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The thowing citizen toddler cancer patients into other countries is also a eugenics story.

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Part of the western settler-colonialist Senators’ attack on John Wesley Powell’s administration of USGS & oversight of the western lands consisted of sensationalist press accounts of financial support Powell gave to Othniel Marsh to study “toothed bird” fossils. ‘Twas ever thus.

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Existing narratives of "STEM vs. Humanities" really don't deal well with Peter Thiel and company having humanities degrees.

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Have to hand it to Assyrian kings, depicting yourself as bigger in reliefs still manages to trick conspiracy people in modernity into thinking you’re a giant superhuman.

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If the govt can expel a U.S. citizen who is a toddler and who has cancer, they can do this to you and everyone you care about.

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Still liking "while the authors are mathematically correct" on what is fundamentally a mathematical issue. 🙃

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The daily experience of being in academia is surreal. I have spent years training scientists who now work at places like CDC because we all cared about keeping the public healthy and now they’re just throwing years, decades, of thousands of people’s effort and knowledge (a priceless treasure) away

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Now featuring belemnites and Baculites!

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Trumpism fulfilled.

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It's Fieldwork Friday! Today's photo is from South Africa in spring 2007.

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In Temblor's latest, @scrippsocean.bsky.social scientists discuss last week's M5.2 Julian earthquake. It caused little damage, but reminds residents in earthquake country to be prepared! Also, don't miss the fantastic animation of simulated ground motions. temblor.net/earthquake-i...

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We may have added a "little" something to our Hall of Giants. A cast of the Yale Deinonychus antirrhopus YPM 5205, getting some exercise. Holotype was found in the Cloverly Formation of Montana by the late, great Dr. John Ostrom & crew. #paleontology #dinosaurs

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It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

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NSF Funding supports PEOPLE - our two terminated grants supported 6 postdocs, two program managers directly…and fiscal officers, HR folks, contracts experts indirectly…plus multiple communities who we have to scramble to support continuing work - dozens of people all told, left in the cold

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Someone has taken control of the NOAA feed. And that person is the antithesis of everything NOAA has stood for. "Waiting to be scooped up and processed...." "Those bison are waiting to be slaughtered and processed..." "Same for those passenger pigeons."

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So... the research.gov rumor?

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A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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the @aclu system says these citizen children are 2, 4, and 7 — and that one has metastatic disease and was removed without her medications or even a signout from her treating physicians if this isn’t a crime that people go to jail for, nothing is

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Again. They deported an American child with cancer AGAIN.

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THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

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This is the problem with verified accounts (it is in the old Bluesky form) under an authoritarian regime. We will see more of this.

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I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

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Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.

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The U.S. Census Bureau has now reached a tipping point. Its staffing is so low that it's canceling future waves of longstanding surveys such as the Census of Governments. It's inevitable that other surveys are next. Call your reps to preserve funding for the Bureau! www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Notably, those Latin American countries that turned into dictatorships had Constitutions modeled on the US Constitution.

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post science before start of last day mini-conference workshop thing discover NSF obliterated and the present regime arresting judges they don't like Why bother?

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I will never not find this funny. #FireScarFriday 🔥

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This is very, very, very bad

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We’re at the arresting judges stage of fascism.

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NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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A pair of Diplocaulus magnicornis swimming in a flooded Early Permian forest alongside a bunch of other animals like a small Eryops larvae Diplocaulus magnicornis was a lepospondyl (which is a weird, likely polyphyletic group) that is famous for its weird boomerang shaped head.

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A fun and unexpected point: The Andean mountain belt is abou5 1.7x the volume of the Himalayan mountain belt. Both initiate at about ~60 Ma (more or less), but the Andes have ended up about 2x the width and much more massive than the Himalaya due to differences in erosion rates.

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“Privately funded services are cheaper” Yeah because they have no obligation to ensure ongoing operations, access even for “expensive” cases, etc. Cheaper because it does less and fails suddenly.

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I've got a lot to say about the deep-sea mining executive order. I'll be rolling it out in digestible chunks throughout the day, starting with this quick primer: Understanding the Executive Order on Deep-sea Mining and Critical Minerals: Part 1, what are we talking about?

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Yup. This was literally me. Funded by Nautilus Minerals to do baseline environmental impact assessment for a hydrothermal vent mine. Went in cautiously optimistic. Came out concluding there's no feasible path forward for mining a hydrothermal vent at any scale.

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It's wild that all my colleagues who are funded by a deep sea mining company to research the topic ultimately conclude that we shouldn't mine the deep sea. We should stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

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A question for #AcademicChatter - are there any examples of universities that operate as worker co-ops? Either historical or current examples, or university-adjacent institutions?

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hello from Vienna, which I found out tonight has a fast food place called "Hab's Burgers"

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Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion. Research led by Tim Thompson, science writing by Alex Moss and @bbcvic.bsky.social 🏺🧪 #archaeology #multispecies

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