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Jeanne Timmons

@mostlymammoths.bsky.social

Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska. https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/

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#Nature #NaturePhotography Magnificent tree on our hike in Montana de Oro.

03.03.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s incredibly frustrating that no corruption, no recklessness, no perversion is enough for the people capable of removing President Trump to remove President Trump.

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Shades of blue all over - the light blue of the sky as the sun sets, the blue tints on the snow below and the dark silhouettes of pines. 

Clouds are lit by a setting sun.

Shades of blue all over - the light blue of the sky as the sun sets, the blue tints on the snow below and the dark silhouettes of pines. Clouds are lit by a setting sun.

Snow-covered pond ❄️

03.03.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This.

03.03.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1649    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2
A digital illustration of a flowering summer prairie at sunset, with blue hills in the distance. An American bison is walking from right to left, and with it walks a ghostly white silhouette of a mammoth.

A digital illustration of a flowering summer prairie at sunset, with blue hills in the distance. An American bison is walking from right to left, and with it walks a ghostly white silhouette of a mammoth.

#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie

The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.

Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.

06.09.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

The Supreme Court in 2022: Women do not have a right to make important decisions about their health

The Supreme Court in 2026: Parents obviously have a right to make important decisions about their children’s health

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dazzling megafaunal community with many species actually still pending description. From Palaeoloxodon, to various giraffes to a myriad of living and extinct antelopes, Koobi Fora was home to many of Africa's classics!
As this size chart by @gnath.bsky.social reveals...

02.03.2026 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Result from the Koobi Fora #paleostream! This region on the east side of modern day Lake Turkana in Kenya is a treasure trove for fossils of the early Pleistocene and is most famous for many early human remains, with up to 6 species present throughout the layers...

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Fossil of Iberospondylus schultzei. Source: https://web.igme.es/museo/pieza_mes/2018/noviembre.htm

Fossil of Iberospondylus schultzei. Source: https://web.igme.es/museo/pieza_mes/2018/noviembre.htm

🐟Fish fossils include those of acanthodians, chondrichthyans (among them Orthacanthus, the top predator in the ecosystem) and bony fish, as well as tracks and coprolites, while tetrapods are represented by the temnospondyl Iberospondylus (adapted for brackish water or even the sea) and ichnofossils

27.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Drawing showing biodiversity from the Carboniferous of Puertollano, which includes plants, arthropods, fish and tetrapods. From left to right, top to bottom:
- The giant millipede Arthropleura walking through the forest floor, next to an amphibian (maker of the Puertollanopus tracks) and insects
- General view of the swamp landscape, with a volcano erupting in the background
- A early synapsid, maker of possible Dimetropus tracks
- Pecopteris monyi, leaves of a tree fern
- A pair of Acanthodes swimming through vegetation and smaller fish
- The temnospondyl Iberospondylus schultzei swimming next to some platysomid fish
- Small clam shrimp Euestheria
- Two lycophytes Omphalophloios puertollanense next to some swamp creatures
- The xenacanth Orthacanthus hunting in the murky waters
- Juvenile shark Lissodus hiding from the fish Progyrolepis speciosus
- Puertollanichthys richtei, a small fish, swimming through the vegetation

Drawing showing biodiversity from the Carboniferous of Puertollano, which includes plants, arthropods, fish and tetrapods. From left to right, top to bottom: - The giant millipede Arthropleura walking through the forest floor, next to an amphibian (maker of the Puertollanopus tracks) and insects - General view of the swamp landscape, with a volcano erupting in the background - A early synapsid, maker of possible Dimetropus tracks - Pecopteris monyi, leaves of a tree fern - A pair of Acanthodes swimming through vegetation and smaller fish - The temnospondyl Iberospondylus schultzei swimming next to some platysomid fish - Small clam shrimp Euestheria - Two lycophytes Omphalophloios puertollanense next to some swamp creatures - The xenacanth Orthacanthus hunting in the murky waters - Juvenile shark Lissodus hiding from the fish Progyrolepis speciosus - Puertollanichthys richtei, a small fish, swimming through the vegetation

🌴🦈Carboniferous PuertollanoπŸΈπŸŒ‹
In the lands of La Mancha, fossils from the Late Carboniferous known from old coal mines reveal a tropical coastal swamp ecosystem, rich in aquatic and plant life
#paleoart #FossilFriday #Carboniferous #Puertollano
🧡Thread for additional explanation

27.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Belated response, but sending a bouquet of hope. πŸ’›

03.03.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine spending your life building these networks and funding mechanisms and just seeing all that wiped out in, what, 14 months?

I'll be thinking about that for a long time. Build sustainable programs folks. No idea how....

03.03.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Met someone who spent their career building programs to support underrepresented scientists at all career stages. We asked what he wished he knew earlier. He said he wished he knew how to make these programs sustainable, so that his life work didn't crumble with a change in leadership.

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The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

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As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

"Trump admin officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings w/congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces 1st, 2 people familiar w/the matter said..."
@phildstewart.bsky.social @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social

www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

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Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term β€˜ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

"'Ancient Palestine' was 'academically appropriate'. The 5th-century [BCE] Greek historian Herodotus used the term Palestine to describe a region broader than that acknowledged by UKLFI." @owenjones.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.

A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

#Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

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Mammothssss

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Quiet places

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Loch Ericht

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"Stay off social media when you're drunk": Omar responds to mocking Mace post about Khamenei - Salon.com The Minnesota representative responded to a bigoted post with a bit of advice.

"[Mace] has made herself a national name via proud displays of hatred on Capitol Hill." - Alex Galbraith

www.salon.com/2026/03/01/s...

02.03.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nancy Mace, une élue républicaine plus que problématique, a tweeté ce matin qu'elle adressait ses prières et pensées aux deux élues musulmanes démocrates Rashida Tlaib et Ilhan Omar pour le décès de Khamenei.

Ce niveau abyssal de connerie mon dieu.

01.03.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
WHAT IF THERE'S NO MARCH 7TH RALLY NEAR ME?

WHAT IF THERE'S NO MARCH 7TH RALLY NEAR ME?

VISIT standupforscience.net/march7
to host a rally or host a pop-up protest!

VISIT standupforscience.net/march7 to host a rally or host a pop-up protest!

You had questions about the Take Back our Science rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th!
standupforscience.net/march7

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7
#savescience

01.03.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BOSTON NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION LOCATJON 

PARKMAN BANDSTAND

139 TREMONT ST
02108

BOSTON NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION LOCATJON PARKMAN BANDSTAND 139 TREMONT ST 02108

BOSTON!!! Visit this link:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/
to learn more about your local SATURDAY MARCH 7TH RALLY
to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!

See map for location! Rally starts at 12PM and goes till 3!!

#March7Boston
#standupforscience
#science
#savescience!

27.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

There is death and wanton violence everywhere we look, there is unimaginable loss and fear, all thanks to a handful of men at the helm who have never had to answer for a single wrong.

01.03.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A western toad, rescued from a pit trap,.

A western toad, rescued from a pit trap,.

I don’t have anything to say that can help right now. But this toad believes in you. Stay strong. #herps

02.03.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 415    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

In a moment of joy, with loud music on, I may or may not have been dancing in my kitchen.

......And I may or may not have twisted something in the process

02.03.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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For the People. For New Hampshire. Stand with Karishma and join the movement.

Donate today to support our campaign ⬇️
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