@darcyshapiro.bsky.social
BioAnthro PhD. Miocene apes, hips, locomotion, trabecular bone. 💀 Editorial Director: PBS Eons, Bizarre Beasts, and anything else the Greenhouse team cooks up. 🦕🦔🪴 she/her #GoBlue
Next up on Ask Hank Anything is Angela Giarratana! If you want to know what's in store for episode two, you can expect some tears, light trolling, and at least one sonnet.
Angela really is asking anything of Hank in this one. Give it a watch February 11th at youtube.com/complexly!
Whale Evolution:
Flamingo-Legged Watermelon Mouse
Mutant Sewer Rat King
Gator Wolf
Steel-Jawed PollyWorg
Titan MerSausage
Who’s the better dinosaur, T. rex or Triceratops?
I make the case for the tyrant lizard and EONS’ Kallie Moore takes Triceratops in this episode of Smash Boom Best. 🦖
A great horned owl in a tree
It’s #SuperbOwl Sunday!
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Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
I want to start including conservation success stories at the end of every lecture in my #mammalogy class.
Anyone have recommendations for success stories for any group of mammals? Especially mammals that are perhaps less charismatic and therefore harder to find examples for.
#highered #scicomm
Large blue "C" logo above text reading "Complexly is now a 501c3 nonprofit!" with colorful curved stripes at the bottom of the image.
Complexly is excited to share that we are now a 501c3 nonprofit, built on the idea that good information is worth it.
New structure. Same mission. Bigger impact.
Find out how you can support free, independent, trustworthy education at Complexly.org
I coauthored the part on media coverage! Check out Table 2, a framework for weighing risks/rewards of different levels of media engagement by scholars: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
04.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I’m excited and proud to work for Complexly as we transition to a nonprofit!
04.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Outer space is none of our business
03.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A human-caused extinction we can all be stoked about!
Curious about a potential Guinea worm endling? We made a whole series about lasts-of-their-kind over on @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social
I KNEW IT!! For years I've been telling my students "Never trust plants," & now @pbseons.bsky.social backs me up. Those photoautotroph baddies have been running roughshod with zero accountability since the Carboniferous. Watch, learn, & beware. 🧪🌿☠️
02.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Photograph showing a large reddish-orange sediment pillar in the foreground, with a whale skull eroding out at its top. The weathered bone is white, and impressions of several teeth are apparent. Fantastical wind-carved outcrops fill the background, and are set against a blue-grey sky.
I spent this #FossilFriday at Wadi al Hitan in Egypt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where early whales like this Basilosaurus are hard to miss as they weather out of the Eocene Birket Qarun Formation. (Wadi al Hitan translates as "Valley of the Whales.")
30.01.2026 20:56 — 👍 64 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
can you guess the next bizarre beast? silhouette of a beast in lime green!
Our next bizarre beast is really more of a collection of beasts that all have this one dark thing in common. Some may not surprise you, like deep sea fish, but we've seen it with butterflies and birds as well! Can you guess this beast, or it's bizarre feature?
30.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Great opportunity at Uni Tübingen, one of the premier places for paleoanthropology research uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...
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It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.
30.01.2026 02:16 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Our Executive Producer, Meghan Modafferi, recently talked to @hankgreen.bsky.social about how Crash Course is made and how science works. Along the way they discussed the world of information, pseudoscience, and why we've never done a Crash Course on math. youtu.be/DpGU8NARX-s
28.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 45 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
In the new episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we’ll learn how to interpret the statistics we see in our daily lives. And we’ll explore why we need stats to make informed judgments, be more precise about what we don’t know, and get closer to what we can know. youtu.be/Lw4oMXTEAkw
27.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 86 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2📣There is still time to submit your Late Breaking Science abstract! Submissions are due February 2. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
26.01.2026 23:57 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
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a cutout of a photo of Brennan with a hand-drawn wizard costume.
Brennan Lee Mulligan holding an orange peanut m&m pointing toward the camera
Brennan Lee Mulligan mid-laugh with eyes full of bewilderment
Hank Green points out features of a shell he gifted to Brennan Lee Mulligan on set.
The first guest on Ask Hank Anything is @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social. In classic Brennan fashion, there will be snacks, bird facts, and good old-fashioned friendship in this episode. If you’re curious how long you could live eating only candy, you should tune in Jan 28th at youtube.com/complexly
23.01.2026 19:51 — 👍 67 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 3
BIG props to the Science Museum of Minnesota for participating in the strike, protesting against the ICE offensive.
Taking a stand and closing their doors today also means losing out on revenue — so if you'd like to help them out, they've got some cool paleo merch...
store.smm.org/collections/...
My colleagues at @thecrashcourse.bsky.social are looking for subject matter experts in marine biology and English language arts! complexly.com/jobs/
20.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Science is our attempt to become less wrong over time. And in honor of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we put it on a shirt! Get yours at complexly.info/ccsci
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The final stop on our Field Trips Tour is Dr. Beth Stevens’s lab at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Fun fact: the Stevens Lab is bigger than some entire university departments, and is spread across Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard, and MIT!
youtu.be/ZVt3t5zmvT8?...
A little skull with horns and big eyes held over an open drawer with trays holding more bones.
Check out this cutie: an extinct Myotragus (“mouse goat”) from southern France.
21.01.2026 20:51 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0My colleagues at @thecrashcourse.bsky.social are looking for subject matter experts in marine biology and English language arts! complexly.com/jobs/
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