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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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I have a Fulbright student from Norway scheduled to come in August ... Has already made all of her plans for her stay, and now we are no longer sure what will happen. Heartbreaking, and severely damaging and wasteful for US science.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My sign is ready #NoKingsDay

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 1695 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 13 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 17 days ago • 366 comments

Tragic.

submitted 20 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...

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submitted 23 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 71 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 28 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 30 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 31 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 35 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 35 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 36 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 38 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 56 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 68 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 71 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 72 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 75 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments