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🦴 Paleontology 📚 Science Education 🦕 PBS Eons cohost 🧙🏽 Cosplay for Science
Secret bonus YouTube episode! Check out "Lifeforms of Legends" panel from Legacy Expo, feat. SW comics writer @corinnabechko.bsky.social. Ysalamiri, voxyn, & more! w/ @paleoparadox.bsky.social @melissatruth.bsky.social & @jamesjawa.bsky.social @cosplayforscience.bsky.social youtu.be/pY5yFXrJuYU
08.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
What a wonderful panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social chatting the science and dinosaurs of Jurassic World at L.A. Comic-Con, in awe of this crew and honored to be among them. Life finds a way indeed y’all! 🎤🦖🦕
29.09.2025 03:21 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Very excited to be a part of the “Anatomy of a Superhero” panel at #FanX tomorrow with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social! Thank you so much @lisalundgren.bsky.social and @paleoparadox.bsky.social for making it happen!
I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓
#cosplayforscience
#ICYMI Science communicator and paleontologist, @paleoparadox.bsky.social (@pbseons.bsky.social, @alfpaleo.bsky.social, @cosplayforscience.bsky.social), was on the latest See Jurassic Right’s Back To School Series chatting about the importance of museums and play
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Thanks so much having me @stevenraymorris.bsky.social! It was so fun and thank you so much for the kind words.
21.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Have you listened to the Back To School series ep of See Jurassic Right w/ @paleoparadox.bsky.social yet? Whether it’s through @alfpaleo.bsky.social & @cosplayforscience.bsky.social or a host @pbseons.bsky.social, he brings science to life in warm & welcoming ways: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
21.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Storytelling and play through science, that’s @paleoparadox.bsky.social’s mission as an @pbseons.bsky.social host, and his work with @alfpaleo.bsky.social and @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, on today’s Back To School Series episode of See Jurassic Right!
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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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🌱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...
12.04.2025 02:11 — 👍 59 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 4
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...
07.04.2025 16:38 — 👍 1236 🔁 337 💬 65 📌 145
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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