Something pretty, pink and orange for your timeline (Euonymus europaeus).

Mauerblümchen im Herbst

If you see job openings in the science communication direction and the like please send it my way! That would be greatly appreciated.

So that's it. I am officially on the job hunt again with some new skills in my bag including the world of standards and norms, ecolabels, compliance/issue management, target group specific communication, project management, data management, teaching new colleages to name a few.

so I suspect that that is an effect of sexual dimorphism and perhaps body size/allometry. C. gilmorei is a gracile Pliocene 'dwarf' form (black mandible = male, above female specimen). T. mexicanus specimen shown also female - here's a male mandible for comparison:

Mauerblümchen im Herbst

Something pretty, pink and orange for your timeline (Euonymus europaeus).

Service post: If you call yourself self-critical and self-reflected and after every discussion/argument you come to the conclusion that you've been right and everybody else is wrong, then I am afraid to tell you: you are quite frankly the opposite of self-critical and self-reflected.

Did you know that guinea pigs sleep mostly with their eyes wide open?!

Did you know that guinea pigs sleep mostly with their eyes wide open?!

In the waning hours of world hagfish day, please join me in appreciating not only their prodigious production of gooey, sticky, suffocating slime, but also the fact that they’ve been sliming things up for at least 100 million years 🧪

This week @richardjbutler.bsky.social and I are in Morocco for a conference @USMBA on Morocco's geoheritage. It's always such a pleasure to be here. We were gifted these beautiful hand made Adratiklit rugs 😍😍

the results of this investigation surprised me. since CR last tested protein supplements in 2010, protein mania has swept the nation. protein isolates (the key ingredient in supplements) are in everything these days, from pasta to starbucks cold foam but as the industry has grown, so have the risks

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!! 🧪🐡

Der ist halt Archäologe, was wollt ihr dagegen tun? Quelle: Spektrum der Wissenschaft search.app/UdhCr

Das glaube ich sofort. Letztes Jahr gab's Meldungen darüber, dass Leute in Flipflops und Sneakers Wandern gegangen sind und anschließend von der Bergwacht gerettet werden mussten.

What colugo? I see no colugo.

Verstehe die Aufregung um irgendwelche Wurst/Schnitzel Namen echt nicht ey! Die Alltagssprache/der Volksmund liegt halt oft falsch!? Für Präzision und Eindeutigkeit haben wir die, mittlerweile oft verpönte, Wissenschaft. Weil weder ist die Bauchrippe ne Rippe, noch das Wasserschwein ein Schwein.

Na das wäre doch mal was!

Bin davon überzeugt, dass man sich vor erwachsenen Menschen, die für keinen "kindischen Quatsch", "das ist doch albern", "ist dir das denn nicht peinlich?" und "das ist doch Unsinn, damit kann man später doch nichts anfangen!" (aka nicht viel Geld verdienen) nicht zu haben sind in Acht nehmen muss

Ich bin übrigens ganz fasziniert, dass ausgerechnet die sich immer als Hüter der deutschen Sprache inszenieren, die mehr oder weniger heimlich die Parteien unterstützen, die selbst ähäm, nennen wir es mal Führunspersonal, aussuchen, nur Wortsalat reden.

Das Konzept von Sprache ändert sich eben mit den Menschen, die sie benutzen. Es setzt vorraus, das wenn alle so ein länglich gepresste Tofu/Bohnen whatevs Würstchen nennen und das auch (fast) alle, bis auf ein paar Idioten die es eh nicht essen, verstehen, dann wird es auch bald im Duden stehen.

Verstehe die Aufregung um irgendwelche Wurst/Schnitzel Namen echt nicht ey! Die Alltagssprache/der Volksmund liegt halt oft falsch!? Für Präzision und Eindeutigkeit haben wir die, mittlerweile oft verpönte, Wissenschaft. Weil weder ist die Bauchrippe ne Rippe, noch das Wasserschwein ein Schwein.

1. Ok, so I am trying to find out something. So, I tend to interrupt people talking when e.g., I know what they want to ask me and answer them already. For me, this is enthusiasm and anticipation and being super into it. When someone else does it to me, I assume the same from their side.

Das glaube ich sofort. Letztes Jahr gab's Meldungen darüber, dass Leute in Flipflops und Sneakers Wandern gegangen sind und anschließend von der Bergwacht gerettet werden mussten.

Männer die nur am Wochenende zum Bäcker Backwaren kaufen gehen. Weiß man da schon genaueres?

Injuries are actually fairly common to find in fossil specimens, even in the seaway that used to cover Kansas! This #FossilFriday pic is the end of the tail of a Clidastes mosasaur. The gnarly mass in the middle is around 6 vertebrae that fused together due to trauma, likely an infected bite.🧪

Service post: If you call yourself self-critical and self-reflected and after every discussion/argument you come to the conclusion that you've been right and everybody else is wrong, then I am afraid to tell you: you are quite frankly the opposite of self-critical and self-reflected.

Der ist halt Archäologe, was wollt ihr dagegen tun? Quelle: Spektrum der Wissenschaft search.app/UdhCr

'4 Elemente - 4 Fotos' #FotoVorschlag in der Darß-Edition 😄 Wasser, Sand, Luft, (Leucht)feuer

😍 Am 23.09.25 verwandelte sich Bliesenrade auf Fischland-Darß-Zingst in ein Schauspiel aus bunten Himmelsfarben – während die Kraniche im Morgenflug den Tag begrüßten. 🌅 📸 Klaus Haase #Sonnenaufgang #FischlandDarßZingst

Männer die nur am Wochenende zum Bäcker Backwaren kaufen gehen. Weiß man da schon genaueres?

Stop normalizing unpaid work in academia!

1. Ok, so I am trying to find out something. So, I tend to interrupt people talking when e.g., I know what they want to ask me and answer them already. For me, this is enthusiasm and anticipation and being super into it. When someone else does it to me, I assume the same from their side.

I am SO jealous

That ... makes sense to me. It's a matter of adulting and how adulting is designed. I know many people who, once in retirement, suddenly throw tons of books at me and want to book club with me and I am like...when am I supposed to be reading all of this?!

What colugo? I see no colugo.

It's the first ##FossilFriday for Croctober! Here is the prototype reconstruction of Deinosuchus schwimmeri, from the late Cretaceous of Georgia and other places around the south. I finally got a Pic with me in it for scale so you can see just how huge this dead gator was.🐊🧪

Platypuses hunt underwater (their bills detect the electricity given off by their preys' muscles), and cram the food into cheek-pouches, then come to the surface to chew it up. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses

I'm so out of the Paleo loop. What's the newest gossip?

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Bei allen schlechten Nachrichten, immer daran denken, dass in einem tief autokratischen Land, in dem die Menschen alle möglichen Formen von Gewalt erleiden, weil sie für ihre Rechte einstehen, seit 11 Monaten niemand daran denkt, von der Idee einer freien, demokratischen Zukunft abzurücken. #Serbien

In late August Renesto et al. published a paper where they described a specimen of Lariosaurus valceresii that preserves the skin, even outlining the body and limbs as well scales. I must say that I am happy that it is very very close to what I had hypothesized 😍 #paleoart #sciart #reptiles

And how did you start your morning?

now that a flower

I would like to inform you that I have been recently been on holidays and it was good. Thanks for your attention.

When did September happen?! Why?! I thought I'd still have so much time this year...whatttt?