Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

December 21, 1990: Detroit’s Joe Dumars and James Edwards each score 24 PTS in the Pistons’ 113-87 win over Atlanta. Edwards made what would be the only 3-pointer of his career at the end of the third quarter. John Battle led the Hawks with 22 PTS. 📺 WDIV-TV

Cool new paper documenting intraspecific variation in the skeleton of Iguana. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Would love to see more like it. There are recent examples of paleos naming new taxa that could have benefited from this sort of assessment of morphological variation.

Drone captures pack of wolves trekking through deep snow. I’ve never seen anything like this. 🥰

Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!! @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

Cambridge University vet school could close #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Whatever goes on at the Herpetology Conference *stays* at the Herpetology Conference.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

Cutting the departments will result in financial loss. Increasingly tough to believe these decisions weren’t ideologically driven.

Every program was profitable, the math was badly done and wrong, and they were told this repeatedly in advance of the vote.

I spent four years as an Assistant Professor in EAS @UNL. It was a vibrant department full of terrific people doing great science and education. The decision to end it is beyond foolish and reeks of ideology. This will hurt the university, the state and the disciplines of geology & climate sciences.

I am beyond furious at the U. Nebraska administration and Regents for this decision. They are moving ahead with eliminating programs despite nearly 6 hours of public comments arguing they should not do so.

December 4, 1984: Detroit's Isiah Thomas with a putback slam during a 104-99 win over the Celtics. Thomas finished with 23 PTS/10 AST and Vinnie Johnson had a team-high 24 PTS for the Pistons. Boston's Dennis Johnson scored a game-high 25 PTS and Larry Bird added 23 PTS/17 REB.

Large terrestrial omnivores (bears) shift to carnivory in unproductive ecosystems and at short growing seasons and to herbivory in more productive systems and when seasons are longer. Interesting results in new study @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hope they go for a Shakey Jake snowman next semester.

Fantastic work by #HeadLab PhD student Andrés Alfonso Rojas! Anacondas have been (resiliently) giant since at least the middle Mioncene. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twel...

Can confirm.

Let me count the ways...

Professor, deep history and archaeology of Africa www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...

With respect, young adult GenXers were collectively driven insane by the buzzing sound long before Millennials left home.

We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society. And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

One of the first people I met in vertebrate paleontology. A terrific guy and a fantastic artist. Gone far too soon.

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK

One of the best NIN songs from my personal favorite album.

Wonderful remembrance of the great Philippe Taquet by my friend Didier Dutheil. Sad news indeed. Very proud to have been part of the team that honored him by naming a dinosaur species after him—and a most bizarre one at that (which, as it turns out, was found by Didier).

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

HeadLab members past and present at #svp2025. Beyond proud of their accomplishments!

Michigan paleontology family portrait, Birmingham edition #2025SVP

Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️

Come meet “chomper” at Lynnea Jackson’s poster this afternoon! She’s investigating functional aspects of tooth imbrications in early sauropods. (Poster B508)

Grab your snorkels and dive back in time with us - our new temporary #exhibition Feeding Without Jaws opens on Weds 12 Nov. The exhibition explores cutting-edge palaeontological research on the lives of unusual ancient fishes. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... #LapworthRocks

Walled Lake representing.

Great pair of articles in this morning's Ann Arbor News highlighting the outstanding new leadership of the U-M Museum of Zoology and U-M Herbarium: Alison Davis Rabosky (left) and Thais Vasconcelos (right). 🍄🌿🌺🐚🪲🐟🐸🐍🐦🐿️

As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early stages of evolution of a flight patagia

One of my favorite Halloween time paintings by Fragonard -- The Magician

Biodiversity policy needs to look forward, not just backward. 🌍 Our new PNAS piece argues that predictive models - like those used in climate science - are key to guiding effective conservation decisions. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PNAS (1/2)

Why we aren’t lizards: the evolution of endothermy through optimizing life history Summary & Analysis by Kaleigh Remick of “The Evolution of Homeothermic Endothermy via Life History Optimization” by Rubalcaba www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Super cool experimental study demonstrating how warming and species richness alter mass-abundance structure of ecological communities.

Trophic rewilding depends on the assumption that replacing lost megafauna with alternative species can generate similar benefits. This new review by Bescond-Michel et al. challenges that belief. 🌏🌐🧪

Here you go!

John Atkinson Grimshaw, British (1836-1893), Twilight, 1871, oil on card laid down on panel, 56 x 38 cm, private collection

Who's got unfused parietals and probably wasn't a stem snake? This guy.