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.
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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.
"My magic is never giving up!"
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"My magic is never giving up!"
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The end of the final event of #2025SVP - it's been an amazing experience hosting it, thanks so much to everyone involved in helping make it happen. Back to the day job tomorrow.
It's the end of the #2025SVP UK dinos field trip. We finished with a visit to Dewars Farm dinosaur track site (muddy), and the Oxford Uni Museum, where we were lucky enough to get a tour of the Buckland archives and collections. Home for sleep...
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The end of the final event of #2025SVP - it's been an amazing experience hosting it, thanks so much to everyone involved in helping make it happen. Back to the day job tomorrow.
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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A swelling underwater volcano off the West Coast is now expected to erupt later than previously projected.
Timing shifts for eruption of underwater volcano off West Coast
Scientists have revised the timeline for the expected eruption of the Axial Seamount, a swelling underwater volcano off the West Coast.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A swelling underwater volcano off the West Coast is now expected to erupt later than previously projected.
Naan Rounds make perfect crusts for small, quick and easy, pizzas (in this case veggie taco pizzas).
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Naan Rounds make perfect crusts for small, quick and easy, pizzas (in this case veggie taco pizzas).
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I had the amazing opportunity to illustrate She Speaks: The Women of Norse Myths in their Own Words by the wonderful Honor Cargill-Martin.
Here's the fierce Freyja! 🔥
Here's the fierce Freyja! 🔥
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I had the amazing opportunity to illustrate She Speaks: The Women of Norse Myths in their Own Words by the wonderful Honor Cargill-Martin.
Here's the fierce Freyja! 🔥
Here's the fierce Freyja! 🔥
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Can I drag your attention to the artworks by contemporary Czech palaeoartist, Vladimir Rimbala. His works are a perfect mix of modern science and retro composition (🧵)
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Can I drag your attention to the artworks by contemporary Czech palaeoartist, Vladimir Rimbala. His works are a perfect mix of modern science and retro composition (🧵)