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I saw Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs at AMNH today! I thought it was pretty good, but it was especially interesting because I just co-wrote a similarly-sized exhibit on the exact same subject (After the Age of Dinosaurs at the Field).
Here’s an early #FossilFriday 🧵 comparing the two.
Here’s an early #FossilFriday 🧵 comparing the two.
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I saw Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs at AMNH today! I thought it was pretty good, but it was especially interesting because I just co-wrote a similarly-sized exhibit on the exact same subject (After the Age of Dinosaurs at the Field).
Here’s an early #FossilFriday 🧵 comparing the two.
Here’s an early #FossilFriday 🧵 comparing the two.
The Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum in Paris is an excellent museum building with incredible views from the multi-level roof
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum in Paris is an excellent museum building with incredible views from the multi-level roof
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I want to plug the phenomenal Aquí en Chicago exhibition at the Chicago History Museum! It couldn’t have opened at a more challenging time, but the 4+ years of committed community work that led to this show is profoundly apparent.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I want to plug the phenomenal Aquí en Chicago exhibition at the Chicago History Museum! It couldn’t have opened at a more challenging time, but the 4+ years of committed community work that led to this show is profoundly apparent.
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If you can’t make it to the Field, a group of high schoolers has made a virtual version of our show about herpetology curator Sara Ruane.
This matterport tech is getting really good—the wall projection video is embedded in the 3-D space! mpembed.com/show/?m=Jsnk...
This matterport tech is getting really good—the wall projection video is embedded in the 3-D space! mpembed.com/show/?m=Jsnk...
Explore The Changing Face Of Science: Sara Ruane in 3D
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December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you can’t make it to the Field, a group of high schoolers has made a virtual version of our show about herpetology curator Sara Ruane.
This matterport tech is getting really good—the wall projection video is embedded in the 3-D space! mpembed.com/show/?m=Jsnk...
This matterport tech is getting really good—the wall projection video is embedded in the 3-D space! mpembed.com/show/?m=Jsnk...
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This crude reimagining of the role that government workers play in American life is devastating for those who rely on federal services, and it is catastrophic for those who built their careers providing these services, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/47NuKh1
https://bit.ly/47NuKh1
The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Systems built up over the last 120 years are being either eliminated or corroded at warp speed, with the implicit blessing of the US Supreme Court.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This crude reimagining of the role that government workers play in American life is devastating for those who rely on federal services, and it is catastrophic for those who built their careers providing these services, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social.
https://bit.ly/47NuKh1
https://bit.ly/47NuKh1
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At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!
Giant penguins and the world's longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/f...
Giant penguins and the world’s longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs
We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in between?
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September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Giant penguins and the world's longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/f...
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One of the coolest things in After the Age of Dinosaurs is our Diatryma! The Field acquired this set of plaster casts in a 1937 trade with AMNH, but it's never been mounted for display before. Seeing it stand up for the first time was incredible.
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
One of the coolest things in After the Age of Dinosaurs is our Diatryma! The Field acquired this set of plaster casts in a 1937 trade with AMNH, but it's never been mounted for display before. Seeing it stand up for the first time was incredible.
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The website for After the Age of Dinosaurs is up! We’re still screaming to get it done for Labor Day weekend but I hope you all love this slightly trippy exhibit about the slightly trippy recovery period after the end-Cretaceous extinction. (cont’d) www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibition/a...
August 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The website for After the Age of Dinosaurs is up! We’re still screaming to get it done for Labor Day weekend but I hope you all love this slightly trippy exhibit about the slightly trippy recovery period after the end-Cretaceous extinction. (cont’d) www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibition/a...
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Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.
https://trib.al/d1A1IC7
https://trib.al/d1A1IC7
Samoan culture shared, celebrated during live art collaboration at the Field Museum
Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.
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July 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.
https://trib.al/d1A1IC7
https://trib.al/d1A1IC7
'Reptiles Alive!' is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/r...
‘Reptiles Alive!’ is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds
Legless lizards, anyone? Breaking down assumptions about reptiles has been the life’s work of associate curator Sara Ruane.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'Reptiles Alive!' is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/r...
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How do you establish a shared language of key terms to an audience looking for fun, not homework? Our attempt in Reptiles Alive is this "object theater" at the beginning of the exhibition. (cont’d)
June 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How do you establish a shared language of key terms to an audience looking for fun, not homework? Our attempt in Reptiles Alive is this "object theater" at the beginning of the exhibition. (cont’d)
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Opening day and Gwangi is ready for his close up!
June 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Opening day and Gwangi is ready for his close up!
The State of Illinois has a new Poet Laureate and fellow poets rejoice www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/t...
The State of Illinois has a new Poet Laureate and fellow poets rejoice
Native American poet Mark Turcotte was introduced on Tuesday by Governor JB Pritzker as our state’s latest official poet.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The State of Illinois has a new Poet Laureate and fellow poets rejoice www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/t...
Does your feline think she's a tiger? 'Cats: Predators to Pets' at the Field Museum shows she has a point www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/21/d...
Does your feline think she’s a tiger? ‘Cats: Predators to Pets’ at the Field Museum shows she has a point
The temporary exhibit lets you test your hearing against that of a cat, learn about wild animals and enter your own furball in a photo contest.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Does your feline think she's a tiger? 'Cats: Predators to Pets' at the Field Museum shows she has a point www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/21/d...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
January 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, "Don't Let Him Die in Prison"
Will Biden Free Leonard Peltier? Indigenous Leaders Urge Not to Let Him Die in Prison
After commuting the sentences of over 2,500 people imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, Joe Biden has set a record for most pardons and commutations by a U.S. president. But Indigenous political prisoner...
www.democracynow.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, "Don't Let Him Die in Prison"
Bronze archaeopteryx @ the Field Museum
January 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Bronze archaeopteryx @ the Field Museum
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I've been reading Paul Brinkman's (why aren't you on here yet?) new book, Now is the Time to Collect (2024 University of Alabama Press). It chronicles the museum's expedition to Somalia of 1896. This is when the cheetah kittens—and most of the African mammals on display—were collected.
January 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I've been reading Paul Brinkman's (why aren't you on here yet?) new book, Now is the Time to Collect (2024 University of Alabama Press). It chronicles the museum's expedition to Somalia of 1896. This is when the cheetah kittens—and most of the African mammals on display—were collected.
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Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.