NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks.
A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."
Law Dork:
Trump proposes cut to Hawaiian Home Lands funding, arguing that Native Hawaiians should not get money under a federal Native American Housing law because he considers them a racial group and not a tribal nation.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/04/20/t...
Bears vs. Trail cameras
Our 2025 paper in @annbot.bsky.social is now free to read 🎉 Go check this little guy! 🌲⛏️ 🇦🇶 #paleobotany #fossil #tree #botany
📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.
Did you say glacier-compressed wood ? 🧊
Typical ovoid cross section of a glacier-borne subfossil wood! 🌲
Curved dirt path lined with lots of bare deciduous trees under a very moody sky. The ground on either side of the path is covered in leaves.
Clear patch of blue sky with clouds over a frothy river and forest all around.
Still thawing out from today's *freezing* bike ride (the light snow earlier today should have clued me in), but SO GREAT to be outside and on a bike! 💙🚲
species, importantly the sloth Thalassocnus and the whale Odobenocetops. Nowadays the Pisco basin shows little of this former biodiversity, being largely desert with many specimens laying on, or just below the surface. This makes it easy to spot them but the high levels of...
LOVE THIS!! @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🦥🐋🐠
Me in a blue and white Ray Troll shirt standing next to a blue sign that reads "Life in the Ancient Seas" with a three meter long 3D printed mandible of an extinct right whale on top of it
The Late Cenozoic exhibit from Life in the Ancient Seas showing Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil shells and marine mammal bones, including a large whale atlas vertebra and the skull and mandible of an extinct sea cow
Middle Cenozoic and Early Cenozoic fossils including the skull of Squalodon whitmorei, a Scaphokogia sperm whale, and Eocene/Oligocene fossils including a Zygorhiza tooth and the skull of Inermorostrum
On Saturday @tetrameryx.bsky.social and I had a table at the Inland Empire Science Festival hosted by the Western Science Center, and got to see the debut of the Life in the Ancient Seas mobile museum exhibit! The big gray 3D print is the mandible of "Mystic", a fossil right whale from Santa Cruz CA
CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
El 'taco
(psittacosaurus art commission :3)
a whole bunch of frogs in a sewer drain
they’re waiting on the signal
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
I love this so much.
Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.
Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂
Reposted earlier. Need to repost again. ❤️
"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."
Screenshot of text: The old aphorism about how long it takes an aircraft carrier to turn around might be why the nation seems relatively stable, and why reactions have been inadequate; the full impact is yet to come. At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump. He has started a war for no particular reason – the word fun was deployed – that is further undermining the global economy he already badly damaged with his ever-fluctuating tariffs. Enterprises need to be able to plan, and tariffs that triple and melt away and pop up again like his moods undermine the ability to do so. In much the same way, threats that aren’t carried out, talks that never took place, administration actions that the courts reverse become forms of political whiplash, jerking everyone and everything around, a show of force that is also a show of incoherence and inconsistency.
"...perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain & ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, & we need to think about what happens when they’re gone..."
Excellent piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Late Jurassic mammals, Art by Lukas Panzarin
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, another Polish Mongolian dinosaur legend and pioneer, has prehistoric mammals named in her honour: Zofiabaatar and Kielanodon
Art by Lukas Panzarin
Other famous example being another Mongolian dinosaur, Halszkaraptor escuilliei.
Given we had Velociraptor Awareness Day. Did you know, many species of famous theropods were named after Polish women in palaeontology. Velociraptor osmolskae & Citipati osmolskae are named after Halszka Osmólska, a Mongolian dinosaur expert, responsible for describing Deinocheirus and Gallimimus.
Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.
Thank you again! And thank you, @perahlberg.bsky.social!
"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry...not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider." @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social
Thank you!
Definitely a mammoth, a very worn lower third molar. The low plate count (9+) is probably due to an advanced state of wear.
"We are the only natural history museum in Riverside County, which is roughly the size of New Jersey and has more than 2.5 million people...we decided that offsite programming would become a significant part of our outreach efforts."
life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/maxs-mobile-...
It was a great honor and an adventure to work together with @camillebader.bsky.social on this unique Deinotherium limb bone. The analysis helped us better understand how the inner structure of this giant’s bones adapted to its enormous size. (Art: Tibor Pecsics - @griffworkshop5)
Maybe not mastodon, but definitely a proboscidean. 🦣🐘
