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The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 ā over 200 years ago ā 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:
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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!
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PaleoJim
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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!
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Sign the Petition
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!
https://bit.ly/save-academy
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The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 ā over 200 years ago ā 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
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Erin Kane
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"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."
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"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...
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Inside āAsiaās Fort Knoxā: Gold bars, fine art ā and a 66-million-year-old Triceratops | CNN
Deep inside Singaporeās secretive freeport, a tax-free luxury storage vault for the ultra-rich, a near-complete dinosaur fossil awaits auction.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/style/singapore-le-freeport-tour-triceratops-owner
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mr pussy
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is this good
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Here's Leaping Laelaps ā er, I mean, Dueling Dryptosaurus? ā at the New Jersey State Museum for
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David Levering
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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 Iām bringing to this ongoing problem.
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Matthew Cobb
2 days ago
At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China
Animal diversification across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was a crucial event in Earth history, fundamentally altering our planet and its biosphere. However, Ediacaran fossil assemblages show li...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2291
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Asher Elbein
2 days ago
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.
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Hady George
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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
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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...
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Diplotomodon vs. Grok
Uh oh. We live in hell, in case you havenāt noticed. I wonāt recite all the miseries here, but one of them is the proliferation of LLMs and generative AI, forced upon us against our wilā¦
https://diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/diplotomodon-vs-grok/
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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...
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Diplotomodon vs. Grok
Uh oh. We live in hell, in case you havenāt noticed. I wonāt recite all the miseries here, but one of them is the proliferation of LLMs and generative AI, forced upon us against our wilā¦
https://diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/diplotomodon-vs-grok/
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Andrej Spiridonov
4 days ago
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. š§Ŗ āļø
#Geology
#Paleobio
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Zen Faulkes
4 days ago
The question about fake references should NOT be āWhat can be done?ā We KNOW what can be done: human peer reviewers and editors check the damn references individually, by hand. The question should be, āWhy are so many publishers NOT doing those basic checks?ā
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
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Catbus
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'Glowing Sky' (1988) Viktor Zaretsky
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Jacob Aron
4 days ago
I thought this graph was one of those Strait of Hormuz maps for a second, and got REALLY confused by the giant insect
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Ariel Waldman
4 days ago
It's premiering on PBS tomorrow! Get the PBS app on your streaming device and watch.
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mattie lubchansky
4 days ago
8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Stephen Judkins
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That's right
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Karolina Heyduk
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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!
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Persin toxicity means this frog is a masochist
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Rev. Poppy Haze š
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its too on the nose that our president named Don hates windmills
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Andrej
6 days ago
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
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I admit I haven't seen the new Netflix dinosaur documentary yet ā 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
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Gwen!!!
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at
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Remain In Hell Without Despair
7 days ago
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
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Costa Samaras
7 days ago
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 donāt know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.
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Gwen Pearson
7 days ago
Other new paper out in AE: Does giving your ambassador arthropod a name help people connect better?
#education
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The Bonnie Situation: How Giving Arthropods Names Can Improve Perception at Outreach Events
The barriers to building an entomology outreach program can be relatively low (Madalinska and Monzon 2025), but we often do not critically evaluate which t
https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/72/1/25/8510647
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BeijingPalmer
8 days ago
really love this piece by
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and also some beautiful photos from our art team to go with
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/b...
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The Birds That Run the Land
Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/birds-conservation-indigenous-environment/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=YmlyZHMtY29uc2VydmF0aW9uLWluZGlnZW5vdXMtZW52aXJvbm1lbnQ=&pid=PNI6oXabXq1ydw6
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8 days ago
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.
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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
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Dr. Todd L. Green
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šØNEW SCIENCE ALERT!šØRead our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (
@nature.com
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casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 yearsā¬ļø
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NYITCOM
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Tess Gallagher
9 days ago
It's not everyday you get to shake a dinosaur's hand
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Jordan
9 days ago
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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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...
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Vertebrate paleontology has a numbers problem. Computer vision can help
How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce MacFadden, UF Distinguished Professor Emeritus and retired curator of verte...
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/vertebrate-paleontology-has-a-numbers-problem-computer-vision-can-help/
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A JJ Abrams/Bad Robot scifi film, delayed several times, renamed before premiere. It's gonna be Cloverfield isn't it
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Ian Hall
10 days ago
We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes⦠Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3ā4C Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Extreme climate outcomes could still occur with just 2ā°C of global warming
Moderate global warming creates a risk of climate impacts that are more severe than the most-likely impacts of high global warming.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00640-7
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Nicholas Wu
10 days ago
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 šŖ° š
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
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jordan šš§
11 days ago
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
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Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case
New Mexico hails āhistoricā win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/24/meta-new-mexico-jury
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TFW your old dinosaur is suddenly a new dinosaur
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD
12 days ago
The IEAās āSheltering from Oil Shocksā pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual
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Chad Loder
12 days ago
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
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12 days ago
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!
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Proving what we already knew: natural history museums are the best kind
www.irishnews.com/news/uk/natu...
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Natural History Museum becomes UKās top attraction for visits
The site welcomed 7.1 million visitors in 2025, which is up 13% from the previous year.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/natural-history-museum-becomes-uks-top-attraction-for-visits-KRRD77YBFRK4JHDWG6PRZ7BEN4/
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