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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

Also for the price of the giant Shaker machine you could pay people well to actually do the science...and we would fill out the proper permits to collect...

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 14h

Glad it went well! Many eurypterid paddle hugs for you!

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James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Has a museum with staff whose whole job is to understand the legal and ethical treatment of fossil collections. "wE HeARd a DuDe oN a PoDCaSt"

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Paleontological Research Institution @prinstitution.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

EVENT ALERT: PRI will be hosting an online art auction called "Art, Unearthed" from October 11-18!.When you bid on pieces from our catalogue, you just might unearth something amazing!!! The auction web link will be published on the 11th. Bid early and bid often!

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Them @them.us · 06/10/2026

A new study shows that the weeks after Trump’s second inauguration caused significant spikes in anxiety and depression.

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Trans Youth Aren’t the Only Ones Suffering in Trump 2.0. So Are Their Affirming Parents

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Onedimental Limited Pumpkin Spice Edition @onedimental.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can now refer to 'SCOTUS season' in the same way we refer to 'hurricane season' or 'fire season'.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I was forced out of my lab, I was able to continue researching because of Morphosource. I would not be a scientist right now if it wasnt for this incredible resource.

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For years, 💀MorphoSource💀 has given researchers, educators, and students 🚨free access🚨 to 3D data on museum specimens from around the world. 🔆Now it is asking for some help to continue its work🔆 www.morphosource.org/donate/

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Why Give | Support MorphoSource

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Three weeks and a day until Tyrant Lizard Queen comes out! If you haven't already, now's a great time to pre-order and ask for the book from your library. I'm hoping for a roaring start - and a long tail. 🦖

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Tyrant Lizard Queen

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UK friends: Apply for the @prideinstem.bsky.social small grant scheme until October 30th (Halloween is the holiday of our people, after all). The theme is "Empowering Queer People With STEM", and grants of £1,000 will be awarded in late 2026. Spread the word! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

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Small Grant Scheme 2026 | Pride in STEM

Pride in STEM is once again funding our “Small Grants” Programme.This year’s theme will be “Empowering Queer People With STEM”.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My kid and friends as the fun gang from deltarune at retrogamecon. All homemade or modified from thrifted

Teens dressed as deltarune characters Susie, Noel, Kris, and Ralsei. Susie is pink with pink hair and a black tailcoat with no sleeves, and an axe. Noel is a dear in white, Kris is blue with blue hair, partial armor (che st, greves and bracers) and a pink cape. Raleigh is a goat in a green dress with floppy ears, pink horns, and pink heart on their head.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post them on social media. Tag Drexel in those posts. Send to President Merlo president@drexel.edu And Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu The pressure is working and we need to push it over the edge. It’s not enough, but it’s getting better. Please please take action this weekend, academics.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For #fossilfriday and endoceras orthocone nautiloid from the Utica Shale, Ordovician of NY

A large ~45 cm section of nautiloid fossil in Shale with a scale bar.

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 02/10/2026

Blue and green are rare colors for shells (and rare across life in general). A new study finds blue shells may be due to carotenoid pigments, while green is due to structural coloration! (368) www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-…

Pictures of various green and blue shells in the study

Cross sections showing how the pigments are distributed through the shells, with some condensed into layers while others are more evenly distributed

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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Magpie @magpieofthesea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's oct and that means everything is turning pink. I encourage everyone to think before buying products marketed as raising awareness or funds. A better use of time and money are funds sent to research, direct mutual aid to patients, groups like metavivor and national breast cancer foundation ⬇️

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Variety pack of eurypterids at UMMNH for #FossilFriday: Acutiramus (UMMP IP 86635), Paracarcinosoma (UMMP IP 62598), Eurypterus (UMMP IP 7157), and Dolichopterus (UMMP IP 62680). All from the Silurian of New York and Ontario.

A fossil eurypterid on a gray slab of rock.

A fossil eurypterid on a gray slab of rock. It has a narrow tail and a swollen midsection.

A fossil eurypterid on a gray slab of rock next to a model of the same species painted green.

A fossil eurypterid on a gray slab of rock with long, extended swimming appendages. It is displayed next to a model of the same species painted brown and yellow.

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Sternberg Museum is now also in danger of closing. So today here are old photos of a small Pteranodon from the George F. Sternberg collection. #FossilFriday

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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‼️Here's a nice trackway possibly made by a scorpion on the mudflats of Alabama ~315 million years ago (Pennsylvanian)🦂. This one comes from the famous Union Chapel Mine, and was cited in Buta & Kopaska-Merkel (2016). #FossilFriday @The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections! #fossil

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FossilFriday & ahead of next week's fossil marine reptile conference @morethanadodo.bsky.social, here are some of Mary Anning's most impressive ichthyosaur finds @nhm-london.bsky.social, including the 'first' ichthyosaur of 1811–12, the large 1832 Temnodontosaurus, & big vertebrae of the mid-1830s.

A museum display case with fossil skeletons of large ichthyosaurs.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last call for the last votes of #MinCup26!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More geekery tonight. Trying to make sure my code worked as intended and generating Raup's Figure 2 from his 1962 paper "Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells" #marinelife #SciArt #paleobiology #MolluscMonday #paleontology

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NationalPoetryDay: 'To Mary Anning' by John Kenyon (1784–1856), written after he met her in Lyme Regis in the autumn of 1836 and published in his 'Poems for the most part occasional' (1838). More recently, Mary Anning has featured in the work of at least nine modern poets.

Top left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet; bottom left, portrait of John Kenyon; right, Kenyon's poem, 'To Mary Anning' with each verse ending with 'Mary Anning', limiting his rhyme options somewhat.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So in what is unfortunately now an ~annual~ reminder - the Paleontological Research Institution is not presently affiliated with Cornell and was never a part of Cornell. Some PRI folks have taught students at Cornell, but donating to PRI supports Research and Education, and doesn't support Cornell

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Paleontological Research Institution @prinstitution.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teacher Resource Day is this Saturday at the Museum! PRI's annual Teacher Resource Day has tables full of free fossil and geological specimens and other educational materials for teachers to use in their classrooms. The event is free and exclusively for teachers. See you there!

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait the Babylon 5 channel is uploading whole episodes? For free? (US only it seems) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLba...

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Midnight on the Firing Line | S1 E1 | Babylon 5 FULL EPISODE

YouTube video by Babylon 5

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 25/09/2026

It’s a stupendous Fossil Friday! Let’s celebrate with Stupendemys geographicus, the “stupendous turtle.” This reptile lived during the Late Miocene some 5 million years ago, and it’s one of the largest turtles to have ever existed. Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH

A photo of a fossilized Stupendemys hanging from the Museum ceiling. The turtle is massive with a strong blunt head.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Add an anecdote if you can, and finish with saying that you do not want the public facing museum to close. Send to tw958@drexel.edu We heard FROM HER that this is important. Now get typing!!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Time to dust off that undergraduate religion degree and make some novel wild claims...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can I get a crazy opinion in science with no peer review so long as I use the word AI somewhere now?

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Drexel University is choosing to shut down the country’s oldest natural history museum, The Academy of Natural Sciences, for “funding” reasons (even though it costs .6% of their annual budget and they spent WAY more on ai nobody wants this year!) Go to save-the-academy.org to help.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Need to keep my feelings inside most of the time because the potential for a permanent job being advertised next year. My TA let students use AI in lab write up drafts even though my syllabus says not to because of the harm to learning...we talked after but he's in camp"its inevitable/hard to prove"

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everytime we have an all-hands at work and AI comes up, people voice reasonable concerns about a) environment b) data protection c) reliability/accuracy, some executive always says "well it's out of the box now, it's not going away" and .... so? Just bc it exists doesn't mean we have to use it

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The doors of the Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing on Sunday...for now. But this isn't over. We're meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences when doors close to gather for a moment of resolve followed by a march to City Hall. Join us. art by @lindzeamays.bsky.social luma.com/7ggkgtjb

a t. rex holds a candle in front of the words This isn't over, next to save the academy candle vigil, 5pm Sunday Sept 27, 1900 ben franklin parkway

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a tendency now to look at nonprofits, museums, and the like and try to run them like a business, which, spoiler alert, dooms them.

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My own salary came up at my last doctor's appt, and she expressed extreme shock that I make far less than her receptionist. "I thought you made over six figures, you're a scientist!" Yeah, no, not even close! But there's this pervasive idea that science and museums are these well-funded entities.

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've worked for a natural history museum for 11 years at this point (man, yikes) and while it is sad, it isn't surprising to see two major institutions facing closure this year.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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