So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.
The Art of the Deal.
Yesterday's hearing made it plain: RFK Jr. is using conspiracy, junk science, and racist rhetoric to shape American health. Every day he stays in power puts more people at risk. He must be removed. Tell your Rep to co-sponsor the articles of impeachment: zurl.co/xtJwt
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Join us for our first "Tree Buds" Phenology Walk of the season this upcoming Monday, April 20th! Meet in front of the Cayuga Nature Center Lodge at 3 pm. See you there! 🌲🌳
an artistic depiction of the raptorial radiodont lyrarapax
a fossil and figure of the fossil of the holotype of lyrarapax
happy #fossilfriday! this is lyrarapax, a radiodont from middle cambrian china. incredibly, the holotype preserves details of the animal’s nervous system, indicating that their raptorial frontal appendages were protocerebral, as was its labum
(art by @ultraluther.bsky.social)
Japan forced to come up with new word for summer days exceeding 40C
Kokushobi, which roughly translates as “severely hot day”
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
"University codes of conduct... should be maximally protective of speech. They should treat universities and colleges not as tightly regulated spaces, where any unprescribed activity is a disruption to be repressed, but as vibrant microcosms of a free and open society."
We've known for a while that climate change was going to be rough on the coffee economy; new study finds a willingness to adopt adaptive practices with access to credit and extension/info being barriers to implementation as well as gendered differences in considerations of growers
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This is so funny
These wondrous worms build their homes directly on the rocky vent chimneys where temperatures can reach up to 105 degrees Celsius (221 degrees Fahrenheit). 🔥
Pompeii worms (Alvinella pompejana) live on hydrothermal vent “chimneys,” where superheated water belches from within the Earth’s crust.
The cardiologist told me to reduce stress to lower my blood pressure and I'm like "I'm transgender in America in 2026"
image generated from the google emoji kitchen of a snail (possibly a caenogastropod?) making the dollar-sign emoji face, including anatomically incorrect eyebrows and a green tongue (radula?) with a dollar sign on it
pro-tip: if you're not already a member of the AMS, it's cheaper to join and then register than it is to register as a non-member (we didn't even bother having a registration category for student non-members, since student membership for AMS is only $20); If you're not a student, you save about $30
🦑⚒️ paleo folks welcome! I'm planning to attend and will be around to show folks our exhibit "Marvelous Mollusks" at the Museum of the Earth/PRI as part of the meeting
a good read for next #fossilfriday 🧪🦑⚒️🇦🇶 #geosciences
In science sometimes ideas are unpopular because they have no basis in reality.
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.
New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels.
The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them.
We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.
The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian.
A photo of a fossilized trilobite. It is oblong in shape, brown in color, and has a multi-segmented body.
It's Trilobite Tuesday! Trimerus is among the planet’s most widely dispersed trilobite genera. The specimen pictured here is from England’s Wren’s Nest locale. Though complete specimens of Trimerus are a rare find, fully-articulated examples measuring ~7.1 in (18 cm) in length have been uncovered.
Here are 5 remarkable snails that lived during the Ordovician Period. All collected from the Ellis Bay Formation (Hirnantian) of Anticosti Island and reposited in the Invertebrate Paleontology collections at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 🐌🐌🐌 🧪
Look at the size of the one on the left!
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:
There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.
Calling all geologists! 🥾⛏️ The Utah Geological Survey is hiring a Geologic Mapper. If you love fieldwork, creating detailed maps, and want to work in a geological wonderland, this is for you!
Apply here: utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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A photo of colorful acrylic keychains, featuring illustrations by me of various Cambrian invertebrate animals. They are photographed against a grey stone background.
New Cambrian mystery keychains just dropped!
🦐 shop.fossilforager.art
#sciart
Alt text: Upcoming Earth Events
APR 20 Tree buds phenology walk 3pm at Cayuga Nature Center
APR 23 scince in the virtual pub 7pm zoom dr Bardaglio on democracy and renewable energy
APR 24-30th spring 26 bioblitz
More info at the website museumoftheearth.org
Alt text: Upcoming Earth Events
APR 20 Tree buds phenology walk 3pm at Cayuga Nature Center
APR 23 scince in the virtual pub 7pm zoom dr Bardaglio on democracy and renewable energy
APR 24-30th spring 26 bioblitz
More info at the website museumoftheearth.org
To close out the first full week of Earth Month, here’s a rundown of our themed events happening this month!
SITVP on 4/9 - 7 pm
Tree Buds Walk on 4/20 - 3 pm
SITVP on 4/23 - 7 pm
Spring BioBlitz - 4/24 to 4/30 on your own time
More info on our website!
Another example of the insane incompetence of a member of Trump's administration causing sickness and death.
What in God's name is wrong with them? They intentionally WANT people to suffer….
Welcome, to Jurassic Park! 🦖🦴⛏️
Wanna learn more? Head to bit.ly/jurassic-display & tune in next week for another #FossilFriday feature from the Paleo Research Institute collection:
www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/
#Fossil #Paleontology #Jurassic #JurassicPark #Dinosaur
