Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
@deadbovids.bsky.social
SUNY Oneonta Assistant Professor
Paleontologist, anthropologist, naturalist, forager. Views my own 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Paleontologist, anthropologist, naturalist, forager. Views my own 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Pinned
I finished 87 books this year, and it's time to rank my top ten! #booksky
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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There's no way forward without
1.) Abolishing ICE and DHS in their entirety, and
2.) Nuremberg-style trials for DHS and ICE, including for individual ICE agents.
1.) Abolishing ICE and DHS in their entirety, and
2.) Nuremberg-style trials for DHS and ICE, including for individual ICE agents.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There's no way forward without
1.) Abolishing ICE and DHS in their entirety, and
2.) Nuremberg-style trials for DHS and ICE, including for individual ICE agents.
1.) Abolishing ICE and DHS in their entirety, and
2.) Nuremberg-style trials for DHS and ICE, including for individual ICE agents.
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Inuit activist and attorney Aaju Peter says Indigenous Greenlanders want independence, not U.S. annexation.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/greenland_trump
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/greenland_trump
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Inuit activist and attorney Aaju Peter says Indigenous Greenlanders want independence, not U.S. annexation.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/greenland_trump
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/greenland_trump
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This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
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Be surprised by nothing settler-state terrorists do. Look fully at US history (not the founding father mythologies) to know what they believe is defensible to control these lands and to control minds.
Live updates: ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life,’ kills woman in south Minneapolis
ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Witnesses dispute ICE’s version of what happened. Mayor Jacob F...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Be surprised by nothing settler-state terrorists do. Look fully at US history (not the founding father mythologies) to know what they believe is defensible to control these lands and to control minds.
I BEG zooarchaeologists and paleoecologists to engage with 21st century zoological nomenclature. Publishing fish as "Pisces" and turtles as "Chelonia," or ignoring the past three decades of molecular phylogenetics is why real paleontologists don't take us seriously.
January 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I BEG zooarchaeologists and paleoecologists to engage with 21st century zoological nomenclature. Publishing fish as "Pisces" and turtles as "Chelonia," or ignoring the past three decades of molecular phylogenetics is why real paleontologists don't take us seriously.
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My mission for this year.
January 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
My mission for this year.
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What is perhaps the gravest transgression ever committed by a US president has been airbrushed out of the picture and the perp allowed (by a majority of voters) to return to the scene of the crime.
This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.
This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.
The erasure of January 6
Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.
www.motherjones.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
What is perhaps the gravest transgression ever committed by a US president has been airbrushed out of the picture and the perp allowed (by a majority of voters) to return to the scene of the crime.
This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.
This is one of the most worrisome turns in American history.
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A crucial thing left out of conversations about colonizing other planets is that humans evolved to live on Earth.
June 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A crucial thing left out of conversations about colonizing other planets is that humans evolved to live on Earth.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Welcome to the American petrostate
By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic
The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic
The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
Welcome to the American petrostate
I’ve long said that the obstacles to stabilizing warming below catastrophic levels aren’t physical or technological; they are entirely political in nature, and political obstacles can be overcome. But...
thebulletin.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Welcome to the American petrostate
By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic
The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic
The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
"In the making of every animal the presence of every other animal has been recognized" -John Muir, 1875.
I don't know if it's ecology or animism, but I don't think it matters.
I don't know if it's ecology or animism, but I don't think it matters.
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 AM
"In the making of every animal the presence of every other animal has been recognized" -John Muir, 1875.
I don't know if it's ecology or animism, but I don't think it matters.
I don't know if it's ecology or animism, but I don't think it matters.
Perfect match! Fossil and modern Common Eland horn from Kenya
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
January 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Perfect match! Fossil and modern Common Eland horn from Kenya
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
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Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever
January 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever
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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
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December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData
Climate Viz of the Month
November 2025 Hi! I am happy to share the first of (hopefully) some new graphics in this ‘climate viz of the month’ blog. For quite a few years now, I’ve been procrastinating on figuring out an eff…
zacklabe.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData
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From 2004–2011, ~62,000 African Penguin died near Cape Town because of sardine collapse caused by climate change and overfishing. That’s ~95% of the breeding penguins! In 2024, African Penguins were uplisted to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
High adult mortality of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus in South Africa after 2004 was likely caused by starvation
From 2004–2011, following the collapse of sardine Sardinops sagax, a main food for African Penguins Spheniscus demersus, to < 25% of its maximum recorded abundance, survival of penguins breeding at...
www.tandfonline.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
From 2004–2011, ~62,000 African Penguin died near Cape Town because of sardine collapse caused by climate change and overfishing. That’s ~95% of the breeding penguins! In 2024, African Penguins were uplisted to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
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Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
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This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.
She thinks I'm with ICE
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.
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Tambourine Dove (very shy) small forest dove found across subSaharan Africa. Recognizable by its soft gray-brown plumage & finely spotted neck, best known for its gentle, rhythmic call that sounds like a distant tambourine markscheflen.com #bwindiimpenetrableforest #uganda #birdsofeastafrica #birds
December 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Tambourine Dove (very shy) small forest dove found across subSaharan Africa. Recognizable by its soft gray-brown plumage & finely spotted neck, best known for its gentle, rhythmic call that sounds like a distant tambourine markscheflen.com #bwindiimpenetrableforest #uganda #birdsofeastafrica #birds
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From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported earlier this year in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
scim.ag
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported earlier this year in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization
