@fossils.bsky.social
Paleontologist, lover of early eukaryotic evolution, all of the protists, fan of the Proterozoic and I bake.
Yellow and black swallow -tail butterfly on pink geranium flowers and rosemary
Garden friend
02.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
01.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 5935 🔁 844 💬 86 📌 64My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
How is there no fast-food Indian restaurant? Need it to be handheld foods? Grab a samosa? There could be chana masala wraps! Money left on. the. table.
31.07.2025 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How is it possible that -- in the year of our lord 2025--- it is **THIS** hard to find vegetarian food in airports?
31.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As a reviewer I'm out there fighting this! Systematics sections and key supporting data belong in the main text!
31.07.2025 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura
New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Promethea = PROvora + MEteora + HEmimastigophora. The new supergroup, unifying previously “orphan” lineages with gene-rich mitogenomes. Position of #telonemids is still uncertain. #protistsonsky tinyurl.com/yk9xkt49
24.07.2025 14:50 — 👍 35 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1Lots of love for the Odd Squad!
21.07.2025 00:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧪🌎🌾
#PlantSciJobs #Herbarium
No thank you.
17.07.2025 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
theonion.com/study-9...
My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
17.07.2025 20:17 — 👍 596 🔁 290 💬 16 📌 6Watch this to the end.
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Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...
13.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Can't tell scale- pick it up and take a picture holding it. That's bound to be safe, right?
13.07.2025 00:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
12.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 5067 🔁 1066 💬 60 📌 65
Research Suggests Life On Earth Began Full 20 Minutes Earlier Than Previously Thought
Research Suggests Life On Earth Began Full 20 Minutes Earlier Than Previously Thought theonion.com/researc...
11.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 1305 🔁 88 💬 26 📌 19Looks awesome but only for very established, senior scientists. maybe early career folks will be invited in a subsequent call? We're the ones most in danger from the US funding cuts and also the most energetic and ready to develop bustling labs in Australia!
11.07.2025 06:24 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0They do like to go on walk-about! I redirect those in my garden when they're in harm's way but I'm always conflicted about whether I should move them back to the milkweed when they're otherwise fine. Thoughts from monarch experts out there?
09.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ALL CAPS
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Indiana Jones and the Gateway Procurement System
03.07.2025 02:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Indiana Jones and the Concur Travel Reimbursement System
02.07.2025 22:21 — 👍 130 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 7In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
02.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 598 🔁 408 💬 18 📌 36
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
02.07.2025 01:44 — 👍 12636 🔁 4116 💬 938 📌 666He's so good at this! I'm on the other side of the country and I want to vote for him!
02.07.2025 04:31 — 👍 102 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I love you guys and will enjoy listening to whatever episodes you want to do, but can we have some lighter weight stupid shit as a treat? Maybe with some cheese puns or Peter's philly/Brooklyn asshole voice?
01.07.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
As Trump heads to the so-called “grand opening” of the Florida migrant facility, this definition - from the Holocaust Memorial Museum - needs to be widely shared and understood.
01.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 535 🔁 318 💬 7 📌 14
Pawn stars meme saying best I can do is utter chaos
Waking up every day asking the universe for a relatively normal day.
THE UNIVERSE:
