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.@AureliosPizza Well that was awful. You brought in a gun-carrying policeman to do laps through the dining room throughout our entire family dinner. Talk about indigestion. What in God’s name made you think this was what we customers wanted?

@Napc2024 @UMichPaleo @PaleoCameron #ICYMI

Who let Dalmanites (UMMP 74744) out? Who, who, who Who let the trilobites out? Well, the Silurian was nice, the ocean was pumpin’ Heya, yippie yi yo All the invertebrates in NY were havin’ a ball! #FossilFriday #NAPC2024 #paleontology #fossil @UMichPaleo

@EthanRockStory I saw the name of your YouTube channel on my friend Cam Muskelly’s feed and couldn’t help thinking of this educational piece I put together a decade ago. Would your team be interested in working this up into a web app or similar?

.@Intertek I bought your LED device as a long-term solution to replace my incandescent nightlight, and then your LED device failed. Send a replacement pronto. You are not helping with this whole #sustainability thing.

@Clarkeocrinus Maybe a Sphenothallus holdfast?

.@CMSMuseum Your past missteps are still hurting the reputations of museums everywhere. Will the damage ever be healed?

(Asker is USA-based.)

Question for @PalaeoPERCS and others: Where would you post the following question in hopes of the most productive set of responses?

@jessicahester @NYTmag Urban fossils (of the Paleozoic) are my bread and butter. I adored this piece and wholeheartedly endorse the care and attention with which you expanded the concept of "fossil" here : ) See you on the sidewalk.

For this week's @NYTmag, I wrote a love letter to sidewalk "fossils," modern traces left by leaves, us, other animals, and fellow small, thrilling life. 🍃🐾👢 It's an absolute joy to recommend them to you and I hope you enjoy meeting them. nytimes.com/2023/01/31/mag…

@miketangoromeo @UtahApproves Ok, then.

@miketangoromeo @UtahApproves St louis voter here. I’m not mad. If you want to make me mad, I’m up for it. Go.

The complexity of these RCV ballot instructions is absurd! #ApprovalVoting keeps the ballot size the same as plurality with even simpler instructions, you would have to try to mess it up!

@JarodAnderson @CryptoNature Then the bone next year is also not the bone today; they merely share atoms. What is the point of such thinking?

@pefty @CryptoNature Sharing atoms does not mean the bone and fossil are indistinguishable. The poem says the fossil is not the bone. Which is true.

@miketangoromeo @UtahApproves St Louisan here. The alders do not have the power to rescind the implementation of Approval Voting here.

@UtahApproves So in the end, it was the voters who bullet voted who gave Jones the victory. And if everyone understood that, the aldermen in St. Louis would get rid of Approval Voting tomorrow. Because it's just that terrible a system.

. @Hudson_News @HudsonBooks Your USB charger (the one whose Brookstone branding you re-license for your own products) fried my phone, cable, and battery cases, but your customer service unit is not responding. Please decide what kind of brand you are and take action accordingly.

@PaleoCameron Your prep is getting so good!

Happy #TrilobiteTuseday! Here is my trilobite I collected from St. Francois County, Missouri all cleaned up. This is Orgymaspis sp. from the Upper Cambrian (Paibian) Davis Formation. Spent time on my belly looking for this! This is my most complete one.

@chase_prairie On a smaller tree, the overall date range is narrower, so all male parts come ripe before any female parts do. Male and female ripeness dates thus fail to overlap, thus requiring a partner tree whose dates might overlap properly with those of the first tree. (3/3)

@chase_prairie Many older Pawpaw trees are self-fertile because for such a tree there is a broad enough range of flower maturation dates that some flowers’ pollen is ripe when other flowers’ pistils are receptive. (2/3)

@raistlinorr Thanks @PaleoCameron for connecting us on here :) @raistlinorr is doing a crazy nice job, right‽

This is where I sm currently. I wet the fossil to remove the finest of media powder and noticed this will look great with the Paleobond on it.

This trilobite was given to me because the perwho found it was not able to and not sure how to prep it properly. It's supposed to be the underside of it.

@PlLife2 This brings up the question: If trilobites did have ventral photoreceptors or even eyes the way some xiphosurans do, what skeletal/histological evidence would we expect to find? Have we looked? (Have we even looked in fossil xiphosurans?)

A late, but special #TrilobiteTuesday - Have you ever heard of the VENTRAL EYES of trilobites? No? Then you should attend the forthcoming 7th International Conference on Trilobites & Relatives this July, and I'll tell you more about them 🤓. Deadline for registration: MARCH 15