Kevin Sievers
@diplotomodon.bsky.social
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From the office of Councilmember Dr. Nina Ahmad, press conference at 9AM outside Room 494, before the city council meeting:
September 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
From the office of Councilmember Dr. Nina Ahmad, press conference at 9AM outside Room 494, before the city council meeting:
From the office of Councilmember Dr. Nina Ahmad, press conference at 9AM outside Room 494, before the city council meeting:
September 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
From the office of Councilmember Dr. Nina Ahmad, press conference at 9AM outside Room 494, before the city council meeting:
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Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵
September 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵
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Philadelphia city council meeting this Thursday to fight for the Academy of Natural Sciences. Local folks should be there at 8:45am, press conference at 9, meeting starts at 10. More to come save-the-academy.org
September 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Philadelphia city council meeting this Thursday to fight for the Academy of Natural Sciences. Local folks should be there at 8:45am, press conference at 9, meeting starts at 10. More to come save-the-academy.org
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Loss of the radiodontids is really going to hurt.
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) has now withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Loss of the radiodontids is really going to hurt.
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Sign up for public comment, advocate for a resolution keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open. Anyone in or near Philly can do this!
#Philly
#Philadelphia
#SavetheAcademy
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#Philly
#Philadelphia
#SavetheAcademy
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@savetheacademy on Instagram: "SHOW UP. Thursday, Sept 17, 8:45 a.m., City Hall. 🦖🏛️
Stand Up For Science and Education! Stand up for the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Things are happening. City Counc...
302 likes, 13 comments - savetheacademy on September 15, 2026: "SHOW UP. Thursday, Sept 17, 8:45 a.m., City Hall. 🦖🏛️
Stand Up For Science and Education! Stand up for the Academy of Natural Sciences.
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September 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Sign up for public comment, advocate for a resolution keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open. Anyone in or near Philly can do this!
#Philly
#Philadelphia
#SavetheAcademy
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#Philly
#Philadelphia
#SavetheAcademy
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Met a celebrity today!!!
September 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Met a celebrity today!!!
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While additional money for conservation is welcome, I find aspects of this announcement of a $4M partnership between @itiscolossal.bsky.social & the IUCN somewhat worrying www.prnewswire.com/news-release... 1/6 🧵
IUCN Species Survival Commission and Colossal Foundation Launch $4 Million Partnership to Accelerate Global Species Conservation
/PRNewswire/ -- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the Colossal Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm of Colossal Biosciences, today announced a...
www.prnewswire.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:29 PM
While additional money for conservation is welcome, I find aspects of this announcement of a $4M partnership between @itiscolossal.bsky.social & the IUCN somewhat worrying www.prnewswire.com/news-release... 1/6 🧵
Philadelphia city council meeting this Thursday to fight for the Academy of Natural Sciences. Local folks should be there at 8:45am, press conference at 9, meeting starts at 10. More to come save-the-academy.org
September 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Philadelphia city council meeting this Thursday to fight for the Academy of Natural Sciences. Local folks should be there at 8:45am, press conference at 9, meeting starts at 10. More to come save-the-academy.org
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People should seriously visit the Academy of Natural Sciences while they can. If you are in or near Philly and have time, see it before it’s gone. Also if you think it would be beneficial for it to remain open write Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social, Mayor @cherelleparker.bsky.social & Drexel BoS
September 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
People should seriously visit the Academy of Natural Sciences while they can. If you are in or near Philly and have time, see it before it’s gone. Also if you think it would be beneficial for it to remain open write Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social, Mayor @cherelleparker.bsky.social & Drexel BoS
A fun follow-up: it's fairly well known that John Ostrom was a scientific consultant for the Deinonychus sculpture outside ANSP, but Yale preparator Bob Allen also helped mount the skeleton inside. After a few years he would do the same for the Peabody's own exhibits
September 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
A fun follow-up: it's fairly well known that John Ostrom was a scientific consultant for the Deinonychus sculpture outside ANSP, but Yale preparator Bob Allen also helped mount the skeleton inside. After a few years he would do the same for the Peabody's own exhibits
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Went to Academy of Natural Sciences for work this past
Friday. The highlight was being able to talk with the staff who were some of the most exceptional science communicators I've ever met. The Academy is an incredible bastion of collections, learning, and science. Please support it, it needs us.
Friday. The highlight was being able to talk with the staff who were some of the most exceptional science communicators I've ever met. The Academy is an incredible bastion of collections, learning, and science. Please support it, it needs us.
