I’d suggest blurring this young woman’s face. If you think this situation merits mention because it’s creepy and inappropriate, I would hope you would also consider her the victim of an extreme power imbalance (as an absolute best case scenario). She deserves to be left out of this.
Flat illustration of a Northern Mockingbird singing in an upright position- semi-abstract bubble/balloon birds spring forth in the colorful shapes of many birds including a Blue Jay, Goldfinch, Robin, and Eastern Phoebe.
I love that we live on a planet where places like this exist.
Prohibition started in Colorado in 1916. The Coors family pivoted to ceramics, using the rich clay deposits around Golden. That kept the family business afloat until the end of Prohibition in 1933. Coors Porcelain Company became CoorsTEK, which is still in Golden today.
Nothing has helped us so far. We need more than a website. What’s happening is unconstitutional. Push back harder!
Grateful to have a local journalist like Kyle Clark.
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."
Nature valentines.
Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
Critiques can also be kind, and they should be. I think we often forget to mention the good in things. It is just as important to tell someone when they’re doing well as it is when they’re not.
We did a DNA test on our mutt, and it turns out he’s mostly chihuahua, husky, and poodle. With that context, I present to you: a dog who loves snow, but has meltdowns when it gets into his paw pads. Enter these little booties. He walks like a goofball inside, but then has snow zoomies in the yard.
Photo of a very beautiful bog.
Help restore my faith in the world. Who loves a good bog? Make yourselves known! For bogs are - time keepers, death defiers, artifact protectors, carbon trappers, water purifiers, food providers, beautiful mysterious places
Everyone has cancer spiderman trio of accusation and discovery meme
I bet it was a great conversation! I’m really lucky I got to take classes in science communication at the center he founded. I met him briefly when we I sat on a panel discussing science outreach. He was extremely nice and very gracious.
There is also the added layer of sending threats to a school. She’s not just threatening a kid, she’s terrorizing a school. How horrific.
In the outreach I do, I’ll get questions like, “Why did all the reptiles go extinct except some crocodiles and lizards?” Or similar generalizations based on how the fossil record, deep time, extinction has been taught to them. It’s hard to walk back when they have this deeply rooted paradigm.
I wish we were better at bridging research on fossil and modern verts, on both sides. It’s to everyone’s detriment, especially as modern bio research seems to be drifting away from the organismal scale. ALSO…
Ooooh, nice read! I have so many feelings about this. First, from working in modern ecology, I see some wild stuff pop up in paleoecology. It’s different, obviously, and I’m not saying they should be the same, but in general it feels like it’s lagging behind. Also…
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Dog caught in the blinds
How your email finds me
Why root for Pleistocene mammals when Texas has such amazing Permian fossils? Dimetrodon or bust!
@danirabaiotti.bsky.social would you mind adding me to the science feed? I keep flitting around without joining!
I just checked the contents of my pockets for a trinket with which to thank you, but all I found is this: 🦀
Very cool, thank you! I’ve followed a few feeds but I haven’t added to them.
This looks amazing! I did a lot of similar work at my last job and I loved it. I’d love to apply, but I’m not local. I know remote/alternate duty stations are getting harder to come by. I hope you find the perfect candidate for an awesome opportunity!
I SEE TREE FERNS! 🎉
I’ll get back to creature photos in a sec, but for all my sci comm friends: I help run AMAs via r/AskScience on Reddit. It’s a great way to interact directly with an interested audience! I’ve had folks mention they’d never (knowingly) talked to a scientist before. LMK if you’re interested!
If it only has one colon in it, is it even a real academic title? You can do better, friend.
This is my little buddy Charlie. He’s a very smol ray of sunshine who learned to say, “Pretty bird,” and “I’m a banana!”
We host question and answer sessions on the AskScience forum on Reddit if he ever wants to do an online outreach event. I’m a paleontologist and I love featuring paleo!
Thanks, I appreciate it! I hope your recovery is going well.
