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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you!

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 21h

"Guest appearance from Measles" - seriously?! Let's hope nobody is vaccinated.

Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 23h

What a sweetie! Has she been weaned yet, or is it still too early?

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I used Glyptal throughout."

Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 1d

"It's good exposure though".

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 1d

Do not, do *not* tell JD Vance about your couch.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 1d

Missing for a *month*?! Oh my gosh, I'd have been out of my mind with worry. I'm so glad he's home - for you and him both!

Oh, and Boris thinks I don't need my laptop, either. 🙄

A black kitty named Boris sitting on his person's lap between his person and his person's laptop, preventing any work getting done.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited sick pic

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 2d

That poor woman - amazing composure after a shock like that. A true professional. (That rat, though ... )

a cartoon character is dressed as a king and has a belt with the letter r on it .

Alt: a cartoon rat character is dressed as a king and has a belt with the letter r on it .

media.tenor.com

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 2d

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 3d

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 3d

SVP President @stuartsumida.bsky.social speaks to Open Access Government about the importance of vertebrate paleontology and science in the United States.

www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...

The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this insightful opinion piece

www.openaccessgovernment.org

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 3d

Love it! (But now the cats are awake.) What a gorgeous pup!

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, what a gorgeous morning - and what a handsome fellow!

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 4d

This is a huge help - thank you! As the article notes, now that the harvest season is largely past, we'll see how ICE treats farm workers in the days and weeks ahead.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh, this is nice - thanks for sharing!

Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 4d

Honest question, though: I've seen a lot of posts here & elsewhere about farm owners saying that they have too few workers & are worried about losing crops. Is that all BS? (Not arguing with your point, at all, but if I'm misinformed I'd like to correct that.)

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 5d

War zone in Portland.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 5d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 5d

😢

Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 6d

Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

“It’s really a tour de force to get such high-quality data out of something so degraded and old.” https://scim.ag/3Ku8SxQ

Ancient DNA from horses slaughtered by Neanderthals sheds light on equine evolution

200,000-year-old genes are oldest ever recovered from open-air site

www.science.org

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon character with glasses and the words that boy ain 't right

Alt: a cartoon character with glasses and the words that boy ain 't right

media.tenor.com

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 8d

Buzz proudly says he's UP for #Caturday! #CatsOfBluesky

A handsome orange and white kitty named Buzz sitting proudly atop a cardboard in a room with paintings of ivy and other plants, a ceiling light fixture, and a hanging blue glass ball behind and above him

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 8d

I'm primarily Pliocene and Pleistocene in focus. And my childhood fascination w/ dinosaurs led me to focus on megafauna - I like my fossils from big critters.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 8d

Looking for silver linings wherever they might be.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 8d

I majored in biological anthropology, but then became a paleontologist anyway. My focus is on mammals, but I still love dinos. 😊

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 8d

Happy 120 years of Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus! Both of these iconic dinosaur species were named by paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn on this day back in 1905. (Yes, this would have been a good #FossilFriday post, but it's Saturday and I'm terribly literal.) 🦖🧪

Mounted skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. View is looking up at the complete skeleton w/ the skull to the left & the tail to the right; there are plants and another dino skeleton beneath the mount and a grey museum roof above. This particular skeleton is important because it is the holotype specimen of the species (although the skull here is a cast because the actual skull is far too heavy to be mounted this way).

Skull of Albertosaurus sarcophagus on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 10d

Here in California, in a desert town named Baker (population 482 as of 2023), one can find the world's largest thermometer.

A towering red and white thermometer with glowing digital temperature readouts rising above a cluster of gas stations along a highway in the desert under cloudy skies

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