By December 2022, all universities in Afghanistan had closed their doors to women.
🚨 New paper alert! Delighted to have been involved in this @nature.com study using trait-based ecosystem modelling to examine plankton extinction patterns in the first *100 years* after the Chicxulub impact event at the #Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. ☄️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trait-based ecosystem modelling shows that impact-driven darkness and body-size-dependent extinction thresholds, rather than carbon-dioxide increase or acidification, drove most of the observed end-Cr...
"Fellows shall not act or fail to act in any way which would […] bring the Society into disrepute." But this morning ministers condemned Elon Musk FRS for enabling violence on the streets of Belfast. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Would the @royalsociety.org like to comment?
James Witts
Ever wondered what impact climate may have had on dinosaur body size? Us too! 🧵
Check out our new paper that tries to answer just that—out today in Palaeontology! @thepalass.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Aline Ghilardi
Was für ein großartiger Bericht von @luilog.bsky.social! Es ist selten, dass deutsche Medien den kolonialen und extraktivistischen Hintergrund solcher Fälle thematisieren. Definitiv lesenswert.
#IrritatorBelongsToBR
Body size evolution is commonly associated with climate change. For example, birds and mammals have been found to decrease in size with anthropogenic global warming. Recent studies have inferred dist...
Yesterday, I posted a thread explaining (1) the problems with the 🇧🇷🇩🇪 Declaration, (2) how they are aggravated in the 🇩🇪 version, and (3) the change in the 🇧🇷 version.
Make sure to read it first.👇
Now, I'll tell you what this means for the future of #IrritatorBelongsToBR & #DecolonizeScience. [1/8]
I've been part of the #IrritatorBelongsToBR movement since the very beginning. When the declaration announcing the German “willingness” to return it came out, however, I had serious concerns.
I explained them on @diplomatiquebrasil.bsky.social and will summarize the article here. [1/13]
Ein Dinosaurierschädel aus dem Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart soll in sein Herkunftsland Brasilien zurückgehen. Ein Beispiel neokolonialer Forschungspraktiken.
🚨 New croc paper alert!
Another study led by Ana Laura Paiva (PhD student I co-supervise with Max Langer) is out today in Palaeontology!
We revisit a classic question with new tools: how big were notosuchians, really? 🐊📏
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Art: @mirantakouvari.bsky.social
Lauren Wilson
Stephen Curry
Letícia Haertel
Letícia Haertel
Letícia Haertel
Irritator challengeri, the best preserved Spinosaurus skull ever discovered, is finally heading home to Brazil!
The announcement comes years after tireless attempts from Brazilian scholars to see the fossil repatriated from a German museum.
#Paleontology #Spinosaurus
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New at @science.org
By December 2022, all universities in Afghanistan had closed their doors to women.tcnv.link
I've been part of the #IrritatorBelongsToBR movement since the very beginning. When the declaration announcing the German “willingness” to return it came out, however, I had serious concerns.
I explained them on @diplomatiquebrasil.bsky.social and will summarize the article here. [1/13]
Letícia Haertel
Taylor Mitchell Brown
Germany and Brazil reach agreement over controversial fossil, heralding new collaboration between the two nations
