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Seth Finnegan
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Paleobiologist @ UC Berkeley & UC Museum of Paleontology
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This is an utterly crucial insight from @jamesmfallows on Threads.

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Some simple truth-telling from @jamesmfallows about the profound and visible asymmetry being conducted by the political press right now. 
-For Joe Biden, every flub, freeze, slurred word, or physical-or-verbal misstep adds to the case against him. There's an ever-mounting dossier, which can only grow in cumulative importance. "In another difficult moment for the President...." "Coming after his disastrous debate appearance..."
-For Donald Trump, every flub, fantasy, non-sequitur, "Sir" story, or revelation of profound ignorance dulls and blunts the case against him.
"That's just Trump." "Are you new here? Never heard a MAGA rally speech before?" "It's what the crowd is waiting for." "Oh, here comes the 'shark' again!" There's an ever-thickening layer of habituation, normalization, jadedness, just plain tedium. The first five times Trump tells the Hannibal Lecter story, reporters notice and write about it. The next hundred times, they're checking their phones.
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Albany wildlife

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NAPC 2024 abstract deadline is 3 days away! If you're still looking for a symposium, consider submitting to our session in honor of Jim Valentine. Jim's interests were exceptionally broad & he loved learning from students, so chances are your work is a good fit for the session...

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You can’t deny the triangularity

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Going through boxes of old papers and just rediscovered this refreshingly out-of-the-box tectonic hypothesis that I rescued from the wall of the Paleogeographic Atlas Project where I did my senior thesis

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Pleased to announce that we are organizing a session at the upcoming 2024 NAPC to celebrate the scientific legacy of the late Jim Valentine —if you plan to attend the meeting and do research in one of the many areas influenced by Jim's work, please consider submitting an abstract!

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Yup, you got it! This is what happens when you try to fit the same model to every stage of the Phanerozoic

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Coincidentally I just booked a flight to Frankfurt, now I'm going to be looking over my shoulder for degenerate Hessians & their negative eigenvalues

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just a brutally harsh & judgmental warning message

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"Advancing the legacy" does kind of put a lot of cultish pressure on the speakers now that I think of it ;)

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Seth Finnegan
@sethf.bsky.social
Paleobiologist @ UC Berkeley & UC Museum of Paleontology
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