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Jeanne Timmons

@mostlymammoths.bsky.social

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Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska. https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · Nov 6

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way." - the late Congressman John Lewis

Evergreen and inspiring tweet from the late Congressman John Lewis: "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way. #goodtrouble"

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you! I'm looking forward to reading that!

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 15h

Stopped at my local independent bookstore. Discovered @matthaig.bsky.social.

This book was *delightful*.

www.matthaig.com/books/thehum...

The Humans - Matt Haig

THE HUMANS out now in UK and in USA This is the book I am most proud of. I have never written anything like it and probably never will again. I have no idea if you will like it. I really hope you do. ...

www.matthaig.com

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 18h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 19h

This is great by @motherjones.com. This is also great by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social: ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 23h

Views from another summit later on the same trail. (2/fin)

A cloudless blue sky over mountains and a lake. The colors are mostly dulled for the season (past peak).

View of rock at the top onto part of a ski slop and mountains in the distance.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 23h

The view from one of the summits on today's hike (1/)

The sun shines in a cloudless sky over several mountains. A lake is to the right; a highway is to the left.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 23h

Scenes from today's hike

A rare stretch of green ferns (rather than yellow or brown) is highlighted by the sun. The green contrasts with the sepias and oranges of dead leaves all over the ground.

Orange and yellow leaves contrast against the dark tree trunks and blue sky.

If you're going to hike in NH, you're going to see rocks. Lots and lots and lots of rocks. Pictured here, some of the many rocks and boulders among the pines. The ground is covered in pine needles.

A view between pines to distant mountains and a clear blue sky.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been on a more crowded hike. (There were people as far as the eye could see in front; same thing behind.)

Loved hearing numerous languages spoken all around me.

An even longer view of the people on a narrow path climbing up the mountain, surrounded by trees.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

I generally avoid popular hiking spots, especially during tourist season (ie: now), but it's a different story if I'm hiking alone. In that case, I want to be surrounded by people.

Wow, did I get my wish today.

People dressed warmly for an early-morning hike in the mountains. The narrow path is filled with people ahead of me. Rocks and colorful leaves are all around.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing work by Nikkolas Smith

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE this!

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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 1d

introducing my geoscience students to volcanism and plutonism today, hit them with "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis" and "Eyjafjallajokull" in the space of two minutes (and spelled both out on the board from memory)

whole room went wild

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

You may be interested in this work of art, @jenniferschell16.bsky.social (as well as other work @bobnichollsart.bsky.social has done) of extinct marine reptiles.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d

I can't stress enough that if this is what Border Patrol does to a middle-aged Midwestern white woman producer on camera, imagine what they are doing to people who are *not* middle-aged Midwestern white women off-camera

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet downy woodpecker that keeps visiting the feeder at work 🪶

A little downy woodpecker - with its lovely black and white feathers and a small red spot on its head - pecks at the nuts in the feeder hanging from a bush

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

"The limb bones & teeth are malformed in such a way that points to serious injury or disease while the animal was still alive, & the skull appears to have been bitten by a large predator - likely another much larger species of ichthyosaur..." Dr. Erin Maxwell

(Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social)

A revolving doughut-shaped mob of fish is interrupted by an ichthyosaur. Other ichthyosaurs are nearby, hunting for a meal.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

"A near-complete skeleton found on UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of #ichthyosaur - a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the ancient oceans."

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Rare Jurassic 'Sword Dragon' prehistoric reptile discovered in the UK

A near-complete skeleton found on UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur - a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the ancient oceans.The dolphin...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 1d

Old books sometimes get a strange "vanilla" smell... 🤔👃

That scent comes from the breakdown of paper and ink — releasing hundreds of volatile organic compounds, including vanillin, aldehydes, and acids.

So that cozy library smell? It’s literally the odor of books slowly decaying...📚

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Paper: Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
@bioacousticsau.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

"For the nearly 3yr-old female bat soaring into the Spanish skies..., it was just another night of striving to feed herself. But her overnight exploits were about to become the stuff that scientists’ dreams are made of." @meghanbartels.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

"In August 1953, someone in Springfield, Missouri killed a snake in their yard with a garden hoe (which was, apparently, totally normal for Missouri). What was weird was that this snake had raised its head and spread a hood..." @feltman.bsky.social

www.popsci.com/science/miss...

It took half a century to solve the mystery of Missouri’s deadly snake panic

Plus chameleons eyeballs and other weird things we learned this week.

www.popsci.com

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 27d

What if Oviraptor really was the bad guy after all..?
More seriously, being a protective parent and an ovivore are not mutually exclusive, so Oviraptor’s controversial name might be appropriate after all. Anyway, a new illustration from me. #SciArt

A portrait illustration of the dinosaur Oviraptor - an odd-looking beaked dinosaur with wattled skin and head crest, shown with a cracked egg in its jaws with yolk dripping from it.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 2d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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