New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp 📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

Why is there consensus around atoms existing, but not around if chocolate is good for you? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we’ll explore why there are still things we don’t know about topics we know a lot about. youtu.be/9wSAeV0xX0M

Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

It's World Wildlife Day! Check out the United Nations' Virtual Celebration and learn about conservation science www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmv...

Why Evolution Made Your Teeth Hurt youtu.be/miPIUijJHdo?...

We don't know for sure, but humans might have the dirtiest butts. with @hankgreen.bsky.social 📺️ :https://youtu.be/RuuyCOnuBDA?si=rJWVAUZq4YHgcCJZ

If you guessed braconid wasps, you're right! Braconid wasps are parasitoids, which is a type of parasitism with a slightly different outcome. The host of a parasitoid, becomes a dual-purpose incubator and food source for its offspring. youtu.be/LmQNrI4aIzo

Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! 🤢🤮

The survival of this family of insects is so intertwined with a virus that they partly share a genome. This extreme level of teamwork lets these beasts live their best parasitoid lives. Can you guess what the next bizarre beast is?

Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER @brianapobiner.bsky.social @evolutionsoup.bsky.social youtu.be/80mwdRtDIjo?...

Wrote this! Maybe answers a question we've long had: did male and female Homo sapiens partake in sex with Neanderthals? www.science.org/content/arti...

Destroy. Dismantle. Engulf in flames. Watch Jason Mantzoukas on Ask Hank Anything. youtu.be/RuuyCOnuBDA

Exhibit writing/development gig for folks around NYC: careers.amnh.org/postings/4737

Cave bear, cave lion, and cave hyena

🚨EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS 🦚 What are examples of nonhuman lineages that are, in some trait, limited? Point me to traits that are argued to be maxxed out (in any organism). Outside of human evol bio, where can I see scientists claiming that evolution is stuck!?

#FossilFriday The large ground sloth Lestodon @harvardmuseums.bsky.social

Very excited to be #Co-Leading a World Cafe on Collective Action for @bawmn.bsky.social in Denver in one month - still time to register if you're going to #AABA2026 @bioanth.org! We're got an awesome program with a workshop, off-site luncheon, and on-site Happy Hour ~ more details here: bawmn.org

Skype-a-scientist does small grants ($300-$1000) for creative #SciComm projects in your local community! You don't have to be a scientist to apply. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪 #BlueSci

Research Associate job.

If you need 150 people in palaeontology, geology, zoology, scicomm and related. And I could list more, but ran out of space!

The Dinosaur Renaissance was a pivotal event in paleontology. But there's more than a little mythology to the story, distorting a complex history involving the ways the public encountered dinosaurs as well as scientific shifts. It was a joy to dig into the history with @commondescentpod.bsky.social.

Hank Green is matching the next $5,000 in donations to our trans performance festival fundraiser - which is an Ocean’s Eleven Live Reading in LA and streaming with an all-trans cast including: @vicmmic.bsky.social & more! spend @hankgreen.bsky.social’s money! Donate here! Joywholived.com/heist

I want to spend more time writing about the amazing fossil discoveries paleontologists are unveiling each week. So I've started a newsletter! You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴

A favorite for #FossilFriday: this exquisite skull of the late Permian therocephalian Ictidosuchoides from the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of #Zambia 🇿🇲 Check out those post dentary bones! 👂🏻? @burkemuseum.bsky.social

Hey there, GOURDeous! 🍈🦣 Natural History #ValentinesDay eCards Many species in the gourd family evolved alongside megafauna like mammoths and gomphotheres. But with the megafauna extinct, the plants produce fruit for animals that no longer exist. More: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/natu...

Ask Hank Anything with Angela Giarratana! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOA...

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

Next up on Ask Hank Anything is Angela Giarratana! If you want to know what's in store for episode two, you can expect some tears, light trolling, and at least one sonnet. Angela really is asking anything of Hank in this one. Give it a watch February 11th at youtube.com/complexly!

Whale Evolution: Flamingo-Legged Watermelon Mouse Mutant Sewer Rat King Gator Wolf Steel-Jawed PollyWorg Titan MerSausage

Who’s the better dinosaur, T. rex or Triceratops? I make the case for the tyrant lizard and EONS’ Kallie Moore takes Triceratops in this episode of Smash Boom Best. 🦖

It’s #SuperbOwl Sunday!

This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds. www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

I want to start including conservation success stories at the end of every lecture in my #mammalogy class. Anyone have recommendations for success stories for any group of mammals? Especially mammals that are perhaps less charismatic and therefore harder to find examples for. #highered #scicomm

Complexly is excited to share that we are now a 501c3 nonprofit, built on the idea that good information is worth it. New structure. Same mission. Bigger impact. Find out how you can support free, independent, trustworthy education at Complexly.org

I coauthored the part on media coverage! Check out Table 2, a framework for weighing risks/rewards of different levels of media engagement by scholars: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I’m excited and proud to work for Complexly as we transition to a nonprofit!

Outer space is none of our business

A human-caused extinction we can all be stoked about! Curious about a potential Guinea worm endling? We made a whole series about lasts-of-their-kind over on @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social

I KNEW IT!! For years I've been telling my students "Never trust plants," & now @pbseons.bsky.social backs me up. Those photoautotroph baddies have been running roughshod with zero accountability since the Carboniferous. Watch, learn, & beware. 🧪🌿☠️

I spent this #FossilFriday at Wadi al Hitan in Egypt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where early whales like this Basilosaurus are hard to miss as they weather out of the Eocene Birket Qarun Formation. (Wadi al Hitan translates as "Valley of the Whales.")

Our next bizarre beast is really more of a collection of beasts that all have this one dark thing in common. Some may not surprise you, like deep sea fish, but we've seen it with butterflies and birds as well! Can you guess this beast, or it's bizarre feature?

Great opportunity at Uni Tübingen, one of the premier places for paleoanthropology research uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.

Our Executive Producer, Meghan Modafferi, recently talked to @hankgreen.bsky.social about how Crash Course is made and how science works. Along the way they discussed the world of information, pseudoscience, and why we've never done a Crash Course on math. youtu.be/DpGU8NARX-s

In the new episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we’ll learn how to interpret the statistics we see in our daily lives. And we’ll explore why we need stats to make informed judgments, be more precise about what we don’t know, and get closer to what we can know. youtu.be/Lw4oMXTEAkw

📣There is still time to submit your Late Breaking Science abstract! Submissions are due February 2. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...