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Lucia Snyderman
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Biology Graduate from Middlebury College | SCENARIO NERC DTP PhD researcher at the Zoological Society of London & University of Reading | Researching lost birds 🦢, fish 🐟, and ecosystems to guide rewilding, reintroductions, and coexistence
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Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · Sep 19
Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪
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Looking forward to sharing my work on extinct pelicans in England tomorrow and discussing conservation-relevant applications and the future of museum collections! #BOUasm25 🧪
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us!

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Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals
How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Thrilled to share our new paper, led by @jonscibulski.bsky.social, on the rich 16kyr-long history of human-ocean interactions along the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Inspired by the late Richard Cooke MBE and beautifully illustrated by his son, @cookedillustrations.com #PaleoSky
July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I had an amazing time presenting my preliminary PhD research on pelican palaeoecology at the @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich! Saw fascinating presentations, learned a lot, and met many inspiring people working to bridge the gap between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation!
August 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Come to my talk about pelican palaeoecology tomorrow at 14:30!
aukwardlucia.bsky.social Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · Mar 25
Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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WOW it was a joy to co-organise (with the lovely @juliettewaterman.bsky.social & @aukwardlucia.bsky.social ) the ICAZ Stable Isotope Working Group conference this year with the fun (and important) theme "Back to the Future"!

HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in-person or online you're all amazing
June 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The greatest threat to ocean biodiversity in the past 50 yrs—more than climate change or plastic pollution—is unsustainable fishing. So countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas.

But in the US, 47 is undoing marine protection.

A marine biologist explains, No pay wall.
Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life
America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Join us at 7:30pm 19 May at Park House for @pintofscience.uk #Pint25 to hear about:

🕷️Why spiders deserve saving - even if they scare you!
🦴How the buried secrets of sickness can aid modern environmental health issues
🧪And a special panel of women in STEM

Get your tickets here! 🔗 rdg.ac/42spFXl
Bugs, Bones and Conservation Goals
Archaeological scientists are experts at using the past to help us understand the modern world. So come along to find out how ancient DNA and diseases can …
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April 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I’m excited to co-coordinate and contribute to this year's @pintofscience.uk 🧪 festival in Reading! We've organized three nights of science talks in Park House on the University of Reading campus from 7-9:30pm May 19-21. #Pint25 Book tickets here: lnkd.in/gA3K_uQ7
April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Today I visited the collections at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to sample historical cormorants for stable isotope analysis, which will allow me to contextualize the data I have generated for extinct pelicans in England and determine their past ecology/diet to inform a potential reintroduction.
April 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)
March 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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🔬 Exciting news! Join us on 8 May for the Battarbee Lecture 2025, featuring @meljleng.bsky.social on the power of stable isotopes in environmental science.

🔗 Register now!

#UCLGeography #ScienceTalks
Recent Advances in the use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science
Professor Melanie Leng presents the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on advances in stable isotopes and their applications in environmental science.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...
The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample
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March 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.
juliettewaterman.bsky.social Juliette Waterman @juliettewaterman.bsky.social · Jan 21
Please join us in Reading for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup in June!

More details and submit your abstracts here: zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-...

@icaz-news.bsky.social #zooarch #archaeology
January 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes.
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Stable Isotopes Launch
This is "Stable Isotopes Launch" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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March 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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This week I learned about stable isotope ecology in Siracusa, Sicily alongside PhD students from around the world doing exciting and important research to better understand ecological systems and change through space and time.
March 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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You now have until Feb 15 to submit your abstract!! Registration is free for students :)
aukwardlucia.bsky.social Lucia Snyderman @aukwardlucia.bsky.social · Jan 21
Ecologists, paleontologists, conservation paleobiologists - submit your abstracts by February 1st to attend the next CPB interdisciplinary meeting!
February 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Said hi to my favorite pelican pals at the @londonzoo.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.
We are now facing unprecedented, systemic challenges to scientific enterprise, its infrastructure, and the diverse people and communities that make it possible. The recent executive orders issued by the Office of the President of the United States threaten to directly harm our discipline and the people in it. As paleontologists, we know that in times of upheaval, ecological communities that fare the best tend to be the most diverse. Analogously, our varied backgrounds and perspectives and our willingness to listen to and learn from each other have enabled us to adapt to challenges facing our discipline and our Society in the past. We believe that the best approach to overcoming these new challenges is to turn to our fundamental values and our mission, which includes facilitating the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, ecology, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals. We take this moment to specifically support and affirm the right of all of our members and our non-member colleagues to conduct science and live their lives in safety and harmony, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, or citizenship status. We encourage members in positions of safety and security to advocate for members who are not. Speak out in favor of research funding, evidence-based policies, and policies that ensure people of all identities receive equitable protections and opportunities. SVP leadership is actively working with other scientific organizations to respond to and mitigate the impact of these government actions on our members. We will continue to prioritize building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive vertebrate paleontology community where all feel welcome and are able to thrive. The mission of our Society is primarily scientific in nature. We seek to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology throughout the world, and foster the scientific, educational, and personal appreciation and understanding of vertebrate fossils and fossil sites. Several executive actions taken by the current presidential administration are antithetical to this mission, including the pause and audit of federal grant funding, the silencing of federal employees, the stripping of climate history data from government websites, the attempts to downsize the federal workforce, including departments charged with maintaining fossils and fossil sites, and attacks on academic freedom, climate change research, disabled people, transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people, immigrants, and endeavors for diversity, equity and inclusion. These actions, if successful, will impede our ability to carry out our mission and harm the broader practice of science. The Society would like to gather additional information regarding the effects of recent federal action on paleontologists on the ground. To help us in this task, we ask that you share your experiences. We would like to know if you have been impacted or may be impacted by these executive actions. We recognize that at this point there is uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the federal funding audit, pending legal challenges, and other aspects of these executive actions, so you may not know the full impacts yet. This uncertainty itself is an impact. If you have been or might be impacted by these executive actions, please fill out this survey. Please also provide any ideas or suggestions, including areas of concern on which you believe the Society should focus. Below we share some resources that you may find helpful when considering ways to support your colleagues and/or take action during these tumultuous times. We appreciate that this is a time full of uncertainty for many of you, especially those located in the United States, and we will do our best to keep you informed of Society actions. In solidarity, Stuart Sumida, SVP President, and the SVP Executive Comm.
February 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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After dodging the various crystal and witchcraft shops and homeopathic offerings of Glastonbury, we headed up to the Tor for some spectacular views over the levels. It was a time for reflecting on the huge changes that have happened to this landscape over the last two thousand or so years.
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We also stopped off at Meare Fish House, the only surviving monastic fishery building in England. The lakes in early times produced large amounts of valuable fish for trading, so much so that in the 14th century Glastonbury Abbey built the house for fish-salting and drying.
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This might seem like a somewhat underwhelming humpy field now, but it was once the site of Glastonbury Lake Village (avalonmarshes.org/heritage/gla...). During the excavation of this important Iron Age site, many pelican bones were discovered!
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A fabulously sunny (but v. cold!) day yesterday exploring the Somerset Levels with Prof. Sam Turvey and @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. Despite the short winter day, we managed to fit in a lot of pelican and freshwater ecosystem talk and visited some important historical sites....
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM