P. David Polly
David is a vertebrate paleontologist who grew up near Boonville, Missouri. He is also British. “Read broader, think deeper, do better”: pollylab.org
- Reposted by P. David PollyHoosier the Bison meet Omar Otter Jr. spotted by the IMU @idsnews.bsky.social
- Reposted by P. David PollyThe chair asked for a new feature on our schedule printout the other day, and me & QuickBasic have obliged. (13 pages of dot matrix goodness, every semester. 🖨️)
- IU needs to learn to move faster. #DropKickMeThroughTheGoalPostsOfLife www.ipm.org/news/2026-02...
- How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
- Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...
- State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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- Surely this ranks high for Trumpy lack of understanding: “I want Greenland for security-I don't want it for anything else," he told reporters, “You have to go 25ft down through ice to get it. It's not something that a lot of people are going to do." #5489ftThick www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Proud of my senator Todd Young today. The madness must stop and he helped us take a step in the right direction. wapo.st/4qHyjM7
- The struggle is worth it… a good day for America. #LetFreedomRing. www.aclusc.org/press-releas...
- The struggle is worth it…. A good day for indiana and America. www.ipm.org/news/2026-01...
- New genome for the Bermudian land snail, with Stevie Winingear, Anne Stone, @sexchrlab.bsky.social, Gerardo Garcia, and Mark Outerbridge academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
- News headlines baffle me. If someone violently kidnapped the US President and spirited them off for a trial, would that someone legally be able to “run the US”? No. The Constitution provides a clear chain of succession if the President is no longer able to perform duties. #hubrisunimaginable
- Civilized countries, like decent human beings, solve differences with reason, mutual respect, persuasion and compromise, not violence, bullying, and chauvinism. When a democracy elects leaders who lack basic decency, the country loses its civilized veneer. What will we do to right the course?
- Aww, Joe Ely. 😕. Joe Ely, Texas-Born Troubadour of the Open Road, Dies at 78 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
- At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u.... #ScratchesHead #AntiquaOrFraktur #TimesOrCalibri
- My internet service in an IU science building that was just renovated is not fast enough to use the proofing tool to publish a scientific paper (see warning at top of screen). #FailedState #TheNewIU.
- Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students. c.org/HJW7FVxPwv
- Excellent use of the silent “p”…
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- Apparently it is now illegal to use X-windows in Indiana. Or so says the Witten administration at IU. 🤷♂️
- My university finally feels like it too is run by the wheel-clampers (Biff from 30+ yrs ago).
- JFK, I realized today my first phylogenetic tree was only 20 yrs after Hennig was published in English, and my last was 40 yrs after my first. 🤦♂️
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- Now we know what it takes to unite IU and Purdue…. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
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- For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
- Reposted by P. David PollyDaily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away
- Daily bunny is not F100 material…. #MakeWayForNobody
- We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
- One if by land, two if by sea. Don’t fire till you see the masks of their ICE, Boston. #OldNorthChurch #TinyHandsOffAmerica
- He came from outer space, lookin for something to eat #EggplantThatAteChicago youtu.be/Db8LxhzAml0?...
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- Truth. And such a waste for the future of the state of Indiana after five generations of investment to elevate Hoosier kids to world class status. thebtownbee.com/2025/08/31/t...
- From Doctors Without Borders: Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/risk-...
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- More from @robstonemd.bsky.social on effects of the new cuts to medicaid on rural Indiana hospital care. medicareforallindiana.substack.com/p/prescripti...
- Thanks to @robstonemd for sharing this sobering summary of the crisis in rural health care www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/13/i...
- Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
