Peter Roopnarine
@peterroopnarine.bsky.social
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Scientist, Trini-Jamaican lover of very hot Indo-Caribbean food. Many loves, dislikes AI. Scientist at California Academy of Sciences, but opinions are definitely my own. Proud alum, UC Davis and Mt. Allison University.
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"A request for comment from the U.S. Geological Survey, which is responsible for monitoring seismic hazards on the West Coast, resulted in an automatic reply stating no one could respond because of the ongoing government shutdown."
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Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch
Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes
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He is brown and speaks Spanish. His legal status has nothing to do with a policy driven purely by bigotry racism and xenophobia. These are not mistakes.
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Reminder. Fretting about escalators? We live in a Western world; powers are Western, pro-Western (money & weapons), or anti-Western (so-called new world order). The majority couldn't care less, but is forced to. There is wisdom in the majority. I am proud to be Caribbean.
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Barbados PM’s extraordinary reply to Netanyahu for selective use of Bible in UN | Janta Ka Reporter
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She could be my pup's twin ❤️
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Our new TREE paper is out! "‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time."
"Over ~3.5 billion years our planet has become increasingly bioengineered...". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A #FossilFriday visual treat, the Cretaceous diatom Trinacria nitescens. In addition to their global ecological importance, diatoms are also a visual feast. Staring at this one enough will do wonder for your eyes. Scale bar = 10 microns. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/8cy7X6
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This #FossilFriday we have a fish. An unidentified fish. Early Cretaceous from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. So many fossils, so few names, so few taxonomists. The dark data of paleo and Earth's missing diversity. All suggestions are welcome! #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/7yP95M
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#FossilFriday trilobite Zacanthoides idahoensis! Great name. An early carnivore from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. #paleontology collections @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/7v2AFP
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Happy #FossilFriday ammonite. Acanthohoplites barryana, from the Cretaceous of Shasta Co., California. #paleontology collections @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/Yx4fie
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He gutted the intelligence networks, dismantled the anti terrorism task force, has the FBI working on deportations while headed by an imbecile, and then bombed Iran. Do all the miserable morons who voted for and support him feel safer today? I don't.
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Here we go again America. Supporting warmongering and bombing the Middle East. Old habits die hard; easier to kill people apparently.
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This week's featured article in Nature Protocols @natprot.nature.com . Big shout out to former student, post-doc and now colleague, Yuangeng Huang (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan).
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For #FossilFriday we celebrate Los Angeles w/ the round slipper snail, holotype of Crepipatella charybdis, from the Pleistocene of Los Angeles Co., California. Og genus Verticumbo (rev. J. McClean), still a part of California's great diversity. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/fmfhE7
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"The right of #dissent ... is most secure where the system contemplates the right of dissenters to organize separately...the right to dissent is the foundation of liberty and liberty is the climate within which man's creativity flourishes best." Michael Manley, "The Politics of Change"
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#FossilFriday clam. Venericardia merriami holotype, Oregon, USA. From the Eocene, shortly before the planet changed, transitioning from a Warm House to the Cool/Ice House planet that we currently have (for now). #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/pUwnwu
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#FossilFriday foram! Vaginulinopsis verruculosa, Eocene Lodo Fm. of California. The Lodo records the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum when global average temp. rose more than 5 C, lasting ~200,00 years! A time of big biotic change. #paleontology #foraminifera @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/rBMU4y
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ACLU @aclu.org · May 28
Subjecting international students to more extreme social media vetting so they can study in the U.S. will only further chill free speech on campus.

The Trump administration must not double down on this discredited and discriminatory approach.
Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting
It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
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“The protection of at-risk scholars is not just a moral duty — it is an investment in science itself.” Our community needs to define and recognize who among us needs help, and organize ourselves to do whatever we can. There is no one coming to the rescue until we act. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Science saved my life’ — and it must save other at-risk scholars
The global scientific community must do more to offer safety and support to displaced academics and others.
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