Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15hliterally in the next 48 hours! be aware! 5688459
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Personally I don't think being this diehard about enshrining the Anthropocene in the geologic timescale, to the point of claiming procedural violations in the vote, is an effective way to address the anthropogenic changes to the Earth that the concept is based upon in the first place 1110
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart 418561
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s the time of year when everyone else matches my level of enthusiasm for skeletons!static.klipy.comDinosaur Skeleton SpinningAlt: Dinosaur Skeleton Spinning 4443
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What she said. 03411
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s October 1st 844081526
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think I’ve found the earliest time anyone brought up dinosaur cloning - unless there’s an example from the 70s I’m not aware of… 2120
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Has anyone been inside the towers of the Natural History Museum in London? I wonder if anything's in there 060
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.amnh.org/about/press-...amnh.orgFossil Long Known as World’s Oldest Reptile Dethroned: Press Release | AMNHStudy uncovers hidden gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil, challenging ideas about the origins of reptiles. 0147
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Guys, if you aren't already supporting the Internet Archive, please consider doing so. They are way more than just the Wayback Machine. They have a massive library of texts, audio, films, video games, and more media available. I'm downloading the 1933 OED right now as pdfs. It's insane. 9419153
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is something that I have been long fascinated with - behavioural chaos is so prevalent in the natural world and we don't discuss it nearly enough in the context of animal ethology, and *especially* animal paleoethology. Really good article worth a read! 0339
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026So. A thing you like just implemented generative AI 4438
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Gary McGaughey @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More excellent CT-based work finding new things in previously described fossils. 041
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Rhi, drawer of Things @idrawsdinosaurs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Abditosaurus, a #sauropod #dinosaur described in 2022 from the most complete European titanosaur skeleton found so far. Its name, meaning "forgotten reptile", references the fact that its remains were partially excavated in the 1950s before being left for decades when funding was lost. 04115
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mommmmmm all the OTHER museums have life-sized model eurypterids, why can't WE install life-sized model eurypterids 3408
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You might notice a slight little nod to the ANSP when I reveal this project I'm working on 040
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Pascal Abel @abel-paleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Loooong boi. Tanystropheus at Urweltmuseum Oberfranken (Bayreuth). #paleontology #paleobio #fossils #Triassic #Paläontologie 26422
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026social media dot jpg 218328
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Looks like the SVP abstracts have been posted, and are password protected! Wooohoo! Y'all are already aware that I submitted an abstract with @ndgspaleo.bsky.social for a talk. Hope people are excited to learn more about a specific, duck-billed dino November 12, 9:15 am 26717
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15284661516
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Cassandra 🦕🖌 @tenontosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026tenontosaurus threat display 16220
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reminder that the beaked Camarasaurus paper is a preprint and yet to be peer reviewed 35611
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153 410655
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Thomas 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.... 3186101
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Skye 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 Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...scienceforeveryone.scienceThe awesomeness of museumsGenuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise. 922080
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ain't nothing better than a large number of birds 3274
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In which we learn in real time that what we thought was a paleodocumentary was a Monsterquest episode re-edited as a standalone special 2101
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I missed Yuanyanglong's publication last year WHY is this dinosaur so much LEGS and so little HEAD? 129016
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know I say this every month, but the botanists have to be stopped 418419
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 25/09/2026The connection between online ID check policies and restricting VPN use is an unholy marriage. Rather than admit that censorship and social media bans doesn't keep us safe, lawmakers have put VPNs on the chopping block. Explore the toolkit to find ways you can help stop this: DefendVPNs.comdefendvpns.comDefend VPNs from government bans!VPNs make it safer to use the Internet. Governments are trying to ban them. Sign to renew your commitment and tell world leaders: using the Internet safely and privately is a human right. Don’t ban VP... 0178156
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 205189495402
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item: 15553486
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/ 15605454
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“You cannot engage with Newsom in good faith, because what faith can you have in a shell of a person who so baldly pursues wealth, power, the next shiniest thing?” Nice work. His first Chronicle quote in 1991 was bragging about giving wine discounts to his wealthy benefactors. Has anything changed? 39428
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026they said I couldn't make a 3D render of a skeleton look like it was from a 60s or 70s film, but what do we have here? 1606757869
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sign the petitions, call city and state officials, donate to the (unaffiliated) coalition's organizing efforts at the link below. Job's not done. save-the-academy.orgsave-the-academy.orgSave the Academy of Natural SciencesDon't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today. 0148
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle. Strap in, it's a big one. 17339
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#FossilFriday The pachycephalosaur Stegoceras has an itch at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 06022
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Did someone say it's #WorldGorillaDay? The Academy of Natural Sciences' western lowland gorilla diorama is the only one of its kind in the world — other dioramas either use mountain gorillas or zoo specimens. Du Chaillu's original expedition was also sponsored by the Academy. 11210
Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I promise at SVP y’all will see how much I have upgraded since last year. I’ve put in the work. Boosted my stats. Crawled up the skill tree. And I can wear a dress to the banquet now! 2210
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they) @chelledoggo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026✨STOP SCROLLING✨ if your feed is toxic right now, here's a butterfly to restore your health. 🦋static.klipy.comKinger The Amazing Digital CircusALT: Kinger The Amazing Digital Circus 241368327
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3271921954
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Amypteride🏳️⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime! Today a special thematic post about some chelicerates' names and why they can sometimes sound a bit similar! All the basic infos are here but there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #arachnid #arthropod #etymology #invert #bugsky 1/4 23012
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈onion person @junlper.beer · 23/09/2026apple TV is the only streaming service thats consistently producing television that’s really worth anything at all and its not even close 106195696
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A new sabre-toothed thylacosmilid (Thylacosmilidae, Metatheria) from the Pliocene–Pleistocene of Southern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA new sabre-toothed thylacosmilid (Thylacosmilidae, Metatheria) from the Pliocene–Pleistocene of Southern Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaThylacosmilids are a clade of metatherian predators known from lower Miocene to upper Pliocene strata of South America. They had highly specialized skulls with enlarged canines. Here, we describe r... 1215
Reposted by Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈Alice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day! Here's the bi flag, shown my DOS program VGAPride for showing pride flags, running on a Pentium-60. 14680163