Fancy sign for the Wagner Free Institute of Science

The interior of a Victorian museum, wood-paneled walls, glass cabinets, skeletons, etc.

A lil Earth Day excursion

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

we all know I have no life, so:

graffito of Saturn Devouring his Son with "let's go eagles" next to it

Always exciting when the AMNH fossil halls get something new, hot off the heels of the (now-formalized!) Flaming Cliffs exhibit

As with declining trust in universities, you cannot explain the timing or this trend, or fix it, without first acknowledging the reality that the the primary driver of these is the Republican Party’s near-total collapse into far right authoritarianism in the last decade:

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Buffalo Calling Stones, Stinging, and Medicine Bundles: Fossil Legends of the Native Americans of the Plains The war between the Thunder Birds and the Water Monsters involved ranged warfare; they fired missiles at one another which the Sioux called kangi tame, or the blackened remains of lightning bolts.

How did Plains Indians explain and use fossils of long-extinct animals? Delighted to be cited in this fine article
www.distinctlymontana.com/buffalo-call...

how is this literally happening in real life

.....I have to go make a phone call.

Max's Mobile Museum This is the 4th in our monthly series of posts celebrating Western Science Center's 20th anniversary. Western Science Center has an interesting challenge for a small museum. We are the only natural h...

"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-...

Eagles fan, in a crowd, holding a sign that says, "Crosby is still a bitch."

TAXONOMIC REASSESSMENT OF JUVENILE TYRANNOSAURINE SPECIMENS FROM ASIA REVEAL LARGE BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGES IN TYRANNOSAURIDS The recently named tyrannosaurid, Asiatyrannus xui, from the Nanxiong Formation of southeastern China bears a striking resemblance to juvenile specime…

Taxonomic reassessment of juvenile tyrannosaurine specimens from Asia reveal large biogeographic ranges in tyrannosaurids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Velociraptor Safety I recently received a letter from Dr. Daniel Snyder, a paleontologist from Knox College, who wanted to share some theories on handling dromeosaurids: Dear sir, I have recently been introduced to yo…

Only one appropriate thing to post on Velociraptor Awareness Day: blog.xkcd.com/2007/03/04/v...

🚨 Out today: our Editorial in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social on an important issue in science - the reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses.
In it, we analyze several years of editorial data to ask a simple question: are things improving?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...

The holotype of everyone's favorite stem tetrapod Tiktaalik roseae, sitting in an exhibit case

Slow day, time to post Ol' Reliable for #FossilFriday

#PhotoOfTheWeek: Light micrographs of common diatoms.

Read the #OpenAccess article published in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: bio-one.co/4c3AG7z

#SciSky #FossilFriday #Fossil #Subfossil #Geology #diatom

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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LETTER | Tell Congress to Save America’s National Forests and the Science That Protects Them Sign our letter calling on Congress to to take immediate action to protect the U.S. Forest Service and the public lands it stewards.

Save the US Forest Service from destructive “restructuring” peer.org/letter-tell-...

OK, there are lots of reasons to dislike RFK, but I've worked with plenty of zoologists who would consider this to be perfectly normal behaviour.

This tracks pretty well. The people arguing a few months ago that Diplodocus was the most famous sauropod are wrong and/or British

Two painted life restorations of Cretaceous birds posed diagramatically, walking. Top is Pengornis, an enantiornithine with teeth. Bottom is Vegavis, a long-necked and -legged bird. There are vector insets of their snout/beak, wing, sternum, and tail bones. Text: Top - Losers: Pengornis and other archaic birds whose lineages were wiped out by the asteroid had teeth in their jaws, large claws on their hands, a long, bony tail and a small breastbone. Bottom - Winners: Vegavis, an early member of the duck and chicken family, had several traits that scientists suspect were key to the success of modern bird lineages: small body size, a beak instead of teeth, large wings, powerful chest muscles, and a shorter tail that served as an aerodynamic rudder.

Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A better world is still possible

They want to eliminate Ecosystems research.
Cut Natural Hazards funding by a third.
Cut Water Resources funding by a fifth.

And if you think they might care about the finding and digging things out of the ground part of geology, apparently not since they want to cut Core Science Systems by 43%.

Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease From Animals to People

Our study featured in @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...

The day he was born, Gritty threatened the life of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Eight years later, his destiny calls. Tweet reads: Sleep with one eye open tonight, bird.