AltonDooley

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Paleontologist, Executive Director of the Western Science Center. Views are my own. He/him.

For more paleontology goodies, check out my blog “Life…From a Certain Point of View “ at: https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/

It's Disability Pride Month, but honestly—I'm angry.

I use the elevator due to Long Covid, and I still get comments like "Just one floor? Take the stairs." Mostly from older, white, male coworkers outside my team. My direct colleagues get it. Others? Not so much.

Invisible disabilities are real. I'm tired of justifying my needs.

If you've faced this or have tips on handling it, please share.

@longcovid
@chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability

#DisabilityPride #InvisibleDisability #LongCovid

New blog post!

The museum's alligator lizard is settling into their new home, and we take a look at fossil lizard teeth.

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https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/more-alligator-lizards-this-time-with-teeth-2/

#FossilFriday #museum #paleontology #lizard #fossil

More alligator lizards...this time with teeth!

The Western Science Center's alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) moved into its new habitat earlier this week, beside our display of Pleistocene microvertebrate fossils from Diamond Valley Lake. As I mentioned last week, these lizards are native to the area, and have been for a long time. We actually have Elgaria

Life...From a Certain Point of View

Today (July 10) at 3:00 pm Pacific, Western Science Center Collections Manager Brittney Stoneburg will by doing a Polar STEAM livestream from the RV Steadfast in LeConte Bay, Alaska, where a team of scientists is doing @NSF - funded research on melting glaciers.

Follow along at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/@polarsteamteam/streams

#scicomm #museum #glacier #ClimateChange #PolarSTEAM

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A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

Jurassic Pan 😳
This was a hard one to write. It’s disconcerting to report on inhumane conditions at a U.S. concentration camp from the comfort of my home office, but not enough people are speaking out. And I don’t want history to repeat. Please help let others know. My write-up in the replies.

Today (July 10) at 3:00 pm Pacific, Western Science Center Collections Manager Brittney Stoneburg will by doing a Polar STEAM livestream from the RV Steadfast in LeConte Bay, Alaska, where a team of scientists is doing @NSF - funded research on melting glaciers.

Follow along at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/@polarsteamteam/streams

#scicomm #museum #glacier #ClimateChange #PolarSTEAM

Before you continue to YouTube

So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts.

I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms.

And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.

#3112 - Geology Murder
Today Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 from the Western Science Center is in Pauma Valley for the summer Kids’ Camp!
#scicomm #museum #paleontology