Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog.

My first Brittany. She was such a sweetheart.

Fuji, 16 yo.
sketch from life from a few years back.

Oh, they're going to make this EASY easy for Iran. Just figure out how to get a little bit of flu into U.S. military bases.

Ok now for a real kicker—the oldest nematode known from fossil record was a plant-parasitic one that lived in stomatal chambers of this same plant! Discovered and imaged here by George Poinar and Hans Kerp from Rhynie Chert from around 400 mya. brill.com/view/journal...

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

incredible exchange here, this website has the juice

They can be. I spent some money up front so I can monitor pH, temperature and control things remotely. My tank has run smoothly for 7 years now.

It's much easier than it was 30 years ago.

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Too funny.

My Sand Shifting Starfish (my kids named Sandy) comes out in the evening and cleans the glass. It slipped and landed upside down.

I watched as it tripodded and flipped itself over.

You can also see the arms to my younger brittlestar hiding in the rock.

I love my aquarium.

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade

What did he know?

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Trump’s “complicated relationship with the Bible” is a lot like my complicated relationship with Charlize Theron

I did not sign up for this in late April.

Salute to an all-time tweet

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

🚨🚨🚨 BLEP ALERT

A bunch of bones sorted into a plastic bin, labels include “turtle toes”, “crocodilian teeth”, and “fish bones/verts”

Sorting microfossils comes with so many little joys, including making a category solely for “turtle toes”

Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.

Peace when markets are open

War when markets are closed

The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched.

This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?

Chevron executive says ‘people should try to drive less’ amid Iran war Chevron executive Andy Walz said that “people should try to drive less” to offset higher energy prices during the U.S. military operation in Iran. “People should drive less. They should try to cons…

You know how oil companies are wallowing in enormous war profits while prices rise for everyone else?

Well, a Chevron executive has some tips for how you should deal with it: drive less & conserve energy!

(I will just say that my preferred solution involves 100% more guillotine than this.)

Today, on #FossilFriday, I was at Blue Beach (Nova Scotia), exposed in basal Carboniferous (Tournaisien) shales and sandstones. It’s famous because some of the world’s oldest tetrapod tracks are found here. I didn’t find those today, but I did see this. Some invertebrate? @ichnologist.bsky.social ?

There's so many corals around Alpena. Kessling did a lot of great published work on Alpena for U of M. The problem is you need to cross section many of the corals to get an ID.

This was found very close to there.

There's a small creek on private land where we've found some nice pyritized Ectenocrinus and Cryptolithus.

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Yes. Come to the echinoderm side.

I'll be there. Will you?

“Ramble On” - Robert Plant with Saving Grace (LIVE on The Late Show) YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

I missed this last week.

Oh my. Just. Wow.

I saw the post from Chris as well. They are both Bryozoans. Some encrust surfaces. Others are solitary like this "gumdrop" Bryozoan - Prasopora from the Ordovician Whetstone Gulf formation of New York. This is ~480 Million years old, but similar to the one Chris shared.

#FossilFriday