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DrArchivalGenomics
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🧪ancient DNA sleuth, ex-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scientist-Archive explorer. Fond of Museums, Madagascar, Mummies, Crocodiles & Conservation. #BeKind ❤️ posts mine (🌏🌍🌎)
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#FossilFriday sneak preview #Impact 🦖🦕☄️🐀🦫🕊️
Model diorama of a mosasaur biting a plesiosaur on the neck
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Just a reminder as we fall in love with the fall colors. #LeaveTheLeaves they provide safe harbor for the multitude f small creatures that sustain us.
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Key part of the problem we are facing:
bbc.co.uk She also says that the mind disregards evidence that does not support the original, often false, groupthink assumption. The speed at which people tend to form impressions of how trustworthy someone is can also be part of the problem - and lead to misreading a person's trustworthiness. Dr Mileva explains that our ability to gauge trust evolved very early in human evolution - our ancestors needed to tell whether someone was a friend or foe in a split-second. "It is an extremely quick process. It takes us about a 10th of a second to form a very stable impression of trustworthiness," she says. The bad news is that her research shows that although our trust reflexes are quick, they are also terrible.
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Trying to stay up for results..
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Democracy feels good. Let’s keep it.
Early voting sticker for NYC!
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Ahhh.. the memories… that have been completely memory holed. Remember when just burning government documents was considered illegal..
Cover on New Yorker form 2021 with Guiliani and Trump burning documents
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Me and Jane! #ScienceFun Happy #FossilFriday and #Halloween to all who celebrate!🦖 Congrats to James and all involved. 🥂🎃
selfie of me in front of the newly described small species of nanotyrannosaur, Jane, at #Paleofest in 2018.
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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#NoKingsNYC #NoKings #NoKingsDay
Take Heart- we are on the side of love and love wins. ❤️💞❤️💞❤️💞❤️💞❤️
Protest sign reading “This Machine Kolls Fascists” over a picture of a human heart, from a design by the artist Jonathan Byxbe
October 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Show us your signs! #NoKings #NoKingsDay love this one! #OnlyYouCanPreventFascism ❤️
Sign with Smokey the bear reading “Only you can prevent fascism”
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Protest sign with a picture of a rat holding a sharpie and sitting on a rolled up copy of the Declaration of Independence, that reads “what part of We The People don’t you understand” #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Protest sign reading “F is for Fascist” o er an image of Donald J Trump
October 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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You mean a sign with a cardboard tube “stick” like this?
Protester holding a sign reading “WHAT PART OF WE THE PEOPLE DONT YOU UNDERSTAND? with a drawing of the Declaration of Independence
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Always feels great to be among true friends who understand how much we love our country and its amazing community people from many places. #NoKingsOct18th see you out there ❤️📜🇺🇸😘
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Never forget #NoKings
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I love that this paper calls out the specific brands that make up the majority of plastics polluting these mangroves ( plastics which are also responsible for killing a protected species of crocodile) 🐊. #Croctober 🧪
Site Saint Helene North (16.4271° N, 86.2472° W) Saint Helene South (16.4198° N, (16.3561° N, 86.2437° W) French Harbour 86.4515° W) Mud Hole (16.3546" N, 86.5180° W) Mean items m-2 1.43 ÷ 0.80 7.12 ÷ 3.72 2.98 $ 3.10 15.8 $ 25.83 Mean API, items m-2 1.40 ÷ 0.80 7 ÷ 3.61 2.87 ÷ 3.08 15.66 $ 25.69 Mean Kg m-2 0.05 $ 0.02 0.21 ÷ 0.15 0.07 ÷ 0.04 0.15 ÷ 0.18 Top countries identified (n = 81) Honduras (2) Guatemala (2) Haiti (1) Peru (1) Honduras (10) Guatemala (4) Haiti (1) Jamaica (1) Others (3) Honduras (5) Guatemala (3) Guatemala (21) Honduras (14) Jamaica (2) Mexico (2) Others (9) Top parent companies (n = 119) Nike (2) The Coca-Cola Company (1) AJE Group (1) Others (3) The Coca-Cola Company (9) Cervecería Hondureña S.A. (6) Colgate-Palmolive Others (8) (2) Others (16) EMSULA (6) Grupo PDC (3) DIANA (2) Grupo PDC (11) Procter & Gamble (8) The Coca-Cola Company (6) Others (35)
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Gotta wonder what the hell the #NFL is thinking. It isn’t like they didn’t know.
Back in 2015, before entering the NFL, Hill pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation after he assaulted Espinal, who was then pregnant. Hill received three years probation for that crime. The NFL has yet to hand down any discipline for Hill for this most recent incident.
October 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Monday blues with Loki
Dachshund with head draped over edge of chair looking depressed at the state of the world.
September 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I can’t urge you strongly enough. If it wasn’t Zuckerberg/Facebook’s role in election interference via Cambridge Analytica in 2016. Then maybe this will convince you !, #DeleteFacebook #DeleteThreads #DeleteMeta #DeleteInsta etc #Meta=MAGA www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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RollingStone Miller, who is Jewish, has been denounced by his own uncle as a one-man betrayal of Jewish moral and political values. Miller has long held the deepest admiration for the Immigration Act of 1924, and wishes to bring America back to those days. The law is notorious for making the Holocaust deadlier for Jews who tried to flee the Nazis, only to be denied safe passage to the U.S.
September 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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From Scientific American Nov 2022 after the Pelosi attack. The only way through this is to stop exactly what is happening. No both-sides false equivalence. No normalization of extremist rhetoric.
From Scientific American Nov 2022. “Beyond understanding how our emotions can be exploited to demonize others, we can refuse to buy into "both-sides" false equivalence and the normalization of dangerous rhetoric and extremism. We can do better at enforcing laws against hate speech and incitement to violence. And ultimately, we can disengage with media platforms that make money by keeping us disgusted, fearful and forgetful of our own decency-and shared humanity.”
September 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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From a 2022 Scientific American article on Stochastic Terrorism
From Scientific American . “Beyond understanding how our emotions can be exploited to demonize others, we can refuse to buy into "both-sides" false equivalence and the normalization of dangerous rhetoric and extremism. We can do better at enforcing laws against hate speech and incitement to violence. And ultimately, we can disengage with media platforms that make money by keeping us disgusted, fearful and forgetful of our own decency-and shared humanity.”
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Loki will lick your woes away or at least make you laugh while trying (or crying).
Long haired Mini dachshund named Loki looking at the camera
September 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In case you didn’t notice because everything else about this is so heinous, that’s Mar-a-Lago in the background w/ the plane arriving. If you think DT wasn’t an active participant in ALL of this, you’re either blind or lying to yourself SCOTUS & GOP Congress & anyone who still supports DT😡👇⚖️
September 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM