stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

either the Eagles win or Kevin Patullo gets fired tomorrow, I can't lose.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

I am trying to help my friend Dave urgently raise $1,939.20 by 4:30PM today to prevent evictions in a complex impacted by ICE. story below. Please, if you can, venmo me at @ziibiing and lets help this tenant leader keep vulnerable folks in her building housed

"New troodontid with a pachycephalosaur-esque skull dome" feels like a niche prank aimed squarely at paleontologists www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18...

The Princeton University Allosaurus, one of the very first recovered from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. The mount outlived the museum at Guyot Hall before being moved to the university's new enviro sci building a year or two ago. And it's nicknamed Al, because of course it is #FossilFriday

08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here’s a post I wrote about Darwin’s and Wallace’s friendship… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci

An oreodont skull (cast) for $2 seems like a pretty sweet deal even for 1866

Nanuqsaurus and Black-capped Chickadees

Oh also today, the US withdrew from every major international treaty for climate and environmental protection, violence against women and children, and peacebuilding. More than at any point in the past 100+ years, we are the baddies now.

important message to all bluesky users

The murder of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent today escalates the Trump Administration’s ongoing terror campaign against our communities. Renee Nicole Good is dead, shot by a government employee to whom she posed no danger, and this administration is justifying her murder.

Details about the mistreatment of the paleontology program at Carthage College in Thomas Carr's own words: www.wgtd.org/playlist/mor...

Funkyceratops.mp4

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians. There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary! Check out our new study, led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social ⤵️

For posterity: the only* photo available online of Diplotomodon horrificus, the Leidy tooth taxon originally described in 1865 *crummy online scans of Bill Gallagher's NJ dinosaur book notwithstanding

On Jan 6th, the world was forever changed Across marble floors, through hallowed halls, a radical cry would upset the established order That's right — Alfred Wegener announced his continental drift hypothesis to the Geological Association at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt on Jan 6th, 1912 ⛏🌍

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Your periodic reminder that the US is a petrostate, has been governing like one for decades, and ending the fossil fuel era can't come fast enough.

bringing this one over from tumblr bc it's been bothering me

the terracotta warriors are literally painted, by the way, it's why most of them remain in the pits - they lost their color when exposed, and Chinese archaeologists and other scientists have been trying to figure out a way to excavate the rest while keeping the paint intact

The world is hell but at least The World is awesome: seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

When and how did avian-style endothermy evolve? In #dinosaurs, or #archosaurs, or even archosauromorphs? Merging genomics and #geochemistry provides new phylogenetic, temporal, and mechanistic constraints! Join us tomorrow [#SICB] at 8 am for Megan's ground-breaking new data!

You gotta be kidding me

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

My toxic trait is that I think it's fine to spell it "Cretolamna", actually

How I sleep at night knowing I’m not over it

Go Birds fuck ICE free Palestine Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

exCUSE ME

It turns out someone uploaded VIDEO FOOTAGE of the 1986 exhibit (and indeed, the entire museum at the time) only 2 weeks ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPo...

I don't think I ever mentioned it (oops) but I brought the old blog back. Enjoy a cursory review of the past year's literature: diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/f...

💜💚💕 [ #art #digitalart #tiktaalik #withmama #illustration ]

Closing out the year with some images of the Academy of Natural Sciences's various dinosaur exhibits through the ages. Someone should really write up a proper history of them one of these days.......(details in alt text)

The Giraffe Titan, a poem by Brandon Kilbourne. A wonderful exploration of the multiple narratives embodied by objects on public display in general, and by dinosaurs in particular. From brooklynrail.org/2025/12/poet...

Mercury conducts the Hawkins Hadrosaurus in the E.M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology (1875), the precursor to Princeton's now-defunct natural history museum

How the past few years have felt

the 1996-present dallas cowboys

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

#FossilFriday observations: both the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science have very-similar-yet-not-identical mounts of Allosaurus anax vs. a big sauropod (Apatosaurus in the OMNH, Diplodocus in the NMMNHS)

Happy solstice. Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in. Hope returns even as everything gets worse.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

For #fossilfriday, The New York Times has written a good article about the Paleontological Research Institution, what the museum means to the field of Paleontology, and its current financial situation (much improved even from a few weeks ago). 🧪🦑⚒️🦣 #paleontology www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Basic dumbass. Looks like shit. Often mistaken for broken-ass garbage on the ground because it's too lazy to fly. Easily identifiable by central American passersby giving it the finger. Song is plagiarized. We almost forgot to put it ihere until Stacey was like "oh what about that little asshole"

🦏 The Badland formations of the Black Hills region Rapid City, S.D.[The Daily Journal]1910. [Source]