Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns
We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday
(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)
I'd love to co-develop project ideas on research involving paleoclimate, water isotopes, urban heat islands, coastal resilience, and/or work at the energy/climate nexus.
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
Looking for a meaningful and impactful climate fellowship? Check out Project Drawdown.
If you don’t have the science chops to apply, follow #Drawdown to see and support the wonderful work they are accomplishing to reverse the effects of climate change.
A marine snow particle recorded with an underwater camera. The scale bar shows 2 mm.
Another marine snow particle recorded with an underwater camera. The scale bar shows 2 mm.
🌊🧪 Marine snow particles sinking from the surface ocean are critical for deep sea food webs and the oceanic carbon cycle.
How fast they sink determines how much carbon reaches the deep ocean, but measuring their speed directly in the field is a challenge in oceanography.
The color changing is amazing but what always gets me is they make their body’s texture look like rocks and coral. Fascinating.
IG: ibrahim.elhariry
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions:
🔬 Postdoc
🧪 Research associate
We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms.
Come join us!
Details and application links 👇
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Fleeming Jenkin, mainly known for pointing out to Darwin that his model of heredity was incompatible with his theory of evolution, also played a role in the history of marine biology. From a review of Jeffrey Marlow’s THE DARK FRONTIER in this month’s Literary Review.
One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.
"All Yesterdays: Protoceratops" The small ceratopsian Protoceratops, reconstructed as a tree climber, despite having no obvious adaptions for it (like goats) by John Conway
Just heard on the latest episode of the Tetrapod Zoology podcast that John Conway is effectively “retiring” from paleoart for the foreseeable future to pursue other passions. I’m happy for him & hope he finds success, and also profoundly saddened by this news.
#paleoart
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.
Deadline Mar 18!
A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022
Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️
Our Lab is searching a postdoc for an exciting ERC-funded project that will start this summer. Apply if you’re passionate about multi-omics, cutting-edge computational approaches, and exploring biological questions across the animal 🪼 🪱 🐞 🦎 🦋 🕷️ tree of life www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...”
This quote from Darwin's Descent of Man, published #OnThisDay in 1871, pretty much sums up the challenges the world is facing now, a century & a half later.
Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting an Associate Professor (Tutorial Fellow) in Earth Surface Processes (broadly interpreted, including carbon cycle, ancient and modern carbonates, biogeochemistry, geohazards, etc). Please share! Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Ah, shame to miss you, but happy anniversary!!
🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future.
Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.
Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
One more day to register for the IBiS (Isotopes in Biogenic Silica) meeting we're hosting in Bristol, UK at the end of March!
All biogenic silica isotopes welcome - Si, O, N, B... whatever floats your frustule/spicule/phytolith/test.
Info at ibis2026.org.
#isotope #geochemistry #biogeochemistry
To my #protistsonsky and 🦑friends, I am co-organizing this meeting: "Midwater Science and Engineering Community" (MidSEC) Conference. If you work with or are interested in midwater protists (radiolaria, foram, deep water coccolithophores, etc) (or animals) it may be of interest to you!
midsec.info
My green Lino block in progress shows a partially carved portrait of a woman with curly short hair in a 1940s hairdo, shirt with collar and gloves, holding a Petri dish vertically in each hand in front of her. There’s a small carving gauge on my block.
Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: two. I have a theme of replication and the place printmaking and science intersect for this one. 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡#histsci This microbiologist put her experience working in her father’s print shop in her youth to work, when she (and her more famous 🧵
Bristol Together United Against Racism
Bristol!! Join Americans for Action this Saturday 14 February and show us some love! Love Not Hate this Valentine's Day, with Stand Up To Racism on College Green 12-4pm. #lovealwayswins 💙💜❤️💚🫶🥰
Hello
Does anyone have access to the description of the bivalve Alaona ( Tellinidae) M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015?
Thank you 🙏
Apply for PhD Fellowships at the Centre for Planetary Habitability in Oslo! There are projects for geologists, paleontologists, paleobiologists, astrobiologists, stats-y folks, geoscientists and planetary folks! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
No I cannot be on your important panel, sorry.
No I cannot review your exciting grant, sorry.
No I cannot review your groundbreaking paper, sorry.
No I cannot help you with your awesome outreach project, sorry.
Because all of this^ is invisible on my uni workload model and therefore worthless.
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