GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Shoutout to @benj-art-min.bsky.social for the cover art!

New paper alert! (My first!)

This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible!

giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

New paper alert!! Thanks to @tuttran.bsky.social for putting us all together for his first publication! It will be helpful to have much of this data in one place. Check it out: giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
#NPSpaleo

New seasonal paleontology positions available for Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park and Fossil Butte National Monument. Apply soon, they close after they receive a certain number of apps! #NPSpaleo #PaleoJobs

www.usajobs.gov/job/850816000

www.usajobs.gov/job/850816700

Very excited and pleased to see this important work out to the public after many twists and turns!
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

While doing research for my Geology of the National Parks course, I came across this article by @tuttran.bsky.social on paleontology in Bryce Canyon National Park, which will always be my favorite NP. Spent so much time there with my family.
www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Getting several responses to my "here are some tips to communicate your science to the public" thread along the lines of "if other people don't understand what I do, it's because they're stupid and that's not anything I can fix."

If you believe this, you are a bad teacher and a bad scientist.

SARAH MCBRIDE OF DELAWARE BECOMES THE FIRST TRANSGENDER MEMBER OF CONGRESS CAN I GET A HELL YEAH FROM THE STRESSED OUT CHAT