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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 9h

Macs get such a bad rap, but they’re so great for pies

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

astrophysicists, please help a poor terrestrial palaeontologist out:

Did beryllium form in the first 3-5 minutes of the Big Bang, or not?

Nasa mentions it here, science.nasa.gov/universe/ove... but other places EXPLICITLY say there was only H, He and Li until star formation.

thank you!

Overview - NASA Science

The origin, evolution, and nature of the universe have fascinated and confounded humankind for centuries. New ideas and major discoveries made during the 20th

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 1d

Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸

Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 2d

The Peale mastodon at the National Portrait Gallery in 2021.

It’s the 1st mounted fossil skeleton displayed in the US (1805), and 2nd worldwide. Its original viewers didn’t know about evolution. Even extinction was a new concept. More fossils interpreted as history and art, please! #FossilFriday

Mastodon skeleton with long tusks on a gravel bed between two white columns in an art gallery. Seen from the front.

Same from driver side rear view. Red curtain entrance to exhibit is visible from
This angle

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 2d

The fierce carnivore Inostrancevia is one of the species of synapsids that went extinct in the Great Dying, known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

Mounted skeleton of fossil Inostrancevia with its body facing left. It’s skull shows large saver like teeth. It stands on a bed of shale fragments on a plinth with red plexiglass behind it. At the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Dr Suresh Singh @palaeosingh.bsky.social · 2d

A couple snapshots of an ancient apex predator for this #FossilFriday - presenting the fossil teeth & snout of an #Erythrosuchus africanus, the big-headed, hypercarnivorous archosauromorph from the Early-Mid #Triassic of South Africa 🇿🇦

#Paleontology #Science

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Isolated teeth of Erythrosuchus africanus from the collections of the Natural History Museum UK.

The tip of the snout of Erythrosuchus africanus from the collections of the Natural History Museum UK.

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 3d

BioAnth friends--I have an awesome student looking for field school or research opportunities for this Winter or Summer in Primatology, Paleoecology, or Paleoanthropology--I know the typical programs, but please let me know if you know of any programs accepting students!

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 4d

my biggest complain about these tiny creatures is that they're so adorably smol, i have yet to photograph one in the wild

Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 6d

My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these li’l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 5d

Headlines are atrocious given federal government confusion on fall vaccines. What questions do you have about the flu, Covid or RSV vaccines?

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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 6d

🧪 #scicomm #invertsky

Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 6d

My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these li’l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts

youtu.be

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 9d

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 9d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 9d

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends!
🦬🐪🦥 @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @imnh208.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

Group selfie on an Idaho beach: wide sandy expanse and blue skies. Sloth vertebra in the foreground!

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 9d

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

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Dr Suresh Singh @palaeosingh.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s a snapshot of the basal tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes for this #FossilFriday. It lived ~80 Ma, making it a much older cousin of the famous, #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖- Discovered in Southern Utah 🇺🇸, its name means "gore king from the southwest."

#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs

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A mounted reconstructed skeleton of the tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes, and its skull on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 10d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Leila Battison @leilabattison.bsky.social · 10d

Two thousand years ago, a Roman ship sank with 30 tonnes of lead. Today, that cargo is helping physicists probe why the universe exists. My SciShow deep dive on this story hit 6.5M views and became a Webby honoree. Here’s the tale behind it.

The Roman Shipwreck That Helped Explain the Universe

Last year I was handed one of those rare and delightful projects as a science communicator: a deep-dive story that was as strange as it was true, and that went on to reach more than 6.5 million viewers on YouTube (so far!) The video: “An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe”, was later named a Webby Award Honoree. It still feels surreal to type that. The story begins 2,000 years ago, when a Roman merchant ship, laden with more than 30 tonnes of lead ingots, sank off the coast of Sardinia.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 16d

Here is a pair of Palaeochiropteryx specimens from the Germany's Messel Pit for #FossilFriday. Due to the exceptional circumstances of their fossilization, soft tissues were preserved, allowing the outlines of their wings and ears to remain clearly visible.

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
Soft tissue preservation shows this genus possessed relatively broad, short wings, indicative of adaptation for slow, highly maneuverable flight near the forest floor. While some features such as the skull and skeleton are primitive, the shape of the wings resembles that of the modern-day Hipposiderids which have a similar flight habit. Many of the limb bones are in articulation. This bat probably was overcome by toxic gases from the lake while in low-level pursuit of flying insects.
Source: http://www.fossilmall.com/fossils/gf117/palaeochiropteryx-messel-bat-fossil.htm

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
This is an especially beautiful example of the famous Messel soft-body preservation. The flight membrane and the outline of the outer ears have been preserved in the finest detail by fossilized bacteria.
source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Small-bat-Palaeochiropteryx-tupaiodon-Revilliod-1917-This-is-an-especially-beautiful_fig44_329970301

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 16d

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...

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Regina Kim @reginakim.com · 15d

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Celebrate K-Drama Day on Viki with hit K-dramas, cool prizes and fan-exclusive content. Stream 10 popular shows for free and enter daily giveaways through Sept. 30.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16d

Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories.

They’ve saved millions of lives around the world.

We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 16d

#FossilFriday The stump-legged rhino Teleoceras at the old exhibits of the National Museum of Natural History

Mounted skeleton of the extinct short-legged rhino Teleoceras

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 18d

Americans saw extinction as an inevitable consequence of progress, connected to native peoples' removal. "The passenger pigeon - the very image of exultant wildness - will soon be a rarity," having "departed w/ the disappearance of savagery in the land. " - Harper's Weekly, 1889

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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 19d

Come help us get funding to make new stuff!

Complexly @complexly.bsky.social · 19d

Complexly is looking to hire a Director of Development!

If you're interested, please review our job posting at Complexly.com/job and apply before Friday, October 17!

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