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I just found out that one of my former interns also lost their job last week. She is a perfect example of the kind of person you want doing science for our country, and now her work has been tossed to the side, like so many others - it’s sickening. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

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Pikes Peak has shaken off the clouds that dropped 2 inches of snow on us while we slept.

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Happy #FossilFriday! Today, we have a size chart of Middle Jurassic British Pterosaurs, which I made as an anatomical reference. Featured are Ceoptera, Dearc, Klobiodon (restored based on Rhamphorhynchus) and a basal pterodactyloid known from footprints. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaurs

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It's #FossilFriday, lets celebrate with the fantastic facades of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, UK.

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Here’s my irrational fear for the week. When the alien invaders come, they won’t look like the ones in ID4 or Predator. They’ll look like something from the Muppet Show and no one will take the threat seriously until it’s too late.

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Exciting opportunity to oversee, the nation's most dynamic state geological survey. Utah's beloved State Geologist is stepping down, so here is your chance to direct the Utah Geological Survey. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/utah... We need the very best to oversee this exceptional organization.

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Any reposts of my new book to help me try and reach this goal would be faaaaaab 💖💪

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#OTD in 1942, the Clemson-class destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Darwin, Australia. A nearby seaman in the British Merchant Service reported witnessing a U.S. sailor perform one of the bravest acts that he had seen or read in all his life.

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2 solitary degrees on the Fahrenheit thermometer this morning. That’s probably just moisture frozen to the branches, but my lungs think it might be the air itself.

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Hoarfrost and light snow along the Front Range this morning with the temperature stuck in the single digits. But the sun is out now and the electric meter is spinning backwards despite the cold.

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Except, there IS NO CRISIS — other than chaos created by Trump and a bunch of Grumpy MAGA people disappointed in their own lives. (I'm sympathetic to their disappointment.) Trump's power grab is NOT "necessary" for the Republic but will destroy it (as he has destroyed his businesses).

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I have been writing a bunch of glowing graduate school letters for Madi Syrett-Watkins. She will be a star; local girl, kicks butt! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3c35... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @andrewtracks.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @dinochick.bsky.social @whydinosaurs.bsky.social

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Our neighborhood sculpture in the morning hoarfrost. It’s 15 degrees F and I should be inside sipping coffee and getting ready for church.

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“I like used bookstores more than new ones, because there’s just something about all the old books that feels more comforting and peaceful to me. I do have a big collection of books at home, and I actually had to get help from somebody a few years ago to organize it. ~ Paul Giamatti #BookSky

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Lichen don’t need much water or sun. Two things alive, a mutualistic relationship as the biologists say. Both benefit and thrive. A peaceful way to bring beauty into the world. What keeps them together? Simple biology, natural selection, or something more? I think it’s love.

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I do believe Pikes Peak is up to something. Holding the storms at bay is hard work for any mountain.

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Look at all that investment in America

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A single light atop Pikes Peak on a lonely and cold February night.

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Don Graves, one of 18 from his Marine company that survived the Battle of Iwo Jima, will turn 100 on May 3. Graves spoke about his experience ahead of the 80th anniversary of the battle.

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In other news, HYDRA has taken over SHIELD.

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Some sad paleo news today: Dave Gillette, who named "Seismosaurus" (Diplodocus) hallorum, has passed away. Dave was an incredibly kind & generous individual, and he had a great impact on sauropod & Morrison Formation research. Dave, you will be greatly missed. 🦕😢

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I have a double major in Economics and Geology. People have often asked why I wanted to study such seemingly unrelated topics. This is an example of why. It's all connected, deep time to current events. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/74f3...

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If you see this, post a gif from one of your comfort shows.

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In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies and will forever be my hero.

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Textures and patterns. A skiff of afternoon snow on my neighbor’s roof.

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Bankers are apparently not happy with Musk and his strategy at X. But he’s bringing the same approach to the US government. Businessmen are the wrong people to be in government - especially startup freaks like Musk. www.news10.com/news/technol...

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Christian nationalism isn’t a Black problem. It isn’t a Muslin problem. It’s not an Atheist problem, Jewish problem, or immigrant problem. White Christian nationalism is a white-Christians-living-in-America-who-care-about-the-teachings-of-Jesus, problem. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-jesu...

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#FossilFriday From last year. The isotope maps developed for this work will undoubtedly be used to track additional animals in the future. “It’s just a tour-de-force of data,” @widga.bsky.social said. arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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A peaceful winter’s evening with Pikes Peak doing his volcano imitation.

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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Pikes Peak wrapped himself in clouds this morning and has not been seen since.

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I have NEVER had 10k followers on any platform! As a thank you, I’m making this eBook free until Wednesday. Just enter promo code: bluesky10k and it’s yours to download. 🥰 #photography

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Some days the trains don't run, so it's up to the lonely rails alone to carry the promises of speed, distance, and somewhere over the horizon adventure.

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Colorado Springs on a warm Winter morning

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🚨 Big plesiosaur news 🚨 Our paper is out. We describe pigment cells and scales in a Jurassic plesiosaur. Small scales are found at the limbs which enforced them. Body and tail are scale-less. Many thanks to lead-author Miguel Marx & the team. www.cell.com/current-biol... #Science #News #Nature 1/3

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2 weeks; More than 30 lawsuits so far...

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UPDATE | Donald Trump said Tuesday he isn’t ruling out deploying U.S. troops to support reconstruction of Gaza and that he envisions "long-term" U.S. ownership of a redevelopment of the territory.

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Relationship goals

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