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P. David Polly

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David is a vertebrate paleontologist who grew up near Boonville, Missouri. He is also British. “Read broader, think deeper, do better”: https://pollylab.org/

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An empty Indiana Daily Student newsstand.

An empty Indiana Daily Student newsstand.

Happy Homecoming.

17.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Patriots are here. 🇺🇸

18.10.2025 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

Now we know what it takes to unite IU and Purdue…. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

18.10.2025 01:50 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Cows
YouTube video by Jesse Welles Cows

youtu.be/RCKa3Gzihbc?...

18.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A bright white, glowing small bunny is sitting in a seashell, which is open on a beach, where the waves meet the shore. It is like a bunny of pearl

A bright white, glowing small bunny is sitting in a seashell, which is open on a beach, where the waves meet the shore. It is like a bunny of pearl

Daily bunny no.3110 was born in a shell

17.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 1749    🔁 455    💬 14    📌 4

Leptarctines are cool. So is #PaleoBios.

16.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...

15.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
A bunny sits on the branch of a tree at night, sipping tea and looking at the full moon. On the moon, another small bunny is visible, also drinking tea while looking back at the bunny on the tree branch

A bunny sits on the branch of a tree at night, sipping tea and looking at the full moon. On the moon, another small bunny is visible, also drinking tea while looking back at the bunny on the tree branch

Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away

07.10.2025 03:14 — 👍 2134    🔁 625    💬 19    📌 8

Daily bunny is not F100 material…. #MakeWayForNobody

10.09.2025 03:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

09.09.2025 01:58 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

One if by land, two if by sea. Don’t fire till you see the masks of their ICE, Boston. #OldNorthChurch #TinyHandsOffAmerica

07.09.2025 03:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1966 Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band - The Eggplant That Ate Chicago (mono 45)
YouTube video by The45Prof 1966 Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band - The Eggplant That Ate Chicago (mono 45)

He came from outer space, lookin for something to eat #EggplantThatAteChicago youtu.be/Db8LxhzAml0?...

07.09.2025 03:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova For our scientists

@ellecordova.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

06.09.2025 03:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
A bunny, standing on a rocky cliff overlooking the seashore, throws a paper airplane to another cliff in the distance. On the other cliff, another bunny reaches to catch the plane. It is a cool summer day.

A bunny, standing on a rocky cliff overlooking the seashore, throws a paper airplane to another cliff in the distance. On the other cliff, another bunny reaches to catch the plane. It is a cool summer day.

Daily bunny no.3068 hopes you get the message

05.09.2025 03:29 — 👍 1827    🔁 438    💬 7    📌 5
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The decline of a great university THE ACADEMY IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT TO THE IU TRUSTEES AND STATE GOVERNMENT By Mike Leonard Peaceful , beautiful and under attack. SUVs blowing through stop signs. Cars going the wrong way on one-wa…

Truth. And such a waste for the future of the state of Indiana after five generations of investment to elevate Hoosier kids to world class status. thebtownbee.com/2025/08/31/t...

05.09.2025 01:58 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank MSF urges states with close ties to Israel—including the US—to apply meaningful pressure to halt the forced displacement of Palestinians.

From Doctors Without Borders: Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/risk-...

04.09.2025 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A photo of a little pygmy gray possum held in a human hand. The animal is tiny and gray in color, with pink hands and feet. It is about the size of a human thumb.

A photo of a little pygmy gray possum held in a human hand. The animal is tiny and gray in color, with pink hands and feet. It is about the size of a human thumb.

The little pygmy possum is the smallest possum in the world! Weighing ~0.4 oz (10 g), it's about the weight of 10 almonds. This omnivore has a taste for the nectar & pollen of flowering plants: It can consume up to 7% of its body weight in a single day!
Photo: Tom Hunt, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

01.09.2025 21:12 — 👍 361    🔁 59    💬 4    📌 5

….community-facing conservation projects. Through this, they will contribute to Indiana University’s 2030 vision of student empowerment, creative research, and global service.” Sounds like IU these days, doesn’t it?

29.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Water Bunnies: Ecology, Imagination, and Innovation” is a multidisciplinary course exploring how aquatic biodiversity and cultural storytelling can drive climate awareness and ecological action. Students will research real and mythical freshwater species, produce digital media, and collaborate….

29.08.2025 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is fun sometimes to ask chatgpt to do things few humans could do. I asked it to “align a course on water bunnies to the IUB 2030 Strategic Plan”. What it wrote would definitely make it past ICHE , probably with meritorious rating….

29.08.2025 03:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AAM Statement on the Growing Threats of Censorship Against U.S. Museums For Immediate Release Arlington, VA–Today, the American Alliance of Museums, the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum field, issued a statement in response to the gro…

www.aam-us.org/2025/08/15/a...

17.08.2025 22:09 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Prescription for Healthcare – Dr. Rob Stone, “Medicaid Cuts Affect Everyone” August, 2025 Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5

More from @robstonemd.bsky.social on effects of the new cuts to medicaid on rural Indiana hospital care. medicareforallindiana.substack.com/p/prescripti...

16.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close.  Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the

Thanks to @robstonemd for sharing this sobering summary of the crisis in rural health care www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/13/i...

16.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

An era when even Richard Nixon had soul. Today shame has vanished.

10.08.2025 03:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

05.08.2025 00:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I stand corrected, it WAS 50.5 in Silopi, Turkey. The map I posted was from wrong day and time. New European heat record.

29.07.2025 01:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I stand corrected, it was 50.5 in Silopi 🤦‍♂️

29.07.2025 01:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I stand corrected, it was 50.5 in Silopi. My map was from weather underground, but probably at wrong time of day and wrong grain size to pick up the record.

29.07.2025 01:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warm though it may have been, it wasn’t 50+c in Turkey. 🤔

28.07.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

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