AltonDooley

@AltonDooley@mstdn.social
446 Followers
175 Following
1.2K Posts

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/

AltonDooley2d ago
Show threadFediFollows2d ago

#Biology picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @dantheclamman - Environmental scientist, clam expert extraordinaire, founder of #ClamFacts

➡️ @bugmanjones - Entomologist, writer & broadcaster on insects

➡️ @StrepsipZerg - Evolutionary entomologist, insect enthusiast

➡️ @DenisMeuthen - Evolutionary ecologist, phenotypic plasticity, transgenerational plasticity

➡️ @drmambobob - Evolutionary palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in zoology, biodiversity in Earth’s history

5/8

AltonDooley2d ago
Show threadFediFollows2d ago

#Biology picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @AltonDooley - Palaeontologist, director Western Science Center CA, expert on real life mastodons

➡️ @johnrhutchinson - Professor of Evolutionary Biomechanics, how very large animals stand & move

➡️ @GMIK69 - Blogger on emerging diseases such as Covid, new flu strains etc

➡️ @evodevo_papers - Unofficial bot linking to papers about evolutionary developmental biology

➡️ @biodiversitypix - Images from Biodiversity Heritage Library

7/8

AltonDooley2d ago

New blog post!

Ribs don’t need barbecue sauce to be interesting!

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/a-celebration-of-ribs/

If you like what you read, please subscribe or leave a tip. All proceeds support the cost of hosting the blog, and research and outreach at the Western Science Center.
#museum #scicomm #FossilFriday #ribs #osteology

A celebration of ribs

Ribs don’t need barbecue sauce to be interesting!

Life...From a Certain Point of View
AltonDooley2d ago
Kristian5d ago

People: OH MY GOD you can't use wikipedia because ANYONE can just EDIT and write WHATEVER!

The same people 20 years later: Oh I LOVE chatgpt, I can ask it anything and it always has an answer!

AltonDooley3d ago
Andrew4d ago
Cool to see how much progress California has made defeating the "duck curve". same day 5 years apart, and the spike at sunset is almost completely supplied by batteries
AltonDooley4d ago
Daniel Swain4d ago
The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]
AltonDooley4d ago
Ben Lockwood, PhD5d ago
The fact that I can click on a scientific article link and hit a paywall in 2025–when the scientists were paid with public money, the research conducted in public institutions, and the cost of publication subsidized by public funds–is an abject failure of society.
AltonDooley6d ago
Phil Plait6d ago

In 2023, astronomers detected a cosmic blast so powerful it released more energy than ALL THE STARS IN THE UNIVERSE COMBINED. The cause: two black holes colliding and merging… which is a problem, because they were way bigger than we thought possible.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-biggest-black-hole-merger-ever-detected-so-far-rocked-the-universe-dc6b8bba789d58bd

The biggest black hole merger ever detected so far rocked the Universe

The gravitational waves they emitted were fiercely powerful, but where did the black holes come from?

Bad Astronomy Newsletter
AltonDooleyJul 14
Sarah TaberJul 13

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

AltonDooleyJul 13
Extinction Rebellion GlobalJul 12
×
Andrew4d ago
Cool to see how much progress California has made defeating the "duck curve". same day 5 years apart, and the spike at sunset is almost completely supplied by batteries
Show threadEli the Bearded3d ago

@cinebox

I have a time of day rate plan. I don't recall exactly when it happened but at some point PG&E "peak" rates stopped being during the day and started being 4pm to 9pm. I have responded by changing my flexible usage outside of those hours. For me that's car charging, laundry, and dishwasher. Most months I have at least 75% of usage during the lowest cost hours.

Show threadChance 'Um3d ago
@cinebox Finally, some good news in my feed!
Show threadSimplicator3d ago
@cinebox Also, #California ns, pls contact your Assembly member & ask to oppose #SB540 the Parhways bill that would forfeit electrical power control over to an inter-state board https://consumerwatchdog.org/energy/consumer-watchdog-calls-on-ca-senators-to-pledge-to-leave-public-office-if-their-vote-for-pathways-western-grid-leads-trumps-ferc-to-invalidate-clean-energy-laws/
Consumer Watchdog Calls On CA Senators To Pledge to Leave Public Office If Their Vote For Pathways Western ...

Sacramento, CA – Consumer Watchdog wrote to California State Senators today warning them that a pending proposal, SB 540 (Becker) to create a Western regional grid could lead to overriding of key state environmental laws, including the Renewal Portfolio Standards (RPS), which sets deadlines for clean energy goals. “If California’s renewal portfolio standard is invalidated,

Consumer Watchdog