It would be so amazing if museums were open until midnight. I don't want to go clubbing, I want to go museum-ing!

Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

I tell my students the #1 thing to focus on to do good science/ archaeology is learn how to be a good friend. If you can develop meaningful friendships with your collaborators and teammates, the hard stuff will get much easier.

New paper out with Sarah Losso and Javier Ortega Hernandez : "These legs were made for walking: 150 years of trilobite appendage morphology and evolution" authors.elsevier.com/c/1nN4m2weR2... #trilobite #paleontology #arthropod #palaeontology #fossils

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

That place has to be saged now.

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.

For America’s 250th birthday, Ira traveled to @wburcityspace.bsky.social to chat with historian Robert Allison about scientific thinkers in early America. And yes, they talk about more than just Ben Franklin and his kite. Hear the full convo today from 2–4pm ET on your local public radio station.

Plugging this pre-meeting workshop we're holding at the annual meeting for @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Would love to get a full house!

If you were a gymnast, the equivalent would be having someone else practice your flips and expecting to get better at flips.

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Literally had this conversation the other day, it's awful how much of the access to the sea back home is "private"

Come join us at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/assis...

I really hope to see a headline with him arrested

@mayajuman.bsky.social is giving a seriously cool talk on using museum collections to detect pathogens @mammalogists.bsky.social

Per tradition, we kicked off the meeting with our graduate student honoraria. Congratulations to: Emilyn Gilmore - Annie M. Alexander Award Madeleine Becker - Anna M. Jackson Award Joshua Robinson - A. Brazier Howell Award Jonathan Keller - Elmer C. Birney Award

Opening remarks for the 105th Annual meeting for the American Society of Mammalogists @mammalogists.bsky.social

As far as I have studied in my PhD all the taxonomic information in equids is quite "elusive" hahahaha

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt is about to deliver the third annual State of the Science address. Follow along with us at 3 p.m. ET 🧵👇

We here in Argentina went for a factual name: scienticide. Sad times..

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Same. He's right where my legs (really, my body) should be.

in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

Mineral Museum organized by lickability of rocks, with tasting notes (and option to buy samples) of the Do Lick list and worst case scenarios for the Do Not Lick list. The Boring But Safe list will form a neutral zone between them.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

Going to the American Society of Mammalogists meeting in Norfolk and/or have a student going who is interested in fossil mammals and museum careers? Get breakfast with me! (Steve is cool, too) @mammalogists.bsky.social

This week we had a visitor! Leah, from the Ungar Lab at the University of Arkansas, spent two days in our fossil collections studying the teeth of mammoths and mastodons.It's always fun hosting researchers at ISM, especially students. #FossilFriday

Is this just another way to send tech bros money

Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity.

#fossilfriday this week saw the description of a new gomphothere from the Clarendonian of Virginia: Chesalophodon gulottai. smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...

#FossilFriday The largest bone in the skeleton—the femur—often survives the test of time. It is the eighth most common vertebrate mammal post cranial element I’ve documented in county museum collections across the Midwest so far. #Palaeontology #CitizenScience Lost Bones marcusbrandel.substack.com

Goals lol

I saw this movie with a good friend and the validation I'm getting from everyone who had the exact same instantaneous reaction we did is... beautiful.

There is a new Ryan Gosling movie out apparently and the only thing I know about it from posts here is that the centrifuge is unbalanced, and I’m delighted that this fact has come across my feed many many many times today. You’re my people 😂

I love trying to balance centrifuges with odd numbers of tubes and in atypical configurations. Makes me feel like some sort of a physics pervert

The only “online debate” I’ve seen about this movie is about how he loaded the centrifuge, and it’s not much of a debate - we all agree that Ryan Gosling doesn’t know how to load a centrifuge www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

Third installment of #mammothmarch2026 a cast of a Columbian mammoth footprint found at the Carson City Prison, Nevada. On display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California. #fossilfriday #naturalhistorymuseumoflosangelescounty #prehistoricnevada #mammoth

#fossilfriday it’s been a very busy week visiting the collections @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social to study the gomphotheres houses here. Enjoy the three holotypes I have had the pleasure of studying/scanning this week: Megabelodon minor, Gomphotherium cingulatum, and Trilophodon simpsoni!

It looks like an underwater armadillo

Have student or early career mammalogists looking to attend the 2026 meeting? Apply for travel awards!

American Society of Mammalogists, the deadline to apply for travel awards for the annual meeting is March 15. Visit the "instructions" tab at www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...

Rebuild those programs BIGGER

The Curling Controversy at the Winter Olympics Isn’t What You Think www.wired.com/story/2026-w...

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you. Reposts appreciated!