In the last 11 days another 102 donors have given >than $40,000, with some other donations in stock waiting to become available for use.

PRI can make it with your help!

Please continue to share with your networks for potential donors so we can keep the museum and its online resources available!

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑

@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social

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Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵

⚒️ New paper out in Paleobiology with Aaron Goodman, W. Allmon, @crowleyk.bsky.social, A. Farnsworth, M. Hopkins, D. Lunt, and Cori Myers:
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
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Another day in the field with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History team on Anticosti Island. Here, Lena and I are joined by OU Geosciences grad students Kiera Crowley (Wright lab) and Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab)

This new exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth lives up to its name, with an amazing spread of modern and fossil specimens.

Day 1 of photoshopping John Oliver onto/into fossils in the hopes that he saves my old museum, the Paleontological Research Institution

I think he makes a great snail!

Fossil is the Murex shilhoensis type, a junior synonym of Favartia shilohensis, comedian is H. sapiens

#savepri #Museumofthearth

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️

In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability

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As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect and preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever.

New article by @science.org on the financial crisis at PRI.

PRI has played an invaluable role in my personal growth as an academic paleontologist and Earth science educator. We *must* preserve organizations with such long-standing commitments to science education and wise stewardship of the planet.

Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US).
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Please share widely and help if you can!
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