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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 3d

Hip Hip Hooray! Have a nice 120th nameday old chap.

Diorama feaaturing wildlife of the Hell Creek formation.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Day154 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Don't worry John(H. sapiens) those aren't sandworms, they are just bryozoans (PRI108377). Please make the #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed a reality and #savePRI 🧪

John Oliver waving with big eyes while large dark branching bryozoans emerge from the sand behind him

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 4d

Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today on 4th October, 1905.

I would do things a little differently now, but this drawing is from 2020.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 3d

You know I wasn’t the only one having a rough Friday when there was a pair of pants lying on the floor in the hallway…

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 3d

Switched out the display case for *spooky season* at SWOCC!

View of whole glass case inset into a white wall

Casts of archaeological human skulls, sea lion skull, fossils, amethyst, more skulls, shells, purple dinosaur plushie

Crystals, spiders in resin, cassowary skull, hedgehog skull, opossum skull, Lois’s in green glass bottle

Plushie anomolacaris, fluorite, rattlesnake in resin, nautilus, preserved things in jars.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
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Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10d

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30."

"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

grist.org

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 6d

Come on tugtupite!!!!! 🤞🍀🧧

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 6d

And that’s time!

But, uh, who’s the winner?

With a surge of hundreds of votes in the final moments, our host is throttling access to the data we need to perform audits. It’s going to be at least a few hours. 🙃

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 7d

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 6d

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 6d

Ever wonder about who makes Mineral Cup happen?

Here’s the #MinCup25 volunteer team! www.mineralcup.org/2025/volunte...

Want to join us? We’re always recruiting more volunteers!

Volunteers — Mineral Cup

www.mineralcup.org

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6d

Had three meetings today, for three different groups working on different projects, and in the end all three just became topics about dealing with stress right now.

So I'm going back to my stress physiology toolbox to try to keep myself functioning at the moment. Stay as well as you can, my dears.

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Mar 8

Friendly neighborhood stress physiology enthusiast here to remind you to be gentle with yourself and members of your community!

To some degree everyday is unprecedented for your body (that’s how time works) but these times have some especially unprecedented stressors. We need care! Tips:

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 7d

All excellent ideas!

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 7d

Now I’m suddenly tempted to make a giant version as a hat, add a cloak and fake fangs, and teach my Friday lab that falls on Halloween as Count Scoopula.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 7d

This thought brought to you by the line being too long at the coffee stand for me to get my science juice before teaching…

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 7d

Today I learned that these are called “Scoopula” and that like Kleenex or bandaids that’s actually a brand name. So unless it was made by Thermo Fisher Scientific it’s just sparkling pooper scooper.

Hand over sand holding a piece of metal that’s about 1/3rd of a tube with a tapered end

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 9d

Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed?

This is the banded iron formation (BIF) of Hamersley Range, Australia.

Go big #hematite !

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Woman with a nonchalant pose is dwarfed by the background as she stands on a ridge of the folded red bands of rock of the Banded Iron Formation of Hamersley Range, Australia.
Photo: Masha Pastuhov, Dronesandstones

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

The Defense Department has disbanded a non-partisan committee that for decades has advised on the recruitment, retention, and treatment of servicewomen — including women’s full integration into combat roles.

The Trump administration isn’t up to the job in supporting women in our armed forces.

Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’

A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the “formal disestablishment” of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

www.militarytimes.com

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 9d

Botryoidal #hematite! Close the gap, make the #BloodRockFinal happen. #MinCup25

📸https://www.geologyin.com/2024/01/hematite-properties-uses-meaning.html