John
@jaypdub.bsky.social
Field geologist, aspiring naturalist, and a student of history with an unused degree to prove it.
He/They
He/They
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Right-wingers feel existentially threatened by simply having to observe us living our lives. We feel threatened by their repeated efforts to wipe us completely from existence and have the world to themselves. This is not a balanced debate.
December 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Right-wingers feel existentially threatened by simply having to observe us living our lives. We feel threatened by their repeated efforts to wipe us completely from existence and have the world to themselves. This is not a balanced debate.
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From NASA –
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
From NASA –
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
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Stop.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Stop.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
Read the post below.
Do what it says.
Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars.
You are a terranaut on that fragile planet.
This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.
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'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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A doubly old 'Christmas tree' this #FossilFriday! This was taken on Dec. 23 2010 during my 1st trip to Antarctica & shows a large fossil tree from the Triassic, 240 million years ago. The locality is high in the Transantarctic Mountains, above the Antarctic icesheet 🌿⛏️🏔️ Happy holidays!
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A doubly old 'Christmas tree' this #FossilFriday! This was taken on Dec. 23 2010 during my 1st trip to Antarctica & shows a large fossil tree from the Triassic, 240 million years ago. The locality is high in the Transantarctic Mountains, above the Antarctic icesheet 🌿⛏️🏔️ Happy holidays!
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
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Whatever you're celebrating today (or if you're not celebrating at all), please enjoy this GIFt of firefly light from the archives of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, v. 3, pt. 2 (1880-86). biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580274.
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, v. 3, pt. 2 (1880-86). biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580274.
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Whatever you're celebrating today (or if you're not celebrating at all), please enjoy this GIFt of firefly light from the archives of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, v. 3, pt. 2 (1880-86). biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580274.
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, v. 3, pt. 2 (1880-86). biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580274.
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The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
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Holiday woodchuck, colored over a scan of the riso print
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Holiday woodchuck, colored over a scan of the riso print
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Orthoceras (big) and Lituites
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Orthoceras (big) and Lituites
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Here's some underwater Christmas trees🎄 to brighten up your day. #Hydrozoa #Hype4Hydrozoa.
For those feeling Christmassy🎅, here's some aglaopheniid hydroids🎄 with ascidians and corals at their base. Looks like someone in the reef will have lots of gifts 🎁 this year. #Hype4Hydrozoa
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here's some underwater Christmas trees🎄 to brighten up your day. #Hydrozoa #Hype4Hydrozoa.
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This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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cbs news is covering up torture for the government
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
cbs news is covering up torture for the government
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
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In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
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Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar with a fineliner pen sketch of a seacliff in Brittany, France. I drew this for my Geology degree dissertation in the 1980s: a geologist inspired by art. And now in the 2020s, I’m training to be an artist who’s inspired by geology!
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar with a fineliner pen sketch of a seacliff in Brittany, France. I drew this for my Geology degree dissertation in the 1980s: a geologist inspired by art. And now in the 2020s, I’m training to be an artist who’s inspired by geology!
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Today is the winter solstice, the traditional start of Christmas (Joulu) in Finland. These gingerbread biscuits illustrate the development of a plant seed
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🌱
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🌱
December 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Today is the winter solstice, the traditional start of Christmas (Joulu) in Finland. These gingerbread biscuits illustrate the development of a plant seed
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🌱
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🌱
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7/ The site became exceptional with the 2021 discovery of an unprecedented ritual deposit. Behind anthropomorphic carved stelae (one 1.12 m tall), archaeologists found 150 perfectly arranged fossils : ammonites and nautiluses.
Finally, some marine inverts !
Finally, some marine inverts !
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
7/ The site became exceptional with the 2021 discovery of an unprecedented ritual deposit. Behind anthropomorphic carved stelae (one 1.12 m tall), archaeologists found 150 perfectly arranged fossils : ammonites and nautiluses.
Finally, some marine inverts !
Finally, some marine inverts !
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1/ Last week I attended to a conference entilted "Interactions between human societies and marine invertebrates" (I love how niche and obscure these meetings are), and I learned about the Neolithic desert kites, these huge traps in Middle East.
The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
1/ Last week I attended to a conference entilted "Interactions between human societies and marine invertebrates" (I love how niche and obscure these meetings are), and I learned about the Neolithic desert kites, these huge traps in Middle East.
The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
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Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
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During the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, about 85% of all marine species went extinct, but according to the fossil record, sponges were flourishing throughout this period.
So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was.
#Invertebrate #SciArt
So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was.
#Invertebrate #SciArt
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
During the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, about 85% of all marine species went extinct, but according to the fossil record, sponges were flourishing throughout this period.
So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was.
#Invertebrate #SciArt
So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was.
#Invertebrate #SciArt
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This is what they’re trying to destroy. NCAR is worth fighting for. #SaveNCAR 🧪
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is what they’re trying to destroy. NCAR is worth fighting for. #SaveNCAR 🧪