Looking forward to reading this

Was able to help this guy eat this cake. Also looked at some whale fossils I don't pretend to understand. Rather rude of whales to have acoustic-adjacent osteology that just casually detaches from the rest of the cranial skeleton.

Good perissodactyl content

Good Kyrgyzstan fossil content

An important update on a matter that, unfortunately, continues to be an example of capitalism (in the form of auction houses) happening with little to no regard for ethical management of limited resources.

Not all people should be taken seriously. All of us are hilariously under- or misinformed on some issues, and societies can not progress if we pretend that all people are equally arguing in good faith from fact-based opinions.

This does not sound good. Making sound conservation biology choices will help Earth's biota best navigate the biodiversity crisis, so honest and critical discussions about outlandish "solutions" need to happen.

Obviously there are so many topics that are more important than Epstein. But. There has been a full decade wherein Trump has become viewed as politically viable. That needs to end unless America just wants to be ruled by him (and/or his handpicked lackeys) for years (at least) more. Attack on this.

Holy macaroni I don't think I've read an article at The Conversation that misses the point / has mistakes as much as this one does. If you write that Mary Anning was digging up dinosaurs then ask someone else to edit your work before you hit Submit.

There's a lot of things I dislike about dire wolf misinformation but I really dislike that Peter Jackson got scammed by it and then Peter Jackson decided to scam George RR Martin about it. Like, Peter, George already has dire wolf issues. Lying to him about dire wolves is just cruel.

It's been fascinating living in/near the States since Reagan because every administration has provided a historical opportunity to watch two branches of government give more and more power to the third branch. The US Constitution isn't perfect but, if followed, it'd prevent the system being created.

G/O Media sells off one more media property.

I'll also send this skeet at the places of higher learning that choose to promote LLM

Seems bad

Awawa

Can I just send this skeet at the places of higher learning who continue to use LLMs

This Atlantic magazine from 7 years ago is a cursed object from a cursed timeline. Just utterly revolting where that magazine wanted our collective attention at.

The only good thing about bad SCOTUS decisions is that they can be decided against in the future. Today's ruling about healthcare access is murderous and will be remembered by historians as an embarrassment of injustice.

I had no idea growing up that all four of these basic ideas would be so violently opposed but I underestimated how malevolent some 21st century humans would be.

Good oreodont content

A good thread on a confusing source of misinformation

Please don't put scare quotes around good theories, "National" "Public" "Radio".

Every so often I make the mistake of reading the comments online And It is disheartening. It is terrible the evil thoughts that fellow humans feel okay with expressing.

Simply yikes

Looking forward to the Senate actually doing something, now that the US Executive Branch is literally physically attacking them

Alarming how quickly the US federal government will spend millions on bullying the residents of America.

Goddard was an important person in space science history but he died in 1945. The sudden forced immigration of non-Americans after WWII led to the success of the American Space Program. nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/rob...

I gotta say that I moved to California, in part, because I perceived it as being better for human rights. These kinds of actions by our lame duck governor are a bold repudiation of human rights, simply stunning in a state which has been a leader on this issue.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Oh, what a tangled web we weave

Good sloth content

I use pronouns in my classes in order to foster an inclusive environment. It's a move to show that students are welcome and safe, regardless of what pronouns they choose to use. This take is a bad one. Progressives did not "help put Trump in office" AND pronouns aren't progressive??! They're words.

I agree with all the science here but I needed to say that Xenopus laevis are so ugly they circle back to cute.

Looking forward to this federal legislation being co-sponsored by more legislators.

We coulda had a Disneyland where the visitors brought their own small sample of uranium home.

Is the joke here that he was interviewing a mirror

Logging into Bluesky to pretend I have an opinion on Troodon formosus

This is a very long thread but it's also a really good thread about how the new leader of a major religious group said that faith without works is dead.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

Sharing primarily for the Brule Formation and its fantastic oreodonts, one of whom is in the illustration

What an awkward thing to force a government agency to write. So cringe, so embarrassing.

History took a real wrong turn when the US Supreme Court decided that Al shouldn't be President.

Trends in Ecology & Evolution out here doing good work

Burgum highlighting the work that Colossal did should make every person at Colossal rethink their relationship with the company. This fake dire wolf announcement was incredible misinformation and the company needs to massively recalibrate their media output to be 200% more honest.

One of my long-standing political opinions is that if your political party kills a heinous amount of people, that political party should stop existing. When the Republicans chose to invade and occupy Iraq, they passed that number. They did it again with COVID in 2020, and they want a third attempt.

"George RR Martin met the imitation dire wolves," I type, in this ludicrous virtual reality that we're all trapped in.

My favorite thing about the press releases yesterday is that they give unpublished results from currently in press scientific academic journal articles 🙃

The United States and the court are both choosing to act in this heinous way. Therefore they're both choosing to act against human rights.

Sharing out of full agreement