Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

UMMP is hiring: Administrative Assistant Senior position with primary duties related to administrative support, collections and publications compliance, and museum outreach and communications work. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Weathered Cedar Mesa Sandstone in the Valley of the Gods at sunset. It was deposited in coastal dune environments during the Permian Period (270-280 mya). Near Mexican Hat Utah, 10 May 2018.

I have beef with Aldi sometimes bc how are you out of chickpeas bro🤨🥀😒

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

Morons Morons are in charge www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Do not look away.

Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

paid summer internship in our museum, it is in BOTANY but you cannot get in there without walking through the insect collection and being subjected to Beetle Facts drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

Holy WOW I love my cat

Result from the Joggins Formation #paleostream! This Canadian site is an absolute classic and even if you are not familiar with its name you probably know at least one of its major players...

Prepping for quals feels like studying for the SAT and applying for grad school coupled with studying for a calculus final all at once

Man I think I need another cat

From 1,750–2,000 m deep, we collected one of the rarest deepsea fishes out there: a one-jaw eel (family Monognathidae). Only ~100 specimens of this group are known worldwide and we hold the largest collection (~46), most just a few inches long… The one we collected though, 6 inches or 154 mm!

I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.

After having spent a Very Long Time on a project using maximum parsimony analyses on morphological data I can assure you that the results you get are Real and Not Impacted By Bias At All

Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

If anybody out there is like, “kids so young would never do this without adult prompting!“ 1) you really don’t know kids 2) when Reagan met with Gorbachev, I was in 5th grade & still managed to get my class to sign an anti-nuke petition Don’t underestimate how much the kids are paying attention

Empathetic Bowfin asks “How are you doing?”

Another day, another jaw Gzhelian, Appalachian Basin(nr Pittsburgh) 303-298 Ma

Having an amazing time at Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones. Thanks for hosting me on my first (but certainly not last) trip to Egypt! 📸: Hesham Sallam

Big week for me this week. Posting cat pictures to get me, and maybe you , too, through your Monday.

A brief break in the doom. The moment my cat, Bergamot, understood where the laser came from

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

There is a video from across the street of half a dozen or so masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground, punching him. Then there is a shot, then several others, until he is lying completely still. You may want to be cautious if you don't want to see the video.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

I am rarely on this app, but suffice to say that what is going on in Mn is completely despicable and congress should grow a spine.

Today I am encouraging everyone to Think More about the Devonian

Girl I hate conodonts

New paper presenting rather compelling evidence that the stem-vertebrate Haikouichthys had paired lateral and supranumerary medial eyes (!!!), and proposing that the medial eyes may have deep homology with the pineal and parapineal organs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Are you a grad student in Illinois or Indiana working on topics that could benefit #GreatLakes communities? The @ilinseagrant.bsky.social Graduate Scholars program provides funding to advance research as well as professional networking and development opportunities iiseagrant.org/its-time-to-...

Also Žilov, Czechia (Acrolepis gigas) www.zilov.cz

"Moooom. The walking pincushion is in my spot."

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Listen man. Westoll. Haplolepids. That guy had it right.

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East Liberty. North Negley Ave. Caller says he is trying to park but some magician outside keeps trying to talk to him.