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Jeanne Timmons

@mostlymammoths.bsky.social
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Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska. mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freela…

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 19h
Colors. ❤️🍁🍂🍃
Overcast sky and a distant mountain, but brilliant oranges, reds and golds in the foreground.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 20h
In rapid succession, sparrows almost seem to be saying, "My turn!", as they jump in and then jump out, one after the other ❤️
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 07/10/2026
The records also outline election denier Heather Honey obtained 48.4 million records through “independent sources of information” and shared them with Homeland Security Investigations as a “strategic line of effort” to pursue voter fraud investigations.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 20h
ICE and DHS are attempting to silence voters ahead of the midterm elections. Here's what you need to know.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 20h
"I have spent years witnessing the machinery of death." - Jeff Hood
Screenshot of text: I have spent years witnessing the machinery of death. On thirteen different occasions in five different states, I have stood with the condemned as the state took the life right in front of me. The death chambers are more than familiar. I repeatedly see them in my nightmares. The dingy glass looks the same. I know the clocks that keep moving when everything inside those rooms seems to stop. I have seen humans quickly disappear beneath the language of protocol and procedure. A sentence becomes a date. A date becomes a warrant. A warrant becomes a room. Then there is a body beneath a sheet and a clock on the wall, its hands moving as if time itself is the killer.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 20h
Devastating piece. "Jamaal’s silence after I talked about Pike felt like an eternity...it became clear how unclear everything was for him. Not only had Jamaal not heard about Pike, but he also didn’t understand how executions were carried out." - Jeff Hood www.texasobserver.org/the-distance...
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'I Guess if the Drugs Don’t Work, They’ll Just Shoot Me in the Head'
After a botched execution in Tennessee, Texas is set to kill Jamaal Howard, who has so many mental health problems and intellectual disabilities that he doesn't understand how he will be killed.
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 06/10/2026
"If the Court will not treat capital cases with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so."
ballsandstrikes.org
Congress Should Strip the Supreme Court of Its Power to Greenlight Blocked Executions
If the Court will not treat cases like Christa Pike’s with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so.
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 22h
UPDATE: Yesterday, we were in court in our lawsuit against the New Hampshire State Police to uncover details about their partnership with ICE. The case continues, but they have finally agreed to answer our request for information after delaying for several months.
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
a warm welcome to herugavialis cairensis, a gavialoid from middle eocene egypt 🐊 originally described as a species of tomistoma, h. cairensis is redescribed by burke et al. as an early-diverging gavialoid in an #openaccess paper royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... (art by adel lee)
a reconstruction of herugavialis in a shallow marine environmentthe holotype of herugavialis, a somewhat squished and damaged skull missing the lower jaws
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very happy to hear that the Maryland Dinosaur Park's discovery trail is now open! Congratulations to everyone there for *finally* making this happen. The sculptures by Tristan Crum look phenomenal—can't wait to see them in person in a couple weeks. Photos borrowed from JP Hodnett. #FossilFriday
Minimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a juvenile sauropod skeletonMinimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a giant ankylosaur skeletonMinimalist outdoor metal sculpture of a crocodile skeletonMan stands under a metal nodosaur skeleton with a face mask and portable welder
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🙏
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Ginger @m3r3ts3g3r.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, so beautiful... please keep saving me from "the real world" by showing... The Real World.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Views from the bike trail. 🍁🍂🍃💙🚲
Leaves cover the ground, along with some green vegetation.  View through the thin trunks of trees onto the river below and the colorful trees across the way.Colorful trees highlighted by sunlight, and a line of pine trees rises above. All of this is under a big, blue, cloudless sky.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was one of my leadership principles I leaned on during my last few months at CDC
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everyone wants a turn
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So many sections of bright yellow leaves on the bike trail. It is glorious, and pictures don't do it justice. 🍁🍂🍃💙🚲
Bright yellow leaves on trees on the right side of the path contrast with the dark green conifers beside and across from them.  Fallen leaves line the path.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For this #FossilFriday a section of the early #fern Diplolabis from the early Carboniferous showing beautifully preserved tissues 🌿⛏️ (proposed reconstruction from doi.org/10.1016/j.re...) #Paleobotany #botany
Section of a fossil fern axis with preserved tissues, showing the X shaped vascular tissues. The axis is a few in diameter. A reconstruction of the plant by Phillips and Galtier 2005 is shown in a corner
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Going through my Dinosaur Park hard drive for a project I’m getting ready to lock in on. And this Priconodon tooth is just so stupidly huge. Not in absolute terms, but ankylosaur teeth are proportionally really tiny…
Leaf shaped tooth with long root next to a scale bar showing it’s about 5.5 cm longCast skull of Denversaurus. The teeth are hanging out of their sockets so you can see the roots a bit
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Would you like to learn about the story about this photo of me reading a book while sitting with a bunch of rocks? Then come to the Atlanta edition of @storycollider.bsky.social, this Thursday, October. 8 to hear my science-inspired story & those of 4 others: www.storycollider.org/tickets/2026...
Photo of me (then-middle-aged white dude) wearing a brown hat, green vest, dark green jacket, and brown pants while sitting next to a flat-topped boulder of sandstone; I'm holding open a field notebook and reading its contents. In front of me is another boulder that looks a lot like the one next to me. A weathered debris slope is behind me.Orange heading with white background, titled DEFYING EXPECTATIONS: below and on the left it says "Waller's Coffee Shop, Atlanta, GA October 8, 7:30 PM ET, The STORY COLLIDER, Tickets at Storycollider.org," and to the right are five circles with photos of Pam Harris, Isabelle Patel, Nicki Salcedo, Jaap de Rode, and Tony J. Martin.
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Liz Furman @loamlizzard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My first scientific illustration featured in a publication! Congrats to Jack on the new paper, it was a pleasure working with you to reconstruct this impressive fish.
Black and white illustration of a early ray-finned fish swimming in open water. The fish has a horizontal stripe down its side. Two round insets show zoomed in sections of scales. Top left shows diamond-shaped scales with ornamentation, bottom right shows wedge-shaped plain scales.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
was reminded that Alito's originalism book, "So Ordered," comes out today and--
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2026
This link takes you to a third-party site. No Kings will know you came from us, and their privacy policy applies.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2026
Democracy isn't a spectator sport. Join the No Kings coalition on Thursday, October 8, at 8pm ET/5pm PT to learn more about how to take action to protect our elections this fall.
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No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 101 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this call to learn how you can take action wherever you are to protect our elections this fall. We’ll cover how to get out the vote, the importance of voting early, pol...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: We filed a public comment opposing a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would dismantle Head Start's promise that children receive high-quality education, qualified teachers, comprehensive support, and more no matter where they live. Head Start must be accessible to all families.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Justice Alito‘s new book purports to answer the Court’s shadow docket critics—by rebutting a caricature and by ignoring the ways in which his own behavior has contradicted nearly every claim he makes." @stevevladeck.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
Screenshot of text: By caricaturing what the criticisms actually were, and by asserting things that weren’t true, Alito was able to duck the single most important criticism then being made of the Court’s emergency docket behavior—that, in deciding so many high-profile cases on the emergency docket with such truncated process and so little explanation, the Court was also behaving inconsistently, so that it appeared that its rulings were motivated more by the political preferences of a majority of the justices than by the faithful application of neutral legal principles. Again, to quote Justice Kagan’s SB8 dissent, these rulings were increasingly becoming “more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.”
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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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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the best PhD advert I have ever seen.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/10/2026
Everywhere you look billionaires are telling us to accept suffering as the price of their individual whims and wealth and I implore you to get real fucking comfortable with acting up.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/10/2026
New York, it’s official. We’re extending our Open Play program to keep select fields lit at night for free pickup soccer this fall & next summer. Restarting tonight, you can play soccer from 10pm-2am at select parks in all 5 boroughs. Drop in or sign up online. Locations/details at nycopenplay.com
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Mark Coupe Photography @mcoupephotography.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Todays #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdNaps Any bird caught snoozing, napping or just looking incredibly sleepy! Did you know that very young great grey owls sleep lying down? #birds #wildlife #photography #mcoupephotography
Young great grey owl sleeping laying down on a branch.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sun highlighting distant trees. 💙🚲
Dirt path curving to the right.  A small section of a wooden fence is also on the right.  In the foreground, large oak trees. In the distance, a forest lit up by the sun.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Smells and feels WONDERFUL to be outside. 🍁🍂🍃💙🚲
Curved path with leaves on either side.  Most of the colors in the trees are either yellow or green.
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it objectively can't be Trump's fault that every time he's the president there's some kind of horrible plague, but it feels true
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Parabéns! What great news!!
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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Queria aproveitar a oportunidade para dizer a todos aqueles que estão sofrendo no caminho científico, que pensam em desistir, que ouviram palavras maldosas, sofreram assédios e tiveram suas capacidades questionadas: não desistam. Que tudo sirva de combustível para você se tornar uma revolução.
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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Recebi hoje a notícia, com muita alegria, de que serei laureada no BRICS+ International Award 2026 – Women in Science & Technology, em Moscou. Premiação organizada pela BRICS Women Scientists’ Alliance.
Arte de divulgação do BRICS+ International Award 2026 – Women in Science & Technology. À esquerda, fotografia de Aline Marcele Ghilardi em campo, usando bandana preta e camisa xadrez, diante de um afloramento rochoso avermelhado. À direita, lê-se “Women in Science & Technology – BRICS+ International Award 2026” e a frase “Pelo reconhecimento às contribuições para a ciência, tecnologia e cooperação internacional”. Na parte inferior, aparece o diploma de laureada concedido a Aline Marcele Ghilardi, do Brasil.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is gutting. Sternberg is one of the most important paleontology museums in the country. MUSEUMS SHOULD BE LAST ON THE LIST TO CLOSE, NOT FIRST. What kind of world do we want to live in? Because running the country -- and universities -- like businesses and not a public good is what got us here.
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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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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yep.
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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio
A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.
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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Sciart #Paleoart Archelon. Deeply appreciate at @archelosaurian.bsky.social for giving advice
Life reconstruction of Archelon
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Things I don’t do: respect Sam Alito.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tierra Walker had a reliance interest in having an abortion: her son was 15.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
the inevitable consequence of blocking people from ending their pregnancies is that pregnancy ends people’s lives ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eagerly awaiting the news from Brazil. apnews.com/photo-galler...
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Photos show elections in Brazil where Lula faces Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro for president
Brazilians vote Sunday as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks a fourth term against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Autumn in northern NH ❤️🍁
A boulder in the foreground; mountain and forests in the distance. Blue sky and clouds overhead, seen through the branches and trunks of nearby trees, some of which have colorful leaves.Golden leaves on a branch that hangs over a stream filled with and surrounded by rocks.  Green forest beyond.Colorful leaves on one tree create a contrast with the green all around it.  View through conifers onto a rocky stream.Bright colored leaves on some trees near a rocky stream. Bright blue sky with some clouds.
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