Slightly surprising, but welcome, news from a small but long-term study of insect abundance in Sweden (four automated traps in different regions, running since the 80s): there's no sign of an #InsectApocalypse. Numbers fluctuate but essentially steady or increasing. /1

New Doctor just dropped. Stay tuned for new hit singles about croc and mammal teeth from your favorite new group: Kay et al 2024.

Lemme tell you about the money in "Big Paleo."🙄

Pretty excited to share that Gabriel Lio's fantastic illustration of the giant stem tetrapod Gaiasia is featured on the cover of nature this week: nature.com/nature/volumes…

Excited to deliver to you today a post-industrial, satanic spiritual - liberated from the collections at Library of Congress for WNYC’s Public Song Project, which celebrates 100 years of that venerable station. Listen to “Ol’ Man Satan (feat. Flannery Brown): publicsongproject.bandcamp.com/album/public-s…

We even landed in Rolling Stone ! rollingstone.com/music/music-li…

The Sam Noble Museum is excited to announce that we have received reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums! The museum was first accredited in 1972 one year after the AAM began reviewing institutions, and has continually maintained accreditation for 52 years since.

Mali Obomsawin and I have been working on something special for a long while now, and I am so excited to finally share it with you all. Please welcome 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐭, a new collaborative work of Indigenous and Afrofuturism. It will be out 9/27 on Smithsonian Folkways. 🧵

After 30 years the Sam Noble Museum is excited to announce the completed preparation of a remarkably well-preserved tenontosaurus specimen! Museum fossil preparator Kyle Davies shares the full story in this brand new video.

[New Paper] Interested in #olfaction, respiration, and nasal cavities? 👃🧠🐭🐒🐺🦇🐦‍⬛🐍🦎🐊🐸 Check out our review of turbinal bones across tetrapods, now published in Biological Reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨JOB OPENINGS ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨 Pls share! These are contract positions with the Sternberg Science Camps+ program. I am projecting forty total positions needing to be filled for 2025 operations. forms.gle/AY58C6TvqZvBH3… I will be at the geosociety and SVP meetings! Let's chat!

We recently held our 2024 White Coat Ceremonies for our College of Osteopathic Medicine students. Our incoming class of students donned their white coats for the very first time. Wishing the best of luck to these future doctors! View more photos: bit.ly/3SD5z8J

Amazing talk presented today by Ilse K. Barraza-Soltero at #WCH10 🦎👃🧠

Hmm, I might have insulted a MN boyfriend back in the day. Ooops. But I actually did think his work was interesting, in the cool way.

Cell phone aurora Oklahoma 6.20 utc 8/12/24 bonkers Aurorasaurus #okwx

This morning I have received more e-mails from people interested in pursuing a degree in my lab than I have had in the last five years combined. Generally students don't all e-mail on the same day, either. What just happened?

What to bring a little someone between 6 months and 10 years of age to the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis? Register for subsidized childcare when you register for the meeting! Details here: vertpaleo.org/svp-annual-mee…👶🦖#2024SVP