Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 15hSeptember 2026 finishes with 11 days having a moose sighting after encountering this cow and her calves this morning. Pretty remarkable considering I was out of state on 13 of the days this month. 69912
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsBrittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 15hSomething anecdotal that makes me think the recent museum closures we’re seeing is a symptom of a wider cultural attitude towards science: Two of the most frequent questions I now get from kids on field trips are “what’s that fossil worth”/“do you make a lot of money?” 1176
Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 10hThe abundance of colors everywhere fills me with great joy. 💙🚲 040
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsAndy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 18hI also recognize that professional organizations can't comment on everything, and strongly worded statements are just that, but also it matters to this AAM member to know that *our* organization is paying attention. 0112
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsAndy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 18hEarlier this morning, I sent an email to the Advocacy & Government Affairs team at AAM, requesting them to take *some* form of action. I think AAM does a good job on many things, but the apparent silence around two *major* closures is a bit disconcerting. 2123
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsAndy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 18hI am pretty disappointed by the lack of public acknowledgment from the American Alliance of Museums about the situations at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel (which was AAM-accredited!) & the Sternberg. There are lots of museum crises right now, but these are particularly serious. 13011
Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 10hA bit magical, biking while golden leaves fall and float gently all around you. 💙🚲 011
Reposted by Jeanne Timmons Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 18hThis also suggests that older evidence for crown tetrapods, including recently described Devonian trackways bearing claw-like tracks, be reinterpreted. The tracemaker of these trackways may have been an animal like Westlothiana - a quadrupedal, pentadactyl, and clawed stem tetrapod! 1233
Reposted by Jeanne Timmons Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 18hOut today: We show that Westlothiana lizziae or "Lizzie," described 35 years ago as the world's oldest reptile - is not a stem amniote at all, but a stem tetrapod. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 28441
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJacob Schick (commissions open) @seismic-shrimp.bsky.social · 18hI did the art for this!!! It’s nice to finally be able to talk about this 0197
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsLauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18hStandard-winged Nightjar for A.E.! Thank you for your #Waymakers donation! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt We're down to the last day for donations, don't miss out! Every dollar goes to helping immigrant kids in the US! Donate here: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi... @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 111138
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsNew York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 16hLouisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are asking the Supreme Court to let them impose their abortion bans on New York and punish our doctors for providing legal health care. I'll fight with everything in my power to defend our shield law and protect every provider and patient. 1220858
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12hStory is up now on the site! jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-p...jessica.substack.comBREAKING: Republicans File Supreme Court Suit to End Shield Laws9.30.26 24126
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14hI’ll have more in a newsletter going out shortly, but something to flag in the meantime: The AGs are seeking PATIENT INFORMATION, asking for “complete identification of the individuals...to whom [plaintiffs] prescribed and dispensed abortion drugs” to cross-check against Medicaid databases 314939
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14hWe knew this was coming: Republican AGs have been in a race to get shield laws in front of SCOTUS. The suits also rely on anti-abortion strategies I’ve been tracking for years—including lies about coercion, bogus studies on mifepristone’s safety, free speech attacks, and fetal personhood. 215535
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14hThe second suit, which names 30 providers, organizations, and pharmacies, seeks injunctions, damages—and threatens RICO claims down the line.ag.state.la.us 110529
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14hOne suit, filed against New York, Massachusetts, and California, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to end shield laws—which would allow the conservative states to extradite abortion providers (among other horrors).ag.state.la.us 411937
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14hBREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them. 16418240
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsAG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 13hNEW: Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are challenging Massachusetts' Shield Law, asking SCOTUS to let them punish patients and providers of abortion and gender affirming care. My office will vigorously defend the law and our authority to protect the rights and privacy of our residents. 16720
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10hThe Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 22630156
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.” 1223164
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity. 321170864822
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling. 781548631
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I started writing a newsletter post about the third-country removals case and had to stop—I was too mad. Maybe tomorrow. 57104692
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsOmar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A side project I have been working on over the last couple of weeks has finally matured into a paper. The contradictory views about the fossil record of Mexican dinosaurs seem to be a database management problem. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | A hundred years of dinosaur research in Mexico: skeletal completeness and phylogenetic information of the dinosaur fossil record in MexicoThe dinosaur fossil record from Mexico is sparsely documented since most of it is fragmentary remains with little taxonomic information and a lot of it conti... 13112
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsPascal Abel @abel-paleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Loooong boi. Tanystropheus at Urweltmuseum Oberfranken (Bayreuth). #paleontology #paleobio #fossils #Triassic #Paläontologie 26323
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsAlberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New microraptorian dinosaur Norellraptor barsboldi, with evidence from phylogeny and bone growth that microraptorians evolved flight independently from the lineage leading to modern birds: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷Wang et al.) 0329
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsHeitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ilustração da tela de carregamento para o jogo Aldian of Ancients: Oxalaia, Sinraptor, Shringasaurus e Ampelosaurus 36325
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social 628768
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsWitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For #TyrannosaurTuesday, here's @ohiouniversity.bsky.social sophomore researcher Klazina McKeigan digging into the details of T. rex skulls using the brilliant 1/6-scale 3D print set of Stan from the Black Hills Institute. Klazina is training for a new project that you'll hear more about later! 🦖 0156
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It feels like we do not yet have an intersectional feminist movement that has coalesced to meet the needs of this moment. I can't think of a better reason for cross-generational solidarity than the fact that we need experience AND energy at the table. We need perspective AND time and resources. 2395
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For a second-wave movement that built itself around consciousness-raising, Take Back the Night, and other *community based* work, this is disappointing. I get it, it's hard to see so much backsliding. But we need cross-generational solidarity right now, badly. 29513
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsThomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 3182101
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsRobert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wrote a bit about the two university museums slated for closure. There is *still* time to do something about each! 🧪🦖coastalpaleo.blogspot.comA tale of two university museums: there is still time to save the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Sternberg MuseumSeptember 2026 has been a pretty dispiriting month for American paleontologists. In early September, Drexel University gave a surprise annou... 29770
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsSkye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 28/09/2026I'm one of the scientists here. Sternberg Museum holds one of the most important pterosaur collections in the world. It is extremely important that the collection remains accessible for research, and it would be a tragedy for Kansas if it has to be transferred out of state. 18839
Reposted by Jeanne Timmons@kwch12 @kwch.com · 28/09/2026BREAKING: The Sternberg Museum in Hays will be closing before the end of the year. kwch.comSternberg Museum in Hays to close by year’s endThe president of Fort Hays State University cited a budget shortfall in the closure decision. 12012
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there should be a name for that consultant stink that dems get about them, the miasma of bad of advice, ill-considered knee-jerk centrism in the face of actual fascism, the reek of cowardice that only comes from abysmal advice 733377
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsProf. Juan Cisneros ⚒️🐉 @cisneros.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia- Núcleo Minas Gerais, *Paleo MG*, será em Caratinga, MG. Mais informações: grupofossilis.com.br/index.php/pa... 0153
Reposted by Jeanne Timmonshoussayecnrs.bsky.social @houssayecnrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We describe a new freshwater mosasaur, from Provence France, with N Bardet @cr2p.bsky.social, FL Pelissier, Y Dutour, E Turini & T Torstosa in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. Welcome to Garamaudo! It seems that mosasaur evolution was more complex than we thought peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... 13315
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is OUR collective history. Museum specimens belong to the world, not to a move star or tech bro. The academy has not only done the scientific work to investigate and curate these fossils for 200 years (no small feat!) but shares the science with Philadelphians, every day. 183
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Port Kennedy at ANSP also has...hands down, the best sample of the Irvintonian ground sloth Megalonyx wheatleyi anywhere in the world. 1105
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Port Kennedy Cave is filled with fossils from the mid-Pleistocene (ca. 1.5 ma to 250ka). There aren't many of these sites, especially in the eastern US. So it is an important record, even for animals that are common during other time periods. Like mastodons! 173
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Near and dear to me (and a few of you)...are American mastodons. Although the type of M. americanum is in Paris, the Jefferson Collection of mastodon material provided key ammunition against Buffon's "theory of American degeneracy" 1103
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mammoths abound. As they often do. Mammoths from this same locality contributed DNA to our modern understanding of mammoth evolution. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 1103
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsChris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Although I can't be with those of you who are out in the rain advocating for your museum today...I thought I might be a good idea to post some Academy of Natural Sciences fossils to keep you warm and dry on the inside. @savetheacademy.bsky.social 15322
Reposted by Jeanne TimmonsJeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Autumn in NH. 🍁 1125