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Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

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James used to post believable bait, SMH. "Nuclear war is winnable!" "Air cavalry is good!" "Taylor Swift will win the defense of Taiwan!" Oh how the mighty have fallen that he's reduced to fhis

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amazing q&a with paul krugman

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Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

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The AMNH Education department is seeking a full-time Manager, Science Research Mentoring Program. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

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New Data Note in @historicalbiology.bsky.social featuring a curated morphological matrix of 52 lucinid + 58 shell characters + notes. Supports phylogenetics & host–symbiont systems. 📂 Data: @morphobank.bsky.social Project P4896 dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4896 🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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And here it is: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Such a @basantakhakurel.bsky.social thing to promise something “in the coming weeks” and then turn around and have it done like the next day #evol2025

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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

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After getting blocked the first time, Sen. Mike Lee is revising his land grab plan and trying to sneak it back into the “Big 💩 Bill.” The new proposal would force the sale of up to 1.2 million acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Hero shit

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“The Trump administration has privately demanded that the University of Virginia oust its president to help resolve a Justice Department investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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Even if MAGA isn’t in power 3+ years from now,there is almost no way we’ll ever get back anything like NSF. The country will be so gutted and the necessary rebuild so extensive and expensive that it just won’t be a priority. And after a generation, it will be forgotten.

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The Division of Biology at Kansas State University is seeking a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor (title may vary based on degree and credentials) to teach undergraduate classes beginning August 2025. This is a non-tenure-track position. careers.k-state.edu/jobs/teachin...

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Sapphos Environmental, Inc., an environmental consulting company located in Pasadena, California, is seeking a Paleontological Resources Specialist. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

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The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...

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A great loss to paleontology. Bambach‘s work was in many ways foundational.

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This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 🎢⚛️🧪

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"All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again & again–finally turning into an expectation–then theories are overturned." - Stephen Jay Gould

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Haven't thought about it in a while but conulariids (i.e., ice cream cone-shaped cnidarians in the fossil record) are thought to have produced pearls in their calcium phosphate "shells" the same way molluscs produce them today and I think that's beautiful

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We’re excited to hear from @spissatella.bsky.social later today! 🤩

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💯 My home institution tends to have very bimodal undergrads as a function of their college preparedness. Top mode has good grades, good post-college job placement. The ones who move into the top mode from the bottom? Genuinely love what they do and therefore work really hard to keep doing it.

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www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pangolin

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Joe Rogan, who is an idiot, used the chart below to try and ~rebut~ Bernie Sanders on climate change because, look! Chart go down!

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I'm so excited to share my latest paper out now! How did the ancestors of mammals make the switch from sprawling to upright, taking over the world in the process? Spoiler alert; it's complicated! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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"... a politics without field biology, or a political platform in which human biological requirements form but one plank, is a vision of the gates of Hell." -- Barry Lopez, "The Naturalist." (orionmagazine.org/article/the-...). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

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Thrill of discovery in science

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@basantakhakurel.bsky.social Doing such a great talk, clearly explaining his convarion model for morphological characters and its performance relative to Mk Model. Preprint coming soon!

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RT. Fully funded PhD position in my lab to investigate the origin, composition and function of Ambulacrarian ossicles.

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Go check out @jacejostles.bsky.social 's very pretty poster this evening about the science behind guppy magic and science communication. Spot I1 #evol2025

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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

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Come see this talk (by my student) on Monday in Parthenon 2! #Evol2025

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Oh hell yeah

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This is a geology/core collections position, but may be of interest here. The New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education is seeking candidates for a Museum Scientist 1 position at the New York State Museum (Albany, NY). www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

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Slime mold time, Maple Grove

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I wrote on Thursday about Musk’s (and Trump’s) effort to use his power to reject reality. This is a much more explicit example. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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