Here is a pair of Palaeochiropteryx specimens from the Germany's Messel Pit for #FossilFriday. Due to the exceptional circumstances of their fossilization, soft tissues were preserved, allowing the outlines of their wings and ears to remain clearly visible.

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

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Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories. They’ve saved millions of lives around the world. We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

#FossilFriday The stump-legged rhino Teleoceras at the old exhibits of the National Museum of Natural History

Americans saw extinction as an inevitable consequence of progress, connected to native peoples' removal. "The passenger pigeon - the very image of exultant wildness - will soon be a rarity," having "departed w/ the disappearance of savagery in the land. " - Harper's Weekly, 1889

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The final guests of our first season @try-guys.bsky.social are grilling @hankgreen.bsky.social on why moths feel like that and if octopus is aliens, Wednesday!

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Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺

Buckle up, gang. We're headed back in time. 🏺 paigemadison.substack.com/p/lets-go-se...

Last reminder! Applications for the Sound Science Fellowship are due this Friday, September 19 at 11:49 PM ET! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #EducationalResearch #edusky #museumed #edresearch #scied

Introducing: The Science Baby Podcast 🎙️ When I first became a mum, I found myself constantly Googling everything about babies: sleep, feeding, milestones, and the quirky little things I never expected. Because I’m a science communicator at heart, I couldn’t stop digging into the actual research…

If you know anyone who might benefit, this is an app where folks can prepare emergency plans, send them immediately to emergency contacts, and send details to pro bono immigration lawyers in the event they are detained by ICE.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

Lucy is currently on display for the first time in Europe. 🏺

OTD in 1936, the last known thylacine—a wolf-like marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger—died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species & underscores the need to protect our planet’s wildlife. Photo: Tasmanian Archives, PD, Wikimedia Commons

For #NationalHummingbirdDay, 47-million-year-old Parargornis from Germany was a proto-hummingbird with short wing feathers like a modern hummingbird but a short, broad skull like their cousins, the swifts. Perhaps hummingbird ancestors started hovering before they drank nectar. 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)

Hey you. A while ago I was given this awesome, old gorgonopsian model. It has no logo, brand, name, etc. on it. I'm intensely curious about it! Does anyone know anything about this model? I'd love to know the artist who created this and to know the year it was produced! Help??

I think what RFK Jr. meant to say was “the CDC director refused to put kids' health at risk when I told her to, so I fired her."

Just six million years after most dinosaur groups went extinct, theropods went and evolved into six-foot-tall penguins. Cast of Kumimanu fordycei humerus alongside a (juvenile) emeperor penguin wing. #FossilFriday

#FossilFriday Homo ergaster (labeled as "erectus") and Homo neanderthalensis at the National Museum of Natural History

Ohio State is hiring a bioanth assistant professor bioanth.org/jobs/assista.... Come join us!

Australia has a sizable share of the World’s Deadliest Snakes. This month, we're talking about a few of them with venom deadly enough to keep you from discovering their true nature: downright cuddly little critters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fet...

On September 1, 1914, the passenger pigeon, once one of the most abundant bird species on earth, went extinct as the last known example, named Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. #Birds 🪶 #Birdsky

The Virginia Museum of Natural History is hiring a full-time Exhibit Projects Manager. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...

Four beautiful Green River Formation fossils newly on display this week: the caiman Tsoabichi, a mega-mousebird, a bean tree endemic to Hispaniola today, and long guy Palaeosinopa #FossilFriday

Apply! I postdoc'd at Stony Brook U--great folks there. "The Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar, named in honor of Dr. Meave Leakey’s extraordinary contributions to the understanding of human and primate evolution in the Turkana Basin, will join the SHaPE Lab in the Department of Anthropology."

Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪 careers.amnh.org/postings/4550

We're hiring! Are you an enthusiastic and talented social media creator who loves museums? Join our team as Digital Content Producer (Video) and lead on TikTok and reels at The MERL and Reading Museum! Applications are open until 8 September. Apply now: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Science @science.org is recruiting an editor with postdoctoral expertise in infectious diseases or microbiomes. Come and work with us in the UK or USA! bit.ly/3UHOiMf 🧪

the first crash course linguistics video now has a million views, @superlinguo.bsky.social @jessgrieser.com aren't you glad we worked on this in 2020 anyway if you want some fun 10 min linguistics videos to watch you can still do that!

#FossilFriday Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History 🧪⚒️🦖 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/t...

Are you a faculty member or museum educator with a passion for tackling misconceptions and improving science education? We are now accepting applications for our 2026 Sound Science Fellows cohort! Full details and application - ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #Fellowships #EduSky #Academia

Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science! This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job opportunities in #HumanOrigins in Tubingen, Germany 🇩🇪 👇 🧪 #science #HumanEvolution #PaleoAnth #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology

Any chance someone can give us a confident ID on these two Phrynosoma models? @somuchpingle.bsky.social @afroherper.bsky.social @ethankocak.com @emilytaylorscience.com

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research. propub.li/41JYl7o

🎉 New #Scicomm opportunity! 🎉 📅 Places now open for 4-week online course on science communication through poetry with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. 🎁 Full bursaries available. 🔗 Register here: napier.ac.uk/study-with-u... #SciArt #CPD #PoetryInScience 🧪 #HigherEd #Poetry

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

The angle of this shot makes Hesperornis’s feet look super long Hesperornis regalis, ~80 million years old, from Kansas @ummnh.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

#FossilFriday The titanothere Megacerops at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Behind the scenes of our super sneaky new thing that just dropped! youtu.be/sb9jO93JNRQ?...

The Kickstarter is now closed. Thank you so much to everyone who supported Endlings. Here's your official Endlings line-up premiering later this fall. We're so looking forward to sharing these stories with all of you!