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Isako Di Tomassi
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she/her #Phytophthora #PotatoPathology #SciPol #SciComm

#PhD student #CornellPPPMB plant pathology - fungi & oomycetes

studied agroecology - fungi - soil @ #PennState

Board member @ local non-profit org Ithaca Community Gardens #Leguminati
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · Mar 3
Dr. Teresa Iturriaga is an incredible resource, and one-of-a-kind! We are so lucky to have her.

Also, I didn't know CUP had over 400k fungal specimens!

#Cornell #PPPMB #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms

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The Scientists Behind Cornell’s Mushroom Museum - The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP) is home to extensive fungi research, connecting students and faculty to the exciting field of mycology.
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"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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This is America 2025. We can never let this be normalized
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I rely on Amazon for some things; but, I can do without for 4 days if I plan.
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Are you an anomal lover? Speak up and #ContactYourReps to prevent cruelty to farm animals!

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Oppose the Save Our Bacon Act!
Please email your federal legislators today and urge them to oppose the Save Our Bacon Act and the Food Security and Farm Protection Act!
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November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Day 158 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Today John (H. sapiens) is getting ready to teach turritellids, with a Kapalmerella mortoni postmortoni specimen ##JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🧪 #SavePRI 🦑
John Oliver from community holding a pointy shell with a strong carina in front of a classroom blackboard
October 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Day 159 of photoshopping John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) relaxing with a tooth of Otodus megalodon (PRI111611)
#savePRI #fossilfriday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #paleontology #geology ⚒️🧪 #sharks
John Oliver with his feet up on his desk pointing to a large fossil shark tooth in a small amount of matrix rock on his desk
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Day161 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with Busycon carica. K-college educators left with similar prizes from PRI's teacher resource day today, supplying 40+ teachers
#savePRI ⚒️ 🧪
John oliver holding a large fossil whelk in a checked shirt in front of a green background Crowded room of teachers sorting through long rows of tables covered in free specimens. Mostly of mollusks, but also publications, fossils, minerals and chemistry labware.
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Day 162 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

Bellerophon crassus poses with an enamored John Oliver (H. sapiens) for #MolluskMonday
🦑 #SavePRI #fossils #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #lastweektonight
A grey curved shell with a raised ridge through the middle along the growth axis leans in towards John Oliver, seated on a blue chair leaning towards the shell. John sits with his leg crossed and smiles happily. books and a magic 8 ball are on the shelves behind him
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Day163 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) hiding from the fearsome and many-toothed conodonts Clydagnathus cavusformis, with many conodont elements below #toothytuesday #savePRI 🧪
John Oliver leaning around a panel in the void while a banner of terrible teeth is unfurled beneath him. above, hunting in the void, are two large eyed eel like creatures with gaping mouths. one may have spotted our intreped comedian. wish him luck.
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Day164 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

PRI's current entryway decoration is fossil bivalves Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata, but perhaps a bust of John (H. sapiens) if he helps? #SavePRI 🦑⚒️🧪
John Oliver in a grey suit standing in front of a display of fossil bivalves on a grey rock. The bivalves have a didactic saying they are from Cayuga County and are Middle Devonian in age
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Day165 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

No need for John(H. sapiens) to sneak off with this nautiloid and Ordovician friends, there are still copies available #savePRI #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🧪
John Oliver in a dark suit with black lapel speedwalking awkwardly while holding a slightly enlarged copy of the children's book "Into the Ordovician: Adventures in a prehistoric world" Cover art has a purple straight shelled nautiloid cephalopod featured prominently along with trilobites, sponges, corals, crinoids, and brachiopods in the background
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Day166 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) prepared for any clams-piracy theory about @theonion.com opposing clam research with these Mulinia congesta #SavePRI #fossilfriday 🧪⚒️🦪🦑
John Oliver in a tin foil hat surrounded by several clam fossils labeled PRI 114932
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Day167 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

