A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.

ACLU of Wisconsin@acluofwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Wisconsin is making national news because so many police officers have been charged or convicted with using the Flock surveillance network to stalk people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/

Some Eocene fossils in volcaniclastic sands of the Yachats Formation. Feather star fossils aren't uncommon in Paleogene coast range rocks in Oregon. Even some crinoid lagerstätte a bit further north. www.researchgate.net/profile/Kath...

Weird paleontologist musings: summer is nice because it’s so easy to skeletonize things for comparatives. So much harder to do quickly in the rainy/cold season 😅 But could be worse. (Remembering the year my macerating tubs froze in Ohio…)

This is a residential building in Caracas, #Venezuela, that collapsed as a result of the M7.2 and M7.5 earthquakes, the latter of which was felt 45 seconds later. #earthquake #terremoto

Oregon, it is time. You know what must be done

The Oregonian@oregonian.com · last mo.

The gray whale currently remains on the beach.

🎉 EPISODE #99 IS HERE!!! 🎉 In this epic episode, we interview worldly traveled and renowned Japanese paleontologist ⛏️ who was just appointed President and Director General of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Makoto Manabe! 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mako...

Expensive monopigments like Cadmium and Cobalt have scary toxicity labels, but are generally safe with normal “whoops, on my finger” amounts. Real Naples Yellow has soluble lead, it’s bioaccumulative; it doesn’t leave your body. If you see “hue” in a colour name, it’s a multi-pigment imitation. 🐡🎨

Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey artists, let's share some helpful things in the community :) 🎨 What's one tip or trick you would give a new artist in your chosen medium? (Or just in general!)

In the Los Angeles NHM's main fossil halls, there are 181 Mesozoic dinosaur fossils on display out of 347 total vertebrate fossils (52% dinosaurs). The "dinosaur rates" at NMNH, AMNH, and FMNH are 17%, 23%, and 14% respectively. (1/n)

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

🐝🪲🦋 It’s Pollinator Week! 🦋🪲🐝 6 years ago, my partner and I began turning a derelict grass lawn in Portland, OR into a wildlife garden. Insects were the first to arrive. I’ve now documented more than 30 native bee species visiting or living in our backyard! This is just a sample. IDs in alt text.

55 bales out of 206 stacked in the barn. Follow me for soul-crushing fitness hacks…

Letterkenny: Man Throwing Barley in Barn

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Eeeee! Just got pictures from my endurance ride! The first two are on the second loop, roughly 19 miles in. The first bit of both loops was the same but then with different loops through the woods and occasional prairies. Extra cool because I grew up ~10 miles away from here.

Just back from a fairly toasty endurance ride up in WA. After getting DQ’d at a ride earlier this year I really tried to follow the vet’s suggestions to a T and… instead of merely finishing Sammy and I actually received Best Condition at the ride! (And 4th in the 25 mile)

Week 9 of the 10 week term starts today. In the home stretch but definitely feeling the burnout (as are the students clearly). This term has been some of the worst student attendance I’ve had in years.

Europe - The Final Countdown Music Video

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Cumbria, England has some beautiful calcites! 😍 (Vid description: My left hand in a blue nitrile glove slowly rotating a cluster of transparent calcite crystals with some red iron staining on grey hematite) #MineralMonday #minerals

Got to spend the weekend riding around a phreatic explosion crater very creatively named Hole in the Ground with views of Fort Rock in the distance. The only thing better than riding my horse is doing so with great geology! This was the Mary and Anna Memorial endurance ride!

The Coos Bay bay bois are finally being friendly towards the new bay boi! Still mild pony hierarchy drama, but no one has died so I’ll take it? Pro tip: get horses of the same color so it hard to tell just how many you actually have!

Day 6 of expedition in the Triassic site of TX (Princeton University and UTokyo joint expedition). A big jacket and accidentally got a flat tire

Okay so we're in between net checks and hanging out in the truck because the weather is shit, and a bird lands on the side mirror. My student Noelle looks and starts making incomprehensible noises, because it's a freaking HAWFINCH

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Y'all I had the craziest ten minutes in my bird banding life today and I cannot WAIT to share lol

The Coos Watershed Association Mayfly Festival was a great success! Over 450 people attended this year and I was really honored by how many folks said my pop up museum of bugs-fish-riparian plant fossils was their favorite! And yes, I wore a spike-toothed giant fossil salmon hat all day!

It’s #FossilFriday!!! This one’s for the birds, aka I just found a box with three very different bird fossils in the SWOCC collections! Eocene bird track, an Oligocene feather, and a Pliocene proximal cormorant humerus!

What do normal people do on Wednesday nights? Because I’m paper mache-ing a giant fossil spike-toothed salmon hat to wear to the Mayfly Festival on Saturday. Totally normal I keep telling myself…

SWOCC is hiring a tenure track biology instructor! It’s a really cool school with diverse great students AND is in an incredible location! Feel free to contact me about anything with the job from pay to cost of living to research here! Come join me! www.schooljobs.com/careers/socc...

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I have a ton of catch up posts to make, but first: I just got to tour THE Western Flyer!!!! Both the Log from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck and Between Pacific Tides by Ricketts are hugely important books to me in my life and journey to becoming a scientist. It was super magical!

Omg! Went and did a bit of shopping after lunch from the morning session at GSA and I found a dinosaur in traditional Mexican embroidery style?!?!?

Application due May 5th!

Anne Hilborn@annewhilborn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Giant Cretaceous octopi. What started out as a bad year for fossil octopi (looking at you, @taphonomist.bsky.social) has suddenly taken a turn for the awesome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Welcome back, Triassic Kraken!

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

Shut up and take my money. DinoTools taking all my money at the @geosociety.bsky.social Cordillera section meeting 😅

Winner winner chicken dinner! Fossil Point is such a cool site and I’m so lucky to have a fossil site like this effectively in my back yard!