Here's a throwback video of me digging out a massive Exogyra ponderosa shell from the Cretaceous aged Demopolis Chalk in Tupelo, Mississippi. (March 5th 2020)

One of the important take aways of this interview is its demonstration of how science journalism can deceive or misguide wrt to what scientific consensus is, and the concomitant malign poltical ends that misdirection can promote

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... My mom and I visited the Boulder NCAR Facility. It had great displays/educational material beyond the vital science being conducted there. NCAR plays a vital role in long term CO2 monitoring. Dismantling will have long term implications for cliamte science

Today I’m joining the #GivingTuesday challenge to save the Museum of the Earth. As a Board of Trustee emeritus member, I see first-hand the Museum's impact on educating our community and the world about climate change, biodiversity, and our home planet. Please donate at priweb.org/support.

#givingtuesday The Paleontological Research Institution, a museum/collection/education org., is looking for donations to help retire the mortgage and maintain operations. The do excellent edu/outreach/research. www.priweb.org #Paleontology #SciCom #NaturalHistory #Museums

Since ~ 2021, trans people have been subject to extensive political & media hysteria. For the crime of seeking to live freely, their motives have been impugned, their identities questioned, and their rights constrained. This "concern" has very real costs for trans people.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Have you completed or commissioned a piece of palaeoart in the last year? Nominations are now open for The Marsh Palaeoart Award! 🎨🦕🌿🐌🐟🎨 You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution met today at #GSA #GSA2025 and Carl Brett (Universityof Cincinnati), a great friend of PRI gave a speach on why this place is worth saving Part 1 of 2 #SavePRI ⚒️🧪

Protoceratops in an ironstone enhanced burrow. The burrow had rolled down the hill. Most pics are of a Proto in burrow not enhanced by ironstone (no sign of burrow) scavenged beetle larvae, who left borings in the bone and their pupae. They loved to chew up the cartilage in the joints.

Hello All! The deadline for @geosociety.bsky.social connects 2025 abstract submissions is rapidly approaching (Aug 5th). My Co-chairs @masonscher.bsky.social, Ben Kligman, and I still eagerly invite your submissions on #coprolite research! We want to catch a whiff of your work! #paleontology

I remember hearing the words "brought to you by the corporation for public broadcasting" every time I watched Sesame Street as a kid. Horrifying that this tiny pot of funds for educational media and public information is being stolen from us. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

The deadline for @geosociety.bsky.social connects 2025 abstract submissions is rapidly approaching (Aug 5th). My Co-chairs @masonscher.bsky.social, Ben Kligman, and I still eagerly invite your submissions on #coprolite research! We want to catch a whiff of your work! #paleontology

George Frandsen is the owner and curator of the Poozeum, the largest private collection of #coprolites. As an invited speaker to this year's @geosociety.bsky.social session T154: Coprolite happens, I and my co-chairs are very excited to learn about his work with coprolites. We hope you can join!

Dr. Karen Chin is a Professor & Curator of #Paleontology at UC Boulder, studying Mesozoic ecosystems/community interactions. A great mover and shaker in #coprolite science, we are excited to have her as an invited speaker at this year's @geosociety.bsky.social session T154. Coprolite Happens!

At @geosociety.bsky.social 2025 meeting, I, @masonscher.bsky.social , and Benjamin Kligman are chairing session T154: Coprolite Happens: Insights into Geobiology. We have two excellent invited speakers: Dr. Karen Chin at UC Boulder and George Frandsen, owner and curator of the Poozeum.

Ben Kligman, Mason Scher, and I are chairing GSA section T154: Coprolite Happens! We eagerly invite abstract submissions on coprolite research. There's been a lot of movements in the field, and we want to share it!

"Democrats are claiming that Trump is going to kick 16 million Americans off their healthcare. In reality, Trump is only going to kick 11 million people off their healthcare and then another 5 million people"

Swarthmore College has a teaching collection of fossil plants that has probably not been used in decades, recently re-discovered when we moved into a new building. We are hoping to catalog/digitize them. Can anyone ID any of these specimens beyond the brief descriptions on the cards? (1/2)

Please celebrate the Gay and Modern Apes in your life this month for pride!

Ben Kligman, Mason Scher, and I are chairing GSA section T154: Coprolite Happens! We eagerly invite abstract submissions on coprolite research. There's been a lot of movements in the field, and we want to share it!

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

This is a hideous invasion of civil liberties

The Scotsman Steps, #Edinburgh Work No. 1059 Martin Creed, 2011 104 steps clad in a different #marble from such diverse places as Italy, Lebanon, Namibia & Portugal, #SundayStonework #Art

Benjamin Franklin produced the very first chart of the Gulf Stream and then two more charts of it—here’s the final one, of 1786, showing Dr. Franklin in the lower right-hand corner, lecturing poor old Neptune, behind whom is the source of the Gulf Stream: the Gulf of Mexico

This is a nice discussion of stable isotope analysis with application to shark teeth. Remember, though, folks that this technique is used for lots of stuff theconversation.com/fossil-shark...

I’d like to share my blog on the history of fishes. Expect to see more of these at the end of the spring (post PhD). If you enjoy, please subscribe to support my work! open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...

In a recent class discussion, Principal Component Analysis came up. I explained it briefly. I later found this very nice PCA explanation/visualization tool: setosa.io/ev/principal... I thought my students would appreciate it and yours might too #statistics #biostatistics

Since today is a slow news day, I thought it would be good to mention my friend Tian Gan has a new paper out in PNAS. This paper was a lot of work by her and her team (including Shuhai Xiao, Ben Gill, Jay Kaufman, and more Researchers) and I'm glad I could help out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I visited a celebrity yesterday. I went to Philly to visit the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, and its rotating exhibit on the vertebrate transition from life in water to the land. The star of the exhibit is the holotype material of #Tiktaalik roseae. 1/x