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International Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’re bringing conservation paleobiology to Instagram with a new INCP science communication competition. This is your moment to share your conservation paleobiology work through visual storytelling— and be featured as part of our network re-launch.

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International Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The International Network for Conservation Paleobiology (INCP) is offering funding for students and early career researchers in the network to participate in events related to conservation, management, and restoration. 🧪

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My interview with BBC Shropshire Radio was this morning - if you want to hear about walking the River Severn and sturgeon you can listen to it here! (34:15-41:58): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Clare Ashford - 08/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

Clare's here to brighten up your mid-morning with music, conversation and updates.

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The adventure begins! About to catch a train and bus from London to Llanidloes, where I will take off from first thing tomorrow morning for the source of the Severn!

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A great write up by @aukwardlucia.bsky.social about her studies on Pelicans in Britain.

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Inkcap @inkcapjournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pelicans: a magnificent freshwater bird, once native to England, now lost. Today's feature examines when and, crucially, why these birds went extinct – and what it would take to bring them back to our wetlands. By @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. www.inkcap.co.uk/the-bones-of...

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The bones of pelicans past

Part 1: England once had pelicans. When they vanished—and why—is a mystery that Lucia Snyderman is trying to solve.

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International Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Calling all artists! The International Network for Conservation Paleobiology (INCP) is excited to announce its first-ever art competition. Winning designs will be turned into conservation paleobiology-inspired stickers and other swag to help promote the network.

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Awesome to see @aukwardlucia.bsky.social’s great piece on sturgeon conservation in the latest @thepalass.bsky.social newsletter 🐟🐟

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International Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Do you know we have a newsletter? If you join our network as a member you’ll receive our bimonthly newsletter and see research highlights, palaeo-proxies, practitioner perspectives and more! You can also submit a postcard from the field, introducing yourself and your work (a short blurb and photo).

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International Network for Conservation Paleobiology @cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What is conservation paleobiology? 🦖🧪 CPB is an applied science which uses historical and paleontological data to inform conservation practice for species and ecosystems.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Come to my talk on pelicans, palaeo, and ecological insights for reintroduction tomorrow at #BES2025 in Edinburgh in Lammermuir 2 at 12pm! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦴🧪

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>

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Sushma Reddy @sushred.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025

Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡 @aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🚨Caribbean mammal PhD opportunity🚨 🧪🌿Reconstructing the trophic ecology of Caribbean mammals: new baselines to understand island evolution, extinction & conservation🐀🌴 @uor-research.bsky.social, @zslofficial.bsky.social, @nhm.org, and with me at Durrell! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

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CR2026_39 – Crocus DLA

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Looking forward to sharing my work on extinct pelicans in England tomorrow and discussing conservation-relevant applications and the future of museum collections! #BOUasm25 🧪

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪

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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us! walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

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Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals

How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...

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Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Thrilled to share our new paper, led by @jonscibulski.bsky.social, on the rich 16kyr-long history of human-ocean interactions along the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Inspired by the late Richard Cooke MBE and beautifully illustrated by his son, @cookedillustrations.com #PaleoSky

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I had an amazing time presenting my preliminary PhD research on pelican palaeoecology at the @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich! Saw fascinating presentations, learned a lot, and met many inspiring people working to bridge the gap between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation!

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Come to my talk about pelican palaeoecology tomorrow at 14:30!

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Gaia Mortier @gaiamortier.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

WOW it was a joy to co-organise (with the lovely @juliettewaterman.bsky.social & @aukwardlucia.bsky.social ) the ICAZ Stable Isotope Working Group conference this year with the fun (and important) theme "Back to the Future"! HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in-person or online you're all amazing

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The greatest threat to ocean biodiversity in the past 50 yrs—more than climate change or plastic pollution—is unsustainable fishing. So countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas. But in the US, 47 is undoing marine protection. A marine biologist explains, No pay wall.

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Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life

America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Join us at 7:30pm 19 May at Park House for @pintofscience.uk #Pint25 to hear about: 🕷️Why spiders deserve saving - even if they scare you! 🦴How the buried secrets of sickness can aid modern environmental health issues 🧪And a special panel of women in STEM Get your tickets here! 🔗 rdg.ac/42spFXl

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Bugs, Bones and Conservation Goals

Archaeological scientists are experts at using the past to help us understand the modern world. So come along to find out how ancient DNA and diseases can …

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I’m excited to co-coordinate and contribute to this year's @pintofscience.uk 🧪 festival in Reading! We've organized three nights of science talks in Park House on the University of Reading campus from 7-9:30pm May 19-21. #Pint25 Book tickets here: lnkd.in/gA3K_uQ7

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today I visited the collections at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to sample historical cormorants for stable isotope analysis, which will allow me to contextualize the data I have generated for extinct pelicans in England and determine their past ecology/diet to inform a potential reintroduction.

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

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The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes. vimeo.com/1067017318?s... 1/3

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Stable Isotopes Launch

This is "Stable Isotopes Launch" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This week I learned about stable isotope ecology in Siracusa, Sicily alongside PhD students from around the world doing exciting and important research to better understand ecological systems and change through space and time.

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You now have until Feb 15 to submit your abstract!! Registration is free for students :)

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Z. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.

We are now facing unprecedented, systemic challenges to scientific enterprise, its infrastructure, and the diverse people and communities that make it possible. The recent executive orders issued by the Office of the President of the United States threaten to directly harm our discipline and the people in it.

As paleontologists, we know that in times of upheaval, ecological communities that fare the best tend to be the most diverse. Analogously, our varied backgrounds and perspectives and our willingness to listen to and learn from each other have enabled us to adapt to challenges facing our discipline and our Society in the past. We believe that the best approach to overcoming these new challenges is to turn to our fundamental values and our mission, which includes facilitating the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, ecology, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals. We take this moment to specifically support and affirm the right of all of our members and our non-member colleagues to conduct science and live their lives in safety and harmony, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, or citizenship status.

We encourage members in positions of safety and security to advocate for members who are not. Speak out in favor of research funding, evidence-based policies, and policies that ensure people of all identities receive equitable protections and opportunities. SVP leadership is actively working with other scientific organizations to respond to and mitigate the impact of these government actions on our members. We will continue to prioritize building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive vertebrate paleontology community where all feel welcome and are able to thrive.

The mission of our Society is primarily scientific in nature. We seek to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology throughout the world,

and foster the scientific, educational, and personal appreciation and understanding of vertebrate fossils and fossil sites. Several executive actions taken by the current presidential administration are antithetical to this mission, including the pause and audit of federal grant funding, the silencing of federal employees, the stripping of climate history data from government websites, the attempts to downsize the federal workforce, including departments charged with maintaining fossils and fossil sites, and attacks on academic freedom, climate change research, disabled people, transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people, immigrants, and endeavors for diversity, equity and inclusion. These actions, if successful, will impede our ability to carry out our mission and harm the broader practice of science.

The Society would like to gather additional information regarding the effects of recent federal action on paleontologists on the ground. To help us in this task, we ask that you share your experiences. We would like to know if you have been impacted or may be impacted by these executive actions. We recognize that at this point there is uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the federal funding audit, pending legal challenges, and other aspects of these executive actions, so you may not know the full impacts yet. This uncertainty itself is an impact. If you have been or might be impacted by these executive actions, please fill out this survey. Please also provide any ideas or suggestions, including areas of concern on which you believe the Society should focus.

Below we share some resources that you may find helpful when considering ways to support your colleagues and/or take action during these tumultuous times. We appreciate that this is a time full of uncertainty for many of you, especially those located in the United States, and we will do our best to keep you informed of Society actions.

In solidarity,
Stuart Sumida, SVP President, and the SVP Executive Comm.

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

After dodging the various crystal and witchcraft shops and homeopathic offerings of Glastonbury, we headed up to the Tor for some spectacular views over the levels. It was a time for reflecting on the huge changes that have happened to this landscape over the last two thousand or so years.

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We also stopped off at Meare Fish House, the only surviving monastic fishery building in England. The lakes in early times produced large amounts of valuable fish for trading, so much so that in the 14th century Glastonbury Abbey built the house for fish-salting and drying.

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This might seem like a somewhat underwhelming humpy field now, but it was once the site of Glastonbury Lake Village (avalonmarshes.org/heritage/gla...). During the excavation of this important Iron Age site, many pelican bones were discovered!

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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A fabulously sunny (but v. cold!) day yesterday exploring the Somerset Levels with Prof. Sam Turvey and @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. Despite the short winter day, we managed to fit in a lot of pelican and freshwater ecosystem talk and visited some important historical sites....

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I am running for nature at Kew Gardens on March 29. I am running for my future. A future I hope is full of birdsong, fish splash, and hoove beats. I am running for the Great Auk and Slender-Billed Curlew, both birds we failed to save. I run for hope. & I run fast because we are running out of time.

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Lucia Runs for Rewilding

Help Lucia Snyderman raise money to support WWF-UK

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Reposting my rewilding in UK & IRL starter pack for anyone who may be new here. Like, share or suggest people who should be on it. go.bsky.app/A7v5ZUQ

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ecologists, paleontologists, conservation paleobiologists - submit your abstracts by February 1st to attend the next CPB interdisciplinary meeting!

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

On way to Cambridge for the Rewilding Conference! Especially looking forward to the talks using historical and palaeo ecology to guide species reintroductions! #RewildingFutures #CitizenZoo2025 #RewildingConference2025 #RewildWithUS

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This week I visited Liverpool to present my undergraduate research from Middlebury College at the British Ecological Society Conference #bes2024!

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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Come learn about Great Auks 🐧 at the #BES2024 Thursday poster session!

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

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