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Jen Mesch

@jenmesch.bsky.social

Dancing on the Late Cretacous Measurer of hearts Filmmaker, paleontology volunteer A bunch of other stuff, too πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ www.dance-conspiracy.org

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Two of these three aren’t bad.

05.02.2026 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Barf.

05.02.2026 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two of these three aren’t bad.

05.02.2026 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't really know what to do with the realization that we have a pope who can likely quote lines from The Blues Brothers from memory

09.05.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

30.04.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17467    πŸ” 6878    πŸ’¬ 1251    πŸ“Œ 650
Kiwi coloured pterosaur

Kiwi coloured pterosaur

Scaphognathus, my beloved

04.04.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Genus Myrianida Myrianida from Kihei, HI 96753, USA on December 3, 2011 at 07:17 PM by cory-pittman. found by Pauline Fiene

#wormwednesday GLAM purple polychaete Myrianida from Hawaii! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

02.04.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I finally got this working. Pro & uropatagium to follow.

Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.

27.03.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
New York Daily News

New York Daily News

The mastodon jawbone at the museum now

The mastodon jawbone at the museum now

Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Sun

March 25, 1925: Fossils found by crews digging the foundation of an apartment house in upper Manhattan are verified to belong to a more than 10,000-year-old mastodon. The Ice Age creature was likely a baby, judging from its teeth, says the American Museum of Natural History.

25.03.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Fall, left, and Sinclair in 1924

Fall, left, and Sinclair in 1924

March 9, 1925: A civil trial begins in Wyoming in which the Teapot Dome special prosecutor aims to cancel oil leases granted by ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall. He and oilman Harry Sinclair are accused of β€œone of the greatest frauds ever practiced on the government.”

09.03.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a dinosaur watering potted flowers from loofandtummy.com ALT: a cartoon of a dinosaur watering potted flowers from loofandtummy.com
08.03.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

05.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 96678    πŸ” 26677    πŸ’¬ 1537    πŸ“Œ 1258

Thank you, Senator, for fighting for America!

04.03.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

True - also - by Canadian standards, this is totally a 🟒

02.03.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When do we see the job losses vs gains report for the month?

02.03.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Drawing of Benjamin Frankling wearing a coonskin cap.

Drawing of Benjamin Frankling wearing a coonskin cap.

Franklin being received by the French court in 1778. The French are in powdered wigs.

Franklin being received by the French court in 1778. The French are in powdered wigs.

FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.

01.03.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6766    πŸ” 704    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 20
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Vladimir Putin May Have Launched an Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine, But at Least He’s Never Asked You to Use a Same-Sex Bathroom β€œHas Putin shipped every middle-class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teachin...

"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"

01.03.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

It’s AI

28.02.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Seth -
If nothing else, please look at the hands in this image.
-Jen

28.02.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for β€˜telling the future’ has been discovered on private land in Patrick, on the West Coast of the

Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.

Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage πŸ‘

manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...

11.02.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 217    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET

25.02.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6769    πŸ” 978    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 21
Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').

Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky πŸ§ͺ🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.02.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 364    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 12

Usually the flex is how many jobs have been added.
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?

22.02.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

15.02.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 19501    πŸ” 5722    πŸ’¬ 286    πŸ“Œ 245
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Quite the difference in the crowd reaction during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems during the 4 Nations Face-Off tonight

16.02.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10342    πŸ” 1574    πŸ’¬ 495    πŸ“Œ 194

Either he’s just used to lying/exaggerating or he’s not mentally all there, or both.

14.02.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0