I, on the other hand, will continue to confuse nematologists by talking about the filter-feeding pterosaur, C. elegans.

"I just cannot accept a future where all the trans kids of today and tomorrow have to live like this, walking on eggshells, uncertain if the next morning will be even more hostile. I never want to walk past another Pokemon-covered memorial for a murdered child from my community." 💔

Introduce yourself with ten bands you've seen live (yes some of these are technically solo artists) Rush (x9) King Crimson Ginger Baker Corvus Corax The Kills Roger Waters Beardfish Kansas Carl Palmer Steam Powered Giraffe

Always down for criticizing the obsessive drive towards worldbuilding over fiction-writing. I’m admittedly not a fiction writer, but my sincere advice is to engage in made-to-order worldbuilding. When your story requires a decision, make it. Otherwise, don’t.

New paper alert! Julia Clarke & I wrote a piece in @historicalbiology.bsky.social on 'key advances' in descriptive anatomy, taxonomy/nomenclature, & interpretative palaeontology. We outline new online collections for our key themes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As of today the Academy has unexpectedly acquired a second T. rex

🚨SCOOP, EXTRY, READ ALL ABOUT IT🚨 Friendship ended with T.rex! T.rex is my new best friend! I'll tell you all about it over at National Geographic.

NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...

“as long as you don’t shove it in my face” has always been bullshit. the people that said that considered a gay couple holding hands shoving it in their faces. they considered any outward sign of queerness to be shoving it in their faces. He also just did nothing substantive to advance out rights.

"Interestingly, they found that, particularly for Greenland, that none of the models had melt rates as high as observed *even with* RCP 8.5 forcing"

In preprint form last year, now fully published: High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the “Dueling Dinosaurs” locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Hold on to your butts.

Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.

When I tell people that "paleontology is literally necromancy" I do it because I am one hundred percent CORRECT

Ceci n'est pas une spinosaur

Anyone wanna spot me ~$450 so I can get in the AAM conference in Philly and pitch a few projects to Research Casting International (just kidding) (unless?)

Leidy’s Aenocyon dirus Happy #FossilFriday !

The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll, and The Armageddon Factor

there's not one person at the NYT, the atlantic, WAPO, the guardian, the new statesman, or any of the other hundreds of outlets pushing anti-trans hate that will feel one twinge of guilt today despite having built - almost from scratch in less than 10 years - a machine made to produce this outcome

But... new building? What about the shiny new building? It won an award you know.

Pulsed volcanic sulfur emissions linked to the end-Triassic terrestrial crisis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

Mechanisms of Late Ordovician and Late Devonian ME: "These transient P surges align with biodiversity loss, widespread anoxia, and seawater temperature declines, suggesting a link between P flux, ocean anoxia, and global climate shifts," www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

I am 100% willing to go to actual war to fight the US government threatening the extermination of trans people. I mean it.

*SIGH*

Not pictured here but there's a photo of Jalen Hurts under the Lombardi. As there should be

About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ah crap cause to share this yet again. Gotta be the last time you’d think.

OAE2 EPISODE

I have a new paper out today in PeerJ with a new intermediate pterosaur taxon, Laueropterus vitriolus. The full paper is here if you want the technical stuff: peerj.com/articles/212...

Feeling some kind of way and thus have decided to do something about it (blast Tarkus at high volume)

Flipping and finishing some jackets containing big chunks of Parrosaurus! Plus a rigorous artistic rendering of the animal in life, made from the clay it’s preserved in. #FossilFriday

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

For a $20M investment, mapping deep geology related to the breakup of Pangea has located: 1. Regions where the risk to power grids from solar storms is 1000x higher! 2. New targets for critical mineral exploration Seems like a pretty cheap date?

Is the latest Cretaceous greensand of southern New Jersey the Navesink Formation or the New Egypt Formation? Nobody seems to agree. But this is #FossilFriday not #SedimentologySaturday so here's Taprosphys sulcatus from the Edelman Fossil Park (which, embarrassingly, I still haven't visited yet)

Paper in Science shows Darwin's "same taste for the beautiful": humans and other animals (including birds, frogs, and amphibians) like the same sounds! We all prefer adorned, ancestral, and lower-frequency.🎵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PsychSciSky

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

Tiny bees of early spring! I'm slowly getting better at Tiny Bee ID & did a little rundown of the genera of bees you're likely to see. Dime, bumble, & honeybee for scale. granted, this species range is for March/April & it is now May so I'm running behind, but bit by bit, I'm building up resources!

This is true. Unfortunately the freak needs a Vyvanse prescription

Missed this neat paper from last year... The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums - Schwien Scott - 2025 - Museum Anthropology - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does this still get the people going

Air to Ground Message: JUST FINISHED A LOVELY 3H30MIN SIT IN EWR AND ON DAY 5/6 RUNNING ON CAFFEINE AND PRAYERS LOL ALSO NEW CRZ ALT FL 260 FOR RIDES Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #abc64bf1272 F: #f001ae4ad50

Peter Bailey, art for His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, 2008

There were a lot of weird chemical reactions that had to occur through Earth's history to make Earth habitable. Getting rid of barium and sulfides was one of them and might have happened very fast in the late Ediacaran. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/11/8/nwae237/7710134​

speaking as one who was there for it, it's worth remembering how the mobbing of isabel fall was framed as defending the trans community www.vox.com/the-highligh...

My unsolicited Met Gala take is that they never do anything like this to fundraise for natural history museums

_Any_ given era of Doctor Who clears the space wizard saga by a country mile. Yes even those ones