Jim Kirkland
            
            @Paleojim
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              State Paleontologist for Utah; exploring and promoting the history of life in our southwestern deserts for the public good and the wonder of it all.
              
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              Joined November 2010
            
            
           Describing and sampling J/K boundary on cut on SR 191 sw of Blanding lotsof thin section s to come big uppermost Morrison "bauxite" samples from laterite to slab. Overlying Yellow Cat Ferrugenous paleosols too. Section measured, but lots of work remains. @utahgeological
          
          
                
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             In the field for the next week. First off, heading down into the Blanding Basin of southeastern Utah with mapping program to field check maps and provide insights of mapping mid Mesozoic formation contacts for up coming mapping projects. @utahgeological @BLMUtah @BearsEars16
          
          
                
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             What a Privileged White Christian Nationalist sound like in the Grocery Store . . . #DemVoices #MAGA #TrumpsteinBallroom
          
          
                
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             When fire burned down Uljin forest, a collaborative response meant it came back stronger. Through a newly @un -recognised World Restoration Flagship, they are restoring the forests with science & community power. Congratulations to the Republic of Korea for its 
          
                
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             Forty million Americans are about to lose food assistance, and this guy’s posting pictures of his upgrades to the White House shitter. 
          
                
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             Most of today’s wars happen in Africa, creating the biggest displacement crisis while aid and peacekeeping collapse. 
          
                
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             HAPPY HALLOWEEN! When you’re done trickin’ & treatin’, come celebrate spooky season and all the rest of It with me & @marcbernardin TONIGHT at 9pst / Midnight est!  https://t.co/PZE5SEEMEM  (Awesome artwork by @DarkNateReturns!) 
          
                
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             Here is a link to actual science on this fine specimen. 
          
            
            pnas.org
              All described feathers in nonavian theropods are composite structures formed by multiple filaments. They closely resemble relatively advanced stage...
            
                
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             For #FossilFriday , not a tyrannosaur, but an amazing fossil from the, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, China for @ExpeditionLive This Beipiaosaurus specimen really knocked my sox off. Play with this 3D model; 5 cm scale in photo.  https://t.co/q2DzwsQ0my 
            @Dino_Chinzorig
          
          
                
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             Here we have Human induced climate change denier Tom Nelson citing Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Tony Heller. Both have failed to note the GISP2 ice core data ends in 1855 & that the graph is not globally respresentative. Greenland warmed since 1855!  https://t.co/HvAw1x4Z94 
          
          
              @of_arin @skdh Your graph ends in 1855 and is from a single high altitude ice core in Greenland (GISP2). It does not represent global temps nor does it include the rapid warming post 1970s due to our emissions. Globally representative dataset graph is here:  https://t.co/skdqEEoXBd 
            
            
                
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             Q: If Canada shifts away from the U.S. and toward China in its trade relations, is that good for America? Hassett: What’s good for the U.S. is getting Canada to honor its previous agreements and follow the rule of law. 
          
                
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             BREAKING: Speaker Johnson closed the House for a month, then blamed Democrats for not working. In reality, Dems stayed in D.C. fighting for healthcare while Republicans took a taxpayer-funded vacation. Unreal.  https://t.co/BIzCLimHQP 
          
          
                
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             Lindsay Zanno's North Carolina Museum of Natural History's team under Napoli,s direction are in an ideal position to take over the Utahraptor Megablock Project! I'm hoping she is funded to cover the cost of moving the fossil to North Carolina. @JeremyBRoberts
          
           If it weren't for Lindsay's hard work, grit, and determination, the Dueling Dinosaurs may never have made it to a museum collection. Our field owes her, and everyone who worked with her to bring these specimens into the public trust, a debt of gratitude. 
            
                
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             Lots more remains to be done on the Dueling Dinosaurs, but for now we can say that the world of the last days of the dinosaurs just got a lot more vibrant. Dinosaurs weren't in a long-term decline before the asteroid hit; they were innovating and diversifying right up to the end. 
          
                
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             As someone who has worked hard to bring economic benefit to the state of Utah as a result of having the most complete fossil bearing rock sequences especially in the world through bringing conference to Utah and developing tourism & educational opportunities; depressing news! 
          
                
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             I'm speaking on the exciting new data from eastern Utah pertaining to the J-K dinosaur mass extinction that wipped out the Morrison Dinos at end of the Real Jurassic Park at Clark Planetarium at the Gateway downtown Salt Lake City, Thurs Nov. 13th. 
          
            
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              Utah's Morrison Dinosaurs -- decoded in dirt
            
                
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             How long is the US media going to pretend that there is really a ceasefire in place? Clearly Netanyahu's plan is to bomb Gaza whenever he wants in perpetuity. Hamas has not been disarmed. Trump took a huge victory lap but none of the big problems are solved. 
           BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say. 
          
                
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