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MakeAPlanetPod

@MakeAPlanetPod

Your new favorite podcast about the history of the best planet ever (Earth!)...and yummy pie. Coming soon, from hosts @JacquelynGill and @PhoebeFossil.

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calendar_today23-06-2021 19:45:18

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Dr. Jacquelyn Gill(@JacquelynGill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good morning, Planeteers! For today’s quiz, spot the (likely) lie:

A) The dinosaur Anchiornis had brown, grey, black and white 🪶.

B) 🦣 were matriarchal, like modern elephants.

C) T. Rex “ran” ~5 m/s (11 mph) 🦖.

D) Giant ice age 🦫 built giant ice age dams.

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MakeAPlanetPod(@MakeAPlanetPod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're 25% funded! Thanks to everyone who's supported us - we've still got a ways to go but we're psyched by how far we've come. Every $ counts, so please contribute if you can and spread the word if you can't. We ♥️ providing you content - help us give you more!

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Dr. Jacquelyn Gill(@JacquelynGill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s another white doomer dude profile out today and I just... Why are they always the ones who seem to get big media profiles? I know so many incredible change-makers, and people hungry for change. Why not profile a activist or Afrofuturist or literally anyone else?

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Dr. Jacquelyn Gill(@JacquelynGill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Called a living fossil, my spore-making group thrived in Paleozoic understories and as 100-ft coal swamp trees. My modern form showed up in the Jurassic and was eaten by 🦕. I’m so successful now I’m often called invasive.

A) Ginkgo
B) Horsetail
C) Cycads
D) Bamboo

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MakeAPlanetPod(@MakeAPlanetPod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Enjoying those quizzes from Dr. Jacquelyn Gill ? Well, we can't do this podcast without YOU. Yes you, 550+ followers. If you can, please support our Kickstarter - every bit counts, and if $ isn't possible for you, please help spread the word! kickstarter.com/projects/makea…

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But back to that early life and toxic oxygen—did the Great Oxygenation Event really trigger a mass extinction? You’ll just have to back MakeAPlanetPod to find out.

Great job, everyone!

kickstarter.com/projects/makea…

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MakeAPlanetPod(@MakeAPlanetPod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're 12.8% to our goal in TWO DAYS! Thanks so much for everyone's support so far - we cannot wait to fill your ears with the fabulousness that is our dear planet's incredible and fascinating past.

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MakeAPlanetPod(@MakeAPlanetPod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have a logo!!!! Thanks to Karen Stein at goodgoodland.com for this amazingness. Our team is complete and we'll be introducing them soon and getting a Kickstarter going as well.

We have a logo!!!! Thanks to Karen Stein at goodgoodland.com for this amazingness. Our team is complete and we'll be introducing them soon and getting a Kickstarter going as well.
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MakeAPlanetPod(@MakeAPlanetPod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Quick update! Our team is coming together and it's going to be 🔥. We've got an incredible logo in the works. Stay tuned for info on our @kickstarter!

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Dr. Jacquelyn Gill(@JacquelynGill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you a freelance podcast producer? Do you like helping to tell compelling stories about the Earth? Are you interested in joining a couple of women scientists as we build a whole planet just so we can bake an apple pie? Apply to MakeAPlanetPod by 8/1! jacquelyngill.wordpress.com/2021/06/24/jax…

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