It would be so amazing if museums were open until midnight. I don't want to go clubbing, I want to go museum-ing!

Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

I tell my students the #1 thing to focus on to do good science/ archaeology is learn how to be a good friend. If you can develop meaningful friendships with your collaborators and teammates, the hard stuff will get much easier.

New paper out with Sarah Losso and Javier Ortega Hernandez : "These legs were made for walking: 150 years of trilobite appendage morphology and evolution" authors.elsevier.com/c/1nN4m2weR2... #trilobite #paleontology #arthropod #palaeontology #fossils

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

That place has to be saged now.

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.

For America’s 250th birthday, Ira traveled to @wburcityspace.bsky.social to chat with historian Robert Allison about scientific thinkers in early America. And yes, they talk about more than just Ben Franklin and his kite. Hear the full convo today from 2–4pm ET on your local public radio station.

Plugging this pre-meeting workshop we're holding at the annual meeting for @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Would love to get a full house!

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database@neotomadb.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 Workshop Announcement | SVP 2026 Join us for “Using the Neotoma Paleoecology Database to Explore Quaternary Vertebrate Data” at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting. 🔗 More details: vertpaleo.org/using-the-ne... 📅 Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026

If you were a gymnast, the equivalent would be having someone else practice your flips and expecting to get better at flips.

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

nature.com

Literally had this conversation the other day, it's awful how much of the access to the sea back home is "private"

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is it time for another one of my Californian rants about how batshit insane it is that so much of the East Coast’s beaches are heavily controlled + privatized for the benefit of loathsome rich coastal property owners?

Come join us at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/assis...

Assistant Curator of Ichthyology

The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (UF) seeks qualified applicants for a 12-month tenure-track Assistant Curator of Ichthyology. This position will be filled at the Ass...

floridamuseum.ufl.edu

I really hope to see a headline with him arrested

Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban. "Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?” My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

@mayajuman.bsky.social is giving a seriously cool talk on using museum collections to detect pathogens @mammalogists.bsky.social

Per tradition, we kicked off the meeting with our graduate student honoraria. Congratulations to: Emilyn Gilmore - Annie M. Alexander Award Madeleine Becker - Anna M. Jackson Award Joshua Robinson - A. Brazier Howell Award Jonathan Keller - Elmer C. Birney Award

Mel Pardi@drpardi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Opening remarks for the 105th Annual meeting for the American Society of Mammalogists @mammalogists.bsky.social

Opening remarks for the 105th Annual meeting for the American Society of Mammalogists @mammalogists.bsky.social

As far as I have studied in my PhD all the taxonomic information in equids is quite "elusive" hahahaha

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

science.org

National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt is about to deliver the third annual State of the Science address. Follow along with us at 3 p.m. ET 🧵👇

We here in Argentina went for a factual name: scienticide. Sad times..

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Emergency Science Meeting by Stand Up for Science

[discussing OMB-2026-0034?]

events.standupforscience.net

Same. He's right where my legs (really, my body) should be.

Hipster Viking Amy@lasrina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DOCTOR: Can you tell me more about why you have trouble getting enough sleep? ME: Uhh…

in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

Mineral Museum organized by lickability of rocks, with tasting notes (and option to buy samples) of the Do Lick list and worst case scenarios for the Do Not Lick list. The Boring But Safe list will form a neutral zone between them.

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE WIZARD IS BACK! You have been cursed with a lot of money! You are going to become not just permanently brain damaged, but SUPER evil, incapable of doing good, if you use the money for anything that isn't ridiculous. To break the curse, you must spend it on something ridiculous. What say you?

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

Dr David S Anderson@dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Going to the American Society of Mammalogists meeting in Norfolk and/or have a student going who is interested in fossil mammals and museum careers? Get breakfast with me! (Steve is cool, too) @mammalogists.bsky.social

This week we had a visitor! Leah, from the Ungar Lab at the University of Arkansas, spent two days in our fossil collections studying the teeth of mammoths and mastodons.It's always fun hosting researchers at ISM, especially students. #FossilFriday