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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 1d

It's Kürbiszeit (pumpkin time) here in Bavaria! Bumper crops this year from the local farms, so every type of pumpkin dish is on the menu 🎃

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 1d

Come for the important topic and expert commentary, stay for the wonderfully comical placement of ring lights 😂

Still photo from the documentary photo where a man stands in front of a dinosaur skull

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ReBecca @dinochick.bsky.social · 1d

Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market

www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/bones-...

Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market

For decades, Gobi Desert in Mongolia has been a hotbed for dinosaur fossil smuggling. Now, people are pushing back, determined to reclaim their stolen heritage and exposing the trade’s darker players.

www.channelnewsasia.com

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Prof. Juan Cisneros ⚒️🐉 @cisneros.bsky.social · 7d

Nota sobre a restituição do Homem de Java para Indonésia, com comentários meus e de @emmadnn.bsky.social
Não basta devolver os fósseis. A Holanda deveria cooperar com a Indonésia para proveer instalações adequadas para cuidar deste patrimônio como reparação colonial.
www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands

The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era

www.science.org

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 10d

How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678777v1

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 12d

"The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities."

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 15d

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17d

Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci

Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Aug 2

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 20d

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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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 20d

It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.

Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully

Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.

www.nature.com

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 23d

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...

www.nature.com

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 22d

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

www.ohchr.org

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year.

Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Picture of a smiling Ichthyostega called Kevin. He is a chonk.

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Paul Stewens @p-stewens.bsky.social · Aug 20

Many people have sent me the CNN piece on trade in 🇲🇦 fossils. It does many things well; picking interviewees is not one of them. No legal experts, only palaeontologists repeating legal factoids. Please read my comment.

🌐CNN: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...
✒️Blog: paul-stewens.com/blog/2025/mo...

Paul P. Stewens | The 1970 UNESCO Convention applies to individual fossils

There is no legal grey area, and they don't have to belong to a collection.

paul-stewens.com

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing

Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help!

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Highly recommend a swim in (or at least a beer by) the Maschsee if you get some sunshine! ☀️😎

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Paul Stewens @p-stewens.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wholeheartedly agree with Emma. The piece is a really mixed bag: very comprehensive, topical, and timely, but with a selection of experts that I find partially questionable. Call me crazy, but I do think that a piece about the legality of the fossil trade should include legal experts. [cont'd]

Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦

But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1]

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN

It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

edition.cnn.com

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · Aug 16

⚒️🧪Attention here 👇🏼!!!

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦

But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1]

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN

It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

edition.cnn.com

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Aug 16

It's not hard to do a little bit of digging online. Least we forget gems such as this (happy to provide a PDF copy to anyone interested): [3]

researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Why palaeontologists must break the law: a polemic from an apologist

researchportal.port.ac.uk

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Journalists wanting to do better than this - drop into my DMs, I can recommend an endless list of more appropriate commentators 📝 [2]

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦

But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1]

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN

It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

edition.cnn.com

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections.

Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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