Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲

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

Chasmosaurus?

Late to this but I owe my career in paleo to women, especially Akiko Shinya. Akiko is the chief vertebrate fossil preparator at the Field Museum and likes to joke that when we met, I was close to her height lol

Its #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩‍🔬🔬🧪 I am very fortunate to be colleague with, mentor of, & to be mentored by so many fantastic #womeninscience. I just want to remind, that the more equal science is, the more diverse it is, the better it is for everyone (even grumpy white man like self)

YouTube video by YURA ZVONAR YURA ZVONAR-Щоб тут не було ( Київське море)

Fantastic song by Yura Zvonar "No matter what comes our way" is very funny, but also encapsulates defiance of Ukrainians, boiling down to "you bomb our power stations - we will throw an outdoor rave in the dead of winter" #standwithUkraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11t...

(important caveat - the further you go from today, the more fragmented and pointless "progressive label" become - person X could have been staunch abolitionists, which is laudable, but also quite sexist)

@nataliajagielska.bsky.social, are you open to making an admittingly shorter thread about founders of palaeobiology who were progressive for their time? Humboldt and Darwin do jump in mind, but also Maria Sibylla Merian (more of grandma of ecology, but she was interested in fossils)

Garishly red and white spotted Sally Lightfoot crab. crab sitting on the rock

Brownish and covered with little warts, crab Erephia verrucosa underwater

🦀 of Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain, from last week at the Island - Grapsus adsceonensis and Erephia verrucosa

ah, Miocene, right, Libros then - nice Lagerstatte

Is Spanish frog from Libros o Camp del Ninots ?

Does Ankylosauridae vs Celruosaurids distribution in Utah denotes some kind of habitat/ environment turnover? Sorry for the dumb question

#Fossilfriday what happens if you are a a palaeontologist and you find a #ossil vertebrate in (Chipas, Mexican) amber? You drag the specimen to synchrothrone scan of course - our paper with Kevin de Queiroz on tail of Anole #lizard in Miocene amber 🦖⚒️🦎
bioone.org/journals/jou...

How fossil insects projects are going: 2016 "Oh, cute poorly preserved Jurassic Chironomid, subject for a very quick note" - 2024 "All right, learning curve for BioGeoBears is steep, but we also need a morphological phylogeny in this paper..." #Fossilfriday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🦖⚒️

Um, edaphosaurus?

its a nested doll, same thing always inside - exploitative authoritarian regime, just size is shrinking with time

In Ukraine, communist party is prohibited as a carrier of violent ideology, based on the crimes of soviet regime. So I am not sure how much of crazed lefties we are. but probably a lot as you can guess

beautifull Keeltail Needlefish (Platybelone argalus) in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain #fish #naturephotgraphy 🐙🐟

great to have you onboard! as well as @emmadnn.bsky.social and @laenavarro.bsky.social - rest of the co authors are not on this platform unofrtunately

I mean, I am Ukrainian, I worked as a civil servant in Germany, and now in public research in Spain, by my standards of eating everyday and getting my heating/ electricity bills paid, yes its alright. But I was suggesting that we SHOULD pay public servants, i.e. scientist well

I know that @tetzoo.bsky.social likes those dinosaur-y moments

Grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) hunting migratory locust at Lanzarote, Spain. If you still don¨t mentally accept modern birds as dinosaurs, maybe that will help 🦖⚒️ #birding

I guess it makes a good case for more public funding for science (we pay public servants well to prevent or reduce corruption and schmoozing with billionaires) and more equality support programms (enforced). But I am not stupid, that's out of sync with current sentiments of society

Syninclusions from hell - piece of Baltic amber with ants, flies and pupa of Anisopodidae #fossils. I was mostly looking up for this window gnat (Mycetobia sp) larva, a regular fixture in Eocene ambers from Europe, commonly associated with decomposing plant matter🦖⚒️