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Yeah, I'm gonna get work done today. Sure I am. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

If you are so inclined, American Prairie can be found here: americanprairie.org

Okay, this is awesome.

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

This is why one should avoid using the abbreviation "T. rex" from here on out - 'cause now there are *two* of them. Welcome to science, Tylosaurus rex! (Take a back seat for once, tyrannosaurs.) #FossilFriday 🧪

Absolutely.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (also Powell) 2. Rush 3. Jethro Tull 4. Yes 5. Rainbow 6. Deep Purple 7. Peter Gabriel 8. Oingo Boingo 9. Brian Setzer Orchestra 10. Lindsey Stirling 11. Monty Python (Hollywood Bowl)

Re-re-upping for the west coast evening crowd.

The ICE officer who allegedly shot a Venezuelan man, and who has been accused by Minnesota prosecutors of lying about the incident, one Christian Castro, has now been charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime. Please read this thread to learn the whole horrific story.

Sharing this! The linked page has a number of suggested actions one can take to help defend the monument.

In the film "The Ring", one survives the curse by (spoiler alert) passing it along to others. In like fashion, now that I've had to listen to this, you do too.

Also for #FossilFriday if a bit peripheral: today @metrolosangeles.bsky.social opened its new four-mile D Line w/ new stations along Wilshire Blvd. at La Brea, Fairfax, & La Cienega. Station excavations produced numerous Ice Age fossils - some of which are represented in on new tap cards! #RideTheD

Happy, happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday! (Such a pleasure to meet him way at Rancho La Brea in LA way back in 1988! That's me on the left.) #DavidAttenborough100 #TarPits #FossilFriday

Six years with us today. We love you, Tigger. (Even though you pee on everything. You know better.) #CatsOfBluesky

Slightly diminish a book. The Puppy of the Baskervilles

Our boy Buzz catching some warming morning sunlight, seen through the petals of one of my wife's orchids. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Also for #FossilFriday - the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social has released this statement re: the US administration's recent decision to dismiss all members of the US National Science Board. 🧪

For #FossilFriday: visiting @tarpits.org to measure horse hip bones, calculating the relative abundance of males vs. females in the sample to try to assess the social structure these ancient equids might have had. (Gotta get the data before the museum closes for its planned 2-year renovation!) 🧪🐎

Are you following @museumoftherockies.bsky.social ? If not, you should be - it's a wonderful museum! (Dinosaur lovers of the world, take note!)

Important thread about the state of education at all levels in the US right now, and how we got here.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars/Trek, LotR, or Marvel.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

Married to the Kangaroo 🦘

A day at the #SanDiegoZoo.

Boris and Tigger waiting patiently (🙄) for elevenses. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Happy National Burrito Day, everyone! (And thanks to El Burrito in Redlands, CA for the delicious meal!) 🌯 #NationalBurritoDay

My blood pressure spiked reading this ... until I realized what time (and day) it was where The Daily Mail is published. Damn you, Daily Mail.

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Here's a thread with suggestions & options for providing needed support!

In Anaheim, CA. #NoKings

This Saturday at WonderCon 2026! (Yep, it's me!)

This Saturday at WonderCon 2026!

It was truly a privilege to be a part of the "discovery" of a second species of Ice Age mastodon in North America. Here, my friend and colleague Alton Dooley lays out the backstory of how we found this new species right under our noses. (Pertinent publications linked in the post!) #mastodons 🧪

This Saturday at WonderCon 2026!

Great thread for all those "both parties are equally bad" and "we need a brand new direction" folks out there. If you're serious about that & not just a troll, then *now* is the best time to be organizing, promoting new candidates at all levels, generating support, etc. Yet ... nada.

Happy to be participating on this panel!

There are so many genuinely good people in vertebrate paleontology. But there are also still far too many misogynists, and bullies, and outright predators. It's so critical to shine light on this abuse and these abusers, and expunge them.

Tigger among my wife's flowers. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Winding down #Caturday

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Born on this day in 1809. (The photo is from the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social in London, England; the festive b-day frame was found online, where it was selected ... naturally.) 🦖🧪 #DarwinDay #InternationalDarwinDay

Post a banger that's not in English.

Excellent news if true.

Change a letter, ruin a film. The Big Sheep

Nice to see this wonderful, world famous fossil site getting the support it needs to move forward with plans to renovate the campus! #RanchoLaBrea #TarPits #Pleistocene #Fossils #IceAge

More exciting hominin remains from 2.9-2.5 million year old deposits in northern Ethiopia! 🧪 #Paleoanthropology #Paleontology

Share a television show that raised you.

"It came out of the faucet that way, Eunice." #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Lovely warm evening (unseasonably so, even for California) - sunset approaching, dappled light in the trees ... & puffs of feathers blowing in the neighbor's yard in the light breeze. It all means one thing: our local Cooper's hawk is back w/ another dead pigeon dinner. #Wildlife #Photography