N.S. Vitek
@nsvitek.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Consumed by describing shapes and learning how to c̶o̶o̶k̶ get little humans to eat collard greens w̶e̶l̶l̶ at all.
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N.S. Vitek
@nsvitek.bsky.social
· Jun 6
Association with Musk has damaged the @royalsociety.org 's reputation so much that I no longer want my work to be associated with their journals. I've withdrawn my manuscript from their review process at Proceedings B. 1/4
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The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
If the original #SVP2025 feed isn't capturing everything you want, you can try this one: bsky.app/profile/did:...
(this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)
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November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If the original #SVP2025 feed isn't capturing everything you want, you can try this one: bsky.app/profile/did:...
(this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)
(this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan!
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan!
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
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Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
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Historical reflection by a legendary biometrician, morphometrists, and statistician F. James Rohlf on the emergence of mathematization of the classification and systematics during his life time.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Historical reflection by a legendary biometrician, morphometrists, and statistician F. James Rohlf on the emergence of mathematization of the classification and systematics during his life time.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
I dunno, the prez of the Royal Society maybe called it right. He keeps Elon happy. All he has to weather are strongly worded letters/posts. He might be scared if he were facing public resignations, boycotts of submitting & reviewing for Royal Society journals...but so far what does he have to fear?
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I dunno, the prez of the Royal Society maybe called it right. He keeps Elon happy. All he has to weather are strongly worded letters/posts. He might be scared if he were facing public resignations, boycotts of submitting & reviewing for Royal Society journals...but so far what does he have to fear?
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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 5:21 PM
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I am so grateful to all the teachers & students who have participated in the NSF-funded Postcards from the Past project & to my collaborators Tina Miller-Way, JoAnn Mitchell Moody, Nancy Raia, & Linda Hill. Examples of student Postcards are currently on display at the Alabama Aquarium!
Since 2019, Discovery Hall Programs has partnered with Dr. Paul Harnik to develop Postcards from the Past. An interactive activity developed from the field to the classroom to explore the environmental history of the Northern Gulf Coast. A collection is displayed in the Alabama Aquarium.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am so grateful to all the teachers & students who have participated in the NSF-funded Postcards from the Past project & to my collaborators Tina Miller-Way, JoAnn Mitchell Moody, Nancy Raia, & Linda Hill. Examples of student Postcards are currently on display at the Alabama Aquarium!
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I highly encourage folks to apply! I received one in 2015 and it resulted in several publications, including a new species of pinniped (Allodesmus demerei) with Morgan Churchill and a paper on the youngest known "proto-seal" Enaliarctos from Oregon with @ashpoust.bsky.social.
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I highly encourage folks to apply! I received one in 2015 and it resulted in several publications, including a new species of pinniped (Allodesmus demerei) with Morgan Churchill and a paper on the youngest known "proto-seal" Enaliarctos from Oregon with @ashpoust.bsky.social.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Congrats to Sanaa El-Sayed on her DEEP Award from the Paleontological Society!
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congrats to Sanaa El-Sayed on her DEEP Award from the Paleontological Society!
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Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
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October 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
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Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...
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ICB Issue 4 is out
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
October 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ICB Issue 4 is out
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
including papers from
#Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales
from Jordanna Sprayberry & more
see more about Jordanna's work via
spraylab.bergbuilds.domains
& read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4
#bees
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
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“In less than a year, the Blackout Report has tracked more than 15,700 attacks on Black progress - erasing data, banning books, cutting research, and dismantling opportunity...” 1 of 3
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“In less than a year, the Blackout Report has tracked more than 15,700 attacks on Black progress - erasing data, banning books, cutting research, and dismantling opportunity...” 1 of 3
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I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.
Attending #GSAConnects in #GSASanAntonio with @geosociety.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social and more? Skeets now centralized in a custom feed!
Find it by searching "GSA Connects" in Bluesky's feed manager and subscribe. Have fun!
(PS: if I should add more keywords/accts to populate feed, lmk)
Find it by searching "GSA Connects" in Bluesky's feed manager and subscribe. Have fun!
(PS: if I should add more keywords/accts to populate feed, lmk)
October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Attending #GSAConnects in #GSASanAntonio with @geosociety.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social and more? Skeets now centralized in a custom feed!
Find it by searching "GSA Connects" in Bluesky's feed manager and subscribe. Have fun!
(PS: if I should add more keywords/accts to populate feed, lmk)
Find it by searching "GSA Connects" in Bluesky's feed manager and subscribe. Have fun!
(PS: if I should add more keywords/accts to populate feed, lmk)
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For folks interested in interdisciplinary PhD or postdoc opportunities - catch me on Sunday or Monday, I look forward to meeting you!
This talk touches only on one out of many topical foci in my lab at Hopkins - curious? Here's our lab homepage:
www.jasminawiemann.com
This talk touches only on one out of many topical foci in my lab at Hopkins - curious? Here's our lab homepage:
www.jasminawiemann.com
Jasmina Wiemann's PaLEO Lab | JHU
Lab homepage for Jasmina Wiemann's PaLEO Lab (Molecular Geo-, Astro-, Paleobiology) at Johns Hopkins University.
www.jasminawiemann.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For folks interested in interdisciplinary PhD or postdoc opportunities - catch me on Sunday or Monday, I look forward to meeting you!
This talk touches only on one out of many topical foci in my lab at Hopkins - curious? Here's our lab homepage:
www.jasminawiemann.com
This talk touches only on one out of many topical foci in my lab at Hopkins - curious? Here's our lab homepage:
www.jasminawiemann.com
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Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
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Strong recommend that everyone follow @sarahtaber.bsky.social . She represents excellence in science communication.
She's funny, knowledgeable, and has the rare ability to communicate her research from super simple, tweet sized info, right down to "I wrote the book and taught the class."
She's funny, knowledgeable, and has the rare ability to communicate her research from super simple, tweet sized info, right down to "I wrote the book and taught the class."
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Strong recommend that everyone follow @sarahtaber.bsky.social . She represents excellence in science communication.
She's funny, knowledgeable, and has the rare ability to communicate her research from super simple, tweet sized info, right down to "I wrote the book and taught the class."
She's funny, knowledgeable, and has the rare ability to communicate her research from super simple, tweet sized info, right down to "I wrote the book and taught the class."
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A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4
The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil
How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...
climateages.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4