Seth Finnegan

@sethf.bsky.social

Marine paleobiologist & geologist @ UC Berkeley Integrative Biology & UC Museum of Paleontology

@aidemm.bsky.socialReposted by @sethf.bsky.social

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

@donmoyn.bsky.socialReposted by @sethf.bsky.social

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
@sethf.bsky.social

This paper doesn't really present direct evidence for pre-Cryogenian or even pre-Ediacaran animals. It overturns a bad taphonomic constraint that had been used to force molecular clock estimates indicating an Ediacaran origin, but revised estimates still need to be taken with a bucket of salt.

@markhisted.orgReposted by @sethf.bsky.social

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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