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Day 48 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens, not to scale) reflecting on #nokingsday with a Tyrannosaurus rex skull #savePRI #Lastweektonight #JohnOliver #MuseumoftheEarth

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For, um, absolutely no reason at all, let’s do a thread about the biggest scandal in the history of mining and the reason that Canada regulates professional geology and protects investors in mineral projects.

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Happy #molluskMonday! A display from our new exhibit at the Museum of the Earth in #Ithaca. This case is meant to show how diverse marine #snails are, with predatory species on this side, and other ecologies on the other. 82 snails in this case, >500 mollusc specimens on exhibit #Invertebrates 🦑🐌

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

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Nautilus from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 390 #visioningcoralsea #MarineLife

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Day 38 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John (H. sapiens) is at the aperture of Caviturritella alumensis(PRI41858), where he has reported the hollow newel to be quite a hole. #SavePRI 🦑⚒️

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The Milwaukee Public Museum seeks a postdoctoral fellow in Invertebrate Paleontology to assist with an NSF-funded project on W. Atlantic Mollusks. The position is dependent upon continued NSF support and will have a duration of two years. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7...

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National Snail Day is also a good time for some shell-f promotion, here is a thread of some snail papers of mine from last year where we studied snail macroevolution, snails as climate archives, and snail shells that don't have a central column #nationalsnailday journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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how can anyone claim The Bear is the best depiction of working at a restaurant when the Barratie Arc of One Piece is right there

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🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

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Melanterite stalactite, from the 10th level of the Trepça mine in Kosovo. Amazing visit yesterday.

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Day30 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John (H. sapiens) wound up in an issue of PRI's Journal- the Bulletins of American Paleontology by Katherine Palmer w/ Architectonica alveatum #savePRI

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Day 29 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Perhaps one fossil but many Johns Oliver (H. sapiens)? Fossil is the bryozoan Bathosella, NHMUK BZ7736 #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth #Mr.MoreThanOneJohnOliver

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I wrote on Twitter in 2018 that I thought I'd reproduce here, as it seems more relevant than ever. When I wrote it, it was about academia, but I've been thinking about it recently and how it applies more broadly than I first imagined. 🧵

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Day 27 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) with the largest ever snail species Campanile giganteum that is part of our currently-being-installed mollusk exhibit #savePRI ⚒️🦑🐌

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Did flood basalt weathering draw down significant amounts of CO2 in the Mesozoic? We think not so much: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The PNW states use future subduction quake/tsunami scenarios to assess risk to the coast. The most-used scenario today involves a hypothetical massive splay fault extending all the way north to south. With new seismic reflection data, we have shown that the 'megasplay' is mostly non-existent. 1/4

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Day26 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution For #fossilfriday John is visiting PRI's Museum of the Earth's Rock of Ages mural by Barbara Page. 544 panels each represent 1 million years of history #savepri

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Any Democrat who doesn't support this needs to be fired out of a cannon

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For the non-Canadians, graduate funding in Canada is really different and complex, so what follows is all "Typically". Students pay tuition back to the institution, waivers are not a thing. TA positions only pay a couple thousand, and again, no waivers. Departments often have a 'minimum stipend'...

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🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Photoshopping John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Fossil specimen is a gastropod, Struthioptera camachoi, from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctica (PRI 60021). Comedian is H. sapiens.

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Happy Birthday to Mary Anning born 21st May 1799 🎈🦕

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Day 23 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John has found his way through a naticid snail drill hole in the subfossil clam Mulinia modesta. Comedian is H. sapiens (very not to scale) #savePRI 🦑

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Photoshopping John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Specimen is a portion of a stem of a modern tree fern (probably Cyatheaceae or Dicksoniaceae). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

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Part 17 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #punk

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U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat

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NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

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Day22 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Now that he's received a Helicoprion plush, I hope he imagines about how trippy tooth whorl fossils are Helicoprion(USNM PAL494391), John is H. sapiens #savePRI

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The animation you didn’t know you needed is finally here! 🎈 Now you can explain to students how a regime shift occurs in system behavior. This picture is worth >1k words plus a lot of numbers. From @knmi.nl

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Day 19 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Perhaps John would be comfortable with other stars? Brittle stars Ophiopinna elegans (PRI 76732) and H. sapiens (not to scale) #FossilFriday #savePRI ⚒️🧪

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#FossilFriday‼️ Cephalopod time! 😀 Internal molds of nautiloid air chambers exposed in a limestone in central Alabama. Nautiloids can be abundant in some Paleocene rocks in the state. Specimen @almnh.bsky.social collection. Discovered by Research Associate Prescott Atkinson. #paleontology #fossil

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