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Such a brilliant book by Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social How mammals survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs as shrew-like creatures; (our ancestors), how whales had legs, the strangest mammals you've never heard of, and 300 million years of mammal evolution in 400 pages.

How the human brain was built. Over hundreds of millions of years, as our ancestors became warm-blooded, needed more food, and more brainpower to find it. Great fun to take part in this BBC show w/ @jimalkhalili.bsky.social to discuss our Endothermic Brain Hypothesis. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Our latest in-class undergrad fossil-finding trip at the Univ of Edinburgh. To Fife, across the bridge from Edinburgh. Where 325 million years ago the sea danced up & down, drowning forests of weird hollow 100-foot-tall trees, turning them into coal. As volcanoes smoked in the distance.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

She immigrated to the US legally. Broke no laws. Married an American citizen. Was in line for a Green Card. Yet ICE detained and imprisoned her. Because they said she missed a check-in meeting in 2019. But there's no proof this happened. Fascism. www.nickvalencianews.com/p/these-are-...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Guy who wants to win Nobel Peace Prize declares war on his own country.

This only happens to you once

Would love to see @vermontgmg.bsky.social get a permanent gig at the NYT opinion page @nytopinion.nytimes.com Nobody speaks with more moral clarity about what is happening in the USA.

Penguins of great size, that once swam in subtropical waters, whose eggs were hunted by giant bad-ass eagles!

Another reminder that the United States of America is currently a dictatorship.

President calls for people to be arrested because he was on an escalator that stopped moving

Whoa!!!

It wasn't only dinosaurs & pterosaurs that were hammered by the end-Cretaceous asteroid. It was their lizard cousins too. More than 75% of them died! If not for a few twists of fate, maybe lizards would have gone the way of the dinosaurs. New study: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A megaraptoran skeleton! From the end of the Cretaceous! Excited about the announcement of Joaquinraptor, the top predator down south when tyrannosaurs ruled the north. The Schwarzengger to T. rex's DeVito (at least in the arms category). My thoughts: www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

Trump to the rest of the world: 'Your countries are going to hell' What an absolute tragedy and embarrassment that this guy represents 340 million Americans.

Watch this show! It's excellent. And some familiar faces might make an appearance...

A family man was driving home near Boston. He's lived in the USA for 22 years and legally claimed asylum. ICE wanted him anyway. To coerce him to surrender, they seized his five-year-old autistic American citizen daughter. Fascism. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

Don’t take medical advice from this quack.

First Edinburgh undergrad fossil field trip of the year, to Dob’s Linn! Where all good graptolites went after they died…some 440 million years ago, when Scotland was at the bottom of a deep but shrinking ocean, on a tectonic warpath toward England. The global Ordovician-Silurian stratotype!

Jesus Christ: 'Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you' (Matthew 5:44) Donald Trump: 'I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them' (speaking at a eulogy!) Be like Jesus.

Please share!! 🙏🏼 Want to see where the science of geology began? Then help us build the Deep Time Trail!

If this plan is implemented, it will cripple British universities and health care, and tear apart families. All 'skilled' immigrants will require £60k salary & cannot use NHS. Permanent residence will be scrapped entirely. Citizenship made insanely hard. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Six guys were fixing a roof near Chicago, as kids played in the street. They were legal immigrants, with papers. No matter, ICE kicked away their ladders, made them jump, chased them guns drawn as families watched, detained them anyway. Fascism. abc7chicago.com/post/napervi...

Thank you very much to @stevebrusatte.bsky.social for this brilliant review of LITTLE KINGDOMS, releasing 30/11/25 ‘Infused with enthusiasm and written in a conversational tone, this is the type of pop history I love to read.’

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have received? A: It wasn’t given specifically to me but I was in the audience. It was said by Toni Morrison at the Hay festival: “We will be judged on how well we loved.” That’s it. That’s all that matters. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

MAGA is one giant corruption racket.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Let's not forget ICE just shot and killed a man in Chicago. Silverio Villegas González was his name. A cook. No criminal history. Father of two young kids, whose dad will never come home. A human being, a human soul, another victim of political violence www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Change the headline from 'Goebbels' to 'Trump' and '1939' to '2025', and you could pretty much reprint this article in today's New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Fascism. What else would you call this? And make no mistake, the same people calling to ‘defund the BBC’ want exactly the same here: the silencing of dissident voices, the end of a national conversation, the total destruction of a free press so only one story reigns.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Fascism. Complete and utter fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

World’s oldest dome-headed dinosaur!

🚨Dinosaur footprints from the Isle of Skye! More of them! Dozens & dozens of beach-living Jurassic theropod tracks, from mid-sized megalosaurs to tiny coelurosaurs (or babies) Check out our new study led by Edinburgh Masters student Tone Blakesley! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Super cool. Dinosaurs were ecosystems engineers. So much so that when all of those big, heavy, hungry dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, dense forests could suddenly sprout in their absence. Their death created a new kind of renewal.

New paper led by my PhD student, Edwin Rodriguez! Building on previous work, we present a systematic description of the ONE BILLION YEAR OLD fossils of the phosphates of the Diabaig Formation, NW Scotland — including some early eukaryotes and new species... #paleontology #fossils #geology

This is fascism. The fact that it's in response to a brutal & unacceptable murder (the motives of which are still unknown!) doesn't mean that it isn't fascism. It is terrifying and un-American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Devastating. The Univ of Nebraska @unlincoln.bsky.social is proposing to cut its ENTIRE Earth sciences program. UNL has trained famous paleontologists (Ned Colbert) and generations of Midwestern students in petroleum & mining. Sign the petition to oppose 👇 nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/13/u...

'Making America Healthy Again' and 'Creating a Culture of Life' by ... surrendering the war on cancer?! To own the libs, or punish scientists for mask mandates during Covid, or maybe just to burn things down. Regardless, many will die. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Always a pleasure to see our books at our hometown Waterstones on Princes Street! Thanks to our pals @waterstones.bsky.social for stocking the new one from @annebrusatte.bsky.social , My Grandparents Were Dinosaurs, during its publication week!

New York Times obituary for one of New York’s greatest characters. RIP Mark, and you’d enjoy the Romanian palinka we’re toasting in your honor tonight! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/s...

My God. What is happening to us? Reminds me of that passage in the Bible where Jesus instructed his followers: Lepers, the sick, the lame: just kill them. Or something.

This is how you do it. Violent insurrection should actually be outlawed, and violent insurrectionists actually punished (not pardoned). Well done Brazil. Acting like a true democracy with rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava. But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking. My take @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Publication day for My Grandparents Were Dinosaurs! The story of how birds evolved from dinosaurs, for kids, from the creative mind of @annebrusatte.bsky.social ! And some fact-checking from me. Thrilled to unbox our copies. And you can get yours in the link below!

Horrible and indefensible, like all political violence. This was a guy with a family, 10 years younger than me. You don’t like his politics? Tough. In a free society you speak back with words not with bullets. May God bless us all.