Fun thought experiment: imagine what modern habitats and faunas will and won’t fossilize based on where the depositional basins are (the blue “sink” regions)

I'm back in Harrisburg today to continue our fight for public transit funding. Some of my Republican colleagues are proposing SEPTA use money from its capital fund to cover operating costs, so let me be clear: this is service cuts by another name.

Because calling it AI was a marketing decision. The real name is Large Language Model, which sums up how it works. It takes trillions of texts and uses them to create sentences that seem germane to your prompt. Nothing in there is "thinking" in the way you understand it.

PA has been funding money losing rural infrastructure since the 1820s when the Mainline of Public Works was co-oped by "branchmen" who demanded expensive canals to their tiny towns and bankrupted the state for decades. Not much has changed in 200 years.

My statement on Senate Republicans’ unserious and wildly irresponsible transit funding plan. I and my colleagues in the House will not settle for this budget that fails to meet the needs of working Pennsylvanians.

My statement on today’s shameful Senate vote. What our Commonwealth needs from its legislators is leadership, for those of us who have the honor of sitting on the Senate Floor to do our jobs and pass a budget that invests in Pennsylvania’s people and communities.

Claiming a win when the plan is half baked, late, has no structural funding source, is DOA, will cause equipment breakdowns and safety hazards (raiding capital funds) — not someone who respects Philadelphians or should represent us. Get back to work!

the city of philadelphia vs joe picozzi

This would've been the JP Oviraptor if it showed up before 2022

AMNH Paraceratherium my beloved

Don’t be fooled by the sham proposal from my Republican colleagues who claim to support public transit. We need a serious solution to keep SEPTA and transit across PA running, and we need it now.

That's about to be the most Lehigh Valley song of all time

she moved here two weeks ago

New paper out on the #Chinese #enantiornithine #Shangyang sp. A study of the melanosomes show that it likely has a deep red or blue iridescent crest; along with new melanosomes for previously unrecognized patterns of colour unseen in extant birds elifesciences.org/articles/103628

There’s nothing more satisfying than when you find out a person you hate is a Yankees fan

It is time for Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker to start speaking out. Our city cannot afford this. It will undermine everything positive we try to do.

still one of the most tuff images of all time

My unpopular take is that this sort of concept is supremely uninteresting to me