Having to check my carry on because we're out of space and walking past rows of empty overhead bins labeled "reserved for first class" would be enough to radicalise me.

Ah, the first coffee of conference travel. The offer caffeination begins.

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Has a museum with staff whose whole job is to understand the legal and ethical treatment of fossil collections. "wE HeARd a DuDe oN a PoDCaSt"

Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm curious who Mason consulted about de-accessioning the Sternberg's collections. My read of this is that they weren't planning to auction off specimens but were willing to sell them off to other museums.

Giving a talk at North Carolina State on this #FossilFriday and getting to show this very fun figure of growth in the horseshoe crab Euproops from Haug & Haug 2020. The species gives a rare view of the development of an extinct arthropod and allows direct comparison with modern species.

‼️Here's a nice trackway possibly made by a scorpion on the mudflats of Alabama ~315 million years ago (Pennsylvanian)🦂. This one comes from the famous Union Chapel Mine, and was cited in Buta & Kopaska-Merkel (2016). #FossilFriday @The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections! #fossil

Variety pack of eurypterids at UMMNH for #FossilFriday: Acutiramus (UMMP IP 86635), Paracarcinosoma (UMMP IP 62598), Eurypterus (UMMP IP 7157), and Dolichopterus (UMMP IP 62680). All from the Silurian of New York and Ontario.

Tool of cognitive automation working exactly as intended.

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

This is quite good.

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Great thread discussing museum funding from the inside. The reason some universities are trying to divest from their museums is because they are beginning to treat each unit as an independent revenue generating entity. Museums cost money and therefore they WANT to cut them.

Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg@brittandbone.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've worked for a natural history museum for 11 years at this point (man, yikes) and while it is sad, it isn't surprising to see two major institutions facing closure this year.

I think it is very telling that we get news of two planned museum closures by university institutions with minimal notice. Clearly they know the moves will be publicly unpopular, and the apparent solution is to give people as little time to organize as possible and set it up as a fait accompli.

Finally getting around to studying some old specimens for the first time this #FossilFriday. These eurypterids were discovered in the 1960s and almost certainly represent new species. Discoveries such as this really highlight the importance of museum collections as records of life on our planet. 🧪⚒️

Improved selection of eurypterid fossils plus old models from Ruthven now on display now at UMMNH!

It's flat fuck Friday.

Jun@jun075.bsky.social · last mo.

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#Sciart #Paleoart Pentecopterus for the upcoming book project

Exactly this. So much of the focus of science, education, etc. is now on output or product - when the PROCESS is what is truly important. If you insist on focusing on product, then you need to realise that cutting courses in the process is going to make a shitty product.

Andy Farke@andyfarke.bsky.social · last mo.

Also, having done some simple illustrations and worked with illustrators myself, the *process* of illustrating new taxa often reveals important data for the underlying science, and helps clarify the writing process. What matters/what doesn't is an important decision in illustration.

One of the many hats I wear is that of a taxonomist who understands the important of accurate representation of morphology and I cannot stress in strong enough terms how you should not do this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Generative <fc>AI</fc> for Scientific Illustration in Insect Taxonomy: A Human‐Supervised High‐Efficiency Workflow

Morphological illustrations are crucial in research on insect taxonomy and phylogenetics. Although traditional manual drawing and digital tracing techniques have undergone continuous evolution, they ...

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Got to find where my old thesaurus is seeing as the online ones are useless now thanks to them just replacing their workings with AI. At least I know enough about word nuance to realise that this is bad, I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't.

Saw a recipe for vegan Nanaimo bars and had to try it!

Belinurus horseshoe crab locked in stone during the Carboniferous, but back in the light of day again now, and on display in the Fundy Geoscience Museum in Parrsboro. #FossilFriday ⚒️

Thinking about turning this into a print somehow. Do you think people might be interested in stuff like this?

Matt (Tired)@mattfrith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Camino (Also first post)

This is (in my obviously biased opinion) a great paper that I wish more people would read (not least because it took us several years to hone it down to its final form).

Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Taxonomy is far from complete but it also is not "complete enough" to warrant the disinvestment seen in ithe field and natural history generally. Museums and herbaria need funds to store, curate, and describe species and taxonomists need to be paid to do it www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Walkin’ legs #horseshoecrab #arthropod

Some of the bugs enjoying my chicory today.

A bountiful crop.

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime! Finaly found the time to talk about Megachelicerax cousteaui with @penelopeclaisse.bsky.social for today's entry! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #cambrian #paleoart #arthropod #chelicerate 1/6