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🦴 Paleontology 📚 Science Education 🦕 PBS Eons cohost 🧙🏽 Cosplay for Science
Dressing Up to Get Down with #Science -2025 #Cosplay for #Science Workshop at SICB
by Audrey Friestad, Jaralynn Tammi Morellano, & Katrina Pinili
on @gregpask.bsky.social , @lisalundgren.bsky.social & @paleoparadox.bsky.social workshop
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Celebrated World Ocean Day with a trip to the Cabrillo Aquarium and the excellent Water Pokémon-themed scavenger hunt put on by the illustrious and rad @paleoparadox.bsky.social! Such a lovely aquarium celebrating the beauty and power of the SEA!
08.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The president’s proposed NASA budget does 2 things well: it cedes US leadership in STEM, and it funnels taxpayer dollars to companies and their CEOs.
Moving the goal to Mars means that companies get to spend a LOT of tax dollars in development, rather than having to deliver actual results.
Illustration showing various water-type Pokemon in a kelp forest.
Celebrate #WorldOceanDay at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and learn about the science of water-type Pokémon at our special pop-up museum!
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Parallel Universe USS Cerritos crew gets into shenanigans at the Star Fleet Museum (aka Universal Fan Fest).
#StarTrek #LowerDecks @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social
Doing some fun @pbseons.bsky.social stuff at the Idaho Museum of Natural History! So many cool Helicoprion fossils!! #paleontology #PBSeons
06.05.2025 00:10 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #StarWars Day and #MayThe4th! The @cosplayforscience.bsky.social crew had an awesome time at the Academy Museum’s May the 4th celebration! Had an amazing time talking about the science of Star Wars creatures!
05.05.2025 03:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A #Pokemon themed #FossilFriday! Had the chance to visit the Pokemon Fossil Museum exhibit while at the Fukui Dinosaur Museum and let me tell you it was amazing! Wonderful mix of nerdery and paleontology to educate, entertain, and engage. A little jealous but overall inspired!
02.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Got to visit the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum last week and it was amazing!! So many cool exhibits and I had so much fun learning about the local fossil discoveries like Fukuiraptor and Fukuisaurus!
30.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
May the 4th is almost here and we’re super excited to be joining the Academy Museum for the #StarWars Day celebration! Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn more of the Living Force and discover the science of the many life forms that live in a galaxy far, far away!#MayThe4th
30.04.2025 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dire wolves: Still extinct? The question to be discussed at next week’s Elephant in the Room discussion at NHMLA! Alf Museum curator, Dr. Mairin Balisi, will be joining the panel to talk about the recent news that dire wolves have been brought back!
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Cosplay pics from Star Wars Celebration Japan aka Cal Kestis and Bode Akuna shenanigans.
#StarWarsCelebrationJapan #StarWars #SWCJ #cosplay
What an awesome day at #StarWarsCelebration! Thank you to everyone who came out to the Science of ROTS panel! Had a wonderful time talking about some of the cool lifeforms in a galaxy far, far away! Thanks to Star Warsologies Podcast for inviting me to join the panel! @cosplayforscience.bsky.social
19.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The University of Illinois Cosplay for Science group organized an awesome DnD-themed science event this past weekend at the Anita Purves Nature Center in Urbana, IL! Read more about it below!
Major shoutout to Dr. Phil Anderson for organizing this event!
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🐾 Are #direwolves alive again?
Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno.
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This image shows 8 BSA members near or holding plants and smiling. Text: “International Plant Appreciation Day, April 13, 2025. Support BSA with an Unrestricted Gift Today!” The image also includes the BSA logo.
🌱It's International Plant Appreciation Day!🌿
Support the plants & community that inspire you. Please consider making an unrestricted gift—it provides flexible support, ensuring resources go where they’re needed most: crm.botany.org/makeadonation
Share your plant story! #LetsGoPlants #IamaBotanist
The #DireWolf is the talk of the town right now! But what exactly were these Ice Age predators? Alf Museum curator and dire wolf researcher explains! #FossilFriday
12.04.2025 02:27 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Preprint on dire wolf DNA from Beth Shapiro of Colossal and colleagues. No de-extinction details here, just evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The PBS Eons podcast, Surviving Deep Time, is up for a Webby! We’re currently in second place in the voting! Show your support for Eons by voting and spreading the word. Help us get in 1st place!
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You never know what life has in store. . .I am thankful for @lindbladexp.bsky.social , National Geographic, @paleoparadox.bsky.social , Karl Horeis + Kelly Preheim 💛 (and new GTFs I am not allowed to post yet) 😉
#GTF2020Forever #teacherlife
New Eons episode just dropped on YouTube! “When Red Panda Roamed North America”!
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A gray wolf clone with dire wolf DNA edits.
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
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The PBS Eons podcast, Surviving Deep Time, is up for a Webby! We’re currently in second place in the voting! Show your support for Eons by voting and spreading the word. Help us get in 1st place!
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Heading to #StarWars Celebration Japan? Check out the Science of Revenge of the Sith panel on Saturday. I’m super excited to be joining as a panelist to talk about the cool creatures and biomes in a galaxy far, far away! @cosplayforscience.bsky.social #SWCJ
06.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to my fellow #2020GTF @amyking.bsky.social! You gave such an inspirational presentation today on your WWII student project! Your students are so lucky to have you as their educator and mentor!
05.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1“The “do less with more” mentality has left many of us bearing the weight of full-time responsibilities while being compensated as part-time workers.”
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Fossil whales are so cool. So glad I got to see these on my speed run of the Smithsonian. I need to go back when I have more time to read all the exhibit signs. #FossilFriday
04.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Now accepting applications for a full-time Fossil Preparator at the Alf Museum. This is a full-time position with salary range of $25-$27 per hour.
Application open until filled. To apply or for more information, use the link: tinyurl.com/238spbxx
Had a couple hours before the workshop welcome reception. So of course I had to check out the National Museum of Natural History! First time seeing it since the renovation! It’s beautiful! 😭
03.04.2025 00:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Super excited to hear at NatGeo HQ for the 2025 GTF Workshop as a 2020 alum! Can’t wait to meet this year’s cohort of incredible educators and share what I learned from my expedition to Antarctica! Thanks so much to NatGeo Education and Lindblad Expeditions for your continued support of educators!
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