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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Water officials knew that opening dams to meet Trump's wishes was ill-advised. Here's why it happened anyway A memo from an Army Corps of Engineers officer shows water managers and lawmakers pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to dump water from two California dams.

A memo from an Army Corps of Engineers officer shows water managers and lawmakers pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to dump water from two California dams.

New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

It's been great to work with Stephen Chester, Jordan Crowell, Mary Silcox, Jon Block, and Eric Sargis on this project. This remarkable specimen sheds new light on the rise of primates and their closest kin following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

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At the Stand Up For Science rally in Santa Fe today. #Standupforscience2025

RFK Jr. says Texas doctors had seen “very, very good results,” he claimed, by treating measles cases with a steroid, budesonide; an antibiotic called clarithromycin; and cod liver oil, which he said had high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D.
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RFK JR. is going to get people killed.

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Trump hasn’t done squat to lower grocery prices—he’s not even trying.

Barely a month in, and it’s obvious his top campaign promise was never genuine. Families are feeling the squeeze! So this begs the question: did his voters really care about the price of groceries?

Trump Live Updates: News on Mass Firings, Russia-Ukraine and Tariffs

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the White House to retract directives that led to the mass firing of government workers, calling the action “illegal.”

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Trump Sides With Russia on Ukraine The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.

Meeting Again in Paris, European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Trump Sides With Russia www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

This is really, really bad!

Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

fossil skull that is elongate with wide flaring zygomatic arches.

For #FossilFriday a skull of the arctocyonid Claenodon ferox from the lower Paleocene (about 62.5 million years ago) Nacimiento Formation. Like many Paleocene mammals, Claenodon had large canines and accomodated huge jaw closing muscles, but the braincase housed a relatively small brain.

The giant planet Jupiter with it's distinctive banded clouds and the Great Red Spot.

Here's an image of Jupiter I captured with my homemade backyard telescope on December 19, 2024. The Great Red Spot and its turbulent wake dominates the southern hemisphere.

Happy Thanksgiving from Albuquerque New Mexico.

Skeleton of turkey (by Matthew Wedel) marked with the derived traits from various points on the dinosaur family tree as found in that species.

As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:

Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO

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Cottonwoods along the Rio Grande Bosque this morning. #newmexico #newmexicotrue #nmtrue

Summer dusk over White Sands, New Mexico.

Physician Misinformation | Science-Based Medicine When physicians spread medical misinformation, the potential harm to health is far greater than their direct patient care. And yet, in a recent study, medical boards rarely discipline physicians for

Doctors are generally respected for their expertise in medical care. This puts them in a position to do even more damage when they spread medical misinformation. Medical boards have the authority to take action against these doctors, but they rarely do.

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The SGU is not backing down in the face of rampant misinformation and denialism of science.

I would like to be added if there's a space.

The Rio Grande as seen this morning from the Avenida Cesar Chavez Bridge, Albuquerque, New Mexico. #newmexico #newmexicotrue #nmtrue

Blue skies above San Diego Canyon near Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

Partial skull of the lambeosaurine hadrosaur Parasaurolophus tubicen - a rare dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. #dinosaur #paleontology

Jupiter and its giant moon Ganymede captured early Sunday morning using a homemade 12.5" telescope and a ZWO ASI662mc camera. Hard to believe that images like these can be captured with a relatively simple backyard telescope. #high-resolution #planetary #astrophotography

My first post here with a morning view from the West Mesa overlooking the North Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico.