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Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Textbooks tend to say it's William Buckland or Robert T. Bakker, who made modern dinosaurs. But what if I told you, palaeoart started in South Africa, was revolutionised by Nazi-fighting Polish women and illustrated by an Oxfordian homemaker and her pet tortoise? Let's rewrite the history 👇

Dinosaurs have captured our imagination for centuries—but many of the people behind their discovery have been written out of the story. In 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 – 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙨, Dr. Natalia Jagielska takes us on a lively journey through the hidden history of palaeontology. Expect tales that are equal parts ridiculous and remarkable: a young girl fossil-hunting with her dog on England’s coast, a resourceful housewife experimenting with prehistoric remains at home, and daring scientists uncovering Velociraptor skeletons while resisting Nazi forces in the desert. This talk reveals how women, often left out from official historical records, helped transform dinosaurs into icons of modern science. 👩🔬 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫: Dr. Jagielska is a Polish-born palaeontologist, award-winning artist, and former museum collections officer, now at CUHK researching the skin and fur of flying reptiles from the age of dinosaurs. 人們向來對已滅絕的恐龍充滿了幻想，但原來在發掘恐龍背後，有許多關鍵人物被歷史忽略了！來自生命科學學院的博士後研究員 Dr. Natalia JAGIELSKA 將主講一場別開生面的講座，題爲《Women in Science – The Invisible Women and Their Dinosaurs》。你將聽到一連串既難以置信又精彩的真實故事；一名少女與她的愛犬、一位非比尋常的家庭主婦以及對抗納粹的先驅者到底如何對古生物學作出重大貢獻？這場講座將揭示那些長期被忽視的女性，如何將恐龍塑造成現代科學的經典象徵。 👩🔬 講者簡介：Dr. Jagielska 為波蘭出生的古生物學家、得獎藝術家及影視恐龍顧問，曾任博物館館藏管理員，現於香港中文大學從事博士後研究，專注研究翼龍的皮膚與毛髮。 This talk is jointly organised by The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Science, Diversity and Inclusion Office, and Women Academics Sub-Committee. 此講座由香港中文大學的理學院、多元共融事務處以及女教員小組委員會共同舉辦。
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last yr.

When I first started writing novels, I had a notion that one if the things that made badness in the world was “professionalisation”. By which I meant that many entities had a kind of fuzzy cloud of functions in the world beyond their pure ostensible function.

Dinosource@dinosourcepod.bsky.social · last yr.

Paleontologists will be like "big news!" and then you read the paper and it turns out dinosaurs had slightly larger cheeks than we thought. (Big fan of Holtz, and this is a neat paper)

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · last yr.

Dear online paleo-fandom: please pay attention to this paper: Sharpe, H.S. et al. (2025) Skull morphology and histology indicate the presence of an unexpected buccal soft tissue structure in dinosaurs. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–29. Available from: doi.org/10.1111/joa....