My write up on this open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

A president for some of the people

Trump won’t use federal government resources to help states that didn’t vote for him

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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, on the Nebraska-Kansas state line south of Red Cloud, is on slopes dropping from a highly dissected loess tableland. The fields to the south are on Holocene and Late Pleistocene loess. The prairie may be on Middle Pleistocene loess and paleosols, exposed by erosion.

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a9BfLS

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~

Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 5d ago

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~

✨Bonus Episode Drop✨ Dive into paleontology and Star Trek! Dr. Ashley Poust @ashpoust.bsky.social answers @spottedgiraffe.bsky.social Giraffe's questions during this bonus review of Star Trek Strange New Worlds 401 Valles Marineris #startrek #snw

Alpha Shift Raktajino | Jurassic Trek with Dr. Ashley Poust - St…

Dive into paleontology and Star Trek! Did Star Trek do a good job depicting the dinosaurs? Would it be possible to knock one out with a phasers? Dr. Ashley Poust an…

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Emily and Sarah’s research aims to answer fundamental questions about leopard seal life history: How long do they live? When do they reach sexual maturity? How many offspring can they produce during their lifetime? And have these traits changed over time?

SMM FIELDWORK SERIES ✨ This field season, Drs. Emily Sperou and Sarah Kienle are traveling across Australia to uncover the life histories hidden within museum collections, one leopard seal skull at a time 🦭

Pam Gaible is probably the best natural history mountmaker there ever was. I've been admiring her work since I was a kid and it's been such a privilege to work with her. Wishing Pam a happy retirement this #FossilFriday!

Exhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Strange New Opinion - Behind the Seams, Designing Costumes that Survive the Action. @spottedgiraffe.bsky.social sits down with Antoinette Messam and report from the SDCC panel of the International Society of Black Costume Designers Read now here : www.strangenewpod.com/blog/sdcc-20...

My colleagues and I are happy to present a new Cretaceous mammal, Tamirkhan, just been published with @springernature.com in @nature.com. Tamirkhan links two groups of Cretaceous placental relatives, zhelestids and zalambdalestids. Read here: rdcu.be/fwGTa

Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids

Nature - New Mongolian fossil evidence shows zhelestids were not placental-like herbivore relatives, but a dental variant within Zalambdalestoidea, with distinctive molars alongside zalambdalestid...

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Sustained investment in specimen-based taxonomic research is key to moving towards effective conservation. iucn.org/news/202607/...

This was a *joy*. A fun episode! And a fun discussion. Happy to check in from @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social before going in the field. LLaP!

Strange New Pod | A Star Trek Podcast@strangenewpod.com · 2w ago

✨Bonus Pod Drop✨ Did Star Trek do a good job depicting the dinosaurs? Would it be possible to knock one out with a phasers? Dr. Ashley Poust @ashpoust.bsky.social answer Giraffe's questions and brings us back to explore the First Frontier! #startrek #strangenewworlds #snw

✨Bonus Pod Drop✨ Did Star Trek do a good job depicting the dinosaurs? Would it be possible to knock one out with a phasers? Dr. Ashley Poust @ashpoust.bsky.social answer Giraffe's questions and brings us back to explore the First Frontier! #startrek #strangenewworlds #snw

Jurassic Trek with Dr. Ashley Poust | Strange New Pod

Jurassic Trek with Dr. Ashley Poust by Strange New Pod on Patreon. Join Strange New Pod's community for exclusive content and updates.

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www.kfyrtv.com/2026/07/21/s...

Small town museum to undergo big-time expansion

Big things are happening in one tiny Montana town. The Carter County Museum in Ekalaka is expanding. Plans are to triple the museum’s size.

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Musk is, in many ways, a true representative of his contingent: wholly uninterested in the consumption of traditional culture, which he clearly regards as boring, while foaming and frothing at the mouth that it must *remain* traditional, locked away in a museum he won't fund or visit

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Ice Cream" Harlan Ellison, 1967, probably

Sean Aitchison@sean8urson.bsky.social · 3w ago

"You come up with a slogan for the ice cream shop?" "Sure did boss, real fuckin haunting just like you asked." "what"

Happy International Rock Day! (Fire Wave in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, USA, ~150 Ma Aztec sandstone paleodunes) ⚒️

I’d guess a full 1/4 of active paleontologists today wanted to be Alan Grant when they grew up. I don’t know if another actor has had such a tangible impact on science. I hope Sam Neill knew that at least a little. Rest easy.

Crystal Palace Dinos@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely crushing news. His accomplishments were many, but the original Jurassic Park and its characters transformed palaeontology, and was so fundamental and formative to so many people on here - we feel and share your pain xxx

They are just absolutely annihilating public lands in this country and open them up to drilling and mining, rolling back literally every environmental protection they can get their hands on, and giving huge bailouts to the coal industry. It’s going to take decades to undo the environmental damage.

Oh HELL yeah! First look at the California Science Center’s new Space Shuttle Endeavor exhibit in the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. Opening in November, and I can’t wait!

You are, directly or indirectly, made up of material from plants. Plants are almost entirely made up of atmospheric CO2 and H2O. Atmospheric CO2 and H2O has all been outgassed from volcanoes (at least once). You are volcanic volatiles. 🙂

Scotland’s home to grey and common seals, often seen resting on shores that inspired folktales. 🦭 In mythology, seals become selkies - mythical beings who shift from seal to human by shedding their skin. Some say they came ashore on Midsummer’s Eve and danced in the moonlight. ✨ #Nature #Wildlife

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

An under-appreciated fossil animal! Much of the work on this impressive post-extinction mammal was done by the late Bill Clemens of @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social

Great Dying Survivor@cannotthinkofone99.bsky.social · last mo.

#FossilFriday First appearing in the fossil record a mere 700K years after Chicxulub, the wolf-sized triisodontid mesonychian Eoconodon is the oldest known mammalian apex predator.

Awe inspiring research by some amazing people. This adds an important new perspective on the second largest mass extinction. I knew Jaemin and Dori (now at the Perot Museum) during my time at Berkeley, both amazing young scientists. Congrats to them Cindy and collegues. This is a very cool flora!

University of California Museum of Paleontology@ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · last mo.

🌿Brand new research out in Science today about angiosperm reproductive strategies and how they preceded the K-Pg mass extinction, led by UCMP PhD student, Jaemin Lee, and curator, Cindy Looy!🌿 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

Llamas? Is this the Museum of the *Rockies* or the Museum of the Andes?! @museumoftherockies.bsky.social

#Tyrannosaur tooth of the day. Found by Laura. Dinosaur Park Fm, Montana. #dinosaurs #fossilfriday

#minsoc150 collections are important and future mineralogists are essential for their future. Talk by Mike Rumsey @nhm-london.bsky.social