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Venu Gopal K @venugopalk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Presented my work at the EGU General Assembly 2026 🌍 Grateful for the engaging discussions, inspiring research, and wonderful people I met along the way. Excited for what’s ahead! #EGU26 #IISERPUNE #ECS #Paleo@iiserpune

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19/03/2026

Taxonomist Appreciation Day post I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work. To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts. You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost. 1/3

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Please support biodiversity science by citing taxonomic literature & acknowledging museum collections. Here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, our Invertebrate Paleontology collection houses millions of specimens, including ~10k type & figured specimens 🧪

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

TLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology

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Venu Gopal K @venugopalk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Sharing my research and learning from the community at #PalAss2025 It was a great experience to be a part of such a lovely and warm conference! #portsmouth #iiserpune

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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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Pedro Godoy @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm a bit late, since we were away for fieldwork, but check out our new paper on data equity in paleo, led by the amazing @emmadnn.bsky.social.

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