New Date: February 23!

I desperately want this

Too late for me, but this is excellent news for millions of people who suffer with this condition.

So power imbalance and coercive behavior is taken as a price to be paid. Anything becomes permissible as long as things appear consensual. Those with power and money keep it, and many look the other way to not jeopardize funding, field camps, their opportunities. The problems are pervasive.

It's becoming so exhausting to be angry all the time.

Just as a quick note while we discuss all the new (and familiar) names in the Epstein files: be careful about saying "everyone knows" about prominent people who are predators. People new to the field, people less connected (often marginalized folks), people who are adjacent, etc. may not know.

(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...

Yep. The men who clustered around JE were already well funded, mostly at rich private institutions. Indeed that was their half of the bargain: JE wanted association with big names, and found that misogyny flattery and money reeled them in.

Hmm, sounds like we need a refresher. The issue of whether everyone's favorite long-neck is called Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus (or both) has *nothing* to do with which skull was historically included on museum mounts! 🧵#FossilFriday

#FossilFriday: The Pacific mastodon, Mammut pacificus, known from California and Idaho. This species was described in 2019. This is the second of two species of Mammut from North America, the other being Mammut americanum.

Anyone who says that people are lazy and won't work if there is UBI are telling on themselves. Many people volunteer for charities, help neighbours in need, organise community events all the time without getting paid for it. People want to feel valuable., that won't change.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Imagine driving down the Miracle Mile in 1967 and seeing this in your rearview mirror... Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

New enamel pins will drop on my site this Friday 1/30 @ 10 am PST! 💕 🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart

Feels just like Twitter 🤣

Wildlife megafauna! Microbial evolution! Poop! This research has it all. 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/01/envi...

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Science teachers. If you haven't seen it before, this link contains pretty much all the resources you will ever need. 1000s of files. #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

The BLM has moved to revoke permits that allowed the American Prairie non-profit to graze bison on roughly 60K acres of public land in MT, prioritizing cattle ranching over bison conservation. They argue that bison do not qualify as "livestock" under federal grazing laws.

DOGE is behind the plans to shut down NCAR... so billionaires don't care about NCAR because they have private meteorologists, but what does that mean for everyone else? Use this link to help #saveNCAR! : tr.ee/save-ncar www.today.com/video/meet-t...

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

A Deinotherium tooth from the Pliocene of western Kenya, along with a reconstruction of these giants by Mauricio Antón #FossilFriday

#FossilFriday One of my favorite fossils got an update this week. But Mel, aren't you an ice age paleoecologist? Sure am, but I'm also a lover of the weird.

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Also, we have databases now www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146650

Editor here: I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper. We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.

Applications are open, send me your best student research in mammalogy!

Happy #FossilFriday! The Columbian #Mammoth was one of the largest species of mammoth to walk the Earth and roamed North America until ~11,000 years ago. The skull of one of these giants (#MOR604) is on display in the #Cenozoic Corridor at #MOR.

Guys! It's the 60th anniversary of the description of 𝘛𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 aka the "Tully Monster" first published on January 7, 1966! #WormWednesday ???

Share with your colleagues and students doing research in mammalogy!

@mammalogists.bsky.social fellow mammal lovers, applications will be opening January 15 for ASM student honoraria. Honoraria and Travel Awards | American Society of Mammalogists share.google/aox8cN4MggKR... We're looking forward to hearing about the impressive research of our student members.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students. If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you! 🧪

2026 energy ✌🏽 🕶️ ✌🏽 📸: Jeroen van der Kooij

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

You know what's good? Books.

I want to challenge sci-comm folks to actually describe what they mean instead of leaning on the tired old phrase that [xyz type of animal] "dominated" It's pervasive, it's lame, and it's so vague as to be devoid of any actual meaning.

Couldn't have said it better. On being an AI hater anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Look at this magnificent beast 🥰

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is barylambda, a pantodont from the paleocene and early eocene. despite looking like a cross between a ground sloth and a wombat, recent evidence suggests that barylambda was a stem-ungulate, related to modern hoofed mammals (art by gabriel ugueto)

Today's aesthetic for #FossilFriday is more beautiful in death.

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right