Darcy Shapiro

🧪 #scicomm #invertsky

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

Opportunities matching 'earth' Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Group selfie on an Idaho beach: wide sandy expanse and blue skies. Sloth vertebra in the foreground!

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends!
🦬🐪🦥 @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @imnh208.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

A mounted reconstructed skeleton of the tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes, and its skull on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Here’s a snapshot of the basal tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes for this #FossilFriday. It lived ~80 Ma, making it a much older cousin of the famous, #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖- Discovered in Southern Utah 🇺🇸, its name means "gore king from the southwest."

#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs

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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

🚨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

The Roman Shipwreck That Helped Explain the Universe Last year I was handed one of those rare and delightful projects as a science communicator: a deep-dive story that was as strange as it was true, and that went on to reach more than 6.5 million viewers on YouTube (so far!) The video: “An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe”, was later named a Webby Award Honoree. It still feels surreal to type that. The story begins 2,000 years ago, when a Roman merchant ship, laden with more than 30 tonnes of lead ingots, sank off the coast of Sardinia.

Two thousand years ago, a Roman ship sank with 30 tonnes of lead. Today, that cargo is helping physicists probe why the universe exists. My SciShow deep dive on this story hit 6.5M views and became a Webby honoree. Here’s the tale behind it.

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon Soft tissue preservation shows this genus possessed relatively broad, short wings, indicative of adaptation for slow, highly maneuverable flight near the forest floor. While some features such as the skull and skeleton are primitive, the shape of the wings resembles that of the modern-day Hipposiderids which have a similar flight habit. Many of the limb bones are in articulation. This bat probably was overcome by toxic gases from the lake while in low-level pursuit of flying insects. Source: http://www.fossilmall.com/fossils/gf117/palaeochiropteryx-messel-bat-fossil.htm

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon This is an especially beautiful example of the famous Messel soft-body preservation. The flight membrane and the outline of the outer ears have been preserved in the finest detail by fossilized bacteria. source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Small-bat-Palaeochiropteryx-tupaiodon-Revilliod-1917-This-is-an-especially-beautiful_fig44_329970301

Here is a pair of Palaeochiropteryx specimens from the Germany's Messel Pit for #FossilFriday. Due to the exceptional circumstances of their fossilization, soft tissues were preserved, allowing the outlines of their wings and ears to remain clearly visible.

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Watch 10 Popular K-Dramas Free On Viki And Win Prizes On K-Drama Day Celebrate K-Drama Day on Viki with hit K-dramas, cool prizes and fan-exclusive content. Stream 10 popular shows for free and enter daily giveaways through Sept. 30.

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✅ Stream 10 hit #kdramas for FREE on #viki
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For more info, check out my piece👇

#KDramaDay #kpop

Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories.

They’ve saved millions of lives around the world.

We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

Mounted skeleton of the extinct short-legged rhino Teleoceras

#FossilFriday The stump-legged rhino Teleoceras at the old exhibits of the National Museum of Natural History

Americans saw extinction as an inevitable consequence of progress, connected to native peoples' removal. "The passenger pigeon - the very image of exultant wildness - will soon be a rarity," having "departed w/ the disappearance of savagery in the land. " - Harper's Weekly, 1889

Come help us get funding to make new stuff!

From L to R: Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Hank Green posing for a photo on the set of Ask Hank Anything.

The final guests of our first season @try-guys.bsky.social are grilling @hankgreen.bsky.social on why moths feel like that and if octopus is aliens, Wednesday!

Come help us get funding to make new stuff!

YouTube video by PBS Eons That Time Sharks Got Weird

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When We First Met Lucy How a three-foot-tall skeleton became the most famous fossil in the world

Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺

Buckle up, gang. We're headed back in time. 🏺
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Last reminder! Applications for the Sound Science Fellowship are due this Friday, September 19 at 11:49 PM ET! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #EducationalResearch #edusky #museumed #edresearch #scied

#talesteethtell #biologicalanthropology #teeth | Tanya M. Smith Looking forward to sharing some #TalesTeethTell next week for the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research! All are welcome for a short and accessible introduction to #BiologicalAnthropology a...

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Introducing: The Science Baby Podcast 🎙️ When I first became a mum, I found myself constantly Googling everything about babies: sleep, feeding, milestones, and the quirky little things I never expected. Because I’m a science communicator at heart, I couldn’t stop digging into the actual research behind those questions. That’s how Science Baby began. What started as a few fun TikTok videos quickly grew into a community of parents and carers who, like me, wanted evidence-based parenting science explained in a way that’s warm, funny, and relatable to real life. Why Start a Parenting Science Podcast?

Introducing: The Science Baby Podcast 🎙️

When I first became a mum, I found myself constantly Googling everything about babies: sleep, feeding, milestones, and the quirky little things I never expected. Because I’m a science communicator at heart, I couldn’t stop digging into the actual research…

Human Rights First Launches ReadyNow! App to Offer Lifeline to Immigrants During ICE Encounters - Human Rights First Today, Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab announced the launch of ReadyNow!, a free and secure mobile app designed to help immigrants prepare for possible detention and act quickly in moments of cris...

If you know anyone who might benefit, this is an app where folks can prepare emergency plans, send them immediately to emergency contacts, and send details to pro bono immigration lawyers in the event they are detained by ICE.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.

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Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

I didn’t watch it, but the kdrama podcast I listen to did and it maybe gets…a bit weird? No spoilers, just weird vibes.

Powerline’s songs in “A Goofy Movie” go way too hard

Museum display case containing fossilized bone fragments of Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis specimen. The ancient hominin fossils are arranged on a dark surface under protective glass, showing various skeletal remains including what appear to be skull fragments, jaw pieces, and other bone fragments. The 3.2 million-year-old fossils are displayed with dramatic lighting against a dark background, with reflections visible in the glass case above. The fragments vary in size and show the characteristic brown coloration of fossilized bone.

Lucy is currently on display for the first time in Europe. 🏺