The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRN

The Academy of Natural Sciences ( @acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social

The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRN

"You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end."

"It's been a lifelong dream of mine to own a dinosaur," says man who just sold said dinosaur for five and a half million dollars www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/s...

is this good

Here's Leaping Laelaps — er, I mean, Dueling Dryptosaurus? — at the New Jersey State Museum for #FossilFriday

SVP is a really important organization to me, so understand that this is all in effort to make it a safer community space long-term. I may not do much research, but I know a thing or two about community interface and brand management. So those are the skills I’m bringing to this ongoing problem.

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My next book's been announced! I'll be writing RAISING THE DEAD, a history of de-extinction. Running from Thomas Jefferson's mastodon to Colossal Biosciences' "Dire Wolves," we'll dig into rewilding, Nazi cattle, eugenics, Jurassic Park and the long, strange quest to deny death.

Of course, it feels almost silly to talk about our fossil heritage while far more important events are happening in Lebanon There are ways to help the over a million affected by the war (the government offers no support). You can do so here: gofund.me/f28f75e94

It's April Fool's Day! Unfortunately I have been assimilated by the machine, and that's not an April Fool. diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/d...

It's April Fool's Day! Unfortunately I have been assimilated by the machine, and that's not an April Fool. diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/d...

Important consequences for understanding not only current oversold climate-biodiversity loss-possible human extinction event, but also the events of the deep past too. What is more interesting, the effect are latitude-heterogenous, where signs of nutrient increase change. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

The question about fake references should NOT be “What can be done?” We KNOW what can be done: human peer reviewers and editors check the damn references individually, by hand. The question should be, “Why are so many publishers NOT doing those basic checks?” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Glowing Sky' (1988) Viktor Zaretsky

I thought this graph was one of those Strait of Hormuz maps for a second, and got REALLY confused by the giant insect

It's premiering on PBS tomorrow! Get the PBS app on your streaming device and watch.

8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

Persin toxicity means this frog is a masochist

its too on the nose that our president named Don hates windmills

Genuinely kind of disturbing how little attention has been paid to Israeli officials explicitly promising to do unto southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza

I admit I haven't seen the new Netflix dinosaur documentary yet — but I can tell it's gotten infinitely more exposure than Prehistoric Planet ever did on Apple TV. Just saw a climate change org post a fancam of the former and tie it into environmental activism

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

This is the way. This is how United Front actions are supposed to work. Not sectarian abstentionism, sectarian wrecking, or just going along for the festival atmosphere

We are still feeling the effects of some of the carbon dioxide from the Titanic, from the first Model-T, from the first steam engine. This chart is the most important chart in climate policy and yet most folks don’t know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.

Other new paper out in AE: Does giving your ambassador arthropod a name help people connect better? #education From @crazbuglady.bsky.social 🪲🎒 (1/2) academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...

really love this piece by @asherelbein.bsky.social and also some beautiful photos from our art team to go with foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/b...

A friend of mine did a machine learning project like ten years ago where they taught a program to detect invasive plants from drone images. We did not call it "AI", we called it machine learning. Calling it "AI" now is trying to legitimize chatbots and other bunk by roping them in with real science.

For this week's #FossilFriday here's the holotype tooth of Troodon formosus, a specimen that has caused no headaches whatsoever in its long and storied history

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

It's not everyday you get to shake a dinosaur's hand

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Checking in on FMNH. Their most recent news release is about paleontology working with AI folks to train a machine learning model that was "over 90% accurate" at doing... something. They don't explicitly specify. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/vert...

A JJ Abrams/Bad Robot scifi film, delayed several times, renamed before premiere. It's gonna be Cloverfield isn't it

We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes… Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3–4C Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New study showing that the long-held belief that limitation on oxygen diffusion in insect respiratory system does not constrain the max body size of living or gigantic prehistoric insects 🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pet peeve of the day: the various transgressions of the Western Interior Seaway get their own fun names, but those of the Sundance Sea apparently get nothing. Cretaceous bias rearing its ugly head once again

just some quick napkin math on this, $375 million is 0.18% of meta's reported 2025 revenue of $200.97 billion, or 0.62% of meta's reported 2025 profit of $60.46 billion. $375 million is the maximum penalty allowed by law. the system just like, fundamentally doesn't work lol

TFW your old dinosaur is suddenly a new dinosaur

The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

Dear journalist friends, "Science" is a big topic and includes more things than just space stuff and human health stuff. That's important! But so are other things!

Proving what we already knew: natural history museums are the best kind www.irishnews.com/news/uk/natu...