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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When your postdoc @isaacpesca.bsky.social is so awesome they give him the cover of PNAS! Excellent photo by @sethf.bsky.social! And excellent coauthors of @pedromonarrez.bsky.social @tomjwebb.bsky.social among others.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Reposting this excellent piece by palaeoiris for trans day of visibility.

An oviraptor with feathers in trans flag colors by palaeoiris over a nest of baby oviraptors

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 25/02/2026

An analysis in Nature Ecology & Evolution surveys community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databases. go.nature.com/3ZwTeGl #Paleosky 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows palaeontological information in an Earth system context.

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Ben Black @magmatist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you are in Eastern Oregon today, stop by the C2C project’s booth at the Watershed Festival, where we explore how ancient volcanic eruptions have shaped climate and life. Volcanoes, Lava, and Life—words to live by! Featuring Leif Karlstrom, Lauren Adamo, & @pedromonarrez.bsky.social

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Let's continue National Snail Day Shellebrations with the snails in short series, where I collaborated with @franzanth.bsky.social 🐌🦑 #nationalsnailday first up some snail basics

An infographic of snail anatomy and how to refer to different parts of the shell and body of the animal

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Abstract submissions for GSA Connects 2025 in San Antonio are open now through August 5. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the two sessions I’m co-convening. Or don’t, that’s cool too. connects.geosociety.org/program/tech... #GSAConnects #paleobiology #extinction #stratigraphy #strapaleo

Green-colored flyer depicting information for the GSA Connects 2025 topical session, T147 titled: “Life and Environments Through Time: Multi-Record Approaches to Stratigraphic Paleobiology”.

Green-colored flyer depicting information for the GSA Connects 2025 topical session T151, titled: “Linking Biodiversity Loss to Environmental Stressors Through Integrated Approaches”.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/05/2025

Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the taxonomic identification of the 173 bone specimens analyzed using ZooMS, and examples of the main categories of elements.

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Malika Jeffries-EL @chemdiva.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

When we take measures to address the racial bias that has allowed whites to enjoy privilege, they call our survival mechanisms 'racial bias.' Pure hypocrisy. www.science.org/content/arti... #saveNSF #NSF

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NSF’s grant cuts fall heaviest on scientists from underrepresented groups

Projects to broaden participation were cut disproportionately—and were often led by Black scientists, women, and those with disabilities

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Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's official. 15% ICR on NSF grants. My favorite line: "Reducing administrative burdens for awardee institutions." Say the opposite of what is true... the communication strategy of our time: www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Day 4 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver onto fossils (badly) in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Fossil is PRI's newest plush paleozoic pal of Diplocaulus salamandroides, comedian is H. sapiens #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🧪 almost #fossilfriday

John Oliver (happy) riding on a plush of a fossil amphibian with a boomerang shaped head, red skin with black markings, large eyes and nostrils. on a purple background

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy #taxonomistappreciationday! Taxonomy is the science that names and identifies species, forming the basis of communication in other fields of biology. My own expertise is in marine snails, especially the Turritellidae.

A variety of uncoiled turritellid snails from the genus Vermicularia. The snails have turreted points but then become tube-like. One is shown as a large reef mass.

A variety of normally coiled turritellid snails of different sizes. The snails are high spired (pointy) and have different patterns of ribs and slightly different whorl shapes.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If trans people are going to perpetually catch so much shit for existing, we may as well be bold. We may as well own that we are exceptional, we shine, and we carry deep knowledge the rest of the world wishes they could comprehend.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 28/02/2025

A historic milestone for #AGU! 🚀🌍 Dr. Brandon Jones has officially taken the helm as AGU’s President, bringing a bold vision for the future of Earth and space science. Read more about his leadership and impact in this #Forbes feature: www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... #Leadership #ScienceMatters

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

First day as an assistant professor and I couldn’t have asked for better colleagues!

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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We are looking for geoscientists who are or were in the workforce to take a participate in a survey about their experiences. There is almost no data on disabled geos beyond the student level and we aim to change that. Please share widely!

Text: Help us document the experiences of geoscientists with disabilities in the workforce by taking our survey. The logos of the International Association of Geoscience Diversity and the Mind Hears appear beneath the QR code that links the survey.

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Matthew E. Clapham @mclapham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A colleague, Tamara Pico, is conducting a study about potentially gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences: ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Responses welcome from subtle to more memorable, and even if you have not heard this language!

QR code linking to survey about gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences, geometaphorsurvey.com.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Reminder I'm recruiting a graduate student to join the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social lab in fall '25. My lab uses fossils, fieldwork, & statistical phylogenetic methods to study macroevolutionary processes in marine invertebrates, especially echinoderms. Please share & feel free to reach out! 🧪

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Alioth Fox @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 13/11/2024

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25. That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Saber-toothed toe beans. Saber-toothed toe beans

Close-up of the paw of a mummified Homotherium cub. It has toe beans. From Lopatin et al. 2024

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Indigenous knowledge of palaeontology in Africa | Geological Society, London, Special Publications www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/...

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Abstract submissions for NAPC 2024 are live now through January 20th. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the two symposium sessions I’m co-convening! #napc2024 #stratpaleo #education #dei #stratigraphy #paleobiology #outreach Abstract submission link: t.ly/4Nhee

12th NORTH AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGICAL CONVENTION
University of Michigan 17-21 June 2024

Abstract Submission Open Through January 20, 2024

Submit to Session:
Broadening Accessibility in Paleontology Through Innovative Community Engagement Practices

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Pedro Monarrez @pedromonarrez.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

My first post is to share my new paper out today on how extinction selectivity reduces in strength and increases in variability across different marine groups during mass extinctions relative to background intervals. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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