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danielallensolomon.bsky.social
@danielallensolomon.bsky.social
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Mammal, anthropologist, natural historian, descendent of settler peoples in North America. Teaching anthropology and gender studies to the community college students of the SF Bay Area. www.danielallensolomon.com
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erleellis.bsky.social
Know your anthromes!
anthroecology.org/anthromes/gu...
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tooth from a teeny little Dakotaraptor (a little dromaeosaur), probably. From a dig site worked by the Glenrock Paleon and the Morrison Natural History Museum.
A small, brown curved fossil tooth with serrations on the inside, and fluting along the side. It sits between the creases of the photographer's palm.
July 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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From Makoshika State Park, Glendive, Montana. Doppelgangers.
A node of black earth is ringed by a slightly larger node of yellow soil. Both are nearly circular, and, together, they have emerged from dried grey mud, which forms their background. A hole in the ground, which appears to be an ant nest. Around the inside of the hole's rim are light orange soldiers and workers. Within the hole are black, winged drones. The ground around the nest entrance is pebbly.
July 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) on fennel at the Albany Bulb. Revealed to us by Randonautica.
A cute, squishy, green caterpillar munching on fennel. The caterpillar has black stripes with orange knobs in the stripes. In this picture, the caterpillar is looking into the camera lens, and their body is out of focus. A cute, squishy, green caterpillar munching on fennel. The caterpillar has black stripes with orange knobs in the stripes. The camera is looking down on the body of the caterpillar, showing their length (an inch and a half).
July 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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dinochick.bsky.social
Do you want to see our public lands sold off?! Call your representatives ASAP!
June 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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anthrosednet.bsky.social
📢 Just a couple of days to go until the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network conference on Weds 18th June! ✨

Details: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...

Don’t forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you there! 😁😁
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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seddyrocks.bsky.social
So excited about this! ✨😁✨
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Palpatophora utiliformis. I know this is an extremely common, cosmopolitan species, but you have to start somewhere. #occlupanids #HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Occlupanid identification and research at horg.com www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...
Identification Guide | HORG
www.horg.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You're doom-scrolling, and you come across a stupid, fascist comment or post. You feel the need to correct wrongness on the Internet. STOP! Don't argue. Don't elevate the propaganda bots! Don't elevate paid posters! Post or comment this, and then walk away:
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Young Enteridium slime mold (probably).
A smooth yellow globe, only about 2.5 centimeters across, attached to the cornflake-textured bark of a redwood tree.
April 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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dinochick.bsky.social
Fossil are now being considered cultural patrimony under NAGPRA

socialstigma.substack.com/p/fossils-of...
Fossils of Cultural Patrimony
Repatriating paleontology
socialstigma.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
Xylocopa
A large carpenter bee. The abdomen and had are covered in black fur. The face between the eyes is yellow. The thorax is yellow and furry. The eyes are bluish grey with multiple black spots. This is a stout bee, but not a round as a bumble bee. He has two short, multi- jointed antenna. The wings are folded and are amber gold. He is looking at the camera.
March 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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anthrosednet.bsky.social
The edges of this #Lego brick have abraded into micro and nano plastics 🧱🔬

Over time, even sturdy #plastic breaks down into ever-smaller pieces. 🟦🔷🔹🌀…..

Collecting larger #plasticpollution early helps reduce this process!

#microplastic #cleanup
legolostatsea.bsky.social Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · Mar 8
Washed up tonight on the north Cornish coast after a 28-year, 60 mile voyage along the ocean floor, a green Lego slope brick, one of 520,541 green Lego slope bricks lost overboard from the Tokio Express 20 miles off Land's End in 1997.
March 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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kimtallbear.bsky.social
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
Ophion
A close-up of a wasp on a lampshade. The wasp is a silhouette on the bright background of the lampshade. It has a long abdomen connected to the thorax by a thin waist. From its thorax, there are six long legs. It has two long antennae, which are swept backwards at the ends.
February 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Tremella or somesuch.
A fungus with a jelly-like consistency. It is bright yellow. A cup-shaped structure can be discerned from the mass of wavy, jelly folds. It has emerged from a piece of wood in the forest floor.
February 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Bought a microscope! Just practicing with the free fly leg that came in the box. Cat secretions and fungi spores coming soon!
The uppermost joint of a fly's leg, demonstrating the tiny hairs, the pores in its exoskeleton, and the severed joint.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The fact that only 2% of professors identify as fascists shows just how insular and out of touch universities have become.
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
We need hippies and druids to develop an AI that isn't poisoned at birth by techs' hierarchical, ablist, supremacist ideologies. And then they need to release that bad bitch into the wild!

Transhumanism is Eugenics for Educated White Liberals – BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY search.app/NuaPEKPc2oLY...
Transhumanism is Eugenics for Educated White Liberals
Transhumanism as “newgenics” Vice just published an article on how “prominent AI philosopher and ‘father’ of longtermism,” Nick Bostrom, “sent very racist email to a 90s philosophy listse…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
Yesss, rain coming today. One more crop of mushrooms this season.
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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erleellis.bsky.social
Sediments of the Anthropocene - a new classification framework
doi.org/10.2110/001c...
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
Nice job, buddy!
A large mushroom has emerged from pine needles and duff. The robust cap is red with white spots, and the stipe is white.
January 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
It was an obvious, literal Nazi salute.

I've read Musk's response-- that it was a Roman salute, and a display of his heartfelt thanks, and that his critics must find better dirty tricks.

This is the fascists' own dirty trick.
January 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
danielallensolomon.bsky.social
A sliver of morning light, projected through nearby blinds, shining through the baubles hanging from a lamp shade. Everything else is dark The lamp shade glows orange.
January 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM