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Paleontologist, Graptolite Geek, R Programmer, creator of paleotree, Tabletop Roleplaying Game Nerd, Catcher of Pokémon, faculty senator. All comments are my trash opinion alone.
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Crinoid and brachiopod biodiversity through time, you got your mid Paleozoic plateau, your Permo Triassic dip, and your rise to the recent following the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
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This comes after the Senate parliamentarian ruled his original plan, which targeted up to 3.3 million acres, couldn’t be included. So now he’s tweaking the numbers and trying again. Same scheme, just smaller print. They’re still coming for your public lands. Keep watching and please, keep fighting.
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Woah!
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A friend mailed me this book just because of its one mention of graptolites 😂
(I quite enjoyed the Chicago World’s Fair bits)
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Someone told me recently that it’s increasingly like being forced to watch someone dismembers and dissects your friends … just for the sake of making us feel helpless anguish
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What Bambach paper do you think will be most cited over the next ten, twenty, hundred years? Seafood through time? Ecospace Utilization?
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Is it the clear-winged grasshopper, Camnula pellucida?
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Yes, and guess what many of those resulted in…
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Its important to note that the inability of many people not to understand the magnitude of geologic time when looking at, say, a chart encompassing most of the Phanerozoic, is an ongoing problem in science communication. Toliet paper rolls and Lord of the Rings metaphors are sometimes necessary.
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The article, and the chart, is about the history of global temperature over the Phanerozoic, the result of decades of work by paleoclimatologists and geochemists. Many of the changes you see are much more gradual than the one we have experienced more recently.
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Moist salad is just seaweed!
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One can only be jelly of the jellyfish in crowd 😆