Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

We have approximately 10 slots left in the #InverteFest art book! Show us your work, plug your shop and services! Download past editions and see the submission form here: invertefest.com/#artbook

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt

As a reminder, we don't gatekeep skill level. Whether you're a professional or hobbyist, you're welcome to submit. The only real deciding factor is file resolution. Also I've been trying to get anyone to submit edible art. Like please, I know some of you have made bug cookies. Send us bug cookies.

The legal mechanism behind this — federal land exchange — is supposed to be for land of equal value (to avoid scamming) and is usually used to consolidate, rather than break up, land for conservation. Shenanigans here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration pushing to hand parcel of Yosemite land to private developer – report

Nevada-based Kingsbarn Realty Capital seeks to acquire land to construct private road to development outside park

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Why do we need physical fossils if we can just use Big Data? I'm amazed by how many think pieces over the years almost never give more than a passing mention of the fact that big data sets happen because of big fossil collecting efforts & museum infrastructure. <2/n>

Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years, which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study. <6/n>

Crabmons pt 3 #InverteFest 🦀 Bombshell @lunala64.bsky.social Metropolis @arcologycrab.bsky.social Bus @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social Moth @panciraptor.bsky.social

I need to atone for my sins (taking too many vertebrate projects this year) so I'm doing an #InverteFest special - Crabmons give me a word/archetype/whatever and I'll do a crab when I can crabapple & skeleton, prompts by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social in the middle of a Slay The Spire 2 run

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · last wk.

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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Twenty years ago today, Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. Discovered in 1930, it was considered to be the ninth planet in our solar system until 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to reclassify it. Image: NASA, PD, Wikimedia Commons

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8258039... #3970 - Struthiolaria papulosa - Ostrich Foot Snail ‘pimply ostrich-like’ First described as Buccinum papulosum by the English conchologist Thomas Martyn in 1784.

#3970 - Struthiolaria papulosa - Ostrich Foot Snail

'pimply ostrich-like' First described as Buccinum papulosum by the English conchologist Thomas Martyn in 1784. A medium-sized mollusc found around NZ and a few places in SE Australia- average adults....

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I think, with a fair amount of regularity, that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, while Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Chris Hitchens were all writing screeds one-handed about how Islam was incompatible with civilization, Gould simply got in his car and drove down to NYC and started helping.

Jacob@tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 2w ago

Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was

Shout-out to PowerPoint for flagging the word "bespoke" as too difficult for my presumably idiot audience.

I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???

New in PN: Disney runs out of patience with Brendan Carr’s bullsh*t "For over a year, ABC tried to appease the Trump administration. That era is now over. On Tuesday, ABC, its parent company Disney, and eight ABC-owned stations sued Carr and the FCC for grossly violating the First Amendment."

Disney runs out of patience with Brendan Carr’s bullsh*t

Mickey Mouse hits back after a year of fascist harassment.

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Nathan is talking about something important here - a lot of folks in positions like mine are going to have to hope/pray that the fact that it's not safe for some of us to travel, that some research has been functionally banned from funding, is understood when it comes to if we get to keep our jobs.

J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the post I tell the story of a scholar who avoided risks at the border by declining to travel, despite being in a computing field that counts and rewards people for conference presentations. Under those circumstances, when we review people's CVs, we become unwitting accomplices to censorship.

Check out this incredible blog post about our Museum by one of our former science education interns, Richard Gutierrez! Thank you so much for this, Richard!!! https://richiethedino.com/post/MuseumoftheEarth

General circumstances update; I will be adjuncting at Syracuse University in Earth and Environmental Sciences in the fall. Excited to teach sed systems; it seems they have run some fun field trips historically and I will even have a TA who can tell me if I've parked the right place 😉

Syracuse Orange Flag Waving

Alt: Syracuse Orange Flag Waving

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Learning pattern design, you can buy stuff with this print from my rb. I want to see more colourful paleo art design, so gonna be the change I want to see. www.redbubble.com/i/throw-pill...

theintercept.com/2026/08/14/c...

Cornell to Pro-Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to the U.S. or Lose Funding

Two graduate students were finishing their degrees abroad because of the Trump administration's targeting. Cornell is ordering them back to campus.

theintercept.com

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.

Check out our new blog post, "What’s up with Wetlands: Exploring the Relationship Between Wetlands, Humans, and Climate Change" by Abigail MacAlpine, our Summer 2026 Climate Change Education Outreach Intern! 🚣💦🌱 https://www.priweb.org/blog-post/wetlands-climate-change

Wildfires crash the economy. Capitalists should embrace renewable energy if they really care about the economy. But capitalists are morons and are doubling down on wild fires in every capitalist nation on earth.

Ed King@ed-king.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cost of 2026 European wildfires approx $18-22bn says AccuWeather. It warns we can expect additional losses 'from disruptions to transportation, electricity service, manufacturing, agriculture, and food processing.'

I got the email that now I can no longer use android auto without using Gemini? They are breaking! Everything! So they can claim Im an AI user if all i want is to use hands free in my car. I am not an adopter; I did not buy a tribble. They are falling out of the ceiling vents on me.

Star Trek: Captain Kirk and the Tribbles

Alt: Star Trek: Captain Kirk and the Tribbles

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One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

My colleagues LOVE my feedback on NIH grants

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan

The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.

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