Mary Golda Ross is the first-known #NativeAmerican female engineer & a key pioneer of the US Space Race. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she spent >3 decades performing aerospace design & engineering work laying the groundwork for modern interplanetary exploration. #WomenInSTEM 🧵

I recently got back from fieldwork with Dr.s @egmitchell.bsky.social, Tory Botha , @yarongliu.bsky.social, and Phil Wilby. This was my first time visiting Newfoundland. It was wonderful to visit these sites and do fieldwork on Avalonian Material!

Very excited to have joined the @deeptimeecology.bsky.social Group working with @egmitchell.bsky.social at @camzoology.bsky.social ! As a research technician, I will be processing data for analysis of Ediacaran Community Ecology!

Another museum in trouble

@kwch12@kwch.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: The Sternberg Museum in Hays will be closing before the end of the year.

Anthropic stole TEN books written by my late grandfather. My grandmother to this day receives the occasional royalties check from publishers. But Anthropic, a TRILLION-dollar company, just shrugs and steals to regrind it into slop.

Anthony (Tony) J. Martin@ichnologist.bsky.social · last mo.

Ah, an email with the subject 'Anthropic Copyright Settlement" just arrived. Almost afraid to log in & see what payment I'm supposed to get (or not), no thanks to Anthropic stealing my & others' written works to feed their plagiarism-slop machine. 📚✍️ #Booksky

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

I am quite heartened to see @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social is continuing legal efforts to fight the Trump administration's attack on Bear's Ears National Monument vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...

I am deeply saddened by the impeding closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences public Museum. In 2024 I wanted terribly to see the Tiktaalik holotype while it was in the US. My first attempted to drive to Philly, my car’s engine blew out and my hopes were scuppered. ansp.org/learn/Journa...

changing-the-future-of-the-academy

The Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing its museum at the end of September, but preserving its research and collections mission.

ansp.org

Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology

I don’t mean to put Sasha on the spot here, and he correctly identifies this as such; it’s just that we do not have to have this conversation. We need to eat the frame bsky.app/profile/sash...

Sasha Gusev@sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In fact, Cofnas' race pseudoscience does not survive peer review -- it goes to his blog. This is how we know the standard academic channels are working.

Have you ever seen baby Griffins and Chimeras? Toddler and teenage Satyrs? Infant Centaurs and Minotaurs? download my article on "Baby Monsters" www.academia.edu/172123553/Ba...

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

ancient friends

A big hexagonal cross-section of quartz observed at a pegmatite outcrop in Hamada, Shimane, Japan.

In the continuing onslaught of in-your-face AI, it is now almost impossible to open a scientific paper without an AI-summary coming up. Your first instinct may be “Ah that is useful”, but is it really close to the truth or what the author intended? (contd. - full "rant" on lnkd.in/p/euwbwNgY)

Repost to make it die faster

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · 5mo ago

futurism.com/artificial-i...

And yall can thank @jopabinia.bsky.social for talking so well about carcinisation often, it was the final push to create this beautiful absurdity of a carcinised eurypterid xD Thanks for reading/watching and I'll see you on the next #Cheliceratime! 3/3

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

The abstract should tell you what you really need to know. Please read what the authors have written and not what interpretation an LLM gives it. (4/n)

Bleak but not hopeless (yet). Trends in AI-focused vs collections-based NSF funding

Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...

If you see this, post your marine-themed art! oldie #SciArt portrait for @zoologistedel.bsky.social

Noll@nollthere.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see this, post your marine-themed art!

So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more

"The authors found that the PETM was marked by widespread browning of Earth's landscapes. Against a backdrop of elevated atmospheric CO₂, global warming and reduced rainfall" ⚒️🧪 phys.org/news/2026-08...

Paleontologists reconstruct forests of 56 million years ago with chilling parallels for our warming planet

If you want to know how rapidly pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will affect future forest ecosystems, you have to look into the distant past. The researchers behind a new study published in...

phys.org

"If you were surprised by people using Meta’s smart glasses to harass and covertly film women on the street, then you quite simply haven’t been paying attention. This kind of tech-enabled abuse is commonplace, and it is predominantly aimed at women." www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions

Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated

irishtimes.com

Between this post and several of his replies, I both disagree with his view, and am also reminded: I am an academic at a stage in my career where I move frequently. At my previous position, I had a 2 year contract at a small uni. I try to stay very politically involved, so I follow elections ...

isabel fall was right, btw: “And the moment [queer activists’] work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource…the military can make gender tactical.”

Judge orders Hegseth to explain US military’s new testosterone policy

Court questions plan to offer male hormone treatment to cisgender troops while denying it to trans service members

theguardian.com

📜 If you’re a museum professional or researcher interested in heritage science, I’ll be speaking at the Heritage Science for Museum Professionals Conference next month in Liverpool! 🧪 www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-...

The beetle on my cat's head