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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 9h

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 19h

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography

Diplodocoidea is a diverse clade of sauropod dinosaurs that comprises three major lineages: Diplodocidae, Dicraeosauridae and Rebbachisauridae, with the former two united as Flagellicaudata. There ...

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 1d

Debbie Brockman is a journalist for WGN, Chicago's most iconic television news station.

Here she is being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed & detained by masked ICE agents in broad daylight.

ICE rammed into her vehicle, dragged her out & whisked her away. Whereabouts unknown.

This is fascism.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts

Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.

www.nature.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis - Atterholt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis

In birds, the neural canal houses a variety of anatomical structures including the spinal cord, meninges, spinal vasculature, and respiratory diverticula. Among these, paramedullary diverticula and t....

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 1d

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

A friendly reminder about the current global situation

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

Y las madres y abuelas de Plaza de mayo nada. Ex premios

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval - Lomax - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval

Ichthyosaurian faunas before and after the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic are known from numerous, often complete fossils. The two faunas are very different taxonomically, with only one of....

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 1d

#FossilFriday Gertrude Lilian Elles was born on 8 October 1872. She was a field geologist, stratigrapher & palaeontologist. In 1919 she won the Murchison Medal & became one of the first female Fellows of the Geological Society.
#FeministFriday #WomenInSTEM
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/f...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

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New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone (AZ) is a key global marker of the Carnian stage in the Late Triassic. In the Candelária Sequence of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), it splits into the lower Hyperodap...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America ⚒️🧪🦕

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Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America | Geology of the Intermountain We...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

We have no choice but to Stan

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 3d

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A painting of a bird beside the text "I appear to have overestimated the fuck out of your intelligence"

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 2d

52. I feel bad, really bad

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) by @tetzoo.bsky.social
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Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) — Tetrapod Zoology

Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

Extracción perfecta 😍🧪⚒️🦕

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 3d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

This beauty (probably the femur of a baby sauropod) 🦕
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWC4...

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 3d

welp, you get what you ask for. joking with coworkers that it's going to be mofs, and i'm really a med chem type so will i be able to do this and lol here it is. the Nobel Prize for chemistry for 2025 goes to the development of metal-organic frameworks.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 3d

Extinct Pleistocene carnivores were diurnal and had high metabolic rates:
"Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology

Results of logistic regression analyses associating traits with extinction outcomes.

Violin plots comparing the basal metabolic rate and threat status of living species.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers from CONICET's Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Vertebrate Evolution found a ‘carnivorous dinosaur egg’ at a site in Río Negro and showed it during the expedition's live stream.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0_...

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 3d

The Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction and Upper Paleolithic cultur... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction and Upper Paleolithic cultural changes: A hypothesis for bioenergetic-driven human adaptations

The Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction (LQME) represents one of the most significant ecological transformations of the Pleistocene, occurring betwe…

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 4d

Ancient DNA from 300,000-year-old horses communities.springernature.com/posts/ancien...

Ancient DNA from 300,000-year-old horses

By combining archaeology, ancient DNA, and bioinformatics, researchers reconstructed 300,000-year-old horse mitochondrial genomes, uncovering a previously unknown branch at the base of all living hors...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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