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Really cool things about teaching at a tiny community college that has dorms: international students! We use maps constantly in geo, I had my students look at a bunch of different kind of maps and answer questions about what maps have in common. And then make their own maps relevant to “home”!

Hand drawn map of South Korea with distances to major cities from the capital marked. Has a key, a compass, date, and labels for each pathway and location.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 5 It's a pair or rare, vibrant minerals with unusual chemistry as purple #Putnisite is up against blue #Julienite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of tiny grape-jello purple cubical crystals with a rough surface. The crystals are poking out of a massive rough rock with areas of fuzzy green and broad purple, all with a grainy coating of white as though it were rubbed with flour. The other photo is saturated cobalt blue needle-line crystals in a narrow fan sparkly and rough on a smooth creamy background

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m tired and struggling. Is the opposite of subaqueous deposition just terrestrial? I think I’m overthinking it… picture of pretty rocks that are definitely subaqueous for attention!

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An incredibly lovely and evocative animated short. I *highly* recommend taking the 3 or so minutes to watch this

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'Noon of Night' a dinosaur animated short // the Morrison Formation

YouTube video by Cinedaw

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 4 Both colourful yet opposite in almost every other way, it’s abundant and hard #Quartz against rare and very soft #Stichtite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Probably not a lot more nice days to ride on the beach…

Turkey vultures on the sand with ocean behind the as viewed from a bay horse

Bay horse in purple bridle eating seaweed

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I thought cats were supposed to be graceful dignified creatures???

Upside down black fluffy cat in a black blanket with teeth barred while sound asleep.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is so screwed up. When I went there the lasting examples of absolute human rights atrocities committed by Argentina were everywhere and stark. I hadn’t known much about it prior to visiting, but it was just fact there. Oh here’s the school they locked children in without water for days, etc.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 15/09/2026

Tell the world how you feel about AI. Support a human artist. #WIN artologica.etsy.com

four watercolor brain paintings with anti-ai slogans

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 1: It’s a visually-striking start to Round 2 as deep blue pigment #Azurite is against lead- and zinc-rich #Sphalerite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo with deep blue translucent crystals jut upwards in a cluster like modern skyscrapers on the left. They have lightly striated faces, and are long with pointed tips. On the right is a metallic grey triangular crystal with deeply striated faces. The face itself is geometrically broken with jagged edges, evoking a cyberpunk-futuristic vibe.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me trying to ID bivalves at Fossil Point:

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Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This little undescribed Nembrotha is munching on its ascidian prey - nom nom #nudibranch #seaslug #macro #invertebrates

A photo of a brown sea slug that has orange spots

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 16 It's a pair of industrially-vital minerals for the final match of the first round as tin ore #Cassiterite is up against elemental carbon #Graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of cassiterite crystals, silvery to shiny black, in shapes similar to faceted gemstones and a flat, hexagonal graphite crystal jutting up, dark grey with a greasy shine.

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Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

SALE!! Pride packs include a 5x7 print, large sticker and small sticker for $10.00 Originally $20 Agender Aromantic Asexual Bisexual Demigirl Deminonbinary Gay Genderfluid Genderqueer Intersex Lesbian Non-Binary Pansexual Polysexual Pride Rainbow Transgender www.emmalerae.com/store/p98/Pr...

A photo of a small stegosaurus sticker, a large stegosaurus sticker, and a print with transgender flag colors.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨Lights Out Alert! Tomorrow night approximately 4.1 million birds will migrate through Oregon's skies. Help keep them safe on their journey by turning off your outside lights and drawing your blinds between 11p-6a. 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

Lights Out Alert for September 16, 2026 - 4.1 million birds will be migrating through Oregon skies. Dark skies help keep birds safe on their journey to their wintering grounds. Migration is happening now through approximately October 19 -- if you can turn off your lights and draw your blinds every evening during that time period to assist migrating birds, that would be appreciated.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Job opening in (my) Department of Environmental Sciences, @emorycollege.bsky.social, for an Assistant Teaching Professor! We're looking for someone in the Applied Environmental Social Sciences; non-tenure position, but renewable & promotable. More info at the link: apply.interfolio.com/192159

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I teach at 8am two days a week this term… and I hate it so much. I suspect it will also make attendance rates even lower.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s funny how seeing something can instantly trigger a memory you haven’t thought of in years. Like I visited my undergraduate campus today, saw this lab, and had a flashback to absolutely bombing a hydrology exam where we were supposed to diagram water flow around a dam. 😅

Glass window door that says Geographical Information Systems Laboratory

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hudson Bay polar bears spend the ice-free season from the end of June to (hopefully) late November fasting. They can't catch their primary prey (ringed seals) without ice. This fast is normal, but getting longer. This mom and second year cub are munching on berries for something to do. 🐻‍❄️🦊🌿

A mom and second-year polar bear cub are standing in a patch of berries surrounded by low willows on the sub-Arctic tundra on a summer afternoon. Their whitish fun contrasts sharply against the green foliage.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on another STEAM kids camp! They got to do everything from make algae plastic and bath bombs to go on a hike at a nature reserve to make cyanotype prints to picking fossil shark teeth and making art out of minerals!

