Snow & wind & woods. #art

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

I'm suing HHS after they made an unlawful and baseless attempt to limit gender-affirming care for young people. The federal government should not interfere in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.  I'll always stand up for New Yorkers’ health, dignity, and rights.

Once more some mammoths

Mammuthus primigenius #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge

"...as a wealthy white man on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh has never had to fear immigration stops or racial profiling." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

This seems better than the other stuff DHS has been up to. Here's to more of this and less of that.

✔️ Enter the Lake Pit ✔️ Selfie with the Columbian mammoth family ✔️ Sort real microfossils ✔️ Support our science Dig deep into the history and discoveries of La Brea #TarPits with our first-ever official Insider Tour on select dates: go.nhm.org/tar-pits-tour

Elephants are excellent swimmers – crossing deep rivers, using their trunks like snorkels. Loldaiga preferred a different approach: throwing himself in like a fish out of water. Grace? Optional. Enthusiasm? Maximum. Splash radius? Considerable. Now making waves at Ithumba. swt.bio/loldaiga

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated due process by deporting Venezuelan men after invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This is an important ruling for these men who were tortured, and for the rule of law.

Anyway. I watched the story. A lot of people are going to have to answer for such blatant inhumanity.

imagine the level of disgrace and shame for somebody calling themselves a *journalist* to do that.

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

"The hardest hit region was Africa, where some one dozen ambassadors or chiefs of mission recalled from Niger, Uganda, Senegal, Somalia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritius, Nigeria, Gabon, Congo, Burundi, Cameroon, and Rwanda." @rothandrew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I miss biking. 🚲

The view from my window at work a couple of months ago (left). The view now (right).

2025 in Gaza: 12 months, 12 pictures https://aje.io/w0b27u

Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking

As long as Bari remains in charge no one should be considering CBS as a credible, fair and balanced news network.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Billie Holiday is on in the background. My kitchen is full of aromas. And I'm basking in a moment of peacefulness.

Fun group data collection day for the Menefee Paleo Project, evaluating taphonomy & trace marks on our fossil turtles. By documenting preservation, abrasion, bite marks, ectoparasite borings & other traces, we’re reconstructing ecological pressures turtles faced & post‑depositional history 🐢

the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾

i love my dad and i miss him dearly too, but it was a blessing that i was raised by paulette rosemarie lowe-willis, general manager for data export ltd. every good thing ive ever done comes from her so i take this shit extremely personally when idiots are like "women, amirite?" fuck off.

my mom, god rest her soul, was general manager for the jamaican division of a us data entry company in the early 80s. she answered only to a bunch of white guys in america. she ran the whole fucking thing. everyone called her "boss" and she did all this WHILE RAISING ME. please. stop.

as a man raised by a single mother in the 80s and 90s who showed me via words and actions that women can in fact do it all, im so offended that in 2025-6 we're seriously even discussing "women, are they asking too much by asking for basic equality?" shut the hell up. go shut up.

we need bree newsome energy but for all this shit with trump's name on it

Was just leaving an insanely-busy grocery store, my eyes focused on not running into anyone, when I felt a hand on my arm. It was a young child with a beautific smile sitting in the top seat of a cart, who joyfully exclaimed, "Good afternoon!" She totally made my day. ❤️

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Pre-Print of our article showing Stochastic growth marks in crocodiles is now available. The final article will follow shortly! @mariaeugeniap.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These are just half of the amazing symposia that will be held at the upcoming IPC7! If you’d like to participate, get in touch with the conveners of each symposium — more symposia will be announced soon! Visit our website to explore all the details: ipc7.site

The finished size chart of most of the fauna from the Mammoth Site, a Pleistocene fossil locality within an ancient sinkhole in South Dakota that preserves dozens of entrapped mammoths alongside scattered remains of other animals. #pleistocene #paleoart #sciart #Paleostream

washed in. The site proofed to be so productive that the initially planned subdivision was abandoned upon discovery of the bones, with a museum being put here instead. We had the luck to have the preparator of the site on stream to guide us through the inner workings...

Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...

It’s funny: haven’t been to church in yrs, don’t know what to make of my relationship to religion, but somehow still know enough, & still identify enough as Christian, even if just culturally, to find this shit so deeply, personally, viscerally offensive to the teachings of the faith I grew up with

Giving a talk in Yorkshire so I got to spend a few days catching up with auld pals at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social, like this absolute belter of a Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur footprint (Megalosauripus - Hudson et al, 2023) from Yorkshire 🦖 (equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too 🖤)

New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out now: latest addition to the Grande volume! Guang-Hui Xu reevaluates Guizhoubrachysomus from the Middle Triassic of southern China. Interpreted as a "luganoiid" in the past, this work argues Guizhoubrachysomus is instead an early dapediid, a group most famous from Jurassic deposits of Europe.

Drawing a pumpkin cross-section this week 🎃 Loving all the tiny details — especially the seeds! More photos + full process in the Botanical Club (link in bio). #botanicaldrawing #pumpkindrawing #sketchbookart

The chart is almost complete! I'm happy with my selection of >1m animals, but this is your last chance to request a critter if you think I've missed an important one (no guarantees I'll add it though!). Keep your eye out for the final chart - there is more to come! 👀

The last (!?) of our Kem Kem animals, the mackerel shark Haimirichia, and the hybodont Tribodus! These are both small bodied, not thought to breach the 2m mark. Size comparison and important (!) note below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

#Gomphothere fossils in Hoyo Negro, an enormous pit in one of the Yucatán's underground, underwater cave systems, providing evidence that these large mammals once roamed the caves when they were dry. #FossilFriday gizmodo.com/undisturbed-...

On the Ice Age theme, I love the nonverbal stories told by these NMNH displays. A woolly mammoth clears snow off the grass with its curved tusks, a family of humans is startled by a stalking saber tooth… #FossilFriday

For #FossilFriday: a skeleton of an American mastodon on display, Natural History Museum, London, UK. This particular skeleton, originally discovered in Missouri, US in 1840, was later "augmented" with additional vertebrae and ribs & named "Missourium" to distinguish it from standard mastodons. 🧪