I'm sure John (H. sapiens) agrees that crowns are only for crinoids, like Eucalyptocrinites caelatus (PRI 70772)
#JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #savePRI 🧪⚒️
John Oliver sitting at his desk in a blue jacket and red tie over a light blue shirt. the picture he is discussing is a crinoid calyx and arms (fossil is dark on light grey rock) with a red X over it. Text in the bottom center reads No Kings in white
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Day169 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com
John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Oxygonioceras aequale(PRI70586) keeps John (H. sapiens) company while #gsa2025 continues. #savePRI #GSA #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🦑⚒️🧪 @timcarvell.bsky.social
John Oliver in a pale void standing in full view with his hands out over a large curved oncocerid cephalopod fossil balanced on his foot. He is in a blue jacket.
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution met today at #GSA #GSA2025 and Carl Brett (Universityof Cincinnati), a great friend of PRI gave a speach on why this place is worth saving Part 1 of 2
#SavePRI ⚒️🧪
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Reminder this is an open to the public event at Cornell this afternoon! Go learn about the important conservation, climate, biology, and other science that goes on at museums and why collections matter @cornellengineering.bsky.social @cornellcals.bsky.social #Ithaca #Cornell #ICC #SavePRI
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 25d
If you are at Cornell or in #Ithaca next week PRI’s director Warren Allmon will be giving the Phi Beta Kappa lecture Oct 22 at 4:30 on the scientific importance of Natural History Museums, and how their collections are used to address modern problems
Poster for Phi Beta Kappa lecture. "Natural History Museums and the future of the World" Oct 22 at 430 PM, Kaufman auditorium, Goodwin Smith Building. Warren Allmon, PRI director and adjunct associate professor at Cornell. Picture of a white man in blue shirt in the forest. A Mastodon skeleton is at the bottom of the page. Abstract describes Museums as not just children's activities, but as essential for understanding Biodiversity, the History of Life, earth systems, and addressing modern environmental challenges
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Day172 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

As we leave #GSA #GSA2025 in San Antonio, John Oliver (H. sapiens) reminds us to remember the Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. And don't forget to fight to #savePRI 🧪
John oliver stands below a long necked sauropod dinosaur skeleton while a theropod dinosaur skeleton eyes him. he is gesturing towards it with his thumb. Photo of Alamosaurus at the Perot museum from User:FunkMonk used under CC BY 2.0, image cropped and John Oliver added
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Day171 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John Oliver (H. sapiens) safely interacting with Turritella cooperi (Photo by A. Hendy @nhm.org), the subjects of my #GSA talk today
#SavePRI #snails ⚒️🦑🧪🐌
John Oliver in a biosafety suit cheering with his arms up on top of a bed of dozens of Turritella cooperi, a high spired snail
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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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Saving the Museum
After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to
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October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Day173 of photoshopping John Oliver @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with the ammonoid Asteroceras obtusum (PRI 43873)
#SavePRI #fossilfriday ⚒️🧪🦑🐚 #earthscience #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 💩 #urgent Please share!
John oliver stands in a dark suit in a museum gallery like space, standing next to a fossil ammonite cut in half to show complex sutures
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Day175 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) arms himself to combat anti-science rhetoric with a Cretaceous oyster(PRI49890) (only slightly enlarged) ~ #molluskmonday 🧪🦑⚒️ #SavePRI
John Oliver in a bomber jacket and military helmet in the style of a WW2 soldier cradles a giant oyster fossil in both hands, mounted to a bomb tail casing. He is clearly in a military surplus style store with clothes and equipment behind him.
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Day178 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Discussing politicians all day can lead to fantasizing about something with an actual spine, like this mysticete whale's #whalewednesday #SavePRI #fossils 🐳⚒️
John Oliver in blue jacket, pink shirt and purple tie with a thought bubble filled with a whale fossil, mostly consisting of a large spinal column
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM