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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 3d

Liebe dt. Wissenschaft, von mir verlangst Du seit Jahren vollstes Commitment. Von Dir bekomme ich im Gegenzug nichts als maximale Unverbindlichkeit. So kann es mit uns nicht weitergehen. Deshalb schreibe ich Dir diesen Brief — nachzulesen heute in meinem Newsletter #ArbeitInDerWiss!

#IchBinHanna

An die deutsche Wissenschaft: (k)ein Liebesbrief

Liebe deutsche Wissenschaft, wir müssen reden.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 4d

Correlation is not causation.

A cat perched on a concrete wall, surrounded by a hole in a chain link fence.

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RitterRotz @ritterrotz.bsky.social · 8d

R.I.P. Jane Goodall
😔
Eine der ganz großen Kämpferinnen für unseren Planeten verläßt uns.

a close up of a monkey with a beard looking at the camera

ALT: a close up of a monkey with a beard looking at the camera

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Imbiss+- @imbstt.bsky.social · Jan 26

Genesis VGT Konzept-Auto im Computerspiel Gran Turismo auf grauem Hintergrund. Das Auto ist dunkelgrün mit hellgrünen und gelblichen Akzenten lackiert, aufgemalten Augen und Zunge im Kühlergrill. Soll grob an "Stenokranio boldi" erinnern, ein lustiger kleiner Dino.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 13d

Lemuria! Phase 2, Tropical Rainforest now live! #Paleostream! www.twitch.tv/paleostream

paleostream - Twitch

We are a channel dedicated to paleoart and paleontology. Late night talk and art about all sorts of things. Suggest subjects and draw along! Find and share finished work under #paleostream

www.twitch.tv

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 13d

Lystrosaurus Prehistoric GIF

ALT: Lystrosaurus Prehistoric GIF

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 14d

The true tyrant lizard queen!

René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

Who knows what my role will be in the end. I had some amazing ideas for the volume.. but let’s say it’s complicated with me. But it should not be an obstacle, rather a challenge! So feel free to endorse, share and comment on the idea. Thank you for the attention (8/8)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

If you can’t donate or don’t want to - do not worry! We hope for your shared words more and the excitement the work might generate. While they indeed are well researched, Diplodocoids, including my beloved Diplodocids, have so much more to offer (7/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

Most important to me would be actually the use of our stuff in open sources like Wikipedia - it’s whether we like it or not the most used archive of knowledge and some articles need large rework where we can provide the foundation (6/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

More papers are in the pipeline by the awesome members of the little project and we want to
Comission paleoartists if we can get over the goal. I for one have some fun ideas and I love the idea to provide information and Paleoart for everyone

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

One is the description of the diplodocine Ardetosaurus viator, the second one is a summary on our current knowledge on diplodocoids, where I had the honor to write the ontogeny and ecology part - but I want to contribute more to this special
Idea indeed (lost track lol/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

Although it is free to publish in PE technically, the amount of money you see in the link is used to support the editors and journal, as their finances only allow a limited
amount of publications. Actually we got already two papers published for the volume
already (3/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

The folks showed a variety of topics, but agreed that this would fit a special volume quiet well. The biggest condition established was
Open Access (which I am a fan of) - so it took some time and we settled with Paleontologica Electronica for the idea (2/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

Two years ago, we came up with the idea to create a special volume on diplodocoids because we all would work with the same phylogenetic dataset (Tschopp et al. - or more recent Mannion et al.) and had a very nice virtual meeting with all interested folks (1/x)

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 16d

I would like to use this morning to share a crowdfunding that my colleagues established for a project that is close to my heart

experiment.com/projects/rea...

I quickly summarize the goal and idea in the answers with a thread

Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea

We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 28d

One small detail is actually that the claws on the hand also show size variations - so theoretically you could determine which finger you are looking at

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 29d

With great pleasure I would like to introduce you to the first ornithomimosaur from Germany!
The fossils of this charming bugger are from Balve, a locality that preserves early Cretaceous fossils in a Devonian reef that had karstified already back then, giving us: cave dinosaurs

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you for the Post! You were often in our minds since the arctometatarsal was basically what solved the riddle

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

So.. Pepsi Deinocheirus?😂

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

Would be fascinating to see! But the person must fit to the suit

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

Rude of me for the self advertisement, but everything in the news has guns, violence and weird tastes

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited to present the first ornithomimosaurs from Early Cretaceous of Germany. Artwork by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and the paper is OA:

www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Enjoy! More is to be described from this place

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited to present the first ornithomimosaurs from Early Cretaceous of Germany. Artwork by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and the paper is OA:

www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Enjoy! More is to be described from this place

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · Apr 4

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René Dederichs @dedrendeer.bsky.social · Apr 4

I was yesterday in a small dinosaur park in western Germany and they randomly have models and exhibition stuff for "the future is wild".

WHAT

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