Darcy Shapiro
@darcyshapiro.bsky.social
BioAnthro PhD. Miocene apes, hips, locomotion, trabecular bone. 💀
Editorial Director: PBS Eons, Bizarre Beasts, and anything else the Greenhouse team cooks up. 🦕🦔🪴
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Editorial Director: PBS Eons, Bizarre Beasts, and anything else the Greenhouse team cooks up. 🦕🦔🪴
she/her #GoBlue
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Stanford Archaeology Center – Academic Curator. "[will] advance and develop SUAC operations, education, research, and outreach... supervises student interns, teaching and research assistants". Expected pay range $116,966-$150,114. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/archaeo...
Archaeology Center – Academic Curator, Academic Program Professional (APP 2) Position- Hybrid Opportunity in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
This position has been deemed critical by the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze.Archaeology Center....
careersearch.stanford.edu
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Stanford Archaeology Center – Academic Curator. "[will] advance and develop SUAC operations, education, research, and outreach... supervises student interns, teaching and research assistants". Expected pay range $116,966-$150,114. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/archaeo...
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New Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science:
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December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science:
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Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website:
palass.org/phd-opportun...
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
palass.org/phd-opportun...
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
PhD Opportunities | The Palaeontological Association
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December 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website:
palass.org/phd-opportun...
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
palass.org/phd-opportun...
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
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Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor - Curator of Education (Tenure-Track)
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December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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For #fossilfriday, The New York Times has written a good article about the Paleontological Research Institution, what the museum means to the field of Paleontology, and its current financial situation (much improved even from a few weeks ago).
🧪🦑⚒️🦣 #paleontology
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
🧪🦑⚒️🦣 #paleontology
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For #fossilfriday, The New York Times has written a good article about the Paleontological Research Institution, what the museum means to the field of Paleontology, and its current financial situation (much improved even from a few weeks ago).
🧪🦑⚒️🦣 #paleontology
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
🧪🦑⚒️🦣 #paleontology
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
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An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025. A lot happened this year!
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Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025 - PLOS SciComm
By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2025 has been quite the wild year! With more exciting stories in human evolution than we…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025. A lot happened this year!
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And that’s a wrap on Endlings! Check out the final episode on this Lazarus land lobster
The final episode of our Endlings miniseries is out now! Learn how Lord Howe Island Giant Stick Insects (say that five times fast) came back from the dead. youtu.be/PAzVFQ1-THc?...
December 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And that’s a wrap on Endlings! Check out the final episode on this Lazarus land lobster
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Our next Bizarre Beast is the Christmas Island Red Crab! Learn all about their weird mating rituals and how they took over Christmas Island in our latest episode. youtu.be/5YsJ7q7a7fA
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Our next Bizarre Beast is the Christmas Island Red Crab! Learn all about their weird mating rituals and how they took over Christmas Island in our latest episode. youtu.be/5YsJ7q7a7fA
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A friendly competition between colleagues revealed an interesting story about hutias, giant barn owls and burrowing bees in a Caribbean cave.
Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale...
Illustration by Jorge Machuky
Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale...
Illustration by Jorge Machuky
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A friendly competition between colleagues revealed an interesting story about hutias, giant barn owls and burrowing bees in a Caribbean cave.
Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale...
Illustration by Jorge Machuky
Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale...
Illustration by Jorge Machuky
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This holiday I am in addition to avoiding Amazon, trying to shop AI-free. This ideally includes companies that do not use chatbots for any customer service. Any resources on AI-free shopping?
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This holiday I am in addition to avoiding Amazon, trying to shop AI-free. This ideally includes companies that do not use chatbots for any customer service. Any resources on AI-free shopping?
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Is extinction really always a bad thing? In the latest episode of our Endlings miniseries, we discuss a case where extinction might be for the greater good... youtu.be/46xA35awnL8?...
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Is extinction really always a bad thing? In the latest episode of our Endlings miniseries, we discuss a case where extinction might be for the greater good... youtu.be/46xA35awnL8?...
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In less than 3 hrs, I and two of my wonderful colleagues at Framestore - Creature Supervisor Dorothy Ballarini and VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson - will be doing a Reddit AMA on #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge. Here's your chance to throw questions at us :) Join us at .... www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
From the movies community on Reddit: Hi r/movies! We're the team responsible for bringing Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age to life. We are Russell Dodgson (Production VFX Supervisor), Dorothy Ba...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In less than 3 hrs, I and two of my wonderful colleagues at Framestore - Creature Supervisor Dorothy Ballarini and VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson - will be doing a Reddit AMA on #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge. Here's your chance to throw questions at us :) Join us at .... www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
I cannot think of anything I want to use less than ChatGPT when it comes to raising my baby.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I cannot think of anything I want to use less than ChatGPT when it comes to raising my baby.
