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James Boyle
@jamesboypaleozoic.bsky.social
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Teaching professor in the geology department at SUNY UB since 2019 as the resident paleontologist. Focused on the lower Paleozoic arthrodire placoderms and graptolites and their uses in quantitative biostratigraphy and macroevolution.
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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drdonhaas.bsky.social
hechingerreport.org/climate-chan...

If you're doing this kind of work, check out the resources from PRI's Center for Climate Change Education: climate.earthathome.org. Our Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change is friendly to more than just teachers!
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Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees
University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
hechingerreport.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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nicrodemo.bsky.social
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
Picture of MEME students on the beach
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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parismarx.com
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑

@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social

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Saving the Museum
After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to
www.ithaca.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
FALL SHOP UPDATE! 🍁
New enamel pins, stickers, prints, and so much more will be added to my site this Friday 10/10 @ 11 am PDT!
You can preview everything here!
🛒🐛: shop.fossilforager.art
A mockup image with white bubbled text that reads “Shop Update! October 10th @ 11 am PDT” with a link url below (shop.fossilforager.art). There is a collage of sticker sheets and enamel pins around the text, featuring insects and deep sea marine creatures on a whale skeleton. The sticker sheets have weevils and sea creatures. They are placed on a yellow-orange gradient.
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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willgearty.bsky.social
@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal!

It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.

news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
Open Source, Open Science: New App Leads Data Reproducibility
Open-source app "Paleopal" facilitates replication and sharing of information among researchers using data science tools to create workflows.
news.syr.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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pseudacris.bsky.social
Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
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Join the lab
The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....
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October 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
www.understandingai.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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sirjoscha.bsky.social
Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely!

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42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)
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September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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tweetisaurus.bsky.social
JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology:
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September 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day147 of photoshopping @tldparchives.bsky.social's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

May I suggest another thing John (H. sapiens) can fill a giant mug with to get through the day could be PRI's Paleozoic Pals Plushies? #savePRI 🧪
John Oliver hefting a comically large mug with a Reese's peanut butter cup design filled with a green trilobite, a blue and white buzzsaw shark, and a purple straight-shelled nautiloid cephalopod
September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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djbirddanerd.bsky.social
Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
dx.doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content.

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September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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draliceclement.bsky.social
New paper out yesterday "New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipient site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition and resorption"

Read it now in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipient site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition and resorption - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The arthrodiran placoderm Bullerichthys fascidens, from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia, was originally described from an incomplete headshield with only the spinal and interolater...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
Do you know a mineralogist/petrologist/geochemist looking for a TT faculty position in a great department?

The School of Geosciences at OU is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the general fields of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology. Please share with anyone interested! 🧪🪨⛏️
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September 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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andremoncrieff.bsky.social
🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

Please share!
Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution
The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...
www.moncriefflab.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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rowanmartindale.bsky.social
Mass extinction/Paleozoic friends... I have some folks in my Extinction class eager to read about Paleozoic biotic crises, so what's your favorite paper/papers about these events? Both new/exciting and classic/seminal work in the field would be appreciated. Self promotion welcome 😜.
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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andrejpaleo.bsky.social
The most detailed study so far of the coordinated stasis (the extension of the punctuated equilibria and "Turnover pulse") — episodes of coordinated morphological and ecological stability of the whole faunas:
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology
The concepts of "turnover pulse" and the "coordinated stasis" Schematic of Middle Devonian bioevents and ecological–evolutionary subunits (EESUs) with common brachiopods and other representative taxa
September 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
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September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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whosyourmammal.bsky.social
Calling all Palaeontology PhD candidates and post-docs everywhere! No matter what your particular field of research or country of institution, please follow forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT... and fill in my ANONYMOUS RESEARCH SURVEY – #Yourpalaeolife : investigating fieldwork by early career palaeontologists
#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork
Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...
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August 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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fossillad123.bsky.social
Sacabambaspis

[ #paleoart | #sacabambaspis | #jawlessfish | #3Dart | #art ]
March 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM