Well, What's left, it's just aquatic 🐊, it's of course pretty poor. Gone all fully marine, as well as hooded, horned 🐊, super armoured herbivore crocodiles etc
And of course In Triassic 🐊 exprimented with bipedal walk and it was touch and go, if they or dinosaurs will be more disparate (diverse)
Its important to remmber, that not only modern Lepidosauria (snakes, lizards) have petty complex cognition and are super succesfull evolutionary, series is going on about "failure" of bloody pseudosuchians - so crocodiles and friends, which were as successful as dinosaurs, at the very least
I took another swipe at colonial language in palaeo, while our other paleocolonialism thingy is wating to see the world @emmadnn.bsky.social , @p-stewens.bsky.social
Encantado nuevamente escribir para @es.theconversation.com sobre tema impòrtante de colonialismo en #palaeontologia!
English on our article in @es.theconversation.com : we watched Netflix´s "The Dinosaurs" with @fjaviermillan.bsky.social - professional cinematographer, and wrote how the series has a lot of good #paleontology in it, but perpetuates strange colonial narratives. #Fossils 🦖⚒️
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I am now working a lot on the palaeocolonialism, mostly in the context of fossils from my native Ukraine, fossils from UA were carted away for centuries- so "The Dinosaurs" in a way stroke a nerve with me
Thanks! I am glad you liked it!
Hi, so coming back to this conversation - our piece was published. I don't know if you speak Spanish, but I checked and google translate of the page does and adequate job
theconversation.com/los-dinosaur...
En @theconversation.com articulo @fjaviermillan.bsky.social y yo hablamos, sobre documentales que son existosos (en su mayoría) en rigor científico,tambien se sigue comunicando mal al público con la narrativa, ejemplificado por Netflix "Los dinosaurios" 🦖 @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Preveligiado de realizar 6 excursiones en @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social "La Historia de la vida en Sevilla" para estudiantes , una excelente manera de celebrar "Geología" - día de la educación geológica en España. EN today 6 palaeo excutsions to students, to celebrate Geoeducation #Fossilfriday 🦖
And there is a joint meeting of Italian, Swiss, Austrian and German Palaeo Societies (meeting language is thus Eng) in Bolzano in Julz (South Tirol is awesome) and it has Gallotia on the logo, so I am sold www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/tagungen/jah...
SEP (Iberian Palaeo Society) this year is in Cuidad Real, it is always having 50-70% of talks in English and is very dinosaur centric, very welcoming, and have good field excursions sepaleontologia.es/jornadas-pre...
I have to say- like that they mentions of end Triassic extinction, or Triassic resiniferous interval, or just showing a rhynchosaurus; but I wonder if with narrative of "weakling reptiles vs manifest destiny dinos" any of the positive context even got to the most of the public
But Ialso have to say, that while most of this narrative of dominance is concerning, some of it just ended up being (un?)intentionaly hilarious, like "rock falls-everyone dies" scene with Liliensternus and Smok wavelski - that was the most rapid breakup of Pangea ever filmed 😀
I will link it and tag you, I am writing it now, with a cinema critic as a co-author. Indeed. I would rather just talk about positive things in palaedocumentaries, which even "The dinosaurs" have a lot. But negatives here are to hefty to overlook
I actually was compelled to write a "The Conversation (Spain) piece, because how jarred I was by solid scientific basis of many of the animals contrasting notions of the "manifest destiny" and "conquest" in the narrative, and how damaging they are for the public perception of evolution
For the #fossilfriday today is a wiered and wonderfull Holocene menagerie of extinct #Canaries fauna MUNA museum at Santa Cruz de Tenerife- from giant Gallotia lizards, to tortoises to Canariomys giant murids,🦖⚒️
Yesterday I was priveleged to see critically endangered 🦗wingless Acrostira bellamyi at her mountain home at La Gomera, #Canaries Muy priveligiado a encontrar un saltamonte en peligro grave de Extencion - Sigarro de Palo Gomerana a #laGomera ayer
#Fossilfriday Hablaba Con Marcos Ruiz y Javier Milán en "Agora" de @aragonradio.bsky.social sobre palaeoecologia en "Los Dinosaurios" @ebdonana.bsky.social @pakozoic.bsky.social
www.cartv.es/aragonradio/... (EN went and gave radio interview on palaeoecology of Netflix´s "The dinosaurs") 🦖⚒️
This #fossilfriday I go to podcast "Cine y ciencia" (Cinema and Science) @aragonradio.bsky.social , talking non-dinosaur paleontologist view Netflix's "The dinosaurs". for me - a mixed bag, especially narrative and narration, but I am going there remembering that critique is easy, doing is hard 🦖
So I will not go for a context "whose sexism is/was worse" - they are a bit different, all bad
Do not underestimate sexism in former USSR/ soviet-post soviet academia. Geosciences there were and still are quite macho, but one of the few good things that USSR ever achieved is bringing many more women in STEM. Even if because it was imperative for their military industries.
of course it makes achivments of researchers like Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska even more impressive, but makes you think what it took of her to be successful in what she did, given the context
I have recently been writing a paper on the palaeocolonilism in former Warszawa pact countries, and I noticed (although it was not a goal of the study) that women mostly worked on things like micropalaeo, and "less charismatic" vertebrates like rodents.
Speaking of Irene Crespin, I think its not a coincidence that Memoirs of Museum Victoria, where she worked has a highest proportion of female authors at 54.5%...
Again, interesting difference by sub-disciplines - Irene Crespin kicked out micro-palaeo and "Journal of Micropalaeontology" is much closer to 50/50 (women 44.44%), but in prestigious Vert palaeo journals it looks much much worse
Gave some love to my 6 years old trail 🚴, changed parts of drive train and derailleur. By now I have put enough new parts on this bicycle to rival its retail price in 2020, but I like to keep things running, rather than throwing them away D (note sublimely color-matched pink bell)
Lovely day in the field, in the province of #Sevilla today, checking for macroinverts in the granite ponds, but also photographing #herps. We have found a Hemidactylus turcicus and veeeeery long Himantarium sp centiped 🦎🐛@stephenbheard.bsky.social
For this #fossilfriday, really cool palaeoart (and elephant shrew) from 1st half of XXxt, by Spanish and Argentinian palaeoartist and zoologist Angel Cabrera Latorre. As exhibited at @mncn-csic.bsky.social 🦖⚒️
Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Please support biodiversity science by citing taxonomic literature & acknowledging museum collections. Here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, our Invertebrate Paleontology collection houses millions of specimens, including ~10k type & figured specimens 🧪