Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 1hAlso a gorgeous near complete Tully Monster arrived today. Has an eye bar and proboscis! From the Carboniferous of Illinois. 63511
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 3hThis would be more efficient as a LAND TRAIN like they have Australia, where you attach like 50 tankers onto one big truck and drive them on the highway 050
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 3hYay! My missing box of old fossil fish arrived! Among the pieces: 1) a cute Pterichthyodes from the Devonian of Scotland, with Wards label! 2) Americaspis from the Silurian of Pennsylvania 3) cute Coccosteus from the Devonian of Scotland 4) a different Pterichthyodes from Scotland 0182
Reposted by Fossillocator fab.ricious 🔜 @ Vienna ComicCon 2026! @artoffabricious.bsky.social · 9hSo I randomly made a Sacabambaspis plushie. 04410
Reposted by Fossillocator Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10129803588
Reposted by Fossillocator Ben Morgan AKA Alaskan AtomChild @benmorgan1030.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Haha, this reminds me of some classic WHAT IF...? comedy bits they used to do, either as little backup pages after much more serious stories, or the occasional Humor Issue like #34! Some very dated humor, yes, but still gets a chuckle or two. Art Credits (if available) in Alt Text! #ComicSky 1321921
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sounds like FHSU intends to get rid of specimens… 162
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A lot of collectors and collecting families have made major donations to Sternberg in the past decades. They’re now pissed. 190
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Movie pitch: a movie about a guy who accepts the Immortal Snail bargain. 070
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huh funky. So I had set my phone on a certified coin and a thing popped up on chrome! Apparently these cases have embedded NFC chips that open up a chrome link to the coin’s certification when you put your phone next to them 030
Reposted by Fossillocator samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33900543
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Number of Pacific hurricanes this year: 9 Number of Atlantic hurricanes this year: 0 0104
Reposted by Fossillocator Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A really cool massive halite crystal with a fluid inclusion!! Halite is a Mineral Cup favourite this year. #MineralMonday #MinCup26 #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪 1527
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Looks like a rock hound in Pennsylvania found one of those “cat stepped in a wet tile” artifacts you usually see from medieval Europe! 2182
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection. The lovers, the dreamers and me. 0131
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Was at a rock show and saw an interesting hand axe from France with a fossil on the back. I’m not into artifacts but it’s neat 2350
Reposted by Fossillocator Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They *claim* there is no algorithm on this website, let alone one that hates me, personally, and yet these two posts appear separated by one post in my timeline. Incredibly low probabilities here of this happening on its own! Incredibly low! 2174
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Legit video. AI spotter: the otters just pull stars out of nowhere! People who know otters: they have pockets 1193
Reposted by Fossillocator Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ANSP 22341, an unassuming slab from the Famennian Catskill Formation with portions of a few articulated lobe-finned fishes (Holoptychius) and a placoderm (Bothriolepis). Special to me as the first fossil I found to end up in a museum, collected during the first summer of my PhD. #FossilFriday 14611
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mean, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary is titled "You Can See Everything" and people are surprised it's going to be R-rated for nudity? 040
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s basically “this money to keep the museum open for a year is not a permanent solution so we’d rather close the museum now” 1409
Reposted by Fossillocator Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A good read on the the state of the academy as it stands today. We're in a pivotal moment right now. The academy board must accept the bridge funding or find another way to keep the museum open immediately. neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.com/p/the-academ...neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.comThe Academy Has an Offer. Does It Have the Authority to Take It?A year of funding is on the table. What's unresolved is who actually gets to decide. 112746
Reposted by Fossillocator Truman Peyote @charminggrump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One lady goes, "oh my god, hot dogs?!", and when her strikingly hazel eyes stopped doing the Tex Avery horny wolf eyes thing about a hot dog, she asked if she could put me in a Snapchat, and then excitedly told her friends, "come see my man Ryan for all your hotdog needs!" Lol. 041
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An interesting “red” megalodon tooth from the Meherrin River of North Carolina 2262
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A buddy of mine has a program called Locktoberfest where he gives tours of the canals and locks of DC. It takes great effort not to tell him that Locktober is a thing among a different community. 3151
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The holotype of a fossil boa from the Green River formation, Boavus idelmani, was a privately own specimen that was loaned out for study and casting back in 1938. When the owner died in the 1990's, no one thought about it and later no one could find it. Most likely it was tossed in a dumpster. 05421
Reposted by Fossillocator Usili (Talia) 🏳️⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think still such a funny single comic panel of Spider-Man. 145280
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Paleo folks: is there someone who works on US sauropods and is chill to work with? Feel free to DM suggestions 13817
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Me with my Bsky mutualsstatic.klipy.comTrex DinosaurAlt: Trex Dinosaur 0100
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I should make a key chain that makes the ringtone from Jurassic Park 3 and give it to a few people to take to paleontology conferences 031
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I love it when they talk about native bees instead of euro honey bees 0113
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I once read a short story, I think by John Varley, where a guy keeps trying to get home but keeps getting stuck at a series of airports as flights are diverted or delayed. Then he realizes he’s in Hell. 160
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Checking in on how my roommate from Chinese immersion camp back in college is doing 040
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Save money for retirement or buy a box of Tully Monsters? Tully it is. 1192
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apparently there's a new Netflix doc about the county I grew up in (Orange County, NY) called Teenage Wasteland about an investigation carried out by highschoolers in the 1990's about toxic waste secretly dumped in the woods around my county. www.aetv.com/articles/mid...aetv.comHow High School Students Exposed a Toxic Waste Scandal | A&EThey spent years investigating illegal dumping and other crimes. 0112
Reposted by Fossillocator Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026heartstopping Google News check 2495903433
Reposted by Fossillocator David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I found a new fossil crinoid species. I donated the only known specimen. It's named Jovacrinus clarki. 0111
Reposted by Fossillocator Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26482571354
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s like Bezos can spend $200M on an addition to the Air & Space museum but no billionaire has $2.4M for the Sternberg? 071
Reposted by Fossillocator Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Writeups for #MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 may be delayed as I’ve spent my “volunteer precious time to a fun geoscience outreach project” allocation to identifying and yanking out votes from a BOT NET. For real?? It’s a game about pretty rocks! Knock it off. 46712
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I haven’t been to Vegas since probably 2015 and by the looks of things on social media, that place has gotten all nickel and dime. What do you mean they charge you $50 if you put your own thing in the mini fridge? What do you mean all the hotels now charge for parking? WTF 360
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh no! The Sternberg museum is also closing! hayspost.com/posts/f38333... 41011
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Inflation calculators stopped at 1913. So if we go with the gold standard where $20 at that time = 1 ounce of gold. The $400 for a 1 year old is about $87,000 today. 031
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ya I’ve got a Hesperocyon skeleton laying about. I’m tempted to get it mounted but that would take a lot of extra funds. Hesperocyon is considered to be the first true dog and ancestor of all canids. From the White River group of Wyoming, collected on private land 2193
