Spencer K. Pevsner, MSc
@skpevsner.bsky.social
synapsid enthusiast | PhD student at Oxford | UChicago and Bristol alum | half Indian half Jewish progressive paleontologist | he/him
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I'm Spencer, and I'm a PhD student at Oxford studying paleontogy! More specifically, I'm looking at the evolution of tails in synapsids, which is the broad group that includes both mammals and everything more closely related to us than reptiles! I've also worked with marsupials and multituberculates
Happening tomorrow! Be there!
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happening tomorrow! Be there!
Are you attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Come see my talk on Thursday at 2pm in the Synapsida technical session on tail length evolution in across stem mammals, and find out why this long-neglected part of the skeleton has a much more complicated story to tell than we previously thought!
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
New tagline for therapsids just dropped
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New tagline for therapsids just dropped
Starting to think about which albums I’ve enjoyed most this year so I can begin my write up reviewing them - if you have any personal faves from the year, let me know so I can take them into consideration!
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Starting to think about which albums I’ve enjoyed most this year so I can begin my write up reviewing them - if you have any personal faves from the year, let me know so I can take them into consideration!
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
You simply love to see it!!!!
BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
You simply love to see it!!!!
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BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
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Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway
Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
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Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction
Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.
www.newyorkupstate.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
It’s pumpkin carving time! Decided to rep the Earth Kingdom this year in honor of the greatest earthbender to ever do it, Toph Beifong
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It’s pumpkin carving time! Decided to rep the Earth Kingdom this year in honor of the greatest earthbender to ever do it, Toph Beifong
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Klein is repeating the story that elite consultants from the 2012 Obama campaign have been pushing. Trying to sell Dems more of the same. It's better to stick with the data. The CES shows that every Dem and Republican nominee is seen as essentially the same except Trump in 2016.
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Klein is repeating the story that elite consultants from the 2012 Obama campaign have been pushing. Trying to sell Dems more of the same. It's better to stick with the data. The CES shows that every Dem and Republican nominee is seen as essentially the same except Trump in 2016.
Happy #FossilFriday! Today is my last day at the AMNH before I return to Oxford so in honor of that here’s one of my favorite fossils on display here, a full skeleton of Cotylorhynchus romeri! Cotylorhynchus is a caseid, which were among the earliest large terrestrial herbivores on Earth! 🧪⚒️🦊
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! Today is my last day at the AMNH before I return to Oxford so in honor of that here’s one of my favorite fossils on display here, a full skeleton of Cotylorhynchus romeri! Cotylorhynchus is a caseid, which were among the earliest large terrestrial herbivores on Earth! 🧪⚒️🦊
This is the best film I saw at #TIFF50, go see it!
Tessa Thompson schemes, manipulates and awes in Nia DaCosta's dazzling adaptation of Hedda Gabler. n.pr/4qqR9aU
This is not your grandmother's 'Hedda'
Tessa Thompson schemes, manipulates and awes in Nia DaCosta's dazzling adaptation of Hedda Gabler.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the best film I saw at #TIFF50, go see it!
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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
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
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
www.ithaca.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
Been obsessing over this track for the last week, it goes so hard in just the right way youtu.be/B6QUT0Re_8Q?...
Water From Your Eyes - "Playing Classics" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Water From Your Eyes
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Been obsessing over this track for the last week, it goes so hard in just the right way youtu.be/B6QUT0Re_8Q?...
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I'm trying to digest the editorial, but I keep coming back to this plot & the simple statistical mistake it's making. **OF course** moderate Democrats outperformed Harris in purple seats, purple-seat voters don't like progressive presidential candidates! The comparison artificially inflates strength
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm trying to digest the editorial, but I keep coming back to this plot & the simple statistical mistake it's making. **OF course** moderate Democrats outperformed Harris in purple seats, purple-seat voters don't like progressive presidential candidates! The comparison artificially inflates strength
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More abdication of responsibility from the New York Times. They should be ashamed to publish garbage like this rather than doing their job and ESTIMATING crowd sizes for what may be THE LARGEST PROTEST in American history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...
How The Times Covers Crowds: Focusing on the Content, Not the Count
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
More abdication of responsibility from the New York Times. They should be ashamed to publish garbage like this rather than doing their job and ESTIMATING crowd sizes for what may be THE LARGEST PROTEST in American history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...
Happy #FossilFriday! Did you know that mammals were wildly ecologically diverse as far back as the Jurassic period? Castorocauda here is a prime example - it was semi-aquatic, which we know from its scaly beaver-like tail (for which the genus is named), directly preserved in the fossil itself! 🧪⚒️🦊
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! Did you know that mammals were wildly ecologically diverse as far back as the Jurassic period? Castorocauda here is a prime example - it was semi-aquatic, which we know from its scaly beaver-like tail (for which the genus is named), directly preserved in the fossil itself! 🧪⚒️🦊
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The Greens have pulled ahead of Labour for the first time.
It's on! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/greens-pul...
It's on! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/greens-pul...
Greens pull ahead of Labour
And both Labour and the British media are rattled.
www.owenjones.news
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Greens have pulled ahead of Labour for the first time.
It's on! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/greens-pul...
It's on! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/greens-pul...
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I would love to know at what point the right wingers will finally accept that fossil fuels are dying, but never underestimate the power of obstinance I guess lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I would love to know at what point the right wingers will finally accept that fossil fuels are dying, but never underestimate the power of obstinance I guess lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Got to see some of my fave comedians @jameswillems.bsky.social and @elysewillems.bsky.social, along with Nathan, Julia, and Jacob from Drawfee, Erin Farrington and Joey Dardano last night at an incredible live Answer For It show! Haven't laughed that hard at a show in a long time
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Got to see some of my fave comedians @jameswillems.bsky.social and @elysewillems.bsky.social, along with Nathan, Julia, and Jacob from Drawfee, Erin Farrington and Joey Dardano last night at an incredible live Answer For It show! Haven't laughed that hard at a show in a long time
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This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America
democracyamericana.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
I am reminded of the time I was fortunate enough to hear Jane Goodall speak while I was in college at the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the moment she connected with chimpanzee David Greybeard. Goodall spoke with moral clarity and conviction, and we would do well to follow in her footsteps
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I am reminded of the time I was fortunate enough to hear Jane Goodall speak while I was in college at the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the moment she connected with chimpanzee David Greybeard. Goodall spoke with moral clarity and conviction, and we would do well to follow in her footsteps
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I think this is the best piece I've read so far about the large number of elites who basically can't deal with the situation we are in. it doesn't compute and they keep hunting for an exit that doesn't exist
"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I think this is the best piece I've read so far about the large number of elites who basically can't deal with the situation we are in. it doesn't compute and they keep hunting for an exit that doesn't exist