Do you love Star Wars and geology? I’ve got a podcast for you!! I had the pleasure of geeking out with @jamesjawa.bsky.social and @melissatruth.bsky.social about the geology of Star Wars!

I know 3 people who have/had early-onset colorectal cancer (under the age of 45). Get screened.

The SAVE Act was never going to pass the Senate, but passage was never the point. This piece lays out the real strategy: throw a barrage of voter suppression moves against the wall—all of which are designed to sow fear, suppress turnout, and muddy the midterms—and see what sticks.

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Dr's appt went well! Blood numbers look good! Bank account numbers, though...not so much. If you're looking to support independent artists and score some neat #handmade #gifts, check out my Etsy Listing Megathread below!

OK, but is there a downside,

Check out the Science Moab podcasts. sciencemoab.org/radio/?fbcli... You'll be glad you did. @scifri.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @agu.org @sciam.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @utah.edu @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

CBS pulling @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is alarming and nothing short of censorship. Full breakdown on my Substack page (link below). adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

I've done this kind of drifting before at the on-ramp for Minnesota Drive LOL

Wow.

Thursday19th 7:00 PM MT, meet.google.com/non-nwfj-cco UFOP meeting Don DeBlieux "More Moenkopi Madness! Exceptional tracksites in the Early Triassic of Canyonlands National Park." Don will present an update on paleontological surveys conducted over 5 years by the UGS in Canyonlands National Park.

I’ll add, write your own letter if you can. Form letters like this don’t get counted as a separate statement and get lumped together. Greater impact to use your own voice. But do speak up!!

I’ll add, write your own letter if you can. Form letters like this don’t get counted as a separate statement and get lumped together. Greater impact to use your own voice. But do speak up!!

Second best president

Pedo Trump re: The Epstein Files "It's total bullshit." #cdnpoli

THIS!!!

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

This whole Epstein File episode has really brought home how much we’ve lost our empathy on a massive scale. There is actual evidence both documented and verified by survivors of horrific crimes. Committed by people at the highest levels. Yet not one of them has been punished.

A federal research lab formerly known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory laid off 134 employees this week.

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Amen 🙏🏼 www.instagram.com/reel/DTndTZB...

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

Interpretation internship at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument through the Northwest Youth Corps nwyouthcorps.workbrightats.com/jobs/1278887

It breaks my heart that there are women who were raised to believe that this is an ok thing to say about them

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

New listing on my Etsy store! PURPLE THE OCTOPUS! A sun catcher that will help you greet the sun with "arms wide open"! Link: alaskanime.etsy.com/listing/4456... #crafts #art #handmade #suncatcher #gift

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Bondi is a criminal who is enabling crooks and pedophiles

I totally forgot to mention that the oft-overlooked Washington volcanoes of Mt Adams/Pahto and Mt Baker/Kweq’ Smanit were also overlooked in my Etsy store :-). I’m shipping tomorrow morning, so if these sell in the next 10hrs they’ll be on the road to you by tomorrow! phaneritic.etsy.com

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

A reminder that I will be speaking in the Women in Paleoart panel on February 11!

Become our colleague! The University of Lethbridge is hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair (Professor/Associate Professor) in Remote Sensing! Only candidates who are both working and residing outside of Canada, incl. Canadian expats, are eligible to apply. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8951

Only a couple left!

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting."

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Racist, convicted felon trash. A stain on the Presidency.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

The Paleontological Research Institution invites applications from undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers for the 2026 John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program who want to visit PRI collections www.priweb.org/collections/... Deadline is March 2, 2026.

Relevant to current conversations happening in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This problem isn’t exclusive to our society, and there aren’t great solutions.

We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Who could this be? Hmm…

VOLUNTEER ON A DINOSAUR DIG: We run one of the only free dinosaur digs in the USA. We work public land and the fossils go in our public museum, forever. It's hard work, but we find some cool things. If this sounds like you, we're taking applications. Link in comms. #dinosaurs

I got the best mail from @alaskanime.bsky.social A new suncatcher I got for my office!! Excited to have rainbows on the walls. Thank you! Order yours here www.etsy.com/shop/alaskan...

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

I am calling on @icegov.bsky.social Director Todd Lyons to immediately confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorist” database. If true, you’re violating the Constitution. If not, maybe talk to your “border czar” to get your stories straight. This isn’t a game–it’s the Constitution.