ToddRockford
@toddrockford.bsky.social
Nature. Science. Rocks, Fossils, Geology and Paleontology. Gardening, Plants, and Flowers. Pottery, Photography, Painting, Drawing, and Art. History and Politics. Astronomy. Exploration. Cats. Birds. Wildlife.
Our Funko K-Pop Demon Hunters' Derpy arrived a month earlier than expected! And its eyes glow in the dark!
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Our Funko K-Pop Demon Hunters' Derpy arrived a month earlier than expected! And its eyes glow in the dark!
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
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📣MUST READ NEW ISSUE OF #BSSA📣 It's holiday time here, and also time for the latest issue of #BSSA! This issue includes several 🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 papers on topics like earthquake forecasting, the Ridgecrest earthquake, and more! ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/issue/1...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/issue/1...
Volume 115 Issue 6 | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | GeoScienceWorld
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 115 | 6 | December 2025
pubs.geoscienceworld.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
📣MUST READ NEW ISSUE OF #BSSA📣 It's holiday time here, and also time for the latest issue of #BSSA! This issue includes several 🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 papers on topics like earthquake forecasting, the Ridgecrest earthquake, and more! ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/issue/1...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/issue/1...
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Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
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I'm at an archaeology talk tonight about the history of a specific fishing settlement and there is an entire gaggle of archeologists associated with the speaker here and they are all wearing matching shirts that say "𝗡𝗼, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗿𝘀"
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'm at an archaeology talk tonight about the history of a specific fishing settlement and there is an entire gaggle of archeologists associated with the speaker here and they are all wearing matching shirts that say "𝗡𝗼, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗿𝘀"
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U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis found examples of agents lobbing tear gas into crowds of protesters while exclaiming ‘f--- yeah!”, slamming their brakes while being tailed to cause car accidents and using ChatGPT to write their reports.
Judge hands down critical review of federal immigration agents' 'unprecedented' use of force
chicago.suntimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis found examples of agents lobbing tear gas into crowds of protesters while exclaiming ‘f--- yeah!”, slamming their brakes while being tailed to cause car accidents and using ChatGPT to write their reports.
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Leaked image from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, don't tell Apple!
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Leaked image from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, don't tell Apple!
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Crochet a 3D Dinosaur Stocking For Christmas, Makes a Great Gift! 👉 tidd.ly/ee72bc84 - designed by Little Bamboo Handmade #crochet #handmade #etsy #affiliate #christmas 🎄
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Crochet a 3D Dinosaur Stocking For Christmas, Makes a Great Gift! 👉 tidd.ly/ee72bc84 - designed by Little Bamboo Handmade #crochet #handmade #etsy #affiliate #christmas 🎄
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Reminder! Starts in one hour - “How science is changing” livestream event from 6pm EST tonight! Join MCPS director Alan Love, Lydia Patton, Jacqueline Sullivan, and Craig Callender.
@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reminder! Starts in one hour - “How science is changing” livestream event from 6pm EST tonight! Join MCPS director Alan Love, Lydia Patton, Jacqueline Sullivan, and Craig Callender.
@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
@profess.bsky.social
@westernu.ca
buff.ly/uMkmXd8
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We asked @dremmanicholls.bsky.social what exactly needs to happen for dinosaur footprints to be preserved like those found in Oxfordshire.
The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...
The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We asked @dremmanicholls.bsky.social what exactly needs to happen for dinosaur footprints to be preserved like those found in Oxfordshire.
The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...
The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...
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Leicester has long been one of the leading universities nationally for palaeontology & geology - this would be a terrible loss, as would the loss of other subjects such as modern languages:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Leicester has long been one of the leading universities nationally for palaeontology & geology - this would be a terrible loss, as would the loss of other subjects such as modern languages:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
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Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people!
Missed this cause of SVP!
#paleoart #sciart
@paleobyliam.bsky.social
@drongojackburb.bsky.social
@emilyart.bsky.social
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social
Missed this cause of SVP!
#paleoart #sciart
@paleobyliam.bsky.social
@drongojackburb.bsky.social
@emilyart.bsky.social
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people!
Missed this cause of SVP!
#paleoart #sciart
@paleobyliam.bsky.social
@drongojackburb.bsky.social
@emilyart.bsky.social
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social
Missed this cause of SVP!
#paleoart #sciart
@paleobyliam.bsky.social
@drongojackburb.bsky.social
@emilyart.bsky.social
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social
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On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
historyofparliament.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
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All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
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Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
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Around 70 percent of states in the contiguous U.S. have seen declining snowfall in recent winters, although parts of the West and some of the South have experienced more snow.
See how snowfall is changing across the United States here:
See how snowfall is changing across the United States here:
Column | How snowy could it be where you live this winter? Look up your area.
Swaths of central and eastern states have received much less snow than average over the past five winters – a trend that may continue this season.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Around 70 percent of states in the contiguous U.S. have seen declining snowfall in recent winters, although parts of the West and some of the South have experienced more snow.
See how snowfall is changing across the United States here:
See how snowfall is changing across the United States here:
2:00 a.m. low and loud fly-overs of D.C.? I bet this will go over well. Is someone showing off, or over-compensating?
"will include F-16 fighter aircraft; a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin helicopter; a U.S. Army UH-60 helicopter; U.S. Navy King Air aircraft; and Civil Air Patrol C-182 aircraft"
"will include F-16 fighter aircraft; a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin helicopter; a U.S. Army UH-60 helicopter; U.S. Navy King Air aircraft; and Civil Air Patrol C-182 aircraft"
NORAD plans air defense exercise in National Capital Region early Wednesday
NORAD will conduct an air defense exercise in the Washington, D.C., region.
www.stripes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
2:00 a.m. low and loud fly-overs of D.C.? I bet this will go over well. Is someone showing off, or over-compensating?
"will include F-16 fighter aircraft; a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin helicopter; a U.S. Army UH-60 helicopter; U.S. Navy King Air aircraft; and Civil Air Patrol C-182 aircraft"
"will include F-16 fighter aircraft; a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin helicopter; a U.S. Army UH-60 helicopter; U.S. Navy King Air aircraft; and Civil Air Patrol C-182 aircraft"
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Possible goofballs in northwest Tennessee
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Possible goofballs in northwest Tennessee
Trying to find a restaurant open on Thanksgiving in my Grandmother's town. So far, it's just the Chinese restaurant. Not a bad option I guess, but feels a bit like "A Christmas Story". I won't order Peking Duck if we go.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Trying to find a restaurant open on Thanksgiving in my Grandmother's town. So far, it's just the Chinese restaurant. Not a bad option I guess, but feels a bit like "A Christmas Story". I won't order Peking Duck if we go.
Tonight we decided that our lovingly murderous kitten is part ocelot. -this is of course not true at all, as ocelots range doesn't include the wilds of southwestern Wisconsin where she was found. But it does appeal to our wildchild to think she has such a distinguished pedigree.
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Tonight we decided that our lovingly murderous kitten is part ocelot. -this is of course not true at all, as ocelots range doesn't include the wilds of southwestern Wisconsin where she was found. But it does appeal to our wildchild to think she has such a distinguished pedigree.
After seeing them in anime after anime, I finally looked up Japanese omletes, Omurice. And was surprised that there is more to them than just ketchup on top. The inside is full of pan-fried chicken rice and ketchup. It does sound pretty delicious and filling.
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
After seeing them in anime after anime, I finally looked up Japanese omletes, Omurice. And was surprised that there is more to them than just ketchup on top. The inside is full of pan-fried chicken rice and ketchup. It does sound pretty delicious and filling.