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Tim Ziegler

@zieglertn.bsky.social

Collection Manager, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Vertebrate palaeontologist, caving, cat-bothering

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Dr Mark D. Scherz@markscherz.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Shocking that people see peer support as viable only if transactional (they will be paid for it, can result in career advancement, or, disgustingly, romantic favours) and not as, a right thing to do for colleagues that might be struggling with mental health and job market.

Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.
Prof Susie Maidment@tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There's a new paper out in Papers in Palaeontology describing some very fragmentary material attributed to a new 'rhabdodontid'. I'm surprised the authors didn't delay publication after our Nature paper from six weeks ago, in which we demonstrated that 'Rhabdodontidae' was paraphyletic....