Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲

Interesting consequence of that, is that SNSB (Bavarian state Nat-hist collections) - descendant of state collection, has designed some of its building including state Zoological collection (ZSM) as semi-/ underground structures, capable of surviving bombardments (but not palaeo collection)

Baryonyx?

Even besides her being a women, it's a nice break to see scientist not shown as stupid/evil/immediately killed (or all of the above)

Well. They got female geoscientist, that and Elly Saetler like the only ones in the movies. So that's something for science representation

was not word "pre-cambrian" used in the movie too?

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

Black Adder Goes Forth - 1 to 1 clip.wmv YouTube video by 3jewell

4th anniversary of full scale russian invasion of #Ukraine, 4 years ago, mortified for my parents whose city lost mobile network & was encircled by russians, was not expecting to read today about hundreds of UA strikes on RU. am extra petty today, hence "BlackAdder" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZT-...

four years on into full scale invasion, 12 yrs into russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine still stands, due to determination of Ukrainians and help of friends world over. I hope beyond hope that its the last time we mark anniversary of the war´s beginning while its still ongoing

four years ago russian army stormed within 2 km of my parents home, killed our friend and neibourgh Leonid, who did all the carpentry for us, and burned dad´s office. Today russian troops are far away from Chernihiv. Kept at bay by will and fire of Ukrainian defenders. #Ukraine is not loosing

Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus Researchers with ADHD discuss its peaks and valleys and how they structure their work lives to succeed.

Started reading this excellent piece on scientist with #ADHD navigating academia, but had troubles concentrating enough reading it in one go - if you know - you know
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is perfect, crynoids sureley had a civilization of angry-echinodermate people, bacj in palaeozoic!

And here I will plug one I am editing, we are 💎OA, thanks to kind support of Czech Geological Survey, and we do have a IF. Come publish your fossils with us y´all www.geology.cz/bulletin/

I would guess that either one country focus is indeed to narrow, or paper brushing on the ongoing war is making it different from talking about Global North-Global South colonialism dynamic. Dont know honestly

Thanks @cisneros.bsky.social ! We been rejected by several of those, but I am sure that Palaeo Electronica will take it in the end, cause I talked to some editors preliminary and they were open to it. PE got to be my favorite journal ever

ah, thanks! I was thinking of pulling rank in one of the journals I am editing - i.e. to talk to the EIC and explain to them that we should tackle our "darkness within" (the field)

Please translate abbreviation? Geoheritage?

currently searching for journal for ms on impact of colonialism on UA palaeo - but it appears to be too political for many traditional journals in the field. Its upsetting to see which topics journals/ people choose to see as problematic

Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) - PalZ Here we present new insights into Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) preserved in Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. We describe a new genus and species, Electroneura pinhoi gen. et sp. nov., seemingly rel...

For #fossilfriday 🦖 another lesser-known amber deposit - Lebanese amber, early Cretaceous of Northern Gondwana. Here a fun little midge co-authored with my PhD student Andre Amaral, & palaeontologist par excellence - Dany Azar,responsible for most of discoveries in the deposit tinyurl.com/3tejef7a

Kyiv zoo braves blackouts and bombardment to keep animals warm Staff are using stoves and generators to keep lions, camels and Ukraine’s lone gorilla safe from winter and war

Beautifull and heartbreaking paper on superhuman efforts of Kyiv zoo workers to keep animals alive in russia-made blackout. But spring is coming, evil seeds its own destruction, and one day zoos of #Ukraine will return from survival to leading conservation
tinyurl.com/bdcvrph9

Buthus sp scorpion from Grazalema mountains in Cadiz province

Not a widely known fact about #Ukraine, is that it has rich amber deposits, contemporary but distinct from Baltic one (Rovno amber), so mid-Eocene, 38 MYA. Here is a frog-biting midge from our old paper on Rovno amber tinyurl.com/2jdmaz7j #Ukraine have many #fossils waiting peace to be studied 🦖⚒️

Have you noticed how people calling out Epstein and systemic misogyny in sciences, are usually early career women. They put emotional labour, time, and career on the line.

While men, in the field they dominate, earn more, and behaviour they enable, just go on as if nothing has happened.

Thanks!

I was recently told, that Ukrainians are innatley better at resilience that everyone else. It infuriated me, an I went on a rant, about resilience being unfortunate sideffect of russian war of agression. We all mostly shaped by environment, but eugenics crowd really dont get natural selection

Hi @hormiga.bsky.social ,
Can you tell me, why did you picked 19th of March for Taxonomists appreciation day? I will be running an event at @ebdonana.bsky.social on 19th of March, talking about of role in taxonomy in ecology , and I wanted to tell a couple of words about "taxonomis appr. day"

I am 3d modelling catchment of a river in the mountains of Pacific North-West, how is your saturday going?🧪🪰

Comparison of relative occurrences of neuropteran larvae versus lepidopteran larvae in ambers of three different ages: Cretaceous (left), Eocene (middle), Miocene (or possibly Oligocene to Miocene; right)

In same paper, we looked at the relative abundance of the Neuroptera and Buttefly larvae since Cretaceous. After the rise of butterflies in the Cretaceous Angiosperm revolution, Neuropt. declined, probably 🐛were to tough of a lunch for them, and they became a large part of phytophagous biomass 🦖⚒️

Adelidae moth caterpillar, carrying a protective case made of plant matter, amber fossil

I especially like this Adelidae caterpillar or Fairy moth, that carried a protective case made of leaves wherever it went - specimen from Dominican amber ⚒️🦖

Unknown caterpillar from the Dominican amber

Inchworm or Geometridae moth caterpillar, shown from the left and right side

Do you like caterpillars? What's not too love, they are always hungry and they turn into butterflies (or moths, and technically- some into the sawlies). For #fossilfriday I want to highlight our Miocene caterpillars paper 🦖⚒️🐛https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.55.3.7