N.S. Vitek
@nsvitek.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Consumed by describing shapes and learning how to c̶o̶o̶k̶ get little humans to eat collard greens w̶e̶l̶l̶ at all.
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Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
The silence has been deafening for awhile, but here are recent sprouts of acts that could turn into collective action...(9/n)
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I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭
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#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
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TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.
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Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
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The Onion: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
"Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"
"Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do things where you’re from, ’round here we have our own way of dealin’ with criminals, and that’s […]
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November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Onion: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
"Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"
"Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"
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For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection:
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - FLMNH Collections Manager II / FLMNH Collections Manager III
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November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection:
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
If the original #SVP2025 feed isn't capturing everything you want, you can try this one: bsky.app/profile/did:...
(this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)
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November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If the original #SVP2025 feed isn't capturing everything you want, you can try this one: bsky.app/profile/did:...
(this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
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Historical reflection by a legendary biometrician, morphometrists, and statistician F. James Rohlf on the emergence of mathematization of the classification and systematics during his life time.
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Historical reflection by a legendary biometrician, morphometrists, and statistician F. James Rohlf on the emergence of mathematization of the classification and systematics during his life time.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I am so grateful to all the teachers & students who have participated in the NSF-funded Postcards from the Past project & to my collaborators Tina Miller-Way, JoAnn Mitchell Moody, Nancy Raia, & Linda Hill. Examples of student Postcards are currently on display at the Alabama Aquarium!
Since 2019, Discovery Hall Programs has partnered with Dr. Paul Harnik to develop Postcards from the Past. An interactive activity developed from the field to the classroom to explore the environmental history of the Northern Gulf Coast. A collection is displayed in the Alabama Aquarium.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am so grateful to all the teachers & students who have participated in the NSF-funded Postcards from the Past project & to my collaborators Tina Miller-Way, JoAnn Mitchell Moody, Nancy Raia, & Linda Hill. Examples of student Postcards are currently on display at the Alabama Aquarium!
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I highly encourage folks to apply! I received one in 2015 and it resulted in several publications, including a new species of pinniped (Allodesmus demerei) with Morgan Churchill and a paper on the youngest known "proto-seal" Enaliarctos from Oregon with @ashpoust.bsky.social.
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I highly encourage folks to apply! I received one in 2015 and it resulted in several publications, including a new species of pinniped (Allodesmus demerei) with Morgan Churchill and a paper on the youngest known "proto-seal" Enaliarctos from Oregon with @ashpoust.bsky.social.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Congrats to Sanaa El-Sayed on her DEEP Award from the Paleontological Society!
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congrats to Sanaa El-Sayed on her DEEP Award from the Paleontological Society!
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Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
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October 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
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Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
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ICB Issue 4 is out
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
October 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ICB Issue 4 is out
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
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“In less than a year, the Blackout Report has tracked more than 15,700 attacks on Black progress - erasing data, banning books, cutting research, and dismantling opportunity...” 1 of 3
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“In less than a year, the Blackout Report has tracked more than 15,700 attacks on Black progress - erasing data, banning books, cutting research, and dismantling opportunity...” 1 of 3
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I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.