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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 8h

126,000 year-old rock-hydra post-defecation butt-drag trace fossil (in rock) FTW! Reason #1,257 why ichnology rules! 🧪🐾🪨💩

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 14h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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Kathleen Lowry @lifeontamiami.bsky.social · 7h

As you make Halloween preparations, please consider having non-candy options, or candy free of the top 8 allergens, available for trick or treaters will food allergies.
As a mama to 3 kiddos with allergies, it would mean the world to a family to have their kids included.
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Please Join Us for the Teal Pumpkin Project 2025! | Celiac Disease Foundation

Halloween is just around the corner, and this year the Celiac Disease Foundation is proud to partner again with our friends at Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) to promote the Teal Pumpkin…

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 8h

Oh sure, yeah! Send me a DM and I'd be happy to answer any questions I can!

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 15h

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h

Really happy with this shot #sqrlpix
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 14h

Spent the morning chasing a 4yo through an apple orchard, trying to stop whenever I could to snap a photo of this absurdly beautiful fall day. Wow. 🍂🍁🍎

A fall scene outdoors with a pond and a line of color changing trees with blue sky overhead.

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 14h

Spent the morning chasing a 4yo through an apple orchard, trying to stop whenever I could to snap a photo of this absurdly beautiful fall day. Wow. 🍂🍁🍎

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 19h

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Gebe Martinez @gebem.bsky.social · 21h

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize!
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P.S. Machado's pro-democracy work is beyond courageous. Before VZ's 2024 so-called presidential election, the Women's Foreign Policy Group held a "fireside chat" with Machado, who spoke of +

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 21h

For those not in the know, I used to be in paleontology. So I have found Coryphodon fossils (including partial skeletons) in WY before, hence how I was able to super hyper realism this dream, I suppose. 😅

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 21h

#FossilFriday invading my dreams. 😂

Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 21h

How do I go about my day after having a hyper realistic dream that my fam was on a WY vacation, pulled over at an Eocene outcrop, and stumbled on an 80% complete Coryphodon skeleton with MUMMIFIED SKIN, but it was off-season for fieldwork so I was making far flung phone calls to get anyone out here?

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 21h

How do I go about my day after having a hyper realistic dream that my fam was on a WY vacation, pulled over at an Eocene outcrop, and stumbled on an 80% complete Coryphodon skeleton with MUMMIFIED SKIN, but it was off-season for fieldwork so I was making far flung phone calls to get anyone out here?

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Ruby 💕💜🩵 @fugitiverabbit.com · 1d

My therapist has to remind me constantly that just because I'm anxious something may happen doesn't necessarily mean it will.

#art

Artwork showing a frazzled looking possum holding onto an orb/crystal ball with the text " you are not predicting the future. You have anxiety!"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 4d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

aaaaaaaaaaa

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget the dog one!!

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

So good!

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

That one's sooo goood.

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

Attempting to culture the children by showing them OK Go's treadmill video.

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Samantha biobabbler @biobabbler.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend this thread.😍🤓🥳

As a person who used to monitor herps (incl rattlesnakes) as part of her job, I can back up the snek dialogue as 100% authentic.

Such a perfect babeh snek!!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Big adventure in the yard today!

NATIVEPLANTGUY: *bent over to pull a weed* Yeah, I’ve been trying to catch these little weeds while they’re small—
ME: STOP
NPG: *freezes*
ME: Step back, slowly.
NPG: *steps back*
ME: Whew.
NPG: Rattlesnake, right? Where?
ME: *points*
NPG: …whoa.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 17d

Is this how we market books right now? Maybe?

Anyway, a reminder that our adorable geology picture book is out now and is "a must-purchase for nonfiction collections", according to a *starred* review by School Library Journal.

Link: www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Rock...

#KidLit
#EduSky
#STEMEd

Graphic that features a cartoon rock with googly eyes sitting in the middle and staring blankly ahead. Text reads: "It's rough out there. Maybe you need a book about an adorable rock. I Rock: A Geology Tale is a critically acclaimed
silly, thorough, clever jaunt through geology,
written by science educator Katie Slivensky
and illustrated by bestselling illustrator Steph Stilwell.
Now available anywhere books are sold!" Graphic shows the cover of the picture book in the bottom right corner. It features the same rock, but smiling, sitting on a cross section of the ground.

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

I did the blasphemous thing and ate tuna for lunch and didn't give it all to my cat who is now patrolling the house convinced he's going to find the source of it, if he just keeps looking...

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

It's silly that refusing to use AI is seen as such a stubborn, rebellious stance, but here we are. Fight fascists, save our planet, remind others to think for themselves, save your own brain... it's all there, in one simple act we can all do.

Just don't use AI. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 1d

So fun to see my friend Terry's band getting recognition, and for such a jammin' tune!

Knyvet @knyvet.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to WBUR for the report on Stop Calling Me Frank's barnstorming ode to Market Basket, with a Terry O'Malley interview that pulls back the burgundy jacket on the origins of this 'punk rock anthem' out on Rum Bar.

⚡ www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

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A punk rock anthem for Market Basket

The iconic grocery chain’s community spirit is what Boston punk rock band Stop Calling Me Frank strove to capture in “MB Anthem (The Market Basket Song).”

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