A Snowless March is a Warning We Can No Longer Ignore Earth Day is a reminder to take climate change as the threat it is.

For the first time, the World Meteorological Organization has highlighted Earth’s dangerous, unsustainable energy imbalance.

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Folks planning on attending the SVP meeting this fall: Would you be at all interested in a professional project management workshop? I'm considering submitting this for the meeting. I think it could be really valuable on multiple axes.

I'm nostalgic for a time when presidents were decent human beings, were kind to children and didn't abuse them

#CostaRica may have a long #NatualHistory, but recently many species have gone #extinct in the region due to human activity. We want to help limit further extinctions in these important ecosystems…

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#GroupTrip #Conservation #Paleontology

Currently a thunderstorm stretching from Oklahoma to Canada is blowing its way across North America. Wild.

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In 2024 The Conversation had 8.3M in revenue and 7.8M in expenses and paid $0 to writers. Is that really ok with you?

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The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.

Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.

Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

If Marvel had a hint of audience awareness right now, they'd be pivoting HARD into X-Men vs government stories in live action. In particular stories involving federal government initiated concentration/death camps of mutants, literal kids being hunted down by the MRD, and so on. Horror+thrillers.

A huge congratulations to alumna and former staff member @sierraceratops.bsky.social for her successfully funded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship proposal! Sierra is currently a first year doctoral student in Dr. Jenny McGuire’s lab at Georgia Tech. www.mcguire.gatech.edu

But what if we whack-a-mole them before they can speak? Do we get accepted without revisions?

Yeah our place is at the top of a small hill so this is pretty much what we’re doing

If you stand in front of your bathroom mirror and say "beyond the scope of this study" three times, the ghost of reviewer 2 will emerge from the toilet and make inane comments about your manuscript.

Tornado warning! Seek shelter on lower floors!

Flash flood warning! Seek higher ground!

Look Wisconsin I know you have a lot going on but we're gonna need you to make up your mind.

The Glover Family.

Orbán's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S. “The closest conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with the left-wing domination of universities is Viktor Orbán’s approach in Hungary,” Vance said in 2024.

Maybe if conservatives want Universities to espouse rightwing viewpoints, they should produce something worth teaching.

God, these people are such cowards

Geez Alexander Larman, just say you hated the Let’s Dance album and move on.

The Mother of Spiders, Horseshoe Crabs, and Things That Go Snap — Riley Black Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known relative of spiders and horseshoe crabs, Megachelicerax, rewriting the story of how claws came out of the water.

Last week's new article is up on my blog, all about the amazing Megachelicerax!

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As chair of the external comms unit for SVP, it’s literally what I’m here for. 🙂 Happy to try to answer any additional questions folks have on the matter.

All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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I am glad you're going to provide lots of info for travelers who are at risk. I will help out here by providing a link to Trans Ohio: www.transohio.org . They can help the SVP and anyone attending in person with the nuances of trans safety in Ohio. I have some other contacts too if interested!

Colleague just asked how we determine species assignment in fossils without DNA. "Welcome to the wonderful world of morphology" I say, to their abject horror.

If there’s a desire for an online-based robust virtual paleontology “meeting”, my honest best advice is the folks that really really want this to happen aggregate a leadership team and make it happen. This isn’t a dig (🥁) at all, but it’s not going to happen through SVP this year. I ran the 2023 virtual meeting and promise there just isn’t enough time on the calendar to go the SVP route. If a team of 8-12 highly motivated, reliable individuals can be brought together on this and establish 10-point lists of benefits, challenges, and deliverable targets, I will enthusiastically help however I can in a consulting capacity. Please understand though that however much work you think this will be, double that and you might be close. Not trying to discourage anyone, but that’s the reality of these things. That said, accessibility is crucial and this overall concept is definitely worth pursuing.

Regarding potential virtual paleontology meetings. (I built and ran the 2023 SVP virtual meeting.)

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

I contacted my congressfolks to tell
them I don’t care that he TACOd again. I want him gone. Now.

These anti-American nutjobs need to be systematically kept far far away from the levers of power.

Letter to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology advocating that their annual meeting have an online option in addition to the in person meeting in Cleveland. Unfortunately, alt text cannot have all of the letter text but the reasoning involves threatof violence to at risk groups in the US as well as issues related to contracting dangerous diseases and other safety threats.

Continuation of letter. Please read previous alt text for summary.

Today, for the safety of all SVP members, I request with this open letter that the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social provides an online option for this year's annual meeting. Myself and many others no longer feel it is safe to travel to and within the USA. Please share the letter everywhere you can!