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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

🧪 #scicomm #invertsky

Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 2d

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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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

🚨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 · 5d

#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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

🚨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 · 7d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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 · 11d

ICYMI: Viki’s K-Drama Day is running now thru 9/30!🫰

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For more info, check out my piece👇

#KDramaDay #kpop

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

#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 · 14d

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 · 15d

Come help us get funding to make new stuff!

Complexly @complexly.bsky.social · 15d

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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Complexly @complexly.bsky.social · 15d

The final guests of our first season @try-guys.bsky.social are grilling @hankgreen.bsky.social on why moths feel like that and if octopus is aliens, Wednesday!

From L to R: Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Hank Green posing for a photo on the set of Ask Hank Anything.

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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 15d

Come help us get funding to make new stuff!

Complexly @complexly.bsky.social · 15d

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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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 15d

youtu.be/4ihYiTOIBT0?...

That Time Sharks Got Weird

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 16d

Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺

When We First Met Lucy

How a three-foot-tall skeleton became the most famous fossil in the world

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 21d

Buckle up, gang. We're headed back in time. 🏺
paigemadison.substack.com/p/lets-go-se...

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 21d

Last reminder! Applications for the Sound Science Fellowship are due this Friday, September 19 at 11:49 PM ET! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #EducationalResearch #edusky #museumed #edresearch #scied

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DrTanyaMSmith.bsky.social @drtanyamsmith.bsky.social · 22d

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#talesteethtell #biologicalanthropology #teeth | Tanya M. Smith

Looking forward to sharing some #TalesTeethTell next week for the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research! All are welcome for a short and accessible introduction to #BiologicalAnthropology a...

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Leila Battison @leilabattison.bsky.social · 24d

Introducing: The Science Baby Podcast 🎙️

When I first became a mum, I found myself constantly Googling everything about babies: sleep, feeding, milestones, and the quirky little things I never expected. Because I’m a science communicator at heart, I couldn’t stop digging into the actual research…

Introducing: The Science Baby Podcast 🎙️

When I first became a mum, I found myself constantly Googling everything about babies: sleep, feeding, milestones, and the quirky little things I never expected. Because I’m a science communicator at heart, I couldn’t stop digging into the actual research behind those questions. That’s how Science Baby began. What started as a few fun TikTok videos quickly grew into a community of parents and carers who, like me, wanted evidence-based parenting science explained in a way that’s warm, funny, and relatable to real life. Why Start a Parenting Science Podcast?

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