils in photos? Velvet? Some other mysterious fabric? I'm tired of cropping out weird colors.

Better than the emotional scars I have from @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social 's NSFW episode on bird milk that I indulged in while driving across Wyoming this summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzr...

Oh, I just listened to @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social and @geopetalfabric.bsky.social doing their thing about bird crop milk. I know.

We cover a lot of ground in this one: the ethics of publishing on Myanmar amber, article retraction, and whether Rob has any credibility. It's a good one. Give it a listen 👇

Without context this sounds like the most niche cryptid hunt ever

While scootching around the Interwebs this morning looking for fresh geopetal imagery, I learned of the company "Geopetal Fabric," which makes astoundingly cool geonerd apparel. I just bought this one: ⚒️ geopetalfabric.com/products/geo...

Our educational paleontology & geology video game storefront is now up! We are still debugging the prototype but you should go and wishlist it in the meantime: store.steampowered.com/app/3512920/...

A hard truth of science communication is that knowledge and attitudes (to say nothing of behavior) are not intrinsically linked. A panel from my 2017 comic on the intersection of science and religion, free to read: jordancollver.myportfolio.com/comics #sciart

I know he has been dead for 100 years but Earl Douglass wrote two papers with the same name in 1907 and I think he should be belatedly cancelled for it.

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

As NSF approaches its 75th anniversary on May 10th, proposed budget cuts to its programs, grants, and staffing threaten its longevity. Visit the Save the U.S. National Science Foundation website to sign up for updates and use the site's resources to advocate for NSF. 📸: Madeline Marshall

Someone was playing headline telephone and something got scrambled in the mix! AND that particular article helpfully proclaims that "pigs can grow multiple sets of adult teeth," which is interesting, but not true.

Hi. How do I make it so that my webcam doesn't give me ghost boogers. Pls help.

Our Annual Dinner this year includes a talk by @geopetalfabric.bsky.social! In the area? Join us as she explores how we can confuse 'weirdness' for new species in long-dead animals, and how museum collections provide clues to untangle the fossil record.. mnch.uoregon.edu/learn/annual...

New family photo with my daughter and grandson

It can be ordered here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fossil...

My first book, The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure, is out now! It’s illustrated by the amazing Nat Cardozo. Each page features embossed fossils you can touch. Every fossil tells a story, and every scientist started out as a curious kid. I can’t believe it’s finally here! #fossilfriday #booksky

Confirmed with a source. Here's a screenshot of the email sent to staff today.

Finally some good news!!!