SAVE THE DINOS! #savePRI
Day 6: Could solidarity among the fossil and modern flighted will inspire you to save the Paleontological Research Institution, John @lastweektonight.com
Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, Dilophosaurus wetherilli, Archaeopteryx lithographica, a modern pūteketeke (Podiceps cristatus) & H. sapiens
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Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, Dilophosaurus wetherilli, Archaeopteryx lithographica, a modern pūteketeke (Podiceps cristatus) & H. sapiens
#savePRI
May 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
SAVE THE DINOS! #savePRI
Followers, please amplify this news and spread the word. The Paleontological Research Institute needs financial help. Their closure would be a devastating loss to science. www.science.org/content/arti... #SavePRI #paleontology
Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
www.science.org
February 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Followers, please amplify this news and spread the word. The Paleontological Research Institute needs financial help. Their closure would be a devastating loss to science. www.science.org/content/arti... #SavePRI #paleontology
April 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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!
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
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!
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!
As we approach #GivingTuesday consider donating to www.priweb.org/donate to help #savePRI
Time is running out to save this amazing #museum and #fossil collection
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Time is running out to save this amazing #museum and #fossil collection
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Donate — Paleontological Research Institution
www.priweb.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As we approach #GivingTuesday consider donating to www.priweb.org/donate to help #savePRI
Time is running out to save this amazing #museum and #fossil collection
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Time is running out to save this amazing #museum and #fossil collection
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Here's hoping @lastweektonight.com still helps the Paleontolgical Research Institution secure funding before the year runs out or that folks donate the needed 1M in the next month www.priweb.org/donate or @60minutes.bsky.social does a piece on this campaign bsky.app/profile/foss... to #savePRI
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here's hoping @lastweektonight.com still helps the Paleontolgical Research Institution secure funding before the year runs out or that folks donate the needed 1M in the next month www.priweb.org/donate or @60minutes.bsky.social does a piece on this campaign bsky.app/profile/foss... to #savePRI
Hey @lastweektonight.com there are more than 179 photoshopped images of John Oliver with fossils to #savePRI. Please help before time runs out! #fossils #EarthScience @adamconover.net @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @desilydic.bsky.social @nhm.org @museumsassociation.org
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Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction
Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.
www.newyorkupstate.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Hey @lastweektonight.com there are more than 179 photoshopped images of John Oliver with fossils to #savePRI. Please help before time runs out! #fossils #EarthScience @adamconover.net @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @desilydic.bsky.social @nhm.org @museumsassociation.org
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To support this work and #savePRI donate here: priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
Or tell @lastweektonight.com to pay attention to @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social 's143 days worth of photoshopped images of #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes he helps save the PRI
Or tell @lastweektonight.com to pay attention to @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social 's143 days worth of photoshopped images of #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes he helps save the PRI
September 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
To support this work and #savePRI donate here: priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
Or tell @lastweektonight.com to pay attention to @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social 's143 days worth of photoshopped images of #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes he helps save the PRI
Or tell @lastweektonight.com to pay attention to @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social 's143 days worth of photoshopped images of #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes he helps save the PRI
For 127days @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social has photoshopped #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes #LastWeekTonight will notice and #savePRI. Who doesn't want a coprolite wing named for them? @adamconover.net @xkcd.com @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @jilltwiss.bsky.social
donate here: www.priweb.org/give
donate here: www.priweb.org/give
September 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For 127days @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social has photoshopped #JohnOliver with fossils in hopes #LastWeekTonight will notice and #savePRI. Who doesn't want a coprolite wing named for them? @adamconover.net @xkcd.com @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @jilltwiss.bsky.social
donate here: www.priweb.org/give
donate here: www.priweb.org/give
I am disappointed @lastweektonight.com has not responded to this. This effort to secure funds to #savePRI has been my favorite campaign on @bsky.app Hoping someone steps in to have a coprolite wing named for them @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @nickofferman.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
We made it to 100 days! I think this will be the end of my edits while I get ready to start college in two weeks.
It has been an honor and a pleasure to participate in this campaign with @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social.
Thank you to everyone for supporting & sharing!
Tag John with your favorite edit!
It has been an honor and a pleasure to participate in this campaign with @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social.
Thank you to everyone for supporting & sharing!
Tag John with your favorite edit!
August 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I am disappointed @lastweektonight.com has not responded to this. This effort to secure funds to #savePRI has been my favorite campaign on @bsky.app Hoping someone steps in to have a coprolite wing named for them @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social @nickofferman.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
Help this campaign go viral to get @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver to notice and help #SavePRI. If you love #science or #museums or #fossils, please repost. @phaneritic.bsky.social @eveninghawk.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @altdoi.altgov.info @nasor.bsky.social @altgovdoc.altgov.info
Day 40 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
Yes, John (our H. sapiens), they really did think Coelophysis looked like all those reconstructions at different times, even the orange one.
#fossilfriday ⚒️
Yes, John (our H. sapiens), they really did think Coelophysis looked like all those reconstructions at different times, even the orange one.
#fossilfriday ⚒️
June 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Help this campaign go viral to get @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver to notice and help #SavePRI. If you love #science or #museums or #fossils, please repost. @phaneritic.bsky.social @eveninghawk.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @altdoi.altgov.info @nasor.bsky.social @altgovdoc.altgov.info
While we await @lastweektonight.com to pay attention, check out their shop. I don't know how I missed this tape dispenser when I bought my trilobite slippers back in Jan. But it's in my cart now! pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...
You can donate directly here: www.priweb.org
#savePRI
You can donate directly here: www.priweb.org
#savePRI
May 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
While we await @lastweektonight.com to pay attention, check out their shop. I don't know how I missed this tape dispenser when I bought my trilobite slippers back in Jan. But it's in my cart now! pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...
You can donate directly here: www.priweb.org
#savePRI
You can donate directly here: www.priweb.org
#savePRI
This is adorable. The images just keep getting better. I hope @lastweektonight.com responds. I'd like to visit Ithaca to see the collection. There is so little Earth Science education post-middle school, yet it is so critical to our understanding of our history and world. #LastWeekTonight #savePRI
May 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is adorable. The images just keep getting better. I hope @lastweektonight.com responds. I'd like to visit Ithaca to see the collection. There is so little Earth Science education post-middle school, yet it is so critical to our understanding of our history and world. #LastWeekTonight #savePRI
Please, @lastweektonight.com ,The Paleontological Research Institution needs your help. There is such mascot potential here! Look how cute #JohnOliver looks with this crab fossil. Help them maintain and educate others on their world class fossil specimen #savePRI #science
Photoshopping John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding!
Modern specimen of the crab Calappa flammea from the Florida Keys (PRI 42120). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.
Modern specimen of the crab Calappa flammea from the Florida Keys (PRI 42120). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.
May 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please, @lastweektonight.com ,The Paleontological Research Institution needs your help. There is such mascot potential here! Look how cute #JohnOliver looks with this crab fossil. Help them maintain and educate others on their world class fossil specimen #savePRI #science
Another genius photoshop of @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver. I hope they start paying attention! I continue to find this campaign to #savePRI the best of my bluesky scrolling
May 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another genius photoshop of @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver. I hope they start paying attention! I continue to find this campaign to #savePRI the best of my bluesky scrolling
@lastweektonight.com What are you waiting for? The Paleontological Research Institution have 20 days of John Oliver photoshopped with fossils. Imagine how great it would eb if he posed with ACTUAL fossils to secure funding for them. #savePRI #LastWeekTonight
Photoshopping John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding!
Modern specimen of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, from Cornwall, England (PRI 78783). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.
Modern specimen of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, from Cornwall, England (PRI 78783). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.
May 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@lastweektonight.com What are you waiting for? The Paleontological Research Institution have 20 days of John Oliver photoshopped with fossils. Imagine how great it would eb if he posed with ACTUAL fossils to secure funding for them. #savePRI #LastWeekTonight
#SavePRI
I worked here briefly as part of a high school internship program in environmental science. Yes, I spent most of the summer with a set of calipers and bags and bags of shells and fossils taking >10,000 measurements, but it was an important learning experience. (1/2)
I worked here briefly as part of a high school internship program in environmental science. Yes, I spent most of the summer with a set of calipers and bags and bags of shells and fossils taking >10,000 measurements, but it was an important learning experience. (1/2)
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 🦑⚒️🧪
PRI's current entryway decoration is fossil bivalves Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata, but perhaps a bust of John (H. sapiens) if he helps? #SavePRI 🦑⚒️🧪
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#SavePRI
I worked here briefly as part of a high school internship program in environmental science. Yes, I spent most of the summer with a set of calipers and bags and bags of shells and fossils taking >10,000 measurements, but it was an important learning experience. (1/2)
I worked here briefly as part of a high school internship program in environmental science. Yes, I spent most of the summer with a set of calipers and bags and bags of shells and fossils taking >10,000 measurements, but it was an important learning experience. (1/2)
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure
Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.
www.ithaca.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 AM
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Happy #fossilfriday everyone,
Enjoy a feel good story about one of the Museum of the Earth's high school supporters!
Thanks to big giving Tuesday support, PRI is now within ~400,000 of its end of year goal of ~4 million for the mortgage+ops. We can #SavePRI !🧪⚒️🦣🐚
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
Enjoy a feel good story about one of the Museum of the Earth's high school supporters!
Thanks to big giving Tuesday support, PRI is now within ~400,000 of its end of year goal of ~4 million for the mortgage+ops. We can #SavePRI !🧪⚒️🦣🐚
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
www.localsyr.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy #fossilfriday everyone,
Enjoy a feel good story about one of the Museum of the Earth's high school supporters!
Thanks to big giving Tuesday support, PRI is now within ~400,000 of its end of year goal of ~4 million for the mortgage+ops. We can #SavePRI !🧪⚒️🦣🐚
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
Enjoy a feel good story about one of the Museum of the Earth's high school supporters!
Thanks to big giving Tuesday support, PRI is now within ~400,000 of its end of year goal of ~4 million for the mortgage+ops. We can #SavePRI !🧪⚒️🦣🐚
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
News story from Syracuse local news about saving the Museum of the Earth. (They dont explain that the Museum footage is from a Halloween event so enjoy a lot of unexplained costumed folks)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
#savePRI #science #givingtuesday #fossils
mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPort...
Any help is greatly appreciated!
#savePRI #science #givingtuesday #fossils
mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPort...
TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite - [Transcript]
mms.tveyes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
News story from Syracuse local news about saving the Museum of the Earth. (They dont explain that the Museum footage is from a Halloween event so enjoy a lot of unexplained costumed folks)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
#savePRI #science #givingtuesday #fossils
mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPort...
Any help is greatly appreciated!
#savePRI #science #givingtuesday #fossils
mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPort...
Day196 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution
Too slow to help to get a philosoraptor meme, maybe a philoso-sloth? John is H. sapiens, claw is Megalonyx jeffersonii(PRI73073) #science #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #fossils
Too slow to help to get a philosoraptor meme, maybe a philoso-sloth? John is H. sapiens, claw is Megalonyx jeffersonii(PRI73073) #science #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #fossils
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Day196 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution
Too slow to help to get a philosoraptor meme, maybe a philoso-sloth? John is H. sapiens, claw is Megalonyx jeffersonii(PRI73073) #science #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #fossils
Too slow to help to get a philosoraptor meme, maybe a philoso-sloth? John is H. sapiens, claw is Megalonyx jeffersonii(PRI73073) #science #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #fossils
Learn more about endangered and recently extinct land snails and other mollusks at PRI's marvelous mollusks exhibit, in person in Ithaca, NY or online
Consider donating to help #SavePRI
www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
Consider donating to help #SavePRI
www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
Gastropods | Marvelous Mollusks — Museum of the Earth
www.museumoftheearth.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Learn more about endangered and recently extinct land snails and other mollusks at PRI's marvelous mollusks exhibit, in person in Ithaca, NY or online
Consider donating to help #SavePRI
www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
Consider donating to help #SavePRI
www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...
Day193 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
We know you support science bugs, John(H. sapiens), so enjoy a visit from this fossil roach(Etoblattina;PRI49722)
#fossils #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #insects #invertebrates
We know you support science bugs, John(H. sapiens), so enjoy a visit from this fossil roach(Etoblattina;PRI49722)
#fossils #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #insects #invertebrates
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Day193 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
We know you support science bugs, John(H. sapiens), so enjoy a visit from this fossil roach(Etoblattina;PRI49722)
#fossils #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #insects #invertebrates
We know you support science bugs, John(H. sapiens), so enjoy a visit from this fossil roach(Etoblattina;PRI49722)
#fossils #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #insects #invertebrates
Day192 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
#JohnOliver (H. sapiens) can try to hide in the Pseudocidaris mammosa echinoid spines, but the coprolitastic shed awaits! #savePRI ⚒️ #fossils #LastWeekTonight
#JohnOliver (H. sapiens) can try to hide in the Pseudocidaris mammosa echinoid spines, but the coprolitastic shed awaits! #savePRI ⚒️ #fossils #LastWeekTonight
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Day192 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
#JohnOliver (H. sapiens) can try to hide in the Pseudocidaris mammosa echinoid spines, but the coprolitastic shed awaits! #savePRI ⚒️ #fossils #LastWeekTonight
#JohnOliver (H. sapiens) can try to hide in the Pseudocidaris mammosa echinoid spines, but the coprolitastic shed awaits! #savePRI ⚒️ #fossils #LastWeekTonight