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Dad, paleontologist (Idaho dinosaurs and so many other dinosaurs, taphonomy, Cambrian Explosion, Paris Biota), professor, Star Trek nerd, FATM fan, lover of all living and formerly living things, proponent of scientific study of UAP. Opinions are my own
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Made this image for a final exam today

Canada we don’t deserve you as a neighbor. Thank you. 😭🙏🏼🇨🇦

Spent the day quarrying the Earliest Triassic Paris Biota collecting samples for an upcoming museum exhibit in Wyoming. Found ammonoids, other mollusks, and I think a thylacocephalan.

Now featuring belemnites and Baculites!

@tweetisaurus.bsky.social very cool and been waiting on this!!!

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

FANTASTIC. “As part of his annual checkup, Donald Trump had a colonoscopy. The colonoscopy revealed the president had a polyp in his colon. It is currently the only thing in the entire White House that is benign.” - as read by Katherine Parkinson @hignfy.bsky.social

Insider tip from Yale Univ. Press (my publisher): 50% off all physical books in May! Get yours (well, get mine) now! yalebooks.yale.edu/2025-may-sale/

Thanks to Lue Elizondo for coming to my CEI campus and sharing his advocacy for the UAP enigma.

Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone

Pope Francis on migrants and immigrants: The "act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and woman...

Larry David has decided to write about that time Hitler invited him for dinner. A giant "fuck you" to the Bill Maher monologue about his dinner with Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

paleozoic menagerie #paleoart #prehistoric #art #aquatic

This is who we are now?!

www.thefarside.com/2025/04/22/0

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

In Pope Francis’s last public address, he preached care of the marginalized, the vulnerable, and migrants, saying: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves.” May we heed his wish.

#FossilFriday The pterosaur Muzquizopteryx at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Mexico

@bsky.app why is it the more I block them the more I see weird hyper sexual furry anime art posts??? All my art likes are simple paleo art. What sort of hell spawn algorithm is this???

Sorry I missed your call, the frogs had my phone again.

Two small ornithischians: the super long-tailed (probably) Leaellynasaura amicagraphica from Eatly Cretaceous Australia and the well known Hypsilophodon foxii from Early Cretaceous Europe #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

I’m advocating for Abrego Garcia

Yaaaas AOC!! 👏

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

What the hell??????

Wish I could have gone. We need this.

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?” I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

#NationalUnicornDay 'I'm Nobody' Kulindadromeus and Unicorn (With Emily Dickinson) Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.

Everyone cool your jets just a bit. There isn't going to be some Game of Thrones-Dire Wolves the Size of Horses running around. www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Palestinian Sunbird

Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

Just haunting (given he was killed at his USGS post when the mountain erupted a month and a half later). He was 30 (like me) and a graduate of my alma mater (UIUC). The only time I've visited the site I wept uncontrollably on Johnston Ridge, I found it so much more moving than I realized.

Congratulations to Daniel Dunfee in our lab who did an awesome job today defending his Ohio University master's thesis on the ontogeny of the braincase & endocast in the small ornithopod dinosaur Dryosaurus based on specimens collected from Dinosaur Natl. Monument at the Carnegie MNH. #FossilFriday

Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

I’m a rather inconsequential scientist with little funding or publications but this helps me keep going.