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Paleontologist, geologist, ecologist, educator. Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago. Author of EXPLORERS OF DEEP TIME. Also American Flyer trains and the Little Engine that Could.
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My sign is ready #NoKingsDay

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 9 days ago • 1697 comments

A scientific conference in Chicago that was going to be held next month, is being cancelled because of foreign travel issues. www.icdd.com/xafs19/

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

What is going on? This is insane. Trump just shared a completely unhinged conspiracy theory claiming President Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robot clone.

submitted 13 days ago • 366 comments

Tragic.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨 We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction! www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Very exciting. I worked on many of these fossils while in graduate school and actually gave a GSA talk in 1981 that anticipated some of the results. Never published, to my regret.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

My co-authors did almost all of the hard work! Wish this was more optimistic. Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology (They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies) Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

A MUST READ: time.com/7285045/resi... This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

A betrayal of everything America stands for. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

submitted 64 days ago • 121 comments

This saddens and angers me. I have been a GRFP panelist. Even appplicants who are not receiving a fellowship in the usual year are amazing young scientists. To think that many of those most deserving will be left out is outrageous.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, he should have seen it coming. But regret now does not change his responsibility for it (how about you, Mitch?) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️ In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Cover from the Geology of New York, 1842. When books were huge and gorgeous.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚 Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop! More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump tariffs hit Antarctic islands inhabited by zero humans and many penguins: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 73 days ago • 60 comments