Jackson Sweder
@palaeojack.bsky.social
Palaeontology Lab and Collections Technician for the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. Fan of Pachyrhinosaurus. Environmentalist, cross country running. My views are my own.
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
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USAID was doing a fine job keeping millions of people fed and medicated before he “fed it into a wood chipper.” Go fuck yourself, Elon.
Man worth $370 billion says the way to solve poverty is “AI and robotics”
August 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
USAID was doing a fine job keeping millions of people fed and medicated before he “fed it into a wood chipper.” Go fuck yourself, Elon.
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Fiddling with Javascript to change mentions of AI in news to a more accurate description
July 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fiddling with Javascript to change mentions of AI in news to a more accurate description
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“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”
Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”
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Fuck these fucking fucks to hell.
This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails.
I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com
This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails.
I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Fuck these fucking fucks to hell.
This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails.
I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com
This has been up for 2 weeks after I sent them a DMCA takedown notice and now they're just ignoring my emails.
I didn't give them permission. If you bought a short from them I do not endorse it. You can get my stuff here: emmalerae.threadless.com
An absolutely gorgeous #tyrannosaur tooth that I collected from Dinosaur Provincial Park while working with the UofA palaeontology crew under Phil Currie. I found 3 of these beauties but this is the best! #fossilfriday
June 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
An absolutely gorgeous #tyrannosaur tooth that I collected from Dinosaur Provincial Park while working with the UofA palaeontology crew under Phil Currie. I found 3 of these beauties but this is the best! #fossilfriday
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"To any Americans wondering if democracy is lost or if they can ever make a difference, I’d say this: If the Trump administration was this afraid of one senator w/a question, imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans organizing will do." @padilla.senate.gov
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o... we celebrate immigrants — knowing full well that California has become the fourth-largest economy in the world, not despite our immigrants but because of them.”
Opinion | Senator Padilla: This Is How an Administration Acts When It’s Afraid
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June 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"To any Americans wondering if democracy is lost or if they can ever make a difference, I’d say this: If the Trump administration was this afraid of one senator w/a question, imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans organizing will do." @padilla.senate.gov
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Which is all to say, if we want to avoid future generations thinking the same about us, we all need to get on board with doing more for nature however we can!)
June 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Which is all to say, if we want to avoid future generations thinking the same about us, we all need to get on board with doing more for nature however we can!)
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(On a personal note, while dodos are fascinating, they're also v. depressing to paint. We wiped out these remarkable birds so fast that we didn't even collect decent specimens for museums, and it's difficult not to continually reflect on our awful, callous attitudes when researching such animals.
June 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
(On a personal note, while dodos are fascinating, they're also v. depressing to paint. We wiped out these remarkable birds so fast that we didn't even collect decent specimens for museums, and it's difficult not to continually reflect on our awful, callous attitudes when researching such animals.
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For #FossilFriday: #paleoart adventures with dodos including my latest reconstruction of this famous pigeon with accurate(?) colours, 3D printing a life-sized scanned dodo head (Kolby the greyhound for scale), and upscaling Ustad Mansur's c. 1625 important painting of the bird in life. #sciart
June 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For #FossilFriday: #paleoart adventures with dodos including my latest reconstruction of this famous pigeon with accurate(?) colours, 3D printing a life-sized scanned dodo head (Kolby the greyhound for scale), and upscaling Ustad Mansur's c. 1625 important painting of the bird in life. #sciart
If you’ve seen Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 ep.5 “The Journey North” you would have seen this #Pachyrhinosaurus pathological rib. We had planned to talk about a different pathological rib that filming day but while the crew was setting up the cameras we found this one! Happy #fossilfriday #wwd2025
June 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If you’ve seen Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 ep.5 “The Journey North” you would have seen this #Pachyrhinosaurus pathological rib. We had planned to talk about a different pathological rib that filming day but while the crew was setting up the cameras we found this one! Happy #fossilfriday #wwd2025
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#WWD2025
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs
With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs
With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen
The second season of BBC’s hit Walking With Dinosaurs features a team of U of A graduate students helping excavate an Albertosaurus and bring it to life on screen.
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June 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
#WWD2025
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs
With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
Student-led crew brings Albertosaurus named Rose to the screen #WalkingWithDinosaurs
With Mark Powers, Annie McIntosh, Colton Coppock, Henry Sharpe, Christiana Garros (@chrissygarros.bsky.social) and Jordan Stock mentioned
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
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June 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Thank you!! 💚✊ We asked you to record everything, photos, videos, all of it, and you showed up. You helped us capture the truth. So proud of every one of you. Tomorrow, there will be more of us. We love you all!
June 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thank you!! 💚✊ We asked you to record everything, photos, videos, all of it, and you showed up. You helped us capture the truth. So proud of every one of you. Tomorrow, there will be more of us. We love you all!
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Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.
Period
Do law enforcement.
Period
June 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.
Period
Do law enforcement.
Period
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Trump even admitted he knew Elon had a drug problem and still gave him access to America’s most sensitive information. You’d think DOGE would be dismantled, not embedded. You’d think Elon’s staffers would be investigated. But nothing is happening. Something is off.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Trump even admitted he knew Elon had a drug problem and still gave him access to America’s most sensitive information. You’d think DOGE would be dismantled, not embedded. You’d think Elon’s staffers would be investigated. But nothing is happening. Something is off.
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The blowup between Elon and Trump hasn’t ended DOGE, it’s still expanding. Russ Vought now plans to institutionalize DOGE across the federal government, and Elon’s staffers are embedded deep within key agencies.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The blowup between Elon and Trump hasn’t ended DOGE, it’s still expanding. Russ Vought now plans to institutionalize DOGE across the federal government, and Elon’s staffers are embedded deep within key agencies.
Fresh from the field! A tiny Boreonykus tooth I found at the Pipestone Creek Bonebed today! It’s less than a centimetre long! #fossilfriday
June 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Fresh from the field! A tiny Boreonykus tooth I found at the Pipestone Creek Bonebed today! It’s less than a centimetre long! #fossilfriday
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Using ChatGPT
9. What is a behavior people think is normal but is actually toxic?
June 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Using ChatGPT
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This is not about saving money, this is about weakening a class of people who have been trained to think independently, are used to speaking out, and whose voices are respected and listened to.
This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.
This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.
something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is not about saving money, this is about weakening a class of people who have been trained to think independently, are used to speaking out, and whose voices are respected and listened to.
This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.
This isn’t an economic move, it’s a political one. The aim is to hamstring dissenters.
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