The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (gnsi.org) has a job board they update regularly for requests like this. Researchers can contact news@gnsi.org with specs and GNSI will post it if it fits their guidelines. Paying work only, no spec work, but other than that, no job is too small #sciart
NHMLA has a student collections study award (deadline April 1) - nhm.org/student-coll.... NHM has great paleontology collections, AND it's near many other museums (Alf, San Bernardino Co. Museum, Western Center, Cooper Center, San Diego NHM), so a SoCal paleo trip can cover a lot of institutions!
Heads up to PhDs applying to non-academic jobs: don't refer to the role you're applying for in your cover letter as an "industry postdoc" and imply that you're still interested, even if the role is "entry-level" (when it's decidedly not). Especially if the hiring manager is... also a PhD.
#Paleontology #paleoartists #dinosaursandmor! Submit something! Get your artwork on exhibit at MOR!
Because “looking at images, not catalogs” is a dying pastime, the paper includes a tutorial on -how- to interpret images of galaxies. Qualitative information alone can get you a surprisingly long way towards a reasonable model, if you’re thinking through the links between morphology and physics.
A stoneware mug in white and pale green with a skull and bone texture.
Skull mug. One of a kind. Hand-built. Stoneware. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Azhdarchid kibble
The amount of belittling, vitriol and arrogance I see from the community each time a palaeontology-adjecent media project shows up. Guys, you don't come off as intelligent by demeaning individual production members, you just prove you've no experience working in media, and come of as mean spirited.
It's similar to overly harsh critiques of museum displays. Yes, I know the Allosaurus doesn't have a furcula and isn't 100% accurately posed, and the artwork is dated. No, unless you have $100k to upgrade the exhibit, there's not much I can do about it at this instant.
My sister (a non-paleontologist, high school diploma but no college) reached out to me because she's excited to share it with her kids. Yes, maximal accuracy is great, but getting non-scientists excited is also so, so important (esp. if the overall accuracy is pretty decent)!
The "well, actually..." school of science communication/science media discussion. Social media rewards snark and hot takes, and so The Discourse tilts that way.
After all that, my Hot Take is that the community/paleo-fan opinions on these matter minimally. The majority of the viewers' opinions *do*.
Science reporter/journalist/writer job alert at Nature!
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/es/SpringerN...
#journalism #jobs #science #naturemag #dc #nyc
Very cool volunteer opