Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.

Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...

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Daeodon is a genuinely horrrifying animal. #FossilFriday

From the office of Councilmember Dr. Nina Ahmad, press conference at 9AM outside Room 494, before the city council meeting:

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Philadelphia city council meeting this Thursday to fight for the Academy of Natural Sciences. Local folks should be there at 8:45am, press conference at 9, meeting starts at 10. More to come save-the-academy.org

“The issue has surpassed any local organisation’s capacity. We need large-scale water bombing and skilled firefighters.” “The orangutans need the forest. What are we studying if the orangutans are all gone, and the food they have is all gone? They can’t survive without that forest.” 🧪🐒🦊🏺🌏

Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo

Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Cabang Panti work round the clock to stave off blaze

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We’re excited to announce, we have a new shirt for you! Our celebration of arthropods! Are we over-representing Hymenoptera here? Probably not! There are so many.⁠ ⁠ Anyway… get a new shirt to show love to the whole arthropod community. complexly.info/arthropods4

Great job (w/ a great supervisor): Program Specialist (National Engagement)… “supporting partnerships, coordinating outreach activities, and fostering relationships with Smithsonian Affiliates and external stakeholders.” Salary $85,447-$111,087. Apply by Sept 24. trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a5a...

Program Specialist (National Engagement), IS-1001-11

Job Opening: Program Specialist (National Engagement), IS-1001-11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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#FossilFriday The Dimetrodon mount for the @NMNH prior to its installation

Save the Academy organizers need some volunteers to help hand out informational flyers at the academy of natural sciences this weekend. If you are able to help please get in touch via this contact form save-the-academy.org/contact.html

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Questions, press, partnerships, or a way to help? Write to the Save the Academy campaign.

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Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org

The website is up: save-the-academy.org Important info, contact points, and news articles within

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Don't mourn — organize. Rally Tue Sept 8, 10 a.m., 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. Nine things you can do today.

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Posters ready Speakers lined up See you at the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of the academy of natural sciences. We’re asking Drexel, the Academy Board, and the city to find a way to keep the museum open to the public. RSVP luma.com/1qwnrqz2

New blog post: The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing—how we got here and what you can do. Probably nothing you haven't already heard, but increasing the signal to anyone who has missed the news. extinctmonsters.net/2026/09/05/a...

Academy of Natural Sciences museum to close

Bad news this week: on Tuesday, September 1st, the longest-operating natural history museum in the United States announced its imminent closure. The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) in downtown Ph…

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Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

For #FossilFriday, the mysterious & geometrically satisfying deep-sea trace fossil Paleodictyon, preserved on the bottom of a Miocene (~10 mya) stratum in southern Spain. Similar traces are in modern deep-sea environments, but we still don't know who makes them. 🧪 #ichnology

#FossilFriday Skull of Torosaurus latus at the @acadnatsci.bsky.social

Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!

Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)

Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...

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Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

The NHMLA is hiring an Assistant Collections Manager for updating our frozen tissues collection to liquid nitrogen storage. This position is grant-funded for 3 years. I'm a bit late on posting this, but there is still one week left to apply! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

PBS Eons made a insta post showcasing my work on their series "Life and Death on Pangea" :) #sciart www.instagram.com/p/DcypJWfG4d9

Know a geoscientist whose contributions to geology or paleontology deserve national recognition? Nominate them for the 2027 NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life—Mary Clark Thompson Medal, including a $20,000 prize. 📅 Nominations close Monday, 5 October 2026 🔗 geosociety.co/nas-award

Meet your new fine-feathered friend! Similar to its modern day descendants, 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘻𝘰𝘶𝘪 had feathers—but it wasn't a bird.

With the final episode of Eons: Life and Death on Pangea out this week on PBS.org and the PBS app, it feels very appropriate to post this Lystrosaurus from @ummnh.bsky.social for #FossilFriday

We're so excited that Simone Giertz will be part of Something Worth Knowing! She will be joining Hank Green and other smart people as they talk about hope and what makes us human. What do you think gives @simonegiertz.bsky.social hope? Learn more at somethingworthknowing.org

it's a good show, you should probably watch it

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The final episode of Eons: Life and Death on Pangea is out today! www.pbs.org/show/eons/

The final episode of Eons: Life and Death on Pangea is out today! www.pbs.org/show/eons/

Eons

Take a journey through the history of life on Earth.

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Next up on Ask Hank Anything, John Green takes over the couch in a long-awaited special vlogbrothers episode! Tune in Wednesday at youtube.com/complexly

#AABA @bioanth.org members 🚨 submitting a comment on #NSF NSF-2026-OTR-0001 TODAY, THE LAST DAY 🚨 - check your e-mail! if you're having a hard time parsing the proposed changes and/or you aren't sure what specifics to address, there may be helpful info in there for you!

For #FossilFriday: a skull of the extinct horse Equus scotti under study in the collections at the Western Science Center in Hemet, California, US. The fossil was recently recovered from Pleistocene sediments (~ 500 ka) in Murrieta, CA, US, & will be showcased at the WSC's annual PaleoCon event. 🐎🧪

Something a little different on #FossilFriday: new temporary exhibit at UMMNH highlighting the history of paleontological collections at U-M. Timed to recognize UMMP's centennial (although the collection itself is approaching its bicentennial). 📸 Elliot Zirulnik/UMMNH

An oldie but goody for #fossilfriday, KMN-ER 406. This skull of Paranthropus boisei is one of my all-time favorites! It's one solid mass: dense and heavy. Now curated beautifully by Tom Mukhuyu at National Museums of Kenya.