What I am getting from this is that SVP is now doing PR.
I am pledging not to engage with SVP in any way until they address these issues by names. My free labour comes with T&Cs. No attendance, no abstract submission, no promotion, no reviewing for the JVP, etc.🦕⚒️
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We are looking for 6 motivated Postdocs interested in various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
#geochemistry
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
Had great grades in middle school without studying, got ass-kicked in high-school, struggled with my bachelors so it took 6 years and now i'm sweeping through my masters bc i finally can study paleontology only. I'm glad the paleo-gods decided i pass my physics classes in my undergrad somehow😂
Ah okay, thanks! I was just wondering if you were able to see any erosional traces from the stomach acid. But i could imagine that these aren't visible in a thin section
Super cool paper! Do you know by any chance how well/badly preserved the ganoid scales were? I just skipped through the paper so far
Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)
With how many specimens did you work? I would expect that there are a lot of fishes still sitting and waiting to be rediscovered (at least thats my feeling from living in Germany)
After sorting a historic fossil and rock collection, i started to digitalize and inventory a huge private collection, including lots fishes at the Natural History Museum of Bamberg!
Are fish fossils on a "microfossil" scale also wanted? Or does the focus lay more on the traditional microfossils?
This week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Niklas Bücker from Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany.
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Just as Vernadsky called it 100 years ago and Lovelock almost 50 years ago 🥳
Poster for the new exhibition "Edmond, the last days of the dinosaurs" (in German). A closeup to an Edmontosaurus, also known as a duck-billed dinosaur, looking at the sky in a dark background.
A large hall with a tyrannosaurus and a triceratops skeleton (fore and back). Two skulls of Triceratops stand next to an open display case below a large skeleton projected on a wall (6 x 3 m).
A miniature of a Tyrannosaurus walking through the forest of swamp cypresses and fig trees.
A herd of a miniature Edmontosaurus (two young ones and two large adults), roaming in a riverbank.
Like Angela Bassett, I did the thing. I am knackered but yesterday morning I heard a group of 10 children screaming with excitement and suddenly everything was worth it.
Especially for using PBDB, since you have so few, concentrated occurences (in comparison to todays ecosystems), in my opinion the patterns in the paper suffer too much from auto-correlation. But its still a nice and comprehensive start for a very important bio-factor
I read this Paper before and i really appreciate that FINALLY somebody to simulate that. I did this for brachiopods too (using Carbon as biomass), but my results differed quite a lot compared to Diversity. Also there are some Strange patterns going in with certain groups in the paper...
Have you seen people pushing this figure, which purports to show that renewable energy raises energy costs? It's BS, as I explain in my latest on The Climate Brink
#energysky 🔌💡
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Ouranosaurus. There are so many Hadrosaurs that have a fancy head but this guy just decided to put a sail on their back 😂
Did my first uni lecture this monday. I talked about skull Morphology, conservational palaeobiology, Godzilla and the biosphere. A lot to cover, but it worked out.
"Extinction of experience" in disciplines like ecology & paleobiology isn't just about fieldwork. It's also the loss of taxonomic expertise. Any focus on Big Data, divorced from knowledge of natural history, is a largely vacuous enterprise with limited capacity to generate meaningful insights. 🧪
Here it is, finally. The truth.
In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product
And i even learned something new about the original Godzilla movie! I actually don't know which version i would've prefered
Isn't it great to have professors being invested into your interests so much they get you special prints of crazy literature? Even signed by the author!
Are there any possibilities for finished MSc. students (at least if finished in 2026)? I'm currently working on a continuation of my bachelor's thesis which focused on beach sediments and their influence on taphonomy
Got some very nice books for christmas. Especially looking forward the Dinotopia book! Can't wait to find the time to write a Pen and Paper campaign in that World
#christmas#paleontology#dinotopia
Christmas mood and my first visit in the Natural History Museum in Kassel, Germany!
Downside Up - ist zwar "nur" ein Kurzfilm, ist aber auf YouTube und bringt mich immer wieder zum Schmunzeln
The first batch of After- #PalAss24 spam. My first conference and it was a huge success for me. Met a ton of new and cool people, and even the great Mike Benton, who signed my Copy of Dinosaur Behaviour and Vertebrate Paleontology. Stickers, Card sleeves and shirt by @velozee.bsky.social
Second day of #PalAss24 is over. Listened to some very nice talks and looking towards the dedicated poster session tomorrow! Come by and talk about dead fish and their taphonomy!
