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Chicago area Paleontologist 🦖; I dabble with dinosaurs 🦕 and morphometrics. Science Educator. Mostly teach Intro Geology 🪨. Too much baseball ⚾️sometimes. Go Cubs 🐻! Go Ducks 🦆! Go Hoosiers! He/Him. Opinions are my own
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Hold the frack up. In 2013, the Tea Party & the GOP shut down the government to protest the Affordable Care Act and get it defunded. That was literally the will of the President and thus the people following this logic. Beating a dead horse, but the continued double standard is infuriating.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

submitted 22 hours ago • 377 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that American science is being destroyed before our eyes.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

@science.org just published this article about the Paleontological Research Institution and its importance in this time of financial crisis for the institution. Please share widely as donations in any amount can make a real difference in the short-medium term. ⚒️🧪🦑 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Judge schools him in Biology. And, as pointed out in the thread, if he admits the biology part is wrong, whole EO collapses… he can’t do that so he doubles down on lies.

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Trump's January executive order about "radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling" threatens to pull funding from schools teaching "discriminatory equity ideology." Included in the definition of that ideology -- a specific ban on claiming that objectivity and neutrality are racist or sexist.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Remember folks... there ARE ways the Democrats in the minority can grind Trump's admin to a halt. This lesson courtesy of Mitch McConnell.... and many of the current Senators were THERE when he did it all. Anyone paying attention?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats need to act with the same urgency they email us for money. They need to get corporate and dark money out of the primary process.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Great friggin 🧵 here and some major ethical points to consider.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Former congressman and current Palantir exec Gallagher acknowledges that the TikTok ban bill was only revived because of a desire to suppress anti-genocide content critical of Israel. t.co/dezgPPnRTc

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So he welched on the promise…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This scares the hell out of me. We can’t just “put it back” (assuming we win any elections); you really think the MAGA GOP’s left will play nice and let us fund? Also: loss of institutional knowledge from career folks.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Last time, the damage was bad, but reversible. This time I fear the damage will be permanent. Like how could you rebuild from this? GOP will never allow money for all the slashed funds, depts, & jobs. If we ever have a free election again.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Today I get to utter the HAPPIEST phrase in the English Language: PITCHERS & CATCHERS REPORT! Happy #SpringTraining to all who celebrate!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

For the Cheap Seats: I AM NOT INDOCTRINATING YOUR KIDS!! I can’t even get them to read the syllabus. They are getting out in the world and making their own decisions.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

submitted 18 days ago • 291 comments

Chicago's "know your rights" campaign is working and keeping more people out of detention than otherwise. These people can be opposed, can be fought, and can be stopped. So we have to oppose, fight, and stop them. newrepublic.com/post/190813/...

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

This is kind of a big deal for #ClimateAction.

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BREAKING: Illinois is currently shut out of Medicaid. Gov. JB Pritzker’s office reports that the Trump funding freeze has shut the state out of the federal health care program. Medicaid covers nearly 4 million people in Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

🌋🌊 "There is an opportunity to work with scientists to help spread the right information alongside promotion for future stories about such disasters." Great short-read, debunking the scientific premise of the Netflix drama, "La Palma". #geoscience #SciComm 🧪 theconversation.com/netflixs-la-...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Just say no to GenAI like ChatGPT

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is a BIG DEAL: both the speed w/ which the reversal came & the implications of the pushback. Remember, NONE of the Tuskegee pilots found employment in commercial aviation after they returned to civilian life. That exclusion only changed as a result of legal action.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

They’re coming after higher ed on all fronts: research, DEI, Tenure, and now scholarships.

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