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Reaching Europa 18x24 in, Oil, 2015 An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth. NASA Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9V... Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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me and who

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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#astro Orion Nebula my yard vs. Hubble. We take the loss but kind of amazing to see the same thing…

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It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

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The Administration's actions against Sen. Padilla are egregious and part of their continuing assault against any form of checks and balances. There is no sugarcoating this: These are dark times for our democracy. I stand in solidarity with my friend & colleague @padilla.senate.gov.

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Finally made it to the @mnhn.fr! The vertebrate skeleton is just so stunning in all its variety, this place showcases it like no other.

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One of mine is indisposed at the moment.

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Photoshopping @lastweektonight.com’s John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Fossil specimens of the barnacle Balanus concavus on a scallop shell from the Miocene of Virginia. Comedian(s) are H. sapiens. Not to scale.

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Look alive Texas! These stunning jellies, called "blue button," are washing ashore near you. They float on the ocean's surface like bubbles, & are extremely rare because they're normally found far from shore. But we're seeing reports form Padre Island and Corpus Christi this week! 🧪 #Texas

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the insinuation here that Levitsky’s politics might influence his scholarship has the causation exactly backwards

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#OrcaFacts: Orcas, like all dolphins, swallow their food whole. Their sharp teeth are used for ripping and tearing but are not suited for chewing. Photo by Whale Watch Western Australia #WhaleTales #OrcaActionMonth

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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

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Let's fucking go

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There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries. RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing. We will not back down.

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Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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look at this, an interesting view of the moon with the left being the far side never seen from earth and the right being the part we normally see. this was captured by galileo on its way to jupiter 🌕

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It's finally out! 200 years since the description of Eurypterus remipes, the first eurypterid named in the scientific literature, I present a summary of the history of eurypterid research and an updated taxonomy of every known species.🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1206/0003...

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Updated blog post! What do we do with old genus/species names in paleontology when they're based on scrappy fossils? I argue, that unless the names have been stabilized for a long time - like Basilosaurus and Zygorhiza - we probably should leave them alone in favor of taxonomic stability.

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The Gilded Triggerfish (Xanthichthys auromarginatus) is a common and widely distributed fish. But because it prefers deeper waters (usually below 40m) in places with a lot of current, it's rarely seen. I photographed this beautiful male in the Maldives at about 70m depth.

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Folks, if you're an iNaturalist user and especially if you are a monetary donor, please comment on their post and ask them to stop partnering with Google AI. It'll devalue and alienate the very scientists that have made the site great. They should be paying experts instead.

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I made a Godzilla play set

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There is no tomorrow for Moa kind. In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a world we largely lost not even 1000 years ago.

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I can"t believe i went from being in my 20's during Trump's intial rise to being solidly middle age, having weird body aches and getting grey hairs while still dealing with this shit.

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Need data to explain the disastrous proposed cuts to NASA? Here are seven charts that lay out why The White House’s FY2026 budget proposal poses a historic threat to NASA. www.planetary.org/articles/nas...

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Photoshopping @lastweektonight.com’s John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Specimen is an artificial cast of a Homo habilis skull courtesy of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Model by Hannah Teush. Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

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Photoshopping @lastweektonight.com’s John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Fossil specimen of the ghost crab, Ocytode quadrata, from the Pleistocene Anastasia Formation of Brevard County, FL (PRI 43014). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

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That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants. Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.

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as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

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Why, hello there! Mars Odyssey spots Arsia Mons through pre-dawn clouds 🧪🔭 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-ma...

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Some days, the sand dollars you find on the #beach are just more intact than other days. So... #art! #marinelife #smallwonders #nature #zen #outside #upperleftusa #PNW #OregonCoast #photography #abstract #hiking #ocean

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#TidesOutTuesday #RockinRock #JuneSea #Rock Rocks, arches, tide pools, cliffs, birds and the ocean from the Point Buchon Trail in Montana De Oro State Park, California. #EastCoastKin #Scape #LandscapePhotographer

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Belated Pelican Eel study for last week's #SundayFishSketch on the bioluminescent theme. I was gonna skip this bc of timing things, then found out about these guys! Had to make a study, which grew into this piece 🐡 #art #SciArt #nature #wildlife #fish #artists #illustration #deepsea #creatures

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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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