My new paper is out today! With @fossilrob.bsky.social looking at Silurian jawless fish (obvs) With the SLAC synchrotron we find evidence for true bone in these squishy fish AND camera eyes - a nice kismet moment with that great recent Nature paper Early vertebrate eyes are SO HOT right now!

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

I'm feeling pretty vindicated right now. I suggested this Fe + silica clay preservation model to a senior colleague to explain the exceptional preservation of my proterozoic and archean acritarchs. They dismissed me. The 3D acritarch I posted earlier is literally preserved in Fe-clay!

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

An absolutely fascinating exploration of what genomes tell us about the interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals 👇🧪🏺

Need a break from EVERYTHING?? Come join our free public talk this evening, where NYU professor Dr. Samuel Church will tell us all about his hunt for new blue bottle (man-o-war) species 🪼🧪🌊🦑 7:30 PM (EST) Zoom link: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8337406906... Meeting ID: 833 7406 9068 Passcode: 430292

A federal judge says Vineyard Wind, a large and nearly complete offshore wind project near Massachusetts, can resume construction. The project is 95% complete and already sending power to the New England grid @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj

This slop (I don't even know what to call it) is particularly concerning when you consider CBS has consistently led climate coverage by major networks, accounting for 50% of all broadcast time devoted to climate change in 2024.

Russians sending exploding drones into passenger trains while the Republican administration tries to force Ukraine to cede land to Putin. Like so much from this administration it is devoid of logic and amoral

SCOOP: Trump aide Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that slain Minn. protester wanted to "massacre" agents

Today, I found out that the French term for "science communicator" is "vulgarisateur scientifique". Science vulgariser. There is literally no better descriptor for someone who talks about animal sex and poo. Joanna Bagniewska: Science vulgariser. Wulgaryzatorka nauki. #scicomm 🧪

Nice article from @nattyover.bsky.social about the state of particle physics as a field. It’s historically been perhaps the highest prestige and most prominent subfield of physics but there are genuine worries about the path forward, as Natalie clearly lays out. 🧪

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

3. ICE is using government data from state DMVs and federal agencies and refuses to answer questions about how that data is used. I'm also leading that fight in the Senate to rein them in, and warned states that care about their residents to stop sharing DMV data with ICE.

2. ICE is buying your private location data from sleazy data brokers through a legal loophole. I've had a bill to stop this since 2021. I'm renewing my push to get it passed into black letter law as soon as possible.

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

A novel chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Aptian-Albian paleoclimate events (early access) - refines timescales for Large Igneous Province eruptions, climate warmings & coolings, biotic turnover, black shale deposits and Cretaceous oceanic red beds ⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Minneapolis showed us the way. Miller needs to go. This is our next step.

This image, which strongly resembles a photograph, instantly caught my eye because it is a form that I've never seen previously in the Ediacara. Intrigued, I clicked. Very disappointing to see the credit for this image is given to "AI - Science Daily". *What the hell, Science Daily?* Garbage. ⚒️🧪

Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.

Bedrock Offset Across the Wasatch Fault in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Teleseismic Converted Phases and Its Geologic Implications #SRL ⚒️ How old is the East Bench fault system, part of Utah's Wasatch Fault? buff.ly/aYop1nH

⚒️ Article: Landfalling tropical cyclones generally accelerate as they approach coastlines due to changes in surface roughness and thermal properties www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bravo!

CBS News is getting Foxier

I hope Democrats don't just focus on this rotten tree but recognize the whole forest is on fire! ICE/immigration was just red meat for the base but really was about moving to Insurrection Act, election suppression to make an everlasting Trump dynasty @trahan.house.gov @warren.senate.gov

Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Guess the Gem!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: at 2,982 carats, it’s the largest cut gem in this museum’s collection! #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎

Camila is among a growing number of children who have been left without a parent by the Republican administration www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...

Snipers filmed on roofs in Iran and gunfire heard as protesters scream www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

Sen Chris Murphy warns Dems: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether." On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Breaking News! ✨ @annemiekemilks.bsky.social , @katharv.bsky.social , @harvatilab.bsky.social and colleagues publish important artefacts from the MIS12 cold stage in Greece. Great forensic work and a little glimpse of what we are missing from sites without the preservation of wood. 🌳🦣🏺1/3

They say firefighters went into the water. What they don't mention is that air temperatures were ~18F (-8C). Absolute heroes.

Got a letter in the @bostoglobe.com. SO many other historical echoes I couldn’t work in.

This evening's walk on the beach filled with chunks of sea ice & a partially frozen bay.

⚒️ How does seafloor spreading initiate when continents break apart? ⚒️ Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar on Feb 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET with Daniel Sauter, Éva Oravecz, Leila Mezri Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Interesting article exploring the role of the shapes of paleogeographies of coastlines as determinants of the extinction risk: "Taxa...that occur along east-west– oriented coastlines, islands, or inland seaways—consistently exhibit higher extinction risk" www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

27 January 1824: Oxford geologist William Buckland, en route to Lyme Regis and Plymouth, calls on William Conybeare in Bristol to bring news that 'the Annings have discovered an Entire Plesiosaurus', the specimen found by #MaryAnning on 10 December 1823. For more, see doi.org/10.17704/194...

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

China begins operating the world's largest compressed air energy storage plant. Something that can compete with lithium-ion batteries on price now! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So the Republican administration is trying to give Putin what he wants 🇺🇦

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Anyone surprised by this story has been living in a fantasy world. Since Jan 2025, the Trump administration has been using lots of different tactics to force Ukraine to commit strategic suicide. This is just the latest. The real story is that people have not grasped this reality.

First of its kind ‘high-density’ hydro system begins generating electricity in Devon www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🚨 January 31 National Day of Action 🚨

The world has lost one of its most courageous and passionate advocates for people + science. Back in the days of Twitter, I saw her regularly send encouragement to people she’d never met. That was who she was: a model of joy, perseverance, courage, and kindness. Kirsty, you will be so missed. 💔

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.