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Maybí Mxkl #SOSMaxakali @maybimxk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

2) O território que hoje chamamos de Belo Horizonte e sua região metropolitana, abraçado pela imponente Serra do Curral, era a morada ancestral, rota de trânsito, caça e solo sagrado de diversas etnias, como os povos Maxakali, Krenak, Xakriabá, Pataxó, Aranã... 🧶

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Maybí Mxkl #SOSMaxakali @maybimxk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Belo Horizonte sempre foi, e continua sendo, terra indígena.Muito antes do asfalto, do concreto e dos horizontes desenhados pelas montanhas de Minas Gerais serem cercados pela colonização, essas terras já pulavam ao ritmo dos passos dos povos originários. 🧶

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Orc Urbano @orcurbano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Eu tenho esse mesmo problema em explicar sobre tráfico, venda legal e registro de animais. Pq a cultura de compra e venda de animais sem se importar com origem é absurda lá, inclusive o hábito de pegar animais nativos e levar pra casa como se isso não fosse problema para as populações selvagens.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Failure to stop every fossil from being trafficked does not somehow turn trafficked fossils into legitimate commodities.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The failure to prevent every violation of a law does not transfer ownership of the violated right to the person who profits from violating it.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So why is the burden of preventing trafficking so often placed almost entirely on the country being deprived of its heritage?

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In many cases, the economic incentive for extraction is created far from the place where the fossil is found. Wealthier destination markets can transform something legally regarded in its country of origin as collective heritage into a desirable private commodity.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fossils are not trafficked into a vacuum. An illegal market exists because there are collectors, dealers, intermediaries and institutions elsewhere willing to acquire them, display them, trade them or give them monetary value.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

More importantly, focusing exclusively on enforcement in source countries conveniently ignores 🚨demand🚨.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Weak enforcement is an argument for ✨better enforcement, institutional capacity, international cooperation and accountability✨ not for abandoning the principle that a society has the right to protect certain things as collective heritage.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Enforcement is a challenge under virtually any system of property or heritage protection. We do not normally argue that theft laws are pointless because theft still happens, or that protected areas should cease to exist because poaching occurs.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The existence of illegal trafficking does not demonstrate that the principle behind the law is wrong… It demonstrates that there are people willing to violate that law and, crucially, that there is a market willing to reward them for doing so.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another argument I often hear is: “What is the point of having strict fossil-protection laws if the country cannot perfectly enforce them and fossils are still trafficked abroad?” But this turns the problem upside down.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It may sound silly or overly obvious to say this, but some people genuinely struggle to see that their research in paleontology—and science itself—does not exist in a vacuum.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Collaboration cannot mean that the legal and ethical assumptions of the wealthiest or most powerful countries automatically become the default rules for everyone else.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

International scientific collaboration requires accepting different ways of thinking derived from different cultures and different historical backgrounds.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When countries establish laws saying that certain elements of their natural heritage belong collectively to the nation, this should not be read as an obstacle to science…

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And this matters especially in discussions involving the “Global South”. For centuries, specimens, cultural objects, natural resources, and knowledge were often removed from colonized or peripheral regions under systems that prioritized the interests and institutions of elsewhere.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why respecting another country’s fossil legislation requires accepting that another society may have a fundamentally different understanding of what heritage is, whom it belongs to, and what kinds of things should remain outside private appropriation.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A fossil can have scientific, educational, historical, cultural, and social value precisely because it belongs to a broader collective history. Its importance does not need to be translated into market value in order to be real.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But the market is not a natural law. Not everything has to become a commodity. And not everything that can be assigned a monetary value should therefore become something that can be privately owned and traded.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If your default assumption is that almost anything can become private property and circulate through a market, then a system that deliberately places certain things outside that logic may seem strange or “excessive”.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A major source of friction appears when one particular model of ownership is treated as if it were universal.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The question is not only: “Who owns this object?” It is also: “Who has responsibility for this heritage?” “Who should benefit from it?” “Who gets to decide its fate?” Those are very different questions.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For someone raised in a legal and economic environment where private ownership and market circulation are deeply normalized, this can be genuinely difficult to grasp at first. Not because the rule is especially complicated, but because the underlying logic is different.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That reflects a particular way of thinking about fossils: not simply as objects that can be found, owned, bought, sold, or transferred, but as part of a collective heritage whose scientific and cultural value exceeds individual ownership.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In Brazil, fossils are legally considered property of the Nation, and Brazilian fossils and paleontological sites are treated as public assets.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about why it can be so difficult for some colleagues from the Global North to understand fossil-protection laws in Brazil and in other countries where fossils are treated as part of the national heritage rather than as private property.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s getting into grad school workshop begins this Saturday. All are welcome!

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Quem contará essa história é a colega paleontóloga Luciana Witowisk e também contaremos com a participação especial da amiga @bhor.bsky.social

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vamos??? Já ativa o lembrete!! Hoje (28/08), 18h30. Venha ouvir o emocionante relato do resgate da coleção paleobotânica do Museu Nacional e o lançamento do livro contando essa história! www.youtube.com/live/x0YIABe...

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Paleobotânica ao resgate!!

YouTube video by Colecionadores de Ossos

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Falei sobre nosso trabalho com as pegadas de Mammaliaformes 🐾 do paleodeserto Botucatu no programa Hora da Ciência!! Vem ouvir 🤩 e descobrir q se vc mora no interior de SP ou do PR, vc pode caçar essas pegadas na calçada 👀 da sua cidade open.spotify.com/episode/3DqV...

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EP11 - Câmeras corporais | Panc | Glueball | Pegadas | Leucemia infantil

Hora da Ciência · Episode

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A potentially five-foot long mammal from the Early Cretaceous! Wild stuff.

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Marcel Morsiani 🦝 @marcelmorsiani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

um inferno ter q lutar por coisas básicas todo dia mas se não marcarmos posição nada muda né. dê a ordem!

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Ah, mas é muito mimimi” Ah, vá à merda.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Ah, mas soa como coitadismo.” Não. Se as desigualdades existem e podem ser demonstradas com dados, reconhecê-las não é vitimização. É um diagnóstico. Existe uma diferença fundamental entre reivindicar privilégios e reivindicar condições equitativas de participação.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A melhor ciência não nasce quando deixamos de discutir desigualdades. Ela nasce quando somos capazes de reconhecê-las e trabalhar para reduzi-las.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A expressão “Norte e Sul Global” ñ surgiu para dividir a ciência entre “bons” e “maus”, nem p estabelecer uma hierarquia moral entre pesquisadores. Ela é usada em diversas áreas da CIÊNCIA p descrever assimetrias entre essas regiões na circulação de recursos, infraestrutura, +

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Se doer sobre pessoas levantarem essas questões é no mínimo estranho. Diz muito sobre vc e seus privilégios.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

acesso à tecnologia, agendas de pesquisa e produção de conhecimento. O argumento de que essa terminologia “atrapalha a cooperação” inverte a ordem das coisas. O que prejudica a cooperação não é discutir desigualdades; é fingir que elas não existem.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Ai, pq trazer essa questão de Sul e Norte Global pra discussões científicas atrapalha parcerias internacionais” Amigo??? A ciência tmb é política. Se alguém se dói pq trazemos essas discussões p mesa, tem algo muito errado sobre essa pessoa. É fundamental entendermos nosso contexto e história.

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Tito Aureliano @titoaureliano.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

!🚨New Paper alert🚨! New evidence for large mammaliforms in the Cretaceous. This time in South Brazil: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#FossilFriday‼️ 😲 Who does not like a well-preserved, large Cretaceous oyster like this Exogyra ponderosa? This one comes even with a repair scar! Campanian-aged Demopolis Formation, Alabama. Specimen: The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections. #paleontology #fossil

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fluorescent minerals and fossils in UV light. Deets in alt text. #geology #paleontology

Calcite ammonite Chambers glowing pale orange.

Phosphate bone glowing orange, blue and green.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Untermann graduated from the University of Berlin with degree in geology & paleontology. Facing unemployment, migrated 🇺🇸 where he acted as the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America. After activism he took on palaeoart for Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum

The Dinosaur Quarry by John Good, Theodore White, and Gilbert Stucker. Which Untermann illustrated

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Mario Lanzas @mariolanzas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ORNITHOMIMUS, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ukb... on how our perception of prehistoric animals evolved over the decades ⌛ More examples there ⏳ #ornithomimus #dinosaurs #paleoart #paleontology #history

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