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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Noise pollution isn't great on marine life, but just like us, they can do with a nice soundscape. Putting "healthy reef sound" on the speakers seems to do help with establishing new reefs. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-…

Damselfish swim near a separately located artificial reef “Stack” structure which were also used in the acoustic enrichment studies.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s an odd mix of plants at my place. I know it was built in the 1960s and had the same owners till just the five years before I bought it. The folks who had it for 5 years really trashed it, so I’m constantly finding weird things.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really don’t remember flowers, but it’s tucked in to a corner of a horse paddock (seems like a very odd place!)

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neat! I feel like that’s a plant I only know from novels 😅

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neat! I have virtually no sense of smell though 😅

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What are these? The little fruits are rock hard and falling off the bush/tree. I thought they were apples at first, but aren’t. (Growing in one of my horse paddocks in coastal Oregon)

Hand with two small lime green fruits, lumpy sphere shaped and simple pointed leaves with no teeth

Many branched/trunks with leaves on a shady stick covered ground

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And they’re so boring and ugly compared to most money…

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Get ready for a volcano tissue box drop in about 30min! May even toss in my first-ever discount code in celebration of #GSA2026.

Birdseye view of 25 or 30 tissue boxes that look like volcanoes laid out on a hardwood floor next to a large towering stack of unassembled cardboard boxes

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Anthony The Fish Necromancer @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's occurred to me just how much donated time and specimen material I've participated in for the Sternberg Museum. This project from 2009 started with a call for some excavation assistance and resulted in a new genus of fish

Massive jacket of yellow-brown fish bones in yellow chalk. The fins are about 3 feet long each

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Using the schedule send to reply to student emails so it looks like you’re promptly replying at 8:06am and not 1:04am, one of your usual email checking times? 😬

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It would be nicer being an insomniac watching late night Netflix if 3/4ths of shows didn’t capitalize on dead parents as the go to trope.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Add the Western Science Center to your list for sure!!! But yeah… so many have been lost in the last few years. I’m actually trying to get an REU for next summer.

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would be very happy to talk to them about pros and cons of different programs! And from a relatively none biased perspective (I hope) as alas I teach at a little two year institution although I’m a research associate at UO!

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

I just went and looked at my wi yet term and am going to plead to have my 10am slot back 😅

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

My favorite was this absolutely lovely fossil Douglas fir cone!

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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

Depends on the tea… caffeine can impact some blood tests, as can some additives like chagga mushrooms. Also depends on the blood test I should add! I know tea is something I’m told to avoid for my thyroid function tests.

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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 · 05/08/2026

Supposedly there’s some odd corals in the Yachats… 🤷

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Dr. Win @paleowin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ash beat me to it, lovely upper brontothere!

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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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