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My Unfinished Journey @unfinishedjourney.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Chesh is going live with her gang of philosophy hounds on Debate Hub right now. Bluesky @debatehub.bsky.social @chesh.bsky.social @trolleydave.bsky.social @solo1y.bsky.social @palaeophilo.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live...

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

@gutsickgibbon.bsky.social I regret to inform you, if you haven’t already, but the sweet old man David McQueen has passed www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

helen de cruz has left this world it is immeasurably lessened by that passing

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

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Debate Hub @debatehub.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Tomorrow - Learn how to argue like a pro - or at least how to not fucking embarrass yourself @solo1y.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social @palaeophilo.bsky.social @trolleydave.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKIi...

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Living with Philosophy; Argumentation

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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Living with Philosophy; Argumentation

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

One way or another science will persevere. Whether it’s us doing it or some other creature. We take it for granted at our peril. Failing to comply to the big 4 and allowing non-epistemic values to encroach them risks our survival as an organism and furthermore a species.

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My Unfinished Journey @unfinishedjourney.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Chesh and her gang are live right now on Debate Hub. Twitter @TrolleyDave1971 @TheJIBPodcast @PalaeoPhilo Bluesky @@chesh.bsky.social @@trolleydave.bsky.social @palaeophilo.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social

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My Unfinished Journey @unfinishedjourney.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Remember to call your mom sometime

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Common Descent @commondescentpod.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Holotype is a board game about discovering and publishing ancient species! We had a great time playing and discussing with Brian and Jason from Gaming with Science. You can listen to our discussion here: www.gamingwithscience.net/e/s2e01-holo...

Cards and game pieces for the board game Holotype. There are discovery cards featuring ancient animals and a player board with researcher figures and tokens to track progress.

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Panpsychism doesn’t make new predictions, lacks parsimony, and is unfalsifiable

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My Unfinished Journey @unfinishedjourney.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

www.youtube.com/live... Chesh is going live w/ her gang of philosophy hounds on Debate Hub in 8 hours, at 1PM CST, 7PM UTC. Twitter @TrolleyDave1971 @TheJIBPodcast @PalaeoPhilo @Frustd_Atheist Bluesky @debatehub.bsky.social @trolleydave.bsky.social @kingfrustrated.bsky.social

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Kierena @kierena.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

@soundoftheforest.bsky.social do you know what this is? It looks like a cocoon, but I don’t know what bug makes a cocoon like this.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Science's trumpet sounds and all the extinct animals line up to be classified. From Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886). Image: Pradaldi CC BY-SA 2.0. Flammarion only gets a few pages into his book before calling nearly everyone in a world an unthinking moron.

Engraving of an angelic figure blowing a trumpet, while a selection of prehistoric animals queue up before a thoughtful naturalist.

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My Unfinished Journey @unfinishedjourney.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

www.youtube.com/live... Chesh is going live with Maanyaa, Dapper Dinosaur, and Landon Noll at 5:30PM CST, 11:30PM UTC. Twitter @GoblinQChesh @Maanyaaz Bluesky @chesh.bsky.social @maanyaaz.bsky.social @dapper-dinosaur.bsky.social @landonnoll.bsky.social

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Glad to see the first out-of-Vilnius-paleo recurrence plot study of paleontological patterns. This powerful dynamical systems approach started its spread. Here the authors studies temporal structure of Jurassic ichnofacies. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology⚒️

Cross-recurrence plots of Jurassic ichnofacies

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If the science wars of the 90’s soured my opinion of STS What since that time would redeem it for me?

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Its hard to find discussions i want to have on here with how its set up counter intuitively I want only science and philosophy and some cats in my algorithm but so much of my feed is None of this

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

George Gaylord Simpson (1902 - 1984) — the killer of "just so" stories. Citation below from Björn Kurtén's "Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (with an Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould)". 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Vernon Edwards's painting of an ideal scene in the Lower Old Red Sandstone seas. Used as frontispiece to the 1936 guide to the @nhm-london.bsky.social's Geology and Palaeontology galleries.

Reproduction of a coloured painting: an aquarium-style view of early aquatic vertebrates, below a lurid sky.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is a lovely story and I love the quote its basing itself on! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

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“The Diamond Mountain” by Helen De Cruz

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Peirce, C. S. New York, 1877 May 25 Dear Sir, Yours in reference to the pendulum building will receive my immediate attention. I have written to Mr. Eliot to know the intention of the college more clearly than I learn it from your note & my action will depend somewhat upon his reply. /1

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If you are interested in geobioevents, macroevolution, and macroecology in deep time, here is the list of our 2024 publications in chronological order: 1) The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology

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The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things - Volume 50 Issue 2

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Knowing how ridiculously strapped for cash educational institutions, such as museums, are. Just letting you know, I'm more than happy to do palaeontological illustrations and resources for non-profits, either free or at a nominal charge (depending on my free time). Just let me know. 😘

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

December 27, 2023, for 200 years, scientists couldn't explain how the mineral dolomite formed in such quantities to shape entire landscapes like the #Dolomites. But a study published in 2023 proposed a new answer based on atomic simulations ⛰️💎 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

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Opie @palaeophilo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas everyone

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/12/2024

Non LOTR characters that could have resisted the ring? Frog, but not Toad.

Alfred Lobel's Frog and Toad, a drawing from the books with Toad reading to a pensive Frog.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Instant classic of the macroevolution and geobiology: "Cryogenian glaciations appear to define this shift toward greater extinction and diversification rates" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Paleobio #Complexity #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology

Evolution of eukaryotic diversity during the Proterozoic Eon.

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

December 21, 2019, died #OTD American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Alan Russell. He described Daspletosaurus & was amongst the first to consider an extraterrestrial cause for the extinction of the #dinosaurs. In 1982, he created the "dinosauroid" thought experiment🐦 tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/...

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Extinct blog @extinctblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

"How do you read significance off a bone? How do you detect meaning, scientifically?" Read all about "synoptic series" and the philosophical questions they raise in this wonderful little essay from Joyce Havstad (2019) www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...

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From the Archive: Skeletons, Specimens, Synoptic Series, Similarity, and Difference — Extinct

In which we dip into the archive again, and produce a wonderfully interesting piece from Joyce Havstad about “synoptic series” (vintage 2019)

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/12/2024

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Manifesto on the importance of the correlation, dating and synchronization of geological records in order to determine how world really works at macro-scales. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 #Climate ⚒️ #Geology

Conceptual scheme of integrated stratigraphy.

Uncertainties in determining temperature sensitivity to the CO2 doubling in the geological past.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵

rhamphorhynchus reconstruction with raging sea background

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 18/12/2024

"Researchers have found they repeatedly hunt and eat voles, decapitating their prey and pulling flesh from the torso" 🤯 Very cool observation, although can't help but think this is very much feels like a warning sign for the approaching end of days 🐿️🧪 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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‘It’s a dietary niche’: researchers amazed to find squirrels hunt and eat voles

Scientists suspect behaviour is ‘opportunistic’ as California ground squirrels are mostly, but not always, herbivorous

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“All” 55 known species of sloths that lived during the Late Pleistocene. #paleoart #animals #art #wildlife #extinct

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