In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

If you are also dealing with a sense of betrayal, I think this is a good listen. Scientific societies (plural) have failed us because they are, in the end, still behaving like boys' clubs. Also TW about the incident in SVP24 Minneapolis. pca.st/episode/d8b6...

Not often I am united with United fans.

I've finished the Salamanders!! I currently have the "finalised" versions as well as some (cheaper) Prototypes for sale! Check them out on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We are especially keen to find a new editor for our amazing monographs - more info on this role coming soon, in the meantime you can always contact [email protected] to find out more!

🌍🔬 Calling all aspiring palaeontologists! Here are 3 open PhD opportunities from across the palaeo world 🦖📚 Explore the projects, find deadlines, and start your research journey! 👉 More info on our official website: palass.org/phd-opportun... #PhD #opportunity #ApplyNow

Whoa. @dinoconuk.bsky.social made The Daily Show: youtu.be/4Y9NnzkxamQ?...

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Bees 🐝

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

I am looking for examples of a 2-3 hour lab activity for a course that would allow college students to get some experience connected to environmental DNA studies (e.g., e-DNA, rRNA/ITS PCR, metagenomics, etc). Ideally this would have some DNA extraction and some follow up processing / analysis.

It is really is this simple. (Stares at multiple scientific societies.)

#MolluscMonday 99% of visitors to the Egyptian and Greek galleries in the British Museum will be too focused on the items displayed in the cabinets to notice the Jurassic gastropods and Cretaceous rudist bivalves in the flooring beneath.

This is truly baffling. A seed does not become an angiosperm fruit only because there are some vague lines on it. It is the equivalent of having a full diapsid skull and saying you found Permian dinosaurs...

I’m thinking a lot about how to create social cohesion in societies that feel ever more divided. I concluded that a shared love for cheesecake might be our best bet…

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

RVC will be advertising 2 new faculty posts soon, broadly in comparative biomedical science (our department name). Email me [email protected] to get informed (I am not on the search panel; just helping). www.rvc.ac.uk/about/the-rv...

Showing cool women in palaeoart 子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books

This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘It’s My Hand’: Muppets Puppeteer On How He Brings Kermit To Life

Are you an undergraduate student interested in field biology? Then consider the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at Mountain Lake Biological Station! Fully funded! Applications due Feb. 27, 2026. Check mlbs.virginia.edu/reuprogram for more info 🧪🐟🌿🐍

Really SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?

Is @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social being serious here? No, the presence of a name on an email doesn't establish wrongdoing. But the *content* of those emails is what so many members, including myself, are outraged about. This response does nothing but further degrade my confidence in SVP leadership

I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

I was delighted to be able to go to the unveiling of the Ada Lovelace statue in Hinckley on Saturday, thanks to the generosity of my GoFundMe supporters! The project has been a labour of love for Stanley Rooney, whose dogged determination to raise the money for the casting and...

Jack Horner also apparently went fossil hunting in North Dakota with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Robert F Kennedy Jr some time before the ranch visits.

Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social! #paleobotany #botany go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

Hey, hey, we’re the catarrhines and people say we brachiate amongst a range of locomotory modes.

A Golden-crowned Kinglet bopping around an Eastern Red Cedar. These little cuties seem to love the dense foliage of these trees in the winter.

I didn't want to convert them all into black and white, so here's some colour photos of the Museo de las Cièncias in #Valencia - the details were superb (if you like abstract architecture stuff).

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

a REALLY cool paper was just posted that describes a new lagertätte from La Rioja Provence, Argentina: A extremophile microorganism site with 3d arthropod bits and plants in a Geothermal field. This site also produces large vertebrate material and sauropod nests. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Lund University is hiring a senior lecturer in Biodiversity to lead research, teaching, and outreach. Application deadline: February 11. More info: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1 #job

Florida International University seeks evolutionary biologists for a tenure-track position in Big Data/AI/Bioinformatics. Details at: https://biology.fiu.edu. Applications accepted until filled. #job

Postdoctoral Fellow position in Dr. Finlay Maguire's lab at Dalhousie University focuses on studying coronaviruses in wildlife. Ideal candidates have experience in bioinformatics and programming (Python/R). Apply to [email protected]. More info: https://wildepi.ca #postdoc

Postdoc position at Stockholm University focused on phylogenomics and fire adaptations in M… https://www.su.se/english/divisions/department-of-ecology-environment-and-plant-sciences/news/articles/2025-12-18-2-year-postdoc-in-phylogenomics-and-evolution-of-fire-adaptations-in-malagasy--erica #postdoc

An excellent talk by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social . What a remarkable story. This was recorded. If you can, give it a watch. #dinosaurs #palaeontology www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...

still one of the best explanations of principal component analysis (pca), explained at different levels from layman to the more math inclined stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132...

📢 Hello! Slightly unusual request from me, buttt we're likely to need a freelance writer to produce some content in Feb & Mar for the NHM's 'Find Your Climate Action' tool. If you've experience writing about the climate and inspiring action, please send me a message! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...

This was a very interesting read: An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

Bulls now joint holders of the NBA record for most wins a four-game span. #SeeRed

Bulls now joint holders of the NBA record for most wins in a two-game span. #SeeRed

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