"My Name Is Nobody" dwarf elephant 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑥𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑖 from Pleistocene Sicily, which fossils possibly inspired the myth of the cyclops such as Polyphemus.

Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Sicily (Italy) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @flaviastrani.bsky.social @unizar.es @iucaunizar.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Sicily (Italy) - Strani - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tonight's bike ride.💙🚲

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN secretary-general says statehood for the Palestinians "is a right, not a reward."

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France recognizes Palestinian state at UN meeting to revive Mideast peace process.

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Vice President Harris tells @maddow that Trump is "a tyrant who's using the federal government to execute his whim and fancy because of a fragile ego."

"...neither we nor the government have found a case in which the most senior officials in the White House, DOJ, & DHS banded together to use the law enforcement power to punish a man who prevailed in civil litigation." (1 of 2)

What this person said last month: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

Is this the Trump White House pitch to job candidates?

Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago 🌸🐝 #paleobotany #palaeobotany @univie.ac.at www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...

FASCINATING: Gizmodo Science Fair: An Experiment to Recreate the Smell of Ancient #Mummies "The team wants to make it possible for you to grab a bottle of mummy perfume from the Egyptian Museum—& they’re extremely close." @gayoung.bsky.social @gizmodo.com gizmodo.com/gizmodo-scie...

Concept sketches of extinct rhinos in time for #WorldRhinoDay Coelodonta antiquitatis (Woolly Rhino, extinct 14,000 years ago) with some magpies resting on its horns Paraceratherium transouralicum, one of the largest mammals to ever exist that lived during the Oligocene in Asia #paleoart #art

El mar se estremeció primero Illustrated for: 3° Congreso Colombiano de Paleontología Paleoart contest - 1st place Digital Illustration category. This illustration was originally intended to go out with the publication but life got in the way, I resumed work on it mid-August.

Scenarios are unfolding!!!

A new study shows that the earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs. Results suggest that dwarf gobies achieved ecological success early in gobioid evolution, arising through convergent evolution across different lineages🐟 Read more: buff.ly/GVMpJaF #Fossilfish #PaleoSky #Evolution

TIL...

زيارات ونشاطات المركز اليوم ‏Today’s visits and activities at MUVP #سلام_لاب ‏#SallamLab #MUVP

Everything is terrible so here are some pictures from the awesome Cincinnati natural history museum. The museum conference I went to last week had an evening event here which was amazing.

Prepping for the start of this year's teaching this #FossilFriday, starting with a story about Ginkgo leaves which fell in an Autumn 160 million years ago, and how the microscopic details of those fossil leaves can tell us about climate change. ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌲💚

I have wanted to be scientist for such a long time - I thought overcoming my health issues, when they surfaced during grad school, would be my major obstacle in getting to do it it feels so cruel to have to accept that despite years of hard work getting well, I might not get to be a scientist

as someone who's planning on going on the job market in 2026, I am frankly terrified I didn't work this hard to get a handle on chronic illness, ADHD, & more during grad school just to be forced out of science by a hateful, authoritarian govt, but I realize this might not totally be up to me

Anyone else having a really hard time talking to students about careers in science? I talked to an undergrad, technician, & grad student about careers today & floundered when comparing industry to govt to academic positions, how to prep for any of them, or what those jobs will look like in 5 years

Fellow immigrants in the UK: if you can get citizenship now, get it. If these policies are implemented, there will be no such thing as settled status for any foreigners, and you could be ripped apart from your families. It's happening in the USA now, it can happen here.

This is horrifying - but not in the least surprising. If this goes ahead, if Reform get into power, that... will be it for me. I lose my home, my healthcare, my career, all of it. I would be torn from my partner, my pets, my friends. And I'm not sure how I would go on.

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

"I feel like I wrote this thing & I helped bring this thing into the world that was really about possibility, of saying, ‘if we can finally be truthful about who we are & if we truly believe in these creeds, owning up means we can then create this country.’" @nhannahjones.bsky.social

The Trump administration has attacked diversity programs, historical discussions of slavery, civil rights and more as he pressures civic institutions to de-emphasize race. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, discusses what led to this movement. nyti.ms/4msq3x8

In #NHPolitics, Chris Pappas also voted for Charlie Kirk Day. Maggie Goodlander voted "present." More reasons why I'm supporting @karishmaforsenate.bsky.social for US Senate. We need a change. newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/04/03/u...

Purple fossil coprolite. I have questions. @floridamuseum.bsky.social

Bite marks on the bones indicate a violent struggle right before it died, leading to a potentially gruesome death. A few bite marks on the vertebrae show no signs of healing, which means they happened close to, if not exactly, when Jorgie died approximately 80mya arstechnica.com/science/2023...

Jormungandr walhallaensis

So cool!! 🐾 First reports of a probable #ankylosaurian (Thyreophora) trackway from the Jindong Formation (Cenomanian) of Goseong County, #SouthKorea Han Sang Yoon, Hyun Wook Kim, Jin-Young Park, Seung-Ho Jung, Dal-Yong Kong, Yuong-Nam Lee www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

The EPA has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research. The studies will now be subject to a new review process. 
That decision — to reevaluate all manuscripts — was made by Trump political appointees.

my vet says kittens have different texture preferences for chomping things. so far mine has a preference for the soft meat of my inner arm. be real with me, is this thing going to start hunting me?

This morning's bike ride 💙🚲

I’m proud of my Somali heritage, proud of my faith, and beyond proud to be an American. P.S. To the president: no, you can’t impeach a member of Congress 😉

Here's my message to MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra. He gaslights our nation, blames Canadians for being mean to the US. He accuses of us being anti-American. He says we are mean and nasty and doesn't like us saying Elbows Up. Too bad Pete. We are proud anti-fascists www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Jh...

She’s done!❤️🦣 #Embroidery

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

TONIGHT AT 6: Rep. @repilhan.bsky.social joins to discuss the Trump Administration's war on free speech and the failed attempt by House Republicans to censure her. Plus, 1619 Creator @nhannahjones.bsky.social joins to discuss Trump's ongoing attempt to erase Black history.

Proud to be with @karishmaforsenate.bsky.social & fellow volunteers at a parade today! 🧪 #NHPolitics #KarishmaForSenate

✨My first science feature is out in Chemical & Engineering News!✨ I interviewed and wrote about Dr. Shana V. Stoddard, a brilliant disabled scientist changing STEM. Disabled scientists deserve visibility and celebration. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me... #DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters

Today's bike ride. 💙🚲

Reflecting on the day in 2007 when Barack Obama announced he was running for president (she writes that 15,000 people were present). "What I felt more than anything was a sudden sense of responsibility." Michelle Obama, "Becoming" (1/)

Dutch late night TV has its take