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The disrespect is on the part of the ignorant, childish Nazis in the White House who embarrass and injure the United States and its friends every day. #Zelensky is correct; the US will feel this someday 😠 Fight on #Ukraine

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Happy #FossilFriday and #DontBuyFriday. Spent last week in Laguna San Ignacio en Baja California Sur. Calving grey whales are cool, but more spectacular was the abundance of modern & fossil shells! Chunk of Late Pleistocene platform just above sea level. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social #Mexico

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‼️#FossilFriday‼️ Neat burrows in ~315 million-year-old lithified mud of northern Alabama. Nearly all of the >5000 slabs with fossils from this locality (see inset photo) were collected by avocational paleontologist Ron Buta. Many of them were donated to the @almnh.bsky.social fossil collection. 👍

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Calling all Oceanography & Atmospheric Sci. professors! Let's teach our students the many & varied ways that the services that NOAA provides impacts their lives. This is a teaching & LEARNING moment to help Americans understand how federal agencies impact them directly www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

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A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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The Nature Conservancy is now using "Gulf of America". Just so you know. www.nature.org/en-us/about-...

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I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

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#FossilFriday & I suppose I must do a vertebrate sometime. So here is Euzaphleges longurio, a mackerel-type beast from the late Miocene of California. Paleo-saba? #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/7v6AoW

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Ooooh well played.

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It's Valentine's Day, which means it's time for me to remind you that I wrote this book for weirdos like us. www.amazon.com/Courting-Gre...

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#FossilFriday Any day is a good day for trilobites. Here is Zlichovaspis from the Late Devonian of Morocco. Beautiful animal. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/7tXLzx

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They are unbelievable. But I am also disgusted by the extent to which these wishes are being complied with. "Just following orders"? www.space.com/the-universe...

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"The scientific community must unite in speaking out against this betrayal of a partnership that has enabled American innovation and progress." Killing the goose. Golden eggs are not produced by rhetoric, or ideologies, or prayer. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Late for Darwin's big day, but a new paper adding to his great theory, addressing the persistence of ecological systems on long timescales. "Selection, evolution and persistence of paleoecological systems" www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear... #evolution #paleontology #selection

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CEO of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) testifying to Congress last week. I'm very grateful to the organizational leaders who have been standing up and speaking out, and proud to be a member of this organization. #aaas @aaas.bsky.social youtu.be/flNMjEzkjaw?...

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US Blueskiers

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#FossilFriday echinoderm! This is an array of spines from the sea urchin Tylocidaris bermudezi from the Eocene of Cuba. Beautiful #Caribbean fossil. Urchins often use spines for protection, defense, stability. Be an urchin! #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/jBanwm

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We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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#fossilfriday Two fossil earbones: a late Miocene baleen whale (Balaenopteridae, Purisima Formation, California) and an Oligocene dolphin (Simocetidae, Pysht Formation, Washington). These are tympanic bullae, highly modified for hearing underwater.

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#FossilFriday Everyone's favorite tristichopterid sarcopterygian, Eusthenopteron! At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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Sayer, C.A., Fernando, E., Jimenez, R.R. et al. One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction. Nature 638, 138–145 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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So much talk in America the past 5 years about de-colonization, etc. Well, this is colonization. This is imperialism. This is historic injustice.

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Pissing away the United States. Why do they hate this country so much, these so-called patriots? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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After midnight in Kyiv. Calm. A short reminder that I will have a day off tomorrow - #TuesdayOff Meanwhile, you can read my letters/ support my work to show that this Ukrainian woman is doing something right. Photo: Grygoriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian girl, 1908-1910

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Ah, tariffs.

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Happy #BivalveDay! What are valves? They are two halves of the shell, joined by a thin springy protein ligament. The bivalve shell is the same ancestral structure as a snail or a nautilus’s shell, but EITHER the growth field duplicated, or bifurcated, in the direct ancestor to give rise to bivalves

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A Permian scene at NMNH for #FossilFriday.

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#FossilFriday !!! Let go of your troubles and worries and appreciate this special little fossil. Brachiopod in a core sample, tangential cross section, the shell is unfilled, and the lophophore supports (spiralia) are recrystallized. Middle Devonian, Keg River Formation, Alberta, Canada

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Stumbled across my favourite fossil, Thylacosmilus atrox, while looking though the collections at the lovely, newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum. I maintain that this animal is the best (stem) marsupial ever! Also arguably the best sabre-toothed animal ever…

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@aclu.org how do we get federal agencies, e.g. the National Science Foundation, who have frozen grants and are reviewing in compliance w/ White House to instead comply with federal law and congressional mandates?

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Happy #FossilFriday Check out this sample dominated by cool brachiopods from the Ordovician Bellevue Formation. Also found a neat little thing which I am not sure of yet. Any guesses? #Bellevue #ordovician #brachiopod

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Odesa. russians launched missile strikes on its historic center this evening, injuring at least two people and damaging the five-star Bristol Hotel. Friday evening in Ukraine.

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If you want to find out how much NSF money goes to your state, check out these really handy fact sheets: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... -- excellent fodder for op eds in your local paper or to bring to your university administration.

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#FossilFriday The Cretaceous Brazilian coelacanth Mawsonia at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum

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We have catacombs! I work in catacpombe! Nice article. www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/ar...

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#FossilFriday, and it seems to be a month for molluscs. This is the ammonite Parahoplitoides cerrosensis from the Late Cretaceous of Shasta Co., California. Fossils remind us of the impermanence of all things, even dictators and oligarchs. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/Yx4eNr

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Do I know any epidemiologists who have a little extra time for a mini-collab? hit me up! 🐾👣💉🧪🌎

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Might be a good idea to tune in. science.house.gov/2025/2/the-s...

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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough... Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour... #ESA www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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A still functioning branch.of the US government. www.reuters.com/legal/non-pr...

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