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Picking up some Complexly gifts this holiday season?
To give your order the best chance of arriving before December 25th, we recommend placing your order no later than today!
More info about our shipping deadlines can be found at Complexly.store.
To give your order the best chance of arriving before December 25th, we recommend placing your order no later than today!
More info about our shipping deadlines can be found at Complexly.store.
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Picking up some Complexly gifts this holiday season?
To give your order the best chance of arriving before December 25th, we recommend placing your order no later than today!
More info about our shipping deadlines can be found at Complexly.store.
To give your order the best chance of arriving before December 25th, we recommend placing your order no later than today!
More info about our shipping deadlines can be found at Complexly.store.
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Know Baltimore-area kids interested in human #evolution, #primatology, health/ #genetics? Join @bioanth.org Education cmte this Sat for a FREE workshop on "the Science of Us"@ Baltimore Underground Science Space w/support frm @pged.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org www.eventbrite.com/e/for-13-18-...
For 13-18 year olds: The Science of Us: An Intro to Biological Anthropology
An exciting chance for 13-18 year olds to get hands-on with this field!
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December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Know Baltimore-area kids interested in human #evolution, #primatology, health/ #genetics? Join @bioanth.org Education cmte this Sat for a FREE workshop on "the Science of Us"@ Baltimore Underground Science Space w/support frm @pged.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org www.eventbrite.com/e/for-13-18-...
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Your bones remodel themselves every day. 🦴⚡
Movement creates tiny stresses that osteoclasts break down and osteoblasts rebuild stronger. Over time, your bones reshape themselves to match your habits.
Your skeleton adapts to the life you live. 🤯
Movement creates tiny stresses that osteoclasts break down and osteoblasts rebuild stronger. Over time, your bones reshape themselves to match your habits.
Your skeleton adapts to the life you live. 🤯
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Your bones remodel themselves every day. 🦴⚡
Movement creates tiny stresses that osteoclasts break down and osteoblasts rebuild stronger. Over time, your bones reshape themselves to match your habits.
Your skeleton adapts to the life you live. 🤯
Movement creates tiny stresses that osteoclasts break down and osteoblasts rebuild stronger. Over time, your bones reshape themselves to match your habits.
Your skeleton adapts to the life you live. 🤯
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FYI - Live Science is hiring! Come work with me? (Remote, US based position)
Content Manager, Live Science - Future Publishing
What you'll doOne of the world's leading, most trusted science brands, Live Science breaks down the stories behind the most interesting news and photos on the internet. Our team digs up fascinating di...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
FYI - Live Science is hiring! Come work with me? (Remote, US based position)
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Coming in late this #FossilFriday with the Scolosaurus at the London NHM. This fossil nearly killed fossil collector William Cutler when it collapsed on him while he was attempting to undercut it (don't excavate multi-ton fossils alone!).
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Coming in late this #FossilFriday with the Scolosaurus at the London NHM. This fossil nearly killed fossil collector William Cutler when it collapsed on him while he was attempting to undercut it (don't excavate multi-ton fossils alone!).
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Ah yes the classic strategy to make America healthy again by failing to protect babies from infectious disease. 🦠🧪
I’m not surprised that these folks don’t care about science or children’s health but like… to what end?? Surely the vaccine costs less than hep b treatment?? What is the point of this?
I’m not surprised that these folks don’t care about science or children’s health but like… to what end?? Surely the vaccine costs less than hep b treatment?? What is the point of this?
RFK Jr.-appointed panel removes universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for U.S. infants | CBC News
A panel of advisers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to remove the long-standing recommendation to universally vaccinate American infants against hepatitis B.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ah yes the classic strategy to make America healthy again by failing to protect babies from infectious disease. 🦠🧪
I’m not surprised that these folks don’t care about science or children’s health but like… to what end?? Surely the vaccine costs less than hep b treatment?? What is the point of this?
I’m not surprised that these folks don’t care about science or children’s health but like… to what end?? Surely the vaccine costs less than hep b treatment?? What is the point of this?
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Something doesn't quite add up about the tale of Archimedes... youtu.be/A9s8qjqxI2c?...
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Something doesn't quite add up about the tale of Archimedes... youtu.be/A9s8qjqxI2c?...
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"A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery. [The bird died] with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat." Interesting discussion in this piece. #birds #ornithology #paleontology #nature 🧪
This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why
A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery. [The bird died] with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat." Interesting discussion in this piece. #birds #ornithology #paleontology #nature 🧪
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT