PaleoJim
@paleojim.bsky.social
State Paleontologist for Utah; exploring and promoting the history of life in our southwestern deserts for the public good and the wonder of it all
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Exploring the Feasibility of a Regional Earthquake Early Warning System in Utah #BSSA⚒️
Utah’s existing seismic network is at the desired density along the Wasatch fault zone, and needs to be upgraded to be operational for earthquake early warning.
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
Utah’s existing seismic network is at the desired density along the Wasatch fault zone, and needs to be upgraded to be operational for earthquake early warning.
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Exploring the Feasibility of a Regional Earthquake Early Warning System in Utah #BSSA⚒️
Utah’s existing seismic network is at the desired density along the Wasatch fault zone, and needs to be upgraded to be operational for earthquake early warning.
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
Utah’s existing seismic network is at the desired density along the Wasatch fault zone, and needs to be upgraded to be operational for earthquake early warning.
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
Working on describing new basal Cretaceous polacanthid ankylosaurs, so for the 1st #FossilFriday of 2026 sharing drafts of pectoral girdle & forelimb figures. I am a big fan of direct comparisons. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Working on describing new basal Cretaceous polacanthid ankylosaurs, so for the 1st #FossilFriday of 2026 sharing drafts of pectoral girdle & forelimb figures. I am a big fan of direct comparisons. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
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Some good news to end the year: the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca has raised enough this year to pay off its mortgage in full and keep the doors open!!!
PRI's Wonderful Life — Paleontological Research Institution
By Dr. Warren Allmon , Director of the Paleontological Research Institution December 30, 2025 The holidays are a time for “Christmas movies” in my house, and one that is always on our list is&nbs...
www.priweb.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Some good news to end the year: the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca has raised enough this year to pay off its mortgage in full and keep the doors open!!!
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I’m also excited that my team’s paper describing Asmodochelys leviathan, a new species of giant Maastrichtian marine turtle from the Neylandville Marl Formation of Texas, is included in the volume: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A novel marine turtle (Pan-Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae) from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of north central Texas, U.S.A - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The marine turtle family Ctenochelyidae was a Late Cretaceous North American radiation of Pan-Chelonioidea, broadly distributed along the coastlines of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Mississippi Embay...
link.springer.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m also excited that my team’s paper describing Asmodochelys leviathan, a new species of giant Maastrichtian marine turtle from the Neylandville Marl Formation of Texas, is included in the volume: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Nice interview with my boss, Utah's State Geologist. Darlene Batatian has been a big supporter of Utah Geological Survey's role in Utah paleontology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RpY... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
From Remote Alaska Field Work To State Geologist: Meet Darlene Batatian
YouTube video by Shawn Willsey: Geology Explained
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nice interview with my boss, Utah's State Geologist. Darlene Batatian has been a big supporter of Utah Geological Survey's role in Utah paleontology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RpY... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Ben Goode
Cretaceous Crusher Sharks w/ Shawn Hamm | Elasmocast Episode #16
youtu.be/jhrdVAkl-xg
@jeremybroberts.bsky.social @sharkscience.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Cretaceous Crusher Sharks w/ Shawn Hamm | Elasmocast Episode #16
youtu.be/jhrdVAkl-xg
@jeremybroberts.bsky.social @sharkscience.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Cretaceous Crusher Sharks w/ Shawn Hamm | Elasmocast Episode #16
YouTube video by Elasmocast
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Ben Goode
Cretaceous Crusher Sharks w/ Shawn Hamm | Elasmocast Episode #16
youtu.be/jhrdVAkl-xg
@jeremybroberts.bsky.social @sharkscience.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Cretaceous Crusher Sharks w/ Shawn Hamm | Elasmocast Episode #16
youtu.be/jhrdVAkl-xg
@jeremybroberts.bsky.social @sharkscience.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Curious is anyone has ever described the huge allosaur that I found near the top of the Morrison at Horsetooth Res. no. CO. Bakker called vert, Epantarias. Skull material at DMNS & verts at CU? Sooz found a nice bone scatter at Carter Res. to the south. All found in 1987. #FossilFriday
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Curious is anyone has ever described the huge allosaur that I found near the top of the Morrison at Horsetooth Res. no. CO. Bakker called vert, Epantarias. Skull material at DMNS & verts at CU? Sooz found a nice bone scatter at Carter Res. to the south. All found in 1987. #FossilFriday
National Parks Traveler noted the UGA pub. on NPS fossils in Utah we co-authored. @andrewtracks.bsky.social tritylodont bonebed discovery at Kayenta-Navajo Fm. Low Lake levels may permit an expedition to further document sites next year. #FossilFriday www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/12/visu...
December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
National Parks Traveler noted the UGA pub. on NPS fossils in Utah we co-authored. @andrewtracks.bsky.social tritylodont bonebed discovery at Kayenta-Navajo Fm. Low Lake levels may permit an expedition to further document sites next year. #FossilFriday www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/12/visu...
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Happy holidays from the Paleo Society!🎉
This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner!
#Paleontology #Literature #Ocean
This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner!
#Paleontology #Literature #Ocean
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Happy holidays from the Paleo Society!🎉
This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner!
#Paleontology #Literature #Ocean
This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner!
#Paleontology #Literature #Ocean
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#FossilFriday Wiped out from delivering presents, little Cambrian arthropod Sanctacaris (aka "Santa Claws") takes a very long (508 million year) rest. Specimen at @romtoronto.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#FossilFriday Wiped out from delivering presents, little Cambrian arthropod Sanctacaris (aka "Santa Claws") takes a very long (508 million year) rest. Specimen at @romtoronto.bsky.social
So are aetosaurs and ankylosaurs convergent on giant millipeds ?? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
How can we not help but love the largest known land invertebrate? Also? Think of the tracks this absolute unit would've have left. (ht to @susieoftraken.bsky.social for reposting @caseystegman.com for the original post.) #FossilFriday #Invertefest
Giant ass millipede dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/gian...
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So are aetosaurs and ankylosaurs convergent on giant millipeds ?? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
Fun podcast on a extraordinarily spiny ankylosaurid. open.spotify.com/episode/6t9V... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @dinodadreviews.bsky.social @stupond.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
The Spicomellus Special
open.spotify.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fun podcast on a extraordinarily spiny ankylosaurid. open.spotify.com/episode/6t9V... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @dinodadreviews.bsky.social @stupond.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Danny "just" posted some field interviews from a couple years ago. So if you are not interested in watching football give them a view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIU0...
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Danny "just" posted some field interviews from a couple years ago. So if you are not interested in watching football give them a view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIU0...
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
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#fossilfriday ⚒️🦑🇦🇶
New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#fossilfriday ⚒️🦑🇦🇶
A historic picture of some awesome talent; Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol. Jean-Míchel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo. Love to learn more about this historic picture.
December 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A historic picture of some awesome talent; Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol. Jean-Míchel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo. Love to learn more about this historic picture.
This will be interesting.
It would be at &PM GMT; 12 noon, Mountain Time
Let's look at super green housing in our past rather than in our future. The view from across the pond. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk to register for Zoom link. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
It would be at &PM GMT; 12 noon, Mountain Time
Let's look at super green housing in our past rather than in our future. The view from across the pond. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk to register for Zoom link. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This will be interesting.
It would be at &PM GMT; 12 noon, Mountain Time
Let's look at super green housing in our past rather than in our future. The view from across the pond. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk to register for Zoom link. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
It would be at &PM GMT; 12 noon, Mountain Time
Let's look at super green housing in our past rather than in our future. The view from across the pond. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk to register for Zoom link. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
Turiasaurs invaded North America in the basal Cretaceous following the terminal Jurassic extinction of most of the Morrison Dinosaur fauna. So here are some images of Turiasaurus from the Spain for #FossilFriday @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Turiasaurs invaded North America in the basal Cretaceous following the terminal Jurassic extinction of most of the Morrison Dinosaur fauna. So here are some images of Turiasaurus from the Spain for #FossilFriday @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de
The history of deep time thinking and its effect on society.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRM... @paleontologizing.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRM... @paleontologizing.bsky.social
Marcia Bjornerud - Timefulness - Dec. 10, 2023
YouTube video by Quimper Geological Society
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December 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The history of deep time thinking and its effect on society.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRM... @paleontologizing.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRM... @paleontologizing.bsky.social
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This is really gross: a book full of plagiarised #paleoart published by a legit UK publisher. As if we don't have enough problems with AI! There is no excuse for the author/artist not knowing better, either: this isn't the first time they've been caught committing major acts of plagiarism.
it appears plagiorizer William Toosey tries his shit again, that's my Propalorchestes in his "Journey through the Cenozoic".
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is really gross: a book full of plagiarised #paleoart published by a legit UK publisher. As if we don't have enough problems with AI! There is no excuse for the author/artist not knowing better, either: this isn't the first time they've been caught committing major acts of plagiarism.
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📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah
Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah
December 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah
Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah
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Our newest issue is live online! Read the latest on killer whales, flashes in the night sky, friendly robots, and much, much more!
Scientific American Volume 334, Issue 1
"These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them", "Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers", "Meet Your Future Robot Servants, Caregivers and Explorers" ...
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our newest issue is live online! Read the latest on killer whales, flashes in the night sky, friendly robots, and much, much more!
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Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
Is this a turtle claw from the Utahraptor Megablock. If so it is huge for the mid-Mesozoic of North America? @heatherfsmith.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Is this a turtle claw from the Utahraptor Megablock. If so it is huge for the mid-Mesozoic of North America? @heatherfsmith.bsky.social
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Rest easy, Rob Reiner 🙏🏾💙🕊
This scene from "All In The Family"..... still applicable.
Caroll O'Connor 🕊
Sally Struthers 💙
This scene from "All In The Family"..... still applicable.
Caroll O'Connor 🕊
Sally Struthers 💙
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Rest easy, Rob Reiner 🙏🏾💙🕊
This scene from "All In The Family"..... still applicable.
Caroll O'Connor 🕊
Sally Struthers 💙
This scene from "All In The Family"..... still applicable.
Caroll O'Connor 🕊
Sally Struthers 💙