For people outside of paleontology: This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.

As was said at today’s hearing, if you don’t want to be called fascists, stop acting like them. I’m glad they’re suing—and calling it out so all can see.

pocket sized shark 🦈 #art #shark

My 96-year-old mother has had a hard time tracking down her first marriage certificate to show her names changes so we could get her a CA ID...this bill could prevent her from voting

Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I first saw "AI;DR" mentioned on a social media post (maybe even on Bluesky) back in October 2025 by Esther Schindler. I thought it was awesome and screen-capped it.

Projection Mirror Screenprints Available Thurs, Feb. 12 at 10AM PT Projection is the process of attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer, the bully might be projecting their own tendencies onto the other person. MAGA and…

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

Passing along the news to the geology community. ⚒️ During my time at Caltech, I could always count on George for friendly greetings, a positive attitude, and odd yet delightful remarks. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Cool, wind-shaped rocks on Mars photographed yesterday.

#PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

Was Kristi Noem behind the ad?

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.

Enjoying the comments 🌊📖🚸🤗 👇

Unusual palaeoart. The trilobite kite was designed by Ma Qinghua, with body measuring 3 meters.

The aurora last night here in Beaver, Alaska was extremely bright and active. Here is a video showing the real-time motion and the brightness of the aurora reflecting off the snow and turning it a bright green color.

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

Spotted a sweet little (2-3mm long) double-terminated quartz crystal while sorting matrix for micros recently.

I got buzzed by a Pileated Woodpecker as I was refiling the suet in the bird feeder. We've seen it a few times this winter, but they are rare to see. It's huge! Probably 12 inches long. We get Downy and Red Bellied woodpeckers every day. This was special to see.

This why cyclists need number plates, registrations, endorsable licenses and mandatory third party liability insurance. Oh, hang on...

"They probably got stuck in shallow seeps. The pits are old excavations."

I’m a geologist. ICE used to be my favorite mineral. Please someone tell the government not to f up QUARTZ for me

Check out this gnarly tunicate that got caught in our multicore! Captain was on deck when it came up and exclaimed it was a “creature never meant to be seen by man”. Collected from about 300m depth and appears to have been rooted in the surface sediment. #seamonster #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶

We should let one of each livestock animal kill & eat a human once per year.

Really SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?

Run.

all those people complaining about a protest in church are going to rise up over this too right?

Dinosaur paleontology is rife with sex pests and bullies. Men who have the academy on their side and count on the benefit of the doubt, usually keeping their jobs and prestige even when their abuses come to light. I hope we get some daylight because I’m not kidding, the science needs a reckoning.

This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.

Well this is some hot 💩...not letting the Altadena community play soccer in a County park to "protect the integrity of the Dodger's investment"?! Go sign the petition if you can. www.change.org/p/a-plea-to-...

Happy #FossilFriday from this stupid Xiphactinus that I found last April! She is fresh out od prep and just as ugly as I imagined she would be.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol and ICE Raid Almost 20 L.A. Communities, Almost 30 Total in SoCal in Record Numbers @eltragon.bsky.social

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Must read by Ta-Nehisi Coates on what happened on Minnesota. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t... Paywall bypass here. archive.ph/0TUGt

Intriguing idea, that Ceratosaurus of the Morrison Formation, was a sabertooth cat analogue in its teeth shape and hunting patterns. I knew that their teeth were dagger-like, but here they are essentially the same size as in Smilodon, and they for the whole battery! t.co/JLD4aB4OGG 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

To my cycling pals out there. I've met cyclists who are absolute zits, but they are vastly outnumbered by the cyclists who are filled with inexpressible joy in the world. Can you look at this guy and not think he'd be fun to hang with?

Hey. Cycling folks. He was one of us in that way, too.

no wordes tonighte

They’re fedposting in r/nursing. Holy shig

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I’ve deleted so many things to try adding context for this. But what it all comes down to is public trust is a valuable, fragile thing. It’s (deservedly) broken, and people are going to die because they won’t be able to trust the information & instructions are safe. Look out for each other. 🩵

Minnesota nice (except for ICE).

Europe should immediately boycott his vanity projects, the world cup & the olympics.

Had a great day in the field showing our first year students the joys of Cornish Carboniferous sediments. Lots of beautiful flame structures, laminations, and water escape features in these Westphalian siliciclastics near Bude. (High tides and yellow weather warnings be damned!) ⚒️🧪🌍

Very cool paper on shark and ray diversity since Cretaceous times 🧪

My basement filled with rocks is evidence that: 1) I don’t understand the term GeoCache 2) I LARP as a #Geologist 3) I am ballasting my basement against isostatic rebound 4) I seek posthumous revenge on my family 5) I have nutritional deficiencies that can only be cured by licking 🪨 #Geology

ICYMI Long Beach traffic deaths doubled since 2015; LADOT installed pathetic 30 lane miles of bikeways, ignores Vision Zero; and redefining ebikes as human-powered vehicles: bikinginla.com/2026/01/22/l... #bikeLA