September 14, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Went to Academy of Natural Sciences for work this past
Friday. The highlight was being able to talk with the staff who were some of the most exceptional science communicators I've ever met. The Academy is an incredible bastion of collections, learning, and science. Please support it, it needs us.
Friday. The highlight was being able to talk with the staff who were some of the most exceptional science communicators I've ever met. The Academy is an incredible bastion of collections, learning, and science. Please support it, it needs us.
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Samples from the 90-million-year-old peatland sediments in Antarctica reveal that fire dynamics in the earliest peatlands of the warm, CO₂-rich Cretaceous era closely resembled those of modern ecosystems, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3V5GSG0 #Paleosky 🌎🧪
September 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Samples from the 90-million-year-old peatland sediments in Antarctica reveal that fire dynamics in the earliest peatlands of the warm, CO₂-rich Cretaceous era closely resembled those of modern ecosystems, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3V5GSG0 #Paleosky 🌎🧪
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What a neat paper on the beetles of reptiles
1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now?
Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead"
Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead"
Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 14, 2026 at 12:27 PM
What a neat paper on the beetles of reptiles
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[SWEATING BLOOD] never a doubt.
September 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
[SWEATING BLOOD] never a doubt.
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Doing my bit to save the Academy of Natural Sciences -- I went on Friday, joined the Academy to help bump their numbers, and am contacting my elected officials and other stakeholders.
Without a concerted public effort, the country's oldest natural history museum will close at the end of the month.
Without a concerted public effort, the country's oldest natural history museum will close at the end of the month.
September 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Doing my bit to save the Academy of Natural Sciences -- I went on Friday, joined the Academy to help bump their numbers, and am contacting my elected officials and other stakeholders.
Without a concerted public effort, the country's oldest natural history museum will close at the end of the month.
Without a concerted public effort, the country's oldest natural history museum will close at the end of the month.
Ever see Benjamin Franklin posing with a Mamenchisaurus? Didn't think so
September 13, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Ever see Benjamin Franklin posing with a Mamenchisaurus? Didn't think so
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Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.
www.inquirer.com
September 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...
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A longtime Philadelphia teacher on what we lose when the Academy of Natural Sciences closes its public museum.
https://bit.ly/4gYQ9XG
https://bit.ly/4gYQ9XG
Guest Commentary: Save the Academy. For the Kids
A Philadelphia teacher and social worker on what the institution meant to her kids and why its gifts to children are more essential than ever
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
September 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A longtime Philadelphia teacher on what we lose when the Academy of Natural Sciences closes its public museum.
https://bit.ly/4gYQ9XG
https://bit.ly/4gYQ9XG
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I will not stop talking about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum until the closure has been cancelled! Here's me on a field trip to the museum in second grade. I now have a Ph.D. in Population Biology. Every evolutionary biologist and ecologist should be bleeting about this!
September 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I will not stop talking about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum until the closure has been cancelled! Here's me on a field trip to the museum in second grade. I now have a Ph.D. in Population Biology. Every evolutionary biologist and ecologist should be bleeting about this!
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500k plants, ok, then 6 million fish. Important, sure but that's one uni making a bad choice. Then 7 million fossils and modern mollusks (PRI), 19 million specimens at ANSP, soon we're talking big data right?
specimens you can hold in your hand are real data
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat...
specimens you can hold in your hand are real data
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat...
It's Hard to Be a Natural History Museum in the 21st Century
As belts tighten, rich collections of plant and animal specimens face relegation, dissolution, or worse.
www.atlasobscura.com
September 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
500k plants, ok, then 6 million fish. Important, sure but that's one uni making a bad choice. Then 7 million fossils and modern mollusks (PRI), 19 million specimens at ANSP, soon we're talking big data right?
specimens you can hold in your hand are real data
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat...
specimens you can hold in your hand are real data
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat...
Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.
www.inquirer.com
September 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...
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For #FossilFriday you are getting something special. Part of the original Dryptosaurus aquilunguis jawbone. First described as Laelaps by Edward Drinker Cope and renamed by his rival Othniel Charles Marsh after it was discovered a mite already named that. Note the tooth! Academy of Natural Sciences
September 12, 2026 at 12:52 AM
For #FossilFriday you are getting something special. Part of the original Dryptosaurus aquilunguis jawbone. First described as Laelaps by Edward Drinker Cope and renamed by his rival Othniel Charles Marsh after it was discovered a mite already named that. Note the tooth! Academy of Natural Sciences