Chesh & philo gang are live on Debate Hub in 6 hours, at 1PM CDT, 6PM UTC. Twitter @TrolleyDave1971 @TheJIBPodcast @PalaeoPhilo Bsky @debatehub.bsky.social @chesh.bsky.social @trolleydave.bsky.social @palaeophilo.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live...

@gutsickgibbon.bsky.social I regret to inform you, if you haven’t already, but the sweet old man David McQueen has passed www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

I did not know Dr. Helen De Cruz personally but deeply appreciated her work. What a loss. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

helen de cruz has left this world it is immeasurably lessened by that passing

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

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One way or another science will persevere. Whether it’s us doing it or some other creature. We take it for granted at our peril. Failing to comply to the big 4 and allowing non-epistemic values to encroach them risks our survival as an organism and furthermore a species.

Everything is dum

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Remember to call your mom sometime

Holotype is a board game about discovering and publishing ancient species! We had a great time playing and discussing with Brian and Jason from Gaming with Science. You can listen to our discussion here: www.gamingwithscience.net/e/s2e01-holo...

Panpsychism doesn’t make new predictions, lacks parsimony, and is unfalsifiable

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@soundoftheforest.bsky.social do you know what this is? It looks like a cocoon, but I don’t know what bug makes a cocoon like this.

Science's trumpet sounds and all the extinct animals line up to be classified. From Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886). Image: Pradaldi CC BY-SA 2.0. Flammarion only gets a few pages into his book before calling nearly everyone in a world an unthinking moron.

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Glad to see the first out-of-Vilnius-paleo recurrence plot study of paleontological patterns. This powerful dynamical systems approach started its spread. Here the authors studies temporal structure of Jurassic ichnofacies. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology⚒️

If the science wars of the 90’s soured my opinion of STS What since that time would redeem it for me?

Its hard to find discussions i want to have on here with how its set up counter intuitively I want only science and philosophy and some cats in my algorithm but so much of my feed is None of this

George Gaylord Simpson (1902 - 1984) — the killer of "just so" stories. Citation below from Björn Kurtén's "Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (with an Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould)". 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

The "green apple" theory @trolleydave.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social @palaeophilo.bsky.social @solo1y.bsky.social @debatehub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/MzmVL... #philosophy

Vernon Edwards's painting of an ideal scene in the Lower Old Red Sandstone seas. Used as frontispiece to the 1936 guide to the @nhm-london.bsky.social's Geology and Palaeontology galleries.

This is a lovely story and I love the quote its basing itself on! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

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Peirce, C. S. New York, 1877 May 25 Dear Sir, Yours in reference to the pendulum building will receive my immediate attention. I have written to Mr. Eliot to know the intention of the college more clearly than I learn it from your note & my action will depend somewhat upon his reply. /1

If you are interested in geobioevents, macroevolution, and macroecology in deep time, here is the list of our 2024 publications in chronological order: 1) The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology

Knowing how ridiculously strapped for cash educational institutions, such as museums, are. Just letting you know, I'm more than happy to do palaeontological illustrations and resources for non-profits, either free or at a nominal charge (depending on my free time). Just let me know. 😘

December 27, 2023, for 200 years, scientists couldn't explain how the mineral dolomite formed in such quantities to shape entire landscapes like the #Dolomites. But a study published in 2023 proposed a new answer based on atomic simulations ⛰️💎 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

Merry Christmas everyone

Non LOTR characters that could have resisted the ring? Frog, but not Toad.

Instant classic of the macroevolution and geobiology: "Cryogenian glaciations appear to define this shift toward greater extinction and diversification rates" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Paleobio #Complexity #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology

December 21, 2019, died #OTD American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Alan Russell. He described Daspletosaurus & was amongst the first to consider an extraterrestrial cause for the extinction of the #dinosaurs. In 1982, he created the "dinosauroid" thought experiment🐦 tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/...

Qing Tang et al. 2024 Quantifying the global biodiversity of Proterozoic eukaryotes. Science 386:eadm9137 DOI:10.1126/science.adm9137 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"How do you read significance off a bone? How do you detect meaning, scientifically?" Read all about "synoptic series" and the philosophical questions they raise in this wonderful little essay from Joyce Havstad (2019) www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

Manifesto on the importance of the correlation, dating and synchronization of geological records in order to determine how world really works at macro-scales. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 #Climate ⚒️ #Geology

NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵

"Researchers have found they repeatedly hunt and eat voles, decapitating their prey and pulling flesh from the torso" 🤯 Very cool observation, although can't help but think this is very much feels like a warning sign for the approaching end of days 🐿️🧪 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

“All” 55 known species of sloths that lived during the Late Pleistocene. #paleoart #animals #art #wildlife #extinct

My favorite philosopher is Susan Haack

Science as an activity has 4 foundational operational criteria 1: predictive precision and accuracy 2: explanatory efficiency and consilience 3: optimal flexibility in its falsifiability 4: rational coherence

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.