Finished result says GEO with coyote jaws around it

Big butcher paper with black, white, brown, and red doodles

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Teensy Chuckie K paintings. Look at those brush strokes!

Woolly rhino in a snowscape flings a wolf upside down over its head

Sivatherium facing viewer with various beasts on the grassland behind it

Stegosaurus with possibly not enough plates in a sparse environment with swampy foreground puddle. Very similar to more famous composition

Devonian swamp with amphibians crushing waterways beneath weird trees and horsetails

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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

All sold out of Stegosaurus for now, but there are still Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, and Pteranodon available! #crafts #art #bsnm #handmade

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Had a great time doing a pop up mini museum at our local rock and gem show! Mets lots of cool people, got to ID some fossils, get some cool rocks, and promote our little local college!

College table cloth with many cool mineral samples

Huge geode with flyers about college programs

Win with a partial skull of a sea lion collected locally

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/08/2026

A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.

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felinecannonball @felinecannon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Some Eocene fossils in volcaniclastic sands of the Yachats Formation. Feather star fossils aren't uncommon in Paleogene coast range rocks in Oregon. Even some crinoid lagerstätte a bit further north. www.researchgate.net/profile/Kath...

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Weird paleontologist musings: summer is nice because it’s so easy to skeletonize things for comparatives. So much harder to do quickly in the rainy/cold season 😅 But could be worse. (Remembering the year my macerating tubs froze in Ohio…)

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Dr. Amilcar Carrera-Cevallos @acarrerac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is a residential building in Caracas, #Venezuela, that collapsed as a result of the M7.2 and M7.5 earthquakes, the latter of which was felt 45 seconds later. #earthquake #terremoto

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Oregon, it is time. You know what must be done

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Paleo Nerds Podcast @paleonerdspod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉 EPISODE #99 IS HERE!!! 🎉 In this epic episode, we interview worldly traveled and renowned Japanese paleontologist ⛏️ who was just appointed President and Director General of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Makoto Manabe! 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mako...

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 23/06/2026

Expensive monopigments like Cadmium and Cobalt have scary toxicity labels, but are generally safe with normal “whoops, on my finger” amounts. Real Naples Yellow has soluble lead, it’s bioaccumulative; it doesn’t leave your body. If you see “hue” in a colour name, it’s a multi-pigment imitation. 🐡🎨

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In the Los Angeles NHM's main fossil halls, there are 181 Mesozoic dinosaur fossils on display out of 347 total vertebrate fossils (52% dinosaurs). The "dinosaur rates" at NMNH, AMNH, and FMNH are 17%, 23%, and 14% respectively. (1/n)

LACM dinosaur hall, which has a mezzanine level overlooking a central open platform with three T. rex skeletons of different sizes.

Look down the length of NMNH fossil hall, which is a huge open space under a skylight. Mastodon, large tree cutouts, and sauropod are all visible.

Look down the length of AMNH vertebrate origins hall. Black path on the floor is flanked by exhibit cases, with suspended Dunkleosteus model, megalodon jaws, and various skeletons to the left and right.

FMNH dinosaur hall with Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, and other skeletons on alternating platforms under a black ceiling.

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

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Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🐝🪲🦋 It’s Pollinator Week! 🦋🪲🐝 6 years ago, my partner and I began turning a derelict grass lawn in Portland, OR into a wildlife garden. Insects were the first to arrive. I’ve now documented more than 30 native bee species visiting or living in our backyard! This is just a sample. IDs in alt text.

A kaleidoscopic collage of 25 native bees arranged into a 5 x 5 grid. Each square has a letter corresponding to the IDs below.

IDs: a. Snow miner bee (Andrena nivalis) b. Brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis) c. Small carpenter bee (Ceratina sp.) d. Longhorn bee (Melissodes sp.) e. Sitka bumblebee (Bombus sitkensis) f. Fuzzy-horned bumblebee (Bombus mixtus) g. Black-tailed bumblebee, aka orange-rumped bumblebee (Bombus melanopygus) h. Mystery Bee! Likely a mason bee. Possibly Osmia or Hoplitis sp. i. Nomad bee. Likely black and yellow nomad bee (Nomada luteoloides) j. California bumblebee (Bombus californicus) k. Either white-shouldered bumblebee (Bombus appositus) or California bumblebee l. Metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon sp.) m. Long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.) n. Sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) o. Yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) p. Mining bee (Andrena) q. Nomad bee (Nomada sp.) r. Long-horned bee (Eucera sp.) s. Mason bee (Osmia sp.) t. Nomad bee (Nomada sp.) u. Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens) v. Sharptail bee (Coelioxys) w. Nevada bumblebee (Bombus nevadensis) x. Megachile perihirta (Western leafcutter bee) y. Furrow bee (Halictus sp.)

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Eeeee! Just got pictures from my endurance ride! The first two are on the second loop, roughly 19 miles in. The first bit of both loops was the same but then with different loops through the woods and occasional prairies. Extra cool because I grew up ~10 miles away from here.

Win wearing red on a bay horse Sammy in dappled woods.

Win and another rider who is on a chestnut horse with green tack.

Win and other rider trotting along a dirt two track in the woods

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just back from a fairly toasty endurance ride up in WA. After getting DQ’d at a ride earlier this year I really tried to follow the vet’s suggestions to a T and… instead of merely finishing Sammy and I actually received Best Condition at the ride! (And 4th in the 25 mile)

One of the only pictures I got on the ride…

The higher areas had foxgloves, lupine, columbine, and other wildflowers all over

Win in sunglasses and cowboy hat with bay horse head

Shiny bay horse standing in a pen with grass with trees and horse trailers in the background

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Week 9 of the 10 week term starts today. In the home stretch but definitely feeling the burnout (as are the students clearly). This term has been some of the worst student attendance I’ve had in years.

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cumbria, England has some beautiful calcites! 😍 (Vid description: My left hand in a blue nitrile glove slowly rotating a cluster of transparent calcite crystals with some red iron staining on grey hematite) #MineralMonday #minerals

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Got to spend the weekend riding around a phreatic explosion crater very creatively named Hole in the Ground with views of Fort Rock in the distance. The only thing better than riding my horse is doing so with great geology! This was the Mary and Anna Memorial endurance ride!

Win lecturing about geology while her horse impatiently raises a front leg

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Coos Bay bay bois are finally being friendly towards the new bay boi! Still mild pony hierarchy drama, but no one has died so I’ll take it? Pro tip: get horses of the same color so it hard to tell just how many you actually have!

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K.Kubo🔬🐣🦖🐊 @kkubo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Day 6 of expedition in the Triassic site of TX (Princeton University and UTokyo joint expedition). A big jacket and accidentally got a flat tire

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Okay so we're in between net checks and hanging out in the truck because the weather is shit, and a bird lands on the side mirror. My student Noelle looks and starts making incomprehensible noises, because it's a freaking HAWFINCH

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Coos Watershed Association Mayfly Festival was a great success! Over 450 people attended this year and I was really honored by how many folks said my pop up museum of bugs-fish-riparian plant fossils was their favorite! And yes, I wore a spike-toothed giant fossil salmon hat all day!

Table with a blue SWOCC and STEAM table cloth with fossils on the table.

A metal tower with more fossils and my colleague Amy with her rad mayfly food web jenga!

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It’s #FossilFriday!!! This one’s for the birds, aka I just found a box with three very different bird fossils in the SWOCC collections! Eocene bird track, an Oligocene feather, and a Pliocene proximal cormorant humerus!

All of the fossils together on a brown quilted background

Close up of the bird tracks. Label in white says Bird tracks, Eoc. WY. CH-A-2

Close up of cormorant bone. Bone is black and set into a tan shell hash. Win’s finger for a poor scale with the bone about the size of their thumb.

Small tan flat rock with a bit of brown feather showing

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What do normal people do on Wednesday nights? Because I’m paper mache-ing a giant fossil spike-toothed salmon hat to wear to the Mayfly Festival on Saturday. Totally normal I keep telling myself…

Paste and paper covered salmon head on cardboard on a floor

Win wearing the prototype in tinfoil on a baseball hat.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

SWOCC is hiring a tenure track biology instructor! It’s a really cool school with diverse great students AND is in an incredible location! Feel free to contact me about anything with the job from pay to cost of living to research here! Come join me! www.schooljobs.com/careers/socc...

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have a ton of catch up posts to make, but first: I just got to tour THE Western Flyer!!!! Both the Log from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck and Between Pacific Tides by Ricketts are hugely important books to me in my life and journey to becoming a scientist. It was super magical!

Copies of both mentioned books on a railing with the docked Western Flyer vessel behind with blue skies on a smooth bay.

Kitchen galley with a picture with Steinbeck and Ricketts and the Coos Bay boardwalk sign visible out the window

Win very excited to pretend to captain the Western Flyer at the steering wheel

Win in front of the vessel where she says Western Flyer

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