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TheGingerGeologist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☮️
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She/her Finds bones and squishy bits of dead vertebrates fascinating. Often found with laden backpack (yes, it IS full of rocks, or bones) staring at the ground
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
careers-nyit.icims.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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We’ve voted all week to pick the #OreCup finalists, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year.

Learn, share, vote, campaign! The choice is yours.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Results:
Results for Ore Cup Finals! — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Live results for the FINAL MATCH! This match will run for 48 hours .
www.mineralcup.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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You never know who doesn’t get enough to eat at home, so if people show up at my door I feed them.

If you are able, consider donating to a local food bank. Times are tough.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩

🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳

The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#OreCup FINALS: It’s time!

Place your vote to decide the IMA Ore Mineral of the Year: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Vote in Semifinals Match 2 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Vote in Molybdenite vs Bornite Credit: Jyrki Autio and Kelly Nash
www.mineralcup.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?

We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).

More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#GeoCinema is back for #EGU26!

Whether you have filmed fantastic spectacles in the field or produced an educational feature on the Earth, planetary, or space sciences - it's time to submit your short film 🎞️!
📅Submission deadline: 5 December 2025
👀 Application details: egu.eu/13NFE9
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A vote for Bornite is a vote for peacocks everywhere 🦚🦚🦚
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Friends, I’ve had a few guest scientists cancel, which means that if you’re interested and can get to Miami next week or the week after, I may have a spot for you to join us for a day of shark research!
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪

"Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"
Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data
Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systema...
dx.doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Reconstructing October #Arctic sea ice extent since 1850...

Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7265/jj4s...
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🚨JOB ALERT : ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGIST 🚨

Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey!

💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month

📆 Application due: 11/17/2025

calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Engineering Seismologist
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
calcareers.ca.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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🔸To see more, look at the Duty Statement available at the link below.

calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Engineering Seismologist
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
calcareers.ca.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#OreCup R1M4: Will you be entranced by #Carrollite’s octahedral crystals and cobalt ore? Or will the rainbows of peacock rock and its heftier copper content lure you to #Bornite?

vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results:
www.mineralcup.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
As near as I can tell, that man has zero taste or style for architecture or renovation.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🚨New paper alert!🚨
🧪⚒️

Terrestrial gigantism evolved through divergent pathways, with dinosaurs favoring cortical reinforcement while mammals adopted flexible trabecular expansion strategies

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
BONE STRUCTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFERENT PATHWAYS TO GIGANTISM IN DINOSAURS AND MEGAMAMMALS
Bone microanatomy provides critical information about the biomechanical strategies employed by vertebrates to sustain large body sizes. Yet, direct co…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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My amazing colleague Shelley Sianta (not on bsky) is looking for a tech to join her new lab at UT Austin. The position will involve lab, greenhouse, and field work to study local adaptation and speciation in plants. Please share! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Research Engineering/Scientist Associate I
Job Posting Title: Research Engineering/Scientist Associate I ---- Hiring Department: Department of Integrative Biology ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA ...
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic Blue Mosque, officials said. https://to.pbs.org/47HUdXL
Powerful 6.3 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing 20 and damaging historic Blue Mosque
A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic Blue Mosque, officials...
www.pbs.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology?

Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠

Closing 4 Dec!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle University on FindAPhD....
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle Universit...
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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M 6.3 earthquake 22 km WSW of Khulm, Afghanistan earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The first match in #OreCup is on now as #Galena and #Copper battle for your vote. Do you favour the lead ore or the native metal?

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:
www.mineralcup.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM