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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The medal was generously donated by Bloch’s family on the 120th anniversary of the physicist’s birth. Now part of the CERN archives, it will be on permanent display at the CERN Library, alongside the Nobel medal of Wolfgang Pauli, awarded for his formulation of the exclusion principle.

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In this #PhotoOfTheWeek, we take a look at two @nobelprize.org medals, now on display #AtCERN. Last month, CERN unveiled the Nobel medal of Felix Bloch – CERN's first Director-General – awarded for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods.

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Oct. 23 🍺🐛 Bugs, Bones and Brews Spooky season at First Magnitude Brewing with our Daniels Lab researchers, vertebrate paleontology collection & the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute team. Hickory Horned Devil Hazy IPA 🍺 with jalapeno peppers Event: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/bugs-b...

a large pale green caterpillar with black blotches has large barbed spines protruding from its shoulders and running down its back in smaller sizes

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We're hiring! 👉 Florida Museum Registrar The Registrar oversees the technical and regulatory aspects of collection accessions, permitting, and exchanges. 🔸 Position info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... 🏛️📌 Apply by Oct 31, 2025

two people are sitting at a work station in a storage room looking at ceramics pieces and cataloging them on paper and into a computer

a shallow tray with dividers holds a cluttered assortment of aged bones and horns

three very large jars each hold a preserved specimen of a marine creature like urchins and sponges

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie... Study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There are six stubby bones with very similar shapes laid in a row of descending size with a very large one at one side and a very tiny one at the other

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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement. Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Congrats! 👏👏👏 So proud of our graduating @ufl.edu students and grateful they did their grad work with our faculty! Dr. Lazaro Viñola-López, advised by Jon Bloch, received his doctoral degree through the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Dept of Biology 👉 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/from-...

two people are standing outside wearing traditional university graduation robes, one in black and the other in dark blue

a person sits in front of a large cabinet pulling out shallow drawers full of small boxes of fossils

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/03/2025

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of Mesozoic mammal coloration in Science, hinting at their shrouded and nocturnal nature. scim.ag/41sKMZ9

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Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration

Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A new study of the most complete skeleton of a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, Mixodectes pungens, has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/a-62... Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

an illustration of a fuzzy mammal clinging to the side of a tree in the forest with a similar looking animal in the distance on another tree. they both look somewhat like squirrels but with small ears and pointed faces, and are covered in reddish fur with white feet and undersides

scientific photo of a small mammal skeleton with a long tail laid out to show its body plan and flanked by insets of several views of specific long bones and the partial skull

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

For our latest "Welcome to #Florida" podcast episode, we talked to Dr. Jonathan Bloch of UF about one of the most significant archaeological sites in the state -- which was originally found by a 5-year-old girl. Dig in! www.buzzsprout.com/1169570/epis...

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Episode 245: The Montbrook Fossil Site - Welcome to Florida

Alcoholic, womanizing, Islamophobe U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also a climate denier. He has instructed the armed forces to ignore climate impacts and has demanded the Pentagon cut funding ...

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Stephen Chester @purgatoriidae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Check out our children’s book on paleontology and life in the Eocene! This work stems from our NSF funded research on mammalian response to the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the Wind River and Bighorn basins of Wyoming. digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/165/

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A Day in the Badlands: A 52 Million-Year-Old Safari Adventure

with Amy Chew, Christopher Gilbert, Ross Secord, and Stephen Chester Illustrations by Jenn Paul • Book design by Aaron Sutherlen About the Badlands Fossils -- This story tells about the fossils of anc...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ground sloths, and an odd-looking tapir. Full story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/unde...

Four people are standing around a table covered in small boxes with different types of what look like fossils while surrounded by shelves storing many more boxes and trays of fossils

an artfully arranged set of fossil teeth on a white background with a section of the front of a horse-like jaw ahead of two rows of very long molar teeth laid out like two wings

three different dark fossil teeth on a white surface, two of which are long and curved and one is shorter like a molar

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fossils in space! 🚀 Friend of the Museum Rob Ferl, director of @ufastraeus.bsky.social, recently went into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and took a few of our fossils with him—a snail, horse and early ancestor of modern primates. There's more: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/flor...

two older men are holding fossils and cards of some kind that are slightly blurry to read while standing for a portrait in a scientific fossil lab of some kind

two very tiny jaw fossils are set next to a certificate of flight and a badge for UF Space Plants Lab

a very rounded snail shell is sitting on a mirrored shelf with two certificates of flight and a badge for UF Space Plants Lab propped up behind it

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Welcome Glaucia Del-Rio, our new curator of ornithology! 👏👏👏 🦜🗺️ Along with her curator duties, she wants to establish a collection of cell cultures, both as a scientific resource and as insurance against extinction. More about Glaucia + her work: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/glau...

a person holding a metal measuring tool sits in front of table covered in bird specimens and a wall of book shelves behind her

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Museum Resource 🦣 Florida Vertebrate Fossils Florida has the richest fossil record of vertebrate animals of the eastern United States. Our paleontologists have highlighted a number of species & dig sites to tell the story of early Florida fossil exploration: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vert...

two fossil skulls of some kind of mammals with elongated snouts, large eye sockets, and thick molars shown side by side from below

a very heavy triangular shark tooth in dark grey with a crack as if it's a fossil

the outline of Florida and its counties with several down the center into Tampa colored in bright orange

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Museum Resource 🩻 Digital Imaging Gallery Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...

a scan of a frog shown from the top with all of its tiny bones showing and some soft tissue in its abdomen in purple

four views of a thick lizard specimen with rows of angular scales on its body shown in golden and each view showing either bones, circulatory, nervous system or digestive oranges in bright colors

the skeleton and some scales of a large almond shaped fish are scanned in dark blue with some fin spines highlighted in rainbow of colors

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Welcome Vaughn Shirey, our newest curator of butterflies and moths! 🎉 👏👏👏🦋 Working in our McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, @vmshirey.bsky.social will help study and digitize our moth and butterfly collections. About his career & research: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/vaug...

a person with a silver beard and glasses is holding a large blue toned print of a butterfly while standing in a corridor lined with many shallow wooden drawers in ceiling-high cabinets

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Bloch Lab @blochlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

ICYMI: we extended the deadline to January 23! We are hiring a 2-year postdoc @floridamuseum.bsky.social to help study the impact of climate change on mammalian functional diversity across the PETM. Email Jon Bloch/Arthur Porto with any questions. Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

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Arthur Porto @agporto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hello bsky! We are hiring two Postdocs @floridamuseum.bsky.social ! 1) Paleo + AI (NSF-funded, with @blochlab.bsky.social ): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... 2) AI for Biology (open-ended): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... Deadline Jan 15th. Please, RT! See also www.biovisionlab.com

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Bloch Lab @blochlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Job Alert: We are hiring a 2-year postdoc @floridamuseum.bsky.social to help study the impact of climate change on mammalian functional diversity across the PETM. Email Jon Bloch or Arthur Porto with any questions. @nsvitek.bsky.social Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Congrats! 👏👏👏 We had several students graduating from the University of Florida today! We are so proud of their hard work and determination, and grateful they choose to do their graduate work with our faculty here at the Florida Museum.

a group of people are wearing a variety of formal university graduation caps and gowns

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Megan Ennes, our curator of museum education, has been named a research fellow by the National Academy of Sciences through the Gulf Research Program. The Early-Career Research Fellowships program supports emerging scientific leaders. More: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/nati...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

From the Field ✈️ Julian Narvaez presented current work at the North American Paleontological Convention and connected with peers, and continued outreach: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/from-... 🌱 Travel funding supports professional development of student researchers here at the Florida Museum.

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New fossil angiosperm from the Eocene Green River Formation

The funds for the Summer of 2024 were requested for both travel to present at the North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) current research carried out at FLMNH and to continue outreach at the...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

From the field ✈️ Liz Hurtado participated in the SPATIAL Short Course 2024, with lectures, labs, group projects and activities to network with peers. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/from-... 🐦‍⬛ Travel funding supports professional development of student researchers here at the Florida Museum.

a group of over a dozen people in outdoors clothing are posing together on a rocky crest with a lake and rocky mountain behind them against a clear blue sky

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/11/2024

A paper in Nature reports on the use of fossilized samples of faeces and vomit to reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs to become the dominant players in Earth’s ancient ecosystems. go.nature.com/412c4af 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows feeding evidence inferred from bite marks and synchrotron-scanned bromalites from Krasiejów, Lisowice and Sołtyków.

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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure showing diverse datasets analysed with SPROUT, including a skink skeleton, aardvark skull, human heart, concrete block, and foraminifera.

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Exploring Museum Collections 🦵 Tibia and fibula This was one of the largest species of giant ground sloth known from North America, with large individuals weighing as much as 3 tons. Featured fossil Species: Eremotherium eomigrans Specimen: # UF 206880 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vert...

fossil specimen of a very thick and short leg bone with a narrow parallel bone joined with heavy rounded heads on the ends

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Bloch Lab @blochlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

After a summer field season of carrying Paleocene-Eocene matrix out of the badlands in the Bighorn Basin, it is so exciting to see hundreds of tiny mammal teeth emerging from the screen washed concentrate!

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