Charles Bruce

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology
(They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies)

Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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If you haven’t given yet, it’s time to join the movement to defend public media.

Donate now: n.pr/3EYClNR

A Pine Marten on a moss covered rock in Ardnamurchan.

A week long holiday on the Ardnamurchan peninsula provided some incredible Pine Marten encounters from the comfort of our accommodation. Amongst Atlantic rainforest, these mustelids evoke strong feelings of wilder times gone by.

#PineMarten #BritishMammals #Nature #Wildlife #BritishWildlife

The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.

In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."

But this is unequivocal fact.

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

This is what corruption looks like.

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#DefendResearch We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication community – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and...

I am deeply concerned with the pressure on scientists in the US: naked censorship, staffing reductions, and promotion of pseudoscience by the government.
I have signed the #DefendResearch declaration posted on www.defendresearch.org, under the number 3615.
Stand up for science!
#AcademicSky
🧪📢

Probably the most clever sign I saw at #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025

Crowd at Lincoln memorial

The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on.

What we are hearing from around the country:
"this is big!"
"biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years"

The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.

Skeleton of the extinct elephant-relative Gomphotherium at the Denver Museum

#FossilFriday Gomphotherium phippsi, from the Middle Miocene Valentine Fm of Nevada @denvermuseumns.bsky.social

Dear colleagues, The past month has brought unprecedented changes in how the U.S. supports science, scientists, and scientific funding. These changes have shaken our community to the core, as our colleagues, peers, and friends are fired and harassed, our funding is threatened, and our science is censored. Our hearts go out to our members who have lost their jobs, livelihoods, and funding. The Paleontological Society (PS) stands with our members in these uncertain times. We believe that science should be open to everyone, that scientists should be supported at every government level, and that the benefits that scientific research bring to society should be championed.

Despite these dramatic policy changes, the PS remains committed to supporting our community and advancing the science of paleontology through research, education, and advocacy. We affirm that one of our strengths as a Society is our diverse membership, and that such diversity is integral to the advancement of our Society, and to the continued rigor and ingenuity of paleontological research. We will continue to foster an environment that encourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas. Please note that the PS offers an emergency fund [paleo.memberclicks.net] for members who are experiencing a financial emergency, if that is helpful. The PS and our Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) are working with peer societies and government organizations to advocate strongly on behalf of science, scientists, and scientific funding. If you are interested in helping with this work, please reach out to Dr. Tom Tobin (Chair of GAC, ttobin@ua.edu [paleo.memberclicks.net]). Also consider contacting your elected government officials, and/or attending the Stand Up for Science March [paleo.memberclicks.net] in Washington DC on March 7 with other PS members. For our US members, you can find your elected officials and how to contact them here: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials [paleo.memberclicks.net]. Our Government Affairs Committee advises that phone calls and visits to local offices may be more effective than using online forms. If you make contact, emphasize the immediate and direct effects of specific science policy changes on your ability to conduct your job as an educator, scientist, researcher, and other positions. Sincerely, Rowan Lockwood and the PS Executive Committee

The Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social has issued a statement to the paleontology community referencing recent federal policy changes & reaffirming the importance of diversity for paleontological studies and for the health of the scientific community in general. 🧪

And “Eurasian” badgers living in North America!

Art by Oscar Sanisidro

Art by Karen Carr

Gray Fossil Site is crazy because nowhere else do you have red pandas, hornless rhinos, wolverines, alligators, tapirs, sabercats, mastodons, and now a cat-sized flying squirrel living in the same place.

ETSU fossil site reveals giant flying squirrel Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel species, Miopetaurista, at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee, offering new insights into Southern Appalachia’s prehistoric wildlife.

www.etsu.edu/etsu-news/20...

Eocene catfish, Egypt
#SallamLab #MUVP

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Ex-ranger on how Trump's mass government firings are affecting the National Park Service

A friend of mine from Badlands National Park just lost her position due to indiscriminant firing. Watch if you can! youtu.be/E1ykyUpvCDY?...

Historic Move For Wolf Conservation: 12 Collared Gray Wolves Have Been Released In Northern California - World Animal News In a historic milestone for wolf conservation, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced the successful capture, collaring, and release of 12 gray wolves in northern Californ...

Heartening conservation news! Wolves are recolonizing their ancient Californian hunting grounds. History in motion.

Historic Move For Wolf Conservation: 12 Collared Gray Wolves Have Been Released In Northern California worldanimalnews.com/a-historic-m... #California #conservation #wolf #wolves

Photo shows a large brown jaw fossil with pointy teeth in a clear plastic container against a white background.

Me: Oooo. Leidy's holotype of PANTHERA ATROX!!!

P. atrox:...

Me, whispering in awe: (you're so awesome...)

At Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia. Happy #fossilfriday.

“You should have never started it.”

Such ignominious ignorance.

Such betrayal of our ally.

Such a cowardly surrender.

I think anyone who's been paying attention knows this. But it's worth stating clearly. The idea that any of Elon's wilding spree is being done in the name of efficiency is absurd on its face because the terminations are virtually all being done based on duration of service because that creates ...

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

I’d like to see someone with AI outperform any educated paleontologist. I’ve asked AI models questions about paleo just to test them, and they very confidently state false info about critical details like locality. The AI models are particularly bad with that kind of qualitative information

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

A small clear plastic box containing six fossils, including two saber teeth plus a sharp pointy molar (because large cats have crazy shearing wear on their carnassials)

Just hanging out here with the holotype of Dinobastis (=Homotherium) serum. No biggie. The ANSP collection is a wonderful time machine back to 19th century paleontology. I'm sure I'll get to 21st century eventually, but please let me wallow in the past for a bit longer.

Our new discovery, led by @shorouqalashqar.bsky.social , has unveiled a new 30-million-year-old species of apex predator, #Bastetodon, in Egypt’s Fayum Desert! Check out the study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. @matt-borths.bsky.social @erikseiffert.bsky.social #SallamLab #MUVP