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Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one of evolution’s biggest mysteries

Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study suggests that one of the greatest mysteries of dinosaur evolution isn’t ...

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I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

So it seems that my Facebook account was hacked last night and disabled for suspicious activity. I requested an appeal as I went to change my password, found I couldn’t change the password until this morning, at which point my appeal was denied and my account is permanently disabled with no recourse

'It is generally a mistake, in American politics, to say “let’s wait four years and build.” It is wiser to seize every momentary advantage and push it as hard and as far as you can.' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

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Electoral reform and proportional representation are the way forward and how Reform gets defanged

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

"There are other capable progressives weighing a run in 2028," writes @sunraysunray.bsky.social. "However, none of them can do the two things AOC can do at once: run a serious national campaign as one of the most recognized figures in the country, and pull an entire movement into being behind it."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara

The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early

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i'm sorry, what exactly is the evidence that hanania is a "former" white supremacist?

Gilad Edelman@giladedelman.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I fucking hate him; I think he’s a scumbag, and you can quote me on that,” one progressive said about Richard Hanania. And yet, “I think, bizarrely enough, that he and I probably share the same broad overall analysis of the American right.” Read my piece here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Our newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some lukewarm takes about these name-brand dinosaur auctions and how we talk about them: One, every article about the Gus auction quotes a paleontologist explaining why private collectors buying up fossils is a problem for researchers. They used to just copy the press releases. That's progress.

Happy #FossilFriday! I feel very lucky to currently be at the same institution that houses the very first dinosaur fossil ever formally described! This Megalosaurus jaw was named back in 1824, over 200 years ago, and the term “dinosaur” was coined 18 years later 🧪⚒️

Wait everyone shut up for a second: the discovery of the Brachiosaurus holotype is at the exact midpoint between the founding of the United States and today (July 4, 1901)

Ben Miller@extinctmonsters.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy discovery day to these two upstanding (lol) Americans

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Happy #FossilFriday! Today we’ve got Dinodontosaurus, a South American dicynodont! This display at the UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil, shows an adult skeletal mount surrounded by numerous juveniles - whether they’re a family or a graveyard resulting from the Great Dying is for you to decide! 🦊⚒️🧪

Warpaint are just too good

“In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.” 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer

In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.

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there are a lot of loathsome politicians but Starmer inspires utter contempt like few others. a cringing worm of a man. a man who, when kicked in the face, apologizes to his assailant and begs for more. Neville Chamberlain was steadfast and farsighted by comparison

that's right www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution

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“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)

boy that Renee Good detail is truly monstrous

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Are you an American citizen under 35 and live in or near Oxford? Then come join this roundtable discussion event I’m helping moderate on June 17th! More details located here: www.democratsabroad.org/freyaproudma...

DAUK Youth Caucus Roundtable Discussion Oxford

Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.

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Preprint for my new paper is out! I’ll do a whole explanation thread once the paper is officially published but for now give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

bioRxiv Paleontology@biorxiv-paleo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new skeleton of the gorgonopsian Aelurognathus tigriceps from the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Karoo Basin, South Africa) with novel insights into the pelvic girdle, hind limbs, and tail https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.727204v1

Happy #FossilFriday! Today we’ve got the dinocephalians, who are not related to the dinosaurs but are instead early relatives of mammals. They had thickened, robust skulls (dinocephalian literally means “terrible head”) that we suspect they used for head-butting like modern Bighorn Sheep! 🧪⚒️🦊

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

Paper submitted! Here’s hoping for a quick and easy peer review process

No, Colossal's resurrected nothing. They made designer dogs to look like Game of Thrones animal actors. And Colossal co-founder George Church? Friend of Epstein who kept the predator's genetic samples in his Harvard Medical School lab, which were pushed as priority for sequencing. Do. Not. Trust.

Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church

Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before accepting new donations from the sex offender.

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Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 3mo ago

The science start-up Colossal is making sci-fi real! After resurrecting the dire wolf in 2025 using 72k-year-old DNA, they're eyeing the woolly mammoth for 2028. The goal: "rewilding" to restore and stabilize modern ecosystems. Read: bit.ly/4tIXAqo

Happy #FossilFriday! Today we’ve got some South African gorgonopsians! Gorgonopsians were the apex predators of the Late Permian period, early relatives of mammals, and are among the earliest land animals to evolve saber teeth! 🧪⚒️🦊

I'm a climate expert. I know 1000s of climate experts. One fact we all know: poor people care about climate more than rich people. Hardly surprising when you can't afford AC, work outside, etc. A few issues in the article... /1

Zack Polanski’s Jewish identity is being erased because he is leftwing | Owen Jones

Zack Polanski’s Jewish identity is being erased because he is leftwing | Owen Jones

The leader of the Green party has faced antisemitic attacks, and yet his thoughts on the subject don’t count as far as the rightwing UK press is concerned, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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