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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 06/04/2026

THIS FRIDAY I am presenting at NERVES 2026 about my work with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social about Cretaceous toothed pterosaurs and specifically "Lonchodectidae", the most disastrously polyphyletic taxonomic concept that refuses to die.

excerpt from the NERVES conference schedule:
3:45 SKYE MCDAVID | LFPSE
Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea:) What exactly are they and do they exist?
Skye N. McDavid, Emily M. R. Thomas

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Every time I see someone posting about Iran and World War III, I add them to my growing list of “would have been gullible enough to support the Iraq War” Bingo Sheet

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tilly Edinger’s first described specimen after she moved to the US

Hand clutching cartoonishly beneath a small pterosaur in a limestone slab as if conjuring a spell (specimen is behind glass).

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Exactly this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/03/2025

now that Newsom has apparently decided now is the moment to throw trans people under the bus in service of his overwhelming ambition, I return once again to one of my oldest political maxims do not trust a man who smiles like this

Gary Callahan, “The Smiler”, from Transmetropolitan

he is a sociopath who believes nothing but that he should be in charge

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

Leslie Halligan, District Court Judge
Fourth Judicial District
Missoula County Courthouse
200 West Broadway
Missoula, Montana 59802
(406) 258-4771
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY
SUSAN EDWARDS; MONTANA
TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY; KAEL FRY;
ANNA TELLEZ; EDEN ATWOOD;
SHANNON ALOIA,
Plaintiffs,
v.
THE STATE OF MONTANA; GREG
GIANFORTE, in his official capacity as
GOVERNOR OF MONTANA,
AUSTIN KNUDSEN, in his official
capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF MONTANA,
Defendants.
Dept. No. 1
Cause No. DV-23-1026
ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS
FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
This matter comes before the Court on opposing motions for summary
judgment. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I, II, & III
(“Motion”) seeks to declare Senate Bill 458 as facially unconstitutional.
Defendants’ (collectively, the “State”) Motion for Summary Judgment seeks to
dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims arguing the absence of a case or controversy. The Court
has considered both motions, the parties’ supporting and opposing briefs, and the

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wishing a not good day to any professor who says, “review your notes” to equations they showed us two minutes ago

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025

OpenAI right now

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Completely annihilated my Twitter from orbit, I refuse to stay on a place run by a literal nazi

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Cazh @cazh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

You were the the best little gremlin in the whole world, and there’s not a day that’ll go by where I won’t love and miss you with my entire being. You lived a long life, despite what felt like your efforts to get into as much shit as possible. Rest easy, Cheerio, you’ll always be my little baby man💔

A photo of a small mixed breed dog laying in bed, taken on the morning of his final day being with us.

A photo of the same dog standing on a tile floor, taken shortly after we moved into our current home.

A photo of the same dog basking in the sunlight in our old house. His eyes are closed and he looks away from the light source.

A photo of the same dog outside in a dog park. He’s smiling.

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The key element that the Jurassic World movies lack, compared to the original and The Lost World, is balding guys in the cast

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Geology Prof: “Later on in the semester you guys will be drawing Phase Diagrams from memory on the board and NOT cartoons” Me: “That’s actually a Face Diagram that I drew from memory”

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Owen Goodchild @paleowen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I’m spreading the word about a petition from some friends of mine in support of the paleontological research institution, a remarkable museum which is unfortunately in danger of closing forever soon. www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

change.org

Sign the Petition

Save the Museum of the Earth from Imminent Closure

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I was made aware of something incredibly unfortunate about my favorite Neotype

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shermals.bsky.social @shermals.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Join me and these amazing musicians for Valentine's Day!

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I almost told my friends that I am John Lennon’s biggest hater, but then I realized that I am a Silver Medalist John Lennon Hater at best

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Imagine not only being hunted to extinction by a hairless bipedal ape, but having those same apes carve your likeness into a fragment of your teeth after hunting you. I would simply find a way to haunt them forever

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The seals to any hiker named Tony

Carmine Senior from Sopranos on the phone saying, “We share the esplanade, Tony”

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The (level 20) Archbishop of Paris uses his +5 Holy Staff of Radiant Holiness to open the doors of Notre Dame again: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Right side view of man in white robes with blue and yellow stripes, and a white archbishopy hat. He faces a huge brown door and holds aloft a ?bronze staff with a rather large curled top that has a purple (amethyst-like) crystal in the centre. He is using the other end of the staff to pry open the gate.

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

ANTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR, I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THE-ATER

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Led my first Paleobiology Lecture/Lab the other week. I decided to include a pathological Walrus Baculum as one of the specimens. The look of indifference on the faces of the women in the class compared to the looks of horror on the faces of the men in the class was truly an incredible contrast

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hi, my name is Justin, you should use pens instead of pencils when creating a map in the field for the first time ever

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Some of my first Cambrian fossils seen in the field, burrows of Skolithos at the type locality for this ichnotaxon

grey rock cleavage plane with perpendicular striations of “Skolithos” burrows

grey rock cleavage plane with “skolithos” burrows

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My new bit for the month is telling people that I have been working on an impression of them and then saying, “It’s da bat!” like a Thug from Arkham Asylum

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

some funky trace fossils in the Lockatong Formation

Grey rock filled with tubular trace fossils

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Leading my first college level paleobiology lecture today, feeling like a G

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This seems important. My take is that education is important and we’ve gotta start people on philosophy before college. Also, though I believe in higher ed, it’s still broken and needs to be for more people than it currently is. Our futures depend on it. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

insidehighered.com

Men and white people vote differently based on education

Over all, college graduates voted for Harris by 13 points more than they did Trump. But that gap was even starker for certain demographics.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hi folks, in addition to the whole let's-not-comply-in-advance thing, let's maybe stop with the weird doomer stuff. Not because bad stuff won't happen but because we should maybe not turn this into Twitter and just reskeet people posting unknowledgeable takes for clicks. ---

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Back to the Triassic fo today (Lockatong Formation)

Lockatong Formation Siltstone with mudcracks and a scale bar

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

It’s times like these that I look to the life stories of figures like Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Tilly Edinger to stay hopeful. Shit clearly sucks now and the future seems bleak but it is far from hopeless. We can organize, we can fight, and moreover we will overcome.

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Just realized I forgot to make ANY iNat observations while in Minnesota, I have truly failed as an extant ecologist

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Tyler Stone @tylerstoneart.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Been having a blast at #2024SVP! Hearing about lots of exciting things and meeting awesome people. I’ve made connections that I think will lead to some really cool projects for me. Also, here are the only sketches I’ve done that aren’t based on embargoed work – my first love, early whales #paleoart

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Justin Andell @justinandell.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

*certain* Senior Academics when you tell them to ask Grad Students questions and NOT make long winded statements about their own research

Tom from Tom and Jerry angrily reading a book with a reddened face and smoke rising from his head

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 31/10/2024

Here's something spooky from Ghost Ranch for this Halloween 🎃👻🐄🌷🦖🐊 A new paper from Jeb Bugos and myself describing two small and skeletally immature skulls of Coelophysis bauri. 🧵