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Day 188 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with a Leptopecten gilbertharrisi, named for PRIs founder, who didn't trust Cornell to value his science/collections 👀 #SavePRI
#Cornell ⚒️🦑🧪
John Oliver in a blue void with a black and white image of a deeply ribbed scallop shell behind him
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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We came, we questioned, we pushed every button possible 🦖😅

Had an absolute blast today @ the Museum of the Earth! They are in trouble sooo...

If you are near Ithaca definitely go visit! If you are far, consider donating to #SavePRI!
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Day 189 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

We had a fossil named for PRI's 2nd director, so here is 1 from a paper by PRI's 3rd Peter Hoover; Fossil is Spiriferina alia, John is H. sapiens #SavePRI 🧪⚒️
John Oliver in a tux gives a thumbs up to a black and white photo of a brachiopod.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Day 187 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

What could be more relaxing than having a glass of wine with a sympathetic snail(Loxonema)?
#fossilfriday #savePRI #johnolivercoprolitasticshed 🧪 #savescience
John Oliver in dark suit with a red tie sits in a large brown leather chair holding a glass of wine. On the table next to him is a large, high spired snail as a grey fossil partly embedded in a similar colored limestone
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Day185 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

"John Oliver (H. sapiens) prevents disaster for US paleontology" could be this month's nonsense headline. Shake a poor ichthyosaur's hand #savePRI 🧪⚒️ #science
John Oliver shaking hands with the flipper of an Icthyosaur in front of PRI's Hyde Park Mastodon
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Day 186 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Our microphones aren't as fancy as at #LastWeekTonight, but John (H. sapiens) could get used to an Exogyra cancellata(PRI45547) setup
#SavePRI 🦑 #science 🦪⚒️
John Oliver in a dark blue shirt. an oyster fossil about the size of his head is suspended by wires above and to his right in front of his face like a microphone setup.
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Day 184 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Look deeply into the zoophycos, John(H. sapiens)...you are getting sleepy...you want to donate to the PRI...
#tracefossiltuesday #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #geology #science
John Oliver with hands slightly raised up in the center with a spiraling trace fossil behind him. The central column is on the right side of the picturem
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Day183 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution, a major US fossil collection

John (H. sapiens) with some petrified (rock-hard), knoty wood from Antarctica... Might I have deep rooted issues?
#SavePRI 🧪⚒️🌲
John Oliver leans back to show a Freud slipper and a large mass of grey fossilized wood in his lap, with a knot near the top facing the viewer and his arm on his desk.
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Day182 of photoshopping John Oliver @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John uses an Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris jaw (PRI50490) to indicate roughly where to turn north to get to PRI from PA
#fossils #ichthyosaur #SavePRI #paleontology
John Oliver dressed as a 70s style weatherman in a red suit with long hair holding a jaw bone pointing at the NY/PA border
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Day181 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Look out John! (H.sapiens) On Halloween there may be vampire squid out, like this Jurassic Proteroctopus ribeti #fossilfriday #savePRI @timcarvell.bsky.social
A fossil octopodomorph that is related to modern vampire squid extends its tentacles from a black void towards John Oliver standing with a microphone in a light grey suit
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Day179 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John and Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social (H. sapiens) excited to be photographed with a real Gilboaphyton
Please help #SavePRI! @mpasset.bsky.social 🧪🌲⚒️
John Oliver and Stephen Colbert being photographed together with a large block of tan stone containing a variety of spikey looking plant fossils. both are smiling at the camera. Original photo of the comedians modified from Montclair film under CC BY 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special:
$̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.

#SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca
#fingerlakes

www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...
Museum of Earth could be met with possible foreclosure
The PRI has until Dec. 31, 2025 to raise $1 million or the only collections based national history museum between New York City and Buffalo will be forced into foreclosure.
www.wbng.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Day178 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Discussing politicians all day can lead to fantasizing about something with an actual spine, like this mysticete whale's #whalewednesday #SavePRI #fossils 🐳⚒️
John Oliver in blue jacket, pink shirt and purple tie with a thought bubble filled with a whale fossil, mostly consisting of a large spinal column
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Day176 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Ain't no rule that says John(H. sapiens) can't still #SavePRI. You know a Imitoceras rotatorium sits better in your hand than a basketball, John 🧪🦑 #fossils
John Oliver cradles a goniatite ammonite in his hand like a basketball while looking at the camera
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Day173 of photoshopping John Oliver @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with the ammonoid Asteroceras obtusum (PRI 43873)
#SavePRI #fossilfriday ⚒️🧪🦑🐚 #earthscience #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 💩 #urgent Please share!
John oliver stands in a dark suit in a museum gallery like space, standing next to a fossil ammonite cut in half to show complex sutures
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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...
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
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Reminder this is an open to the public event at Cornell this afternoon! Go learn about the important conservation, climate, biology, and other science that goes on at museums and why collections matter @cornellengineering.bsky.social @cornellcals.bsky.social #Ithaca #Cornell #ICC #SavePRI
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 25d
If you are at Cornell or in #Ithaca next week PRI’s director Warren Allmon will be giving the Phi Beta Kappa lecture Oct 22 at 4:30 on the scientific importance of Natural History Museums, and how their collections are used to address modern problems
Poster for Phi Beta Kappa lecture. "Natural History Museums and the future of the World" Oct 22 at 430 PM, Kaufman auditorium, Goodwin Smith Building. Warren Allmon, PRI director and adjunct associate professor at Cornell. Picture of a white man in blue shirt in the forest. A Mastodon skeleton is at the bottom of the page. Abstract describes Museums as not just children's activities, but as essential for understanding Biodiversity, the History of Life, earth systems, and addressing modern environmental challenges
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Day171 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John Oliver (H. sapiens) safely interacting with Turritella cooperi (Photo by A. Hendy @nhm.org), the subjects of my #GSA talk today
#SavePRI #snails ⚒️🦑🧪🐌
John Oliver in a biosafety suit cheering with his arms up on top of a bed of dozens of Turritella cooperi, a high spired snail
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution met today at #GSA #GSA2025 and Carl Brett (Universityof Cincinnati), a great friend of PRI gave a speach on why this place is worth saving Part 1 of 2
#SavePRI ⚒️🧪
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Day169 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com
John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Oxygonioceras aequale(PRI70586) keeps John (H. sapiens) company while #gsa2025 continues. #savePRI #GSA #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🦑⚒️🧪 @timcarvell.bsky.social
John Oliver in a pale void standing in full view with his hands out over a large curved oncocerid cephalopod fossil balanced on his foot. He is in a blue jacket.
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
John Oliver holding a specimen of TIktaalik roseae an amphibious creature which represents a transition to tetrapods. In the video bubble is a picture of John Oliver shirtless on the beach with his hair blowing in the wind, holding hands with a green and tan Tiktaalik plush
October 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Day167 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

I'm sure John (H. sapiens) agrees that crowns are only for crinoids, like Eucalyptocrinites caelatus (PRI 70772)
#JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #savePRI 🧪⚒️
John Oliver sitting at his desk in a blue jacket and red tie over a light blue shirt. the picture he is discussing is a crinoid calyx and arms (fossil is dark on light grey rock) with a red X over it. Text in the bottom center reads No Kings in white
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Day166 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) prepared for any clams-piracy theory about @theonion.com opposing clam research with these Mulinia congesta #SavePRI #fossilfriday 🧪⚒️🦪🦑
John Oliver in a tin foil hat surrounded by several clam fossils labeled PRI 114932
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Day165 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

No need for John(H. sapiens) to sneak off with this nautiloid and Ordovician friends, there are still copies available #savePRI #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🧪
John Oliver in a dark suit with black lapel speedwalking awkwardly while holding a slightly enlarged copy of the children's book "Into the Ordovician: Adventures in a prehistoric world" Cover art has a purple straight shelled nautiloid cephalopod featured prominently along with trilobites, sponges, corals, crinoids, and brachiopods in the background
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Day164 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

PRI's current entryway decoration is fossil bivalves Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata, but perhaps a bust of John (H. sapiens) if he helps? #SavePRI 🦑⚒️🧪
John Oliver in a grey suit standing in front of a display of fossil bivalves on a grey rock. The bivalves have a didactic saying they are from Cayuga County and are Middle Devonian in age
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM