Day 159 of photoshopping John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) relaxing with a tooth of Otodus megalodon (PRI111611)
#savePRI #fossilfriday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #paleontology #geology ⚒️🧪 #sharks

I know I missed this when it was a trend, but I finally got pictures of my basement museum from when I was in 2nd grade sent to me so here is my
"How it started/How it's going" 🦕🦑🐌⚒️

Good to see I had some early mollusk representation

When I was reporting in Sudan several years ago, a driver warned me not to tell government officials when I was leaving because the airport is where they stop and detain writers.

So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just targeted? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr... #Dartmouth

More mollusk medicine mentions:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Science doesn't work like in a civ game, studies canceled midway are useless and may never be picked up again, institutions that close are gone forever, postdocs and PhD students duing the research work need food and will leave science altogether after a decade of training in their specialization

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

The genus Kapalmerella is named for Katherine Palmer, PRI's 2nd director and the first woman to receive the Paleontological Society Medal, American paleontology’s highest honor.
Learn more about Dr. Palmer at the Daring to dig wrbpage:
www.museumoftheearth.org/daring-to-di...

Day 158 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Today John (H. sapiens) is getting ready to teach turritellids, with a Kapalmerella mortoni postmortoni specimen ##JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🧪 #SavePRI 🦑

I'm going to be the speaker this year for PRI’s teacher resource day this Saturday. Lots of materials are being donated and I'll be talking about the many educational opportunities to use mollusk research, and the Marvelous Mollusks exhibit.

I missed this but just learned PRI is working on a virtual field experience to Greenland to accompany a study lead by Jessica Mejia at Syracuse on how meltwater beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet affects ice movement—and ultimately, global sea levels
artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/earth-scienc...

hoping you mean the plush trilobite and not the tiny human. sadly Isotelus is currently sold out, but Greenops and some others are available pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...

Day157 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (Homo sapiens) looking out for the little guy (H. floresiensis), maybe he can help our little museum too!
#savePRI #evolution #JohnOliverCoprolitasticshed

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Can I just say I hate this system so much. I've wasted full days of work crafting tailored applications for things that went to internal hires and have even interviewed for posts that went to the internal hires. Just let places give that person job security and dont waste the time of 200 applicants

Ok, ill leave your comments up to warn others. I have had the rug pulled out from under me in similar situations several times

*shrug* could be, but so few places that are not nightmares to live in are hiring at all and I'm not a vertebrate worker so I may have missed earlier ads

Rutgers is looking for a vertebrate paleontologist: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Interesting paper using mollusks as climate archives🦑⚒️:
Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

‘Completely flawed’: Monash University is scrapping its flagship sustainability institute www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/07/m...

Day156 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's #JohnOliver w/ fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) having a lovely time with the Paleozoic Pal of Isotelus gigas ⚒️

#trilobitetuesday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #Paleontology #SavePRI #Cornell

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

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