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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 23d

Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025:

Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!

Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!

vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · 27d

I hope the 2 30ish guys who had parked in their fancy car in the “parking with children” section of Sainsbury’s thought at least slightly bad when I was struggling to get my baby out of a tiny spot in the pouring rain and sorting out the stroller. I shouted at them. They didn’t respond. Mom wrath

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fair, but in my case emergency c-section would have happened anyways as no scan would have helped (though possibly better antenatal monitoring would have). I had the blood tests done but no one looked at the results until too late… so yes probably better antenatal care would help!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m always annoyed by the suggestion that there are too many c-sections. They happen for a reason, and the decision isn’t taken lightly. If I hadn’t had one when I did I may not be here today. And I didn’t have a complex pregnancy.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

More than half of UK births now involve medical intervention, audit finds

Caesareans drive rise in assisted deliveries as experts warn of complex pregnancies linked to age, obesity and other conditions

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Sep 6

@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social when will a more detailed schedule come out? I am likely only registering for 1-2 days of the conference but need the schedule to know when. I was hoping to do this before the early registration deadline but can’t yet

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Jul 7

I couldn’t think of another female pterosaur worker in the UK. I thought of @nataliajagielska.bsky.social but she’s not in the UK anymore. It’s really sad that this is the case! If I forgot anyone l will blame baby brain…

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Jul 7

Got asked to do an interview for a tv programme on a paper coming out tomorrow. Had to decline because baby life. They asked me for a suggestion of another woman based in the UK that they could contact… which is how I realised there are far too few women who work on pterosaurs. And none in the UK?

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Jul 1

This was us last night. Bedroom was 24 most of the night. Outside was 16. We had windows open but I think it went down to 23.4 lowest….

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Jun 21

Huh this is interesting. And scary.

showyourstripes.info/l/europe/uni...

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info

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Davide Foffa @davfoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · Jun 14

Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Jun 14

Check out this article @davehone.bsky.social, Mike Habib and I wrote based on our ideas about pterosaurs as models for aircraft. Heavy lifting done by Dave Hone and very little by me while I’m on mat leave, but still appreciate being involved!

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jun 14

Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.

How pterosaurs can inspire aircraft design

Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.

tcnv.link

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · May 28

You’re doing great sweetie

AITA for telling my fiancé's mom that the reason I'm not including her in the wedding is because I still remember what she said to me while I was miscarrying in her guest bathroom
I'm 29, getting married next spring. My fiancé is 31.
We've been together for five years and we had a miscarriage three years ago. It was early, around 9 weeks. We were staying at his parents house for a holiday weekend when it happened. I woke up bleeding and in pain. His mom told me to "use the downstairs bathroom" because she didn't want to clean up a mess. While I sat on that floor crying and cramping, she came by once to say "these things happen" and asked if I wanted tea. That was it. No comfort, no compassion. My fiancé handled it, but even he said later he didn't know what her deal was.
Fast forward to now, we're planning the wedding, and I didn't include her in any of the events. No dress shopping, no bridal party, nothing. She asked why, said she's trying to be involved and I'm shutting her out. So I told her. Word for word. I said, "You watched me lose a pregnancy on your floor and acted like it was an inconvenience. That's why." She left in tears. Can someone please tell me if l'm the asshole here or not

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 27

Hey @theguardian.com why does news on Canada and the throne speech come under the headline “US politics live”? I know this is talking about the US threats but surely this is Canadian news not US…

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 19

Yes it’s amazing! It is truly breathtaking how many bones there are

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 19

Today is brought to me by trying to have healthier snacks while breastfeeding and now absolutely starving. Whyyyyy

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is holding a fork and knife and says " im starving "

ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is holding a fork and knife and says " im starving "

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 19

3 months old isn’t too young to watch Walking with Dinosaurs, right? 😂 I’m sure my baby will take it all in…

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 19

Pleasantly surprised to turn on BBC Breakfast this morning to find them at Pipestone Creek, a bonebed I’ve done fieldwork at, followed by my friends and colleague @stevebrusatte.bsky.social! Looking forward to Walking with Dinosaurs this weekend

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 8

Haha yes and no. Just reading over something for a friend on some hypothetical research we did a few years ago.

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · May 8

My life on mat leave

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Apr 22

😂

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Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura.bsky.social · Apr 22

Mostly I’m curious how you can have 100 celebrity crushes 😂

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Shinichi Nakagawa @itchyshin.bsky.social · Apr 17

We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada

"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"

www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...

co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)

Please repost!

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

Graphical abstract for "The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced CT for Vertebrate Natural History Specimens", showing the number of scans : "252 scans of 205 specimens from 7 natural history collections" a plot showing how staining time increases with mass, log-transformed (bottom left), a pie chart showing the Tissue Condition scores (TCS) recorded for all specimens (bottom middle), and a screenshot of a lab protocol for diceCT'ing museum specimens (bottom right)

Cover image for Integrative Organismal Biology, showing cross sections through a fish, a tenrec, a frog, and a lizard at the bottom of the image, and a 3D rendering of each animal at the top of the image (colored in teal, grey, yellow, and pink, respectively)

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