Natalia (娜塔莉)
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A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖
I'm in my early 40s and I definitely remember Wikipedia being treated *as the equivalent* of slop (i.e., untrustworthy) in my final high school/early college years. It took a couple of years to go from "don't use Wikipedia anyone can put anything there" to "use Wikipedia as a first step."
Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.
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It's sad when something bad happens to you. It's you that has to pay with your mental health, negative impact to your research, due diligence in reporting, and potentially, resigning out of fear of retaliation. Workplace misconduct ruins careers and lives, especially for young women.
Rage Against the Miocene@organiccarbon.bsky.social · 6h agoRemember that this behaviour is not isolated to the field; rather, abusers who abuse at home become particularly empowered during field work. We must make field work safer, and remove abusers from the entire sector. phys.org/news/2026-09...
I've always wondered about this photo of Hadrosaurus in Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' studio. Its pose is slightly different from the one photographed on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences. So is it the same mount in-progress, or a completely different one?
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
Pelvic and hindlimb skeletal anatomy of the Two Medicine Formation troodontid: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Varricchio & Caldwell)
My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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
NSF Biology Postdoc Fellowships are back! Good news for everyone...great news for someone who wants to work in our group? Just reach out if interested. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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here is my little hack that helps sometimes
Zhillustrator@zhillustrator.com · 8mo agoArtists, QRP with a practical art "hack" you use. Let's share some wit & knowhow.
The oldest natural history museum in the nation, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, will cease to exist by the end of the month. The museum’s operating costs are half of 1% of Drexel’s budget. Drexel’s president pockets 2.8 million annually. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
A Nearly 200-Year-Old Museum Known for Its T. Rex Faces Extinction
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which is affiliated with Drexel University, cited attendance struggles and higher costs in its decision to close.
nytimes.com
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
⚡️ Russian drone violates Moldovan and Romanian airspace, crashes in Moldova. Spanish F/A-18 fighter jets, deployed as part of a NATO air-policing mission, were scrambled.
Russian drone violates Moldovan and Romanian airspace, crashes in Moldova
Spanish F/A-18 fighter jets, deployed as part of a NATO air-policing mission, were scrambled.
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Using Twitter chronically makes you swallow up pro-Kremlin attitudes towards the war in Ukraine. You can tell someone's chronically online if they share same, narrow opinion on this war.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2d agoHave seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
act.38degrees.org.uk
Israel banning the entire parliamentary Green Party is a great bit and honestly, probably something that they can stick on a leaflet
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2d ago🚨 BREAKING: The list of British MPs that Israel has just banned from visiting the country 1. Jeremy Corbyn 2. Zarah Sultana 3. Naz Shah 4. Diane Abbott 5. Hannah Spencer 6. Carla Denyer 7. Sian Berry 8. Ellie Chowns 9. John McDonnell 10. Richard Burgon 11. Adrian Ramsay
Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
Paul Hebden@paulhebden.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
Quote with your yellow art 💛 Not exactly the color, but the atmosphere
Sean Closson🦖🦕@coffeeblack.bsky.social · 3d agoQuote with your yellow art 💛 I should use yellow more often too. Good horsey-lizard-bird
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
nature.com
Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
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![Share female at different points on the academic career ladder for selected years, split by broad field. Years selected basedon data availability (earliest year for college graduates: 1993; latest for faculty: 2004) and reasonable time lags. Source: Digest ofEducation Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates
Earth Sciences below parity threshold in all categories
(PDF) Women in Academia: Why and where does the pipeline leak, and how can we fix it?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373548083_Women_in_academia_Why_and_where_does_the_pipeline_leak_and_how_can_we_fix_it [accessed Sep 08 2026].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jwao2pl5dciu2mg5gkdoydan/bafkreia2y5swu3kt4mfmq5pvuiieolu4okof5arii6fhz7od4lzwmgjax4)