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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1d

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

That's right, folk! THREE TENURE TRACK JOBS IN BIOLOGY AT UMASS BOSTON! You might even be a good fit for more than one! Check 'em out! We'd love to have you!

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

These scammers need to get their shit together.

Screenshot of a text message from an unknown number. It reads:

Important Product Safety Recall – Action Required

We are writing to you regarding a recent purchase you made on Amazon. The manufacturer of The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has approved your entitlement for the 2025–2026 Winter Fuel Payment.
A one-time payment of £200–£300 will be issued to help cover heating and electricity expenses.
Please ensure your application is finalized by 7 October 2025. Applications after this date will not be accepted.
Apply here:https://gov.uk-dwpckt.qpon/uk

DWP Reminder: Your application remains incomplete. Failure to apply by the deadline will cancel your entitlement for the 2025–2026 period.

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Beth Verity - Artist & Illustrator @bethverityart.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going to have an exciting art shake-up this month. 🫨

I still have a few of originals on ebay, including this beautiful framed thylacine skeleton: tinyurl.com/4aeptvk4

We also have lots of bits and bobs on ebay. Including fossils, thylacine collectibles etc.

An oak-gall ink thylacine skeleton which was drawn into a Cambridge museum gift-bag. The thylacine skeleton fades in and out of the gift-bag typeface.

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 5d

Ask not for whom the Vengabus is coming

It is coming for thee

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no ALD Live in London this year, but you can still organise your own! Over the years we’ve had all sorts of events, from cream teas to Wikipedia edit-a-thons to maker days, so it’s time to get imaginative. Let us know: findingada.com/world... #ALD25 Tues 14 Oct

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 5d

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture)

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 8d

Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely!

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 10d

I’m writing an essay on death & resurrection (of species, for obvious reasons), I want to include myths of resurrected dead people/animals; this easy for the Western Canon, elsewhere’s is more challenging. Anyone know of non-western examples where the dead are resurrected? 💀🪦🧪 🐋🍃 1/n

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 11d

[patreon news] The 6-month quarterly physical reward system will be discontinued (due to New US customs policy.)

Whole post link : www.patreon.com/posts/139860...

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 12d

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Paleo Nerds Podcast @paleonerdspod.bsky.social · 11d

Something is FISHY 🐟 around here...and it's our latest episode with Dr. Kerin Claeson!

Learn how Disney World inspired her to become a paleontologist, what causes salmon to change so drastically during spawning, and so much MORE.

🔊 Listen to Episode #90 now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/keri...

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 20d

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology:
apply.interfolio.com/172502
apply.interfolio.com/172517

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22d

Don't make me tap the sign

Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information

If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares

But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔

Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 22d

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying "I don't know" to even 30% of queries
- a conservative estimate based on the paper's analysis of factual uncertainty in training data. Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly.

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Well that was excellent. Highly recommend.

Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Coelacanths on the telly alert: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

David Attenborough discusses the coelacanth, a living fossil hidden for 400 million years.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 17d

Coelacanths on the telly alert: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

David Attenborough discusses the coelacanth, a living fossil hidden for 400 million years.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 17d

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge

The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph

academic.oup.com

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 20d

SearsHenge. This morning in Chicago as we approaching the Autumnal Equinox and Chicagohenge time.

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 22d

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .

ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .

media.tenor.com

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 22d

For when the tram driving world championships in Vienna are too mainstream for your competitive viewing.

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 23d

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 22d

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP

vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

2025 Registration Information – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

vertpaleo.org

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 23d

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Graeme T. Lloyd @graemetlloyd.bsky.social · 23d

I attended the first @dinoconuk.bsky.social around a month ago and this was literally the first question at the end of every talk.

(Deinocheirus mirificus, evolution’s ultimate gun show was a vegetarian.)

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

A large orange-red shaggy mammoth with big white rusks, walking through the snow. There are trees and a rhino in the background.

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 23d

#MolluscMonday I wonder how many of those disembarking from their superyachts at the quayside in St Tropez will notice the rudist bivalves in the limestone blocks they are stepping onto?

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