Eric Scott

This is a huge help - thank you! As the article notes, now that the harvest season is largely past, we'll see how ICE treats farm workers in the days and weeks ahead.

Ooh, this is nice - thanks for sharing!

Honest question, though: I've seen a lot of posts here & elsewhere about farm owners saying that they have too few workers & are worried about losing crops. Is that all BS? (Not arguing with your point, at all, but if I'm misinformed I'd like to correct that.)

War zone in Portland.

😢

A handsome orange and white kitty named Buzz sitting proudly atop a cardboard in a room with paintings of ivy and other plants, a ceiling light fixture, and a hanging blue glass ball behind and above him

Buzz proudly says he's UP for #Caturday! #CatsOfBluesky

I'm primarily Pliocene and Pleistocene in focus. And my childhood fascination w/ dinosaurs led me to focus on megafauna - I like my fossils from big critters.

Looking for silver linings wherever they might be.

I majored in biological anthropology, but then became a paleontologist anyway. My focus is on mammals, but I still love dinos. 😊

Mounted skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. View is looking up at the complete skeleton w/ the skull to the left & the tail to the right; there are plants and another dino skeleton beneath the mount and a grey museum roof above. This particular skeleton is important because it is the holotype specimen of the species (although the skull here is a cast because the actual skull is far too heavy to be mounted this way).

Skull of Albertosaurus sarcophagus on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Happy 120 years of Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus! Both of these iconic dinosaur species were named by paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn on this day back in 1905. (Yes, this would have been a good #FossilFriday post, but it's Saturday and I'm terribly literal.) 🦖🧪

A towering red and white thermometer with glowing digital temperature readouts rising above a cluster of gas stations along a highway in the desert under cloudy skies

Here in California, in a desert town named Baker (population 482 as of 2023), one can find the world's largest thermometer.

I dunno about this, sounds fishy.

Congratulations to you both!

Thank you for posting this, I wasn't aware. I'm watching now.

Yep, canceling my subscription all those months ago continues to look like a smart move. What a bunch of garbage.

Oh, George is a beauty. What a happy boy! And what a gorgeous morning!

Let's not disrespect toads by equating them with Gutfeld.

Please note that this is a *color* photo - that fossil is *black* (and consequently tough to photograph!). It was discovered during excavations in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles, and is the furthest-inland fossil of sea otters known from the San Pedro Formation.

Dark-colored fossil bone seen against a white background with a scale bar to the left

For #FossilFriday and #SeaOtterAwarenessWeek: a fossilized right humerus (arm bone) from the sea otter Enhydra lutris, discovered during construction in Los Angeles in 2018. The fossil derives from the middle Pleistocene marine San Pedro Formation, which has been dated from 900 ka to 270 ka. 🧪🦦

The title page of a scientific journal article with dozens of authors listed

The author list is something to behold - it looks like almost every paleontologist on the planet was involved! Wonderful to see this level of collaboration.

For #FossilFriday: want to know what's ahead in the future of paleontology? Look no further than this new-today paper. "These questions offer a starting point ... for engaging in discussions, securing funding, advocating for museums, and fostering continued growth in shared research directions." 🦖🧪

Is this still on display in the new exhibits? I'm *hoping* to be able to see them in a couple weeks ... but that'll depend on whether there's a gov't shutdown ...

Not Flapjack Fridays?

Share your favorite black and white movie.

Awesome choice!