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Natalia Jagielska
@nataliajagielska.bsky.social
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A Pole in China 🍲 PhD in Paleontology 🦴 Postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (soon East China Normal University) 🦕 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖 Brexit-causing immigrant 💼
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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Feb 10
Pinned. I'm a doctor in palaeontology 🦕 specialising in pterosaurs, with years of museum experience in 🇬🇧 & 🇵🇱 Currently starting a postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰

I also work on initiatives for social mobility & migration, draw dinosaurs and consult for TV & games 📺
Natalia with a stuffed Palaeo Plushies pterosaur on her shoulder Natalia and her Jack Russell Terrier An illustration of a grey pterosaur in a forest
nataliajagielska.bsky.social
I had a senior English researcher (who I've never met) call my potential employer to blacklist me from a job. Solely because I was an early career working on a Scottish pterosaur and co-authored with their former student. I got the job anyway 💪 fear the insecure established academic.
nataliajagielska.bsky.social Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 2d
I hate navigating the world of palaeontology. "If you author with this researcher, you'll be barred from working with that other research team" or "if you access this collection you can't access that collection". Petty cliques getting in the way of accessing public resources and good science.
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Turns out, cliques & specimen restrictions, are perpetrated chiefly by high-profile researchers and target early careers. I do wonder if famed academics know, they're hurting & wasting young talent. Or do they marinate in arrogance & self importance?
Gollum effect perpetrator chart with 46% of respondents being affected by a high profile researcher. 36% a colleague in group and 34% supervisor. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(25)00140-X
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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adzebill.bsky.social
This is a problem in NZ too. Entire research teams who aren’t on speaking terms, snipe at each other’s publications, and fight over fossil sites because of middle-aged scientists who act like squabbling children. Pathetic in such a small country.
nataliajagielska.bsky.social Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 2d
I hate navigating the world of palaeontology. "If you author with this researcher, you'll be barred from working with that other research team" or "if you access this collection you can't access that collection". Petty cliques getting in the way of accessing public resources and good science.
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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squarezer0.bsky.social
If it's anything like journalism, the old heads know they're choking young new talent out of the industry, but they would rather rule over a scorched field as long as they're the ones holding the matches.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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dactylioceras.bsky.social
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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women-archeopal.bsky.social
🎨 Paleoart deadline extended! 🎉
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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evovert.bsky.social
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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haiwden.bsky.social
Winter Deity Yutraynnus ❄
#paleoart #yutyrannus
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jcampbellsmith.bsky.social
"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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rashundsubkultur.bsky.social
Chile wählt den deutschstämmigen José Antonio Kast zum Präsidenten. Er ist Sohn eines NSDAP-Mitglieds, neunfacher Vater und strenggläubiger Katholik.:
Stichwahl in Chile: Rechtsextremer José Antonio Kast wird Präsident
Chile wählt den deutschstämmigen José Antonio Kast zum Präsidenten. Er ist Sohn eines NSDAP-Mitglieds, neunfacher Vater und strenggläubiger Katholik.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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atrupar.com
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Everybody is rightly praising the man who bravely disarmed that shooter, but if you’ve seen the whole video, I want to give a shout out to the woman that came to his aid and the other dude who started chucking things at the disarmed shooter. It takes a village.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Hong Kong perks. How it feels having both, European and Chinese holidays and days off work.
Two weiner boy meme grinning
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Rod Ruth's Coelophysis and Trilophosaurus!
A low slung, wrinkly Coelophysis pursues four lizard-like Trilophosaurus across the cracked sands of a Triassic desert. Stocky bennittitaleans are scattered about the scene, and a row of volcanoes belch smoke into the sickly purplish red sky.
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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E. Boyd Smith's Permian Scene!
A variety of brightly coloured, dragon-like therapsids and reptiles prowl and swim about a primordial swamp forest. Crickets and a land-dwelling ammonite mingle with tiny turtle-like creatures and little lizard things, while various strange plants sprout up around them.
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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ghostofthesea.bsky.social
Another of my "Whimsical Stardust" illustrations, and another of my favourites <3
🪐🐟🌠

www.redbubble.com/people/ghost...

#art #digitalart #spaceart #goldfish #fish #illustration
Digital illustration all in shades of orange and brown. There is a large fancy goldfish with clouds, planets, and a comet around it, with a starry circle in the background, alluding to a space scene.
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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elenpanter.bsky.social
Hi! I'm Elen and I love drawing illustrations with animals, adding deep emotions and atmosphere, I also work on "Raptor" comic about dinos :)
Tiger in jungles walking in water with fishes swimming along Tiger at night stepping into water with a lightning emerged Apple dino dinosaur crying over the cliff from Raptor comic by ElenPanter Huevember Snow dinosaurs raptors running in mountain valley trespassing the river
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵
My linocut portrait of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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hleehurley.com
11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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15 December 1829: in reply to an enquiry sent via their mutual friend Charlotte Murchison, Mary Anning provides Charles Lyell with information about the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs at Lyme Regis which he uses in his 1830 book, 'Principles of Geology', acknowledging Anning as his source.
Top left: portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet; top centre: portrait of Charles Lyell with a high forehead and long sideburns, in a grey coat with a dark collar; top right: early 20th century photograph of Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis; bottom right: extract from Lyell's 1830 'Principles of Geology' acknowledging Mary Anning as the source of information on the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs: At Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire, the "Church Cliffs"...consisting of lias about 100 feet in height, have gradually fallen away, at a rate of one year a year, since 1800. [footnote:] This ground was measured by Dr, Carpenter of Lyme, and again in 1829, as I am informed, by Miss Mary Anning of Lyme, well known by her discoveries in fossil remains.' ; bottom left: extract of a letter of 15 December 1829 from Anning to Lyell with the information used in his 'Principles': 'I have made enquires of Dr: Carpenter he says that in the year 1800 he paced the Church Cliffs from a certain hedge and that (’they’ deleted) it was thirty paces to the edge of the Cliff (which is about 100 feet perpendicular height) it is fallen away from that hedge so as to leave about one yard between edge hedge and the edge of the Cliff having lost 29 yards in as many years.'
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Who's looking forward to #DinoConUK 2026? July might seem like a long time away but it sure isn't when you're arranging events :) Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for news (photos by Alfred Barwick)
Speaker on stage at DinoConUK 2025. Speaker on stage at DinoConUK 2025. Speaker on stage at DinoConUK 2025. Panel on stage at DinoConUK 2025.
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
"Jerusalem can't really be the capital of Israel because there's no J in Hebrew!" would obviously be a pathetically stupid argument.
abolisyonista.bsky.social Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · 15h
Realized na saying Palestine can't be real because there's no “P” in Levantine Arabic would be like saying the Philippines isn't real because there's no “Ph”/“F” in Tagalog.
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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ithayla.bsky.social
if you intake a lot of "news" content, i know that it can feel like a lot is going wrong very fast. but what you don't hear about in the "news" is the quiet, constant effort of billions of good people who are trying in every small way they can to make the world a better place.

we. outnumber. them.
voidrantsback.bsky.social Voidra wants you to hydrate, please @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 18h
As shit goes down in Sydney, what I want to remember is scenes like this. The queue of people to donate blood today.
A queue of people lining up to donate blood in Sydney, Australia, after the tragedy at Bondi.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Only two pieces tonight on #paleostream
Funnily quite similar in lighting conditions :P
First is the Hell Creek mosasaur second is Kaatedocus, taking into account the recently described melanosomes and their potential for coloration.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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boltsmag.org
Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.

The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery 
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM