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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 5h

I'll take diapers or pre-teen sweat over ferret musk, but that's a personal call

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 5h

Having lived with both, they are equally endearing but ferrets do somehow smell worse

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 5h

I shall lie myself down before the ice sheets and allow their relentless, remorseless advance to entomb me forever* within their icy embrace * okay 5300 years was good enough for Otzi, I should be able to settle for that

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 6h

Museum, zoo, tomato, suspension bridge ...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 6h

There's probably a reason so many of my favorite people are librarians 😁 Of course, what constitutes a library is somewhat subjective ...

Is it a library? Alignment chart, a la the 3x3 grid for D&D, with two axes: Curation vs. Contents.
Curation scores: Purist (managed by a professional librarian), Neutral (curated by someone) and Rebel (curation unnecessary).
Contents scores: Purist (must contain books), Neutral (must contain information), Rebel (anything goes).
Examples, listed in order of Curation followed by Contents: NY Public Library, a newspaper archive, a school information commons; a home bookshelf, a Spotify playlist, a zoo; a (little free) a PC Downloads folder. street library, a junk drawer.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 7h

When the octopus across the bar thinks she's got a shot

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 7h

They had a cutting edge laser ablation setup for oxygen isotope work when I had the chance to work with them ... it was a long time back, but they were gracious hosts!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 8h

Drinkin' and inkin' like Abraham Lincoln!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 8h

Crawling out of that hole myself, know exactly what you mean. Persistence got us this far, it's gotta get us a little farther...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 8h

Synchronicity! I was just telling that story in the paleo lab! Only I was holding the skull (replica) of Megalonyx jeffersoni at the time ...

Replica skull, Megalonyx jeffersoni, with mammoth and mastodon teeth out of focus in the background

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Andrzej Wolniewicz @aswolniewicz.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome Ammonitritor scientacivium, a new Early Triassic omphalosaurid from Svalbard! 🤩 The new skull confirms omphalosaurids were a group of specialised pelagic ichthyosauriforms that likely fed on ammonoids. New paper from me and my collaborators is out now in Biological Reviews!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 9h

I had to introduce one of my students to the amazing plumage of the ocellated turkey today 🏳️‍🌈🦃

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 9h

Therizinosaurus and Rexy going in for Giganotosaurus like Deadpool and Wolverine

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 9h

We all have days like this! 😆

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 9h

Someone out there in paleoart world ... or furry art, not that that's an exclusive sort of situation ... someone has to have Therizinosaurus at the nail salon, yes? You go break out the roller brushes for Gerta, I'll get the belt sander!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 11h

#TherizinosaurusThursday isn't a thing, is it? But ... could it be? ⚒️🧪🦖

Selfie, in the mode of "Is that a Therizinosaurus claw, or are you happy to see me? "

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 11h

That particular sketch has been haunting the page from the early Cretaceous through Phineas and Ferb, so I think it's at least a running gag ...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 17h

This was literally the word I was about to suggest! 😆🪱

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 19h

Dials clack across a brazen breastplate. WE WILL. "It is as you thought. We did not draw too close, but it was still enough. You will have to find their shadows if you hope to restore them." OR RESTORE THE LIGHT. The smile is painfully lovely. "If you can." A light touch on my chest, searing.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 19h

I come to, numb, cradled in cold metal arms. The branches above are bare, leaves littering the forest floor. An exquisite figure, too beautiful to look upon for long, confers quietly with the automaton. Scimitar curved horns glisten in the fading light. "Be careful with this one," they caution.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 20h

Kash has also chosen the bear.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 20h

See, languages are hard without soft tissue preservation, so you have to work with body language and behavior. The big takeaway was that the Triassic was fine but the Jurassic was absolutely a no-go zone. Not even corpses.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, and Shonisaurus, while agreeably social, had little interest in the affairs of land.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ursula and I were dragging corpses out of the desert in Nevada back in the first Bush administration?

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Paging @laurasita.bsky.social for greater Denver food recommendations...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I wish we knew people who wrote books. We could use some more revolution in these parts.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oh my, the world certainly is full of bugs!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Aww yeah, Mystique has what we all want ...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Okay, so: everyone keeps forgetting that Ursula goes girl mode herself, trying to overthrow the patriarchy. And then *some guy* just goes and breaks her heart (with a freaking shipwreck!) after leaving her at the altar. I'm gonna need a minute. And another drink.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One election that year got right, at least!

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's #NationalFossilDay in the US! This year the site of interest is White Sands National Park in New Mexico, US, where human footprints document the earliest confirmed record of people in the Americas. Not coincidentally, a new paper on these fossils is just out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Once again: even if it does theoretically work, the main obstacle to geoengineering is that it requires the same kind of coordinated response that regulating global carbon emissions does - and is therefore just as vulnerable to perverse national incentives and corporate ratfucking.

arstechnica.com

They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.

Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Stompy is the correct choice! 😄

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

we used to be an internet... A REAL INTERNET!!!!

Reddit post from r/AskReddit titled, "URGENT! Need to know right fucking now: Is it safe for octopi to drink beer? Stout in particular". The post includes edits explaining that the octopus seems okay, but that the user replaced its containment rock with a cinderblock, and that the octopus later inked the tank before the user went to sleep.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am advised that today is #NationalFossilDay and while I identify with that perhaps more than necessary, it is my professional obligation and pleasure to participate! Marietta has the largest Mazon Creek collection I've ever seen. And who doesn't love Tullys ... whatever they were? 🧪⚒️

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That would be a sad octopus, for she would have none ... but hopefully her squid friend would share one of her two? Now, a beer in each arm sounds like a party ... until a chambered nautilus bumps into 'em carrying beer in every tentacle. All 90 or so!

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Someone has to feed you! 😁 But yeah, this media climate ...

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I guess I will take the under, if I lose I owe you lunch?

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Why do they have health? Who told them they can be happy? And as for dental ... no, wait, they'll need strong teeth for when I ask them to bite people for me. That's a fair ask.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Do they offer the BS? Several programs offer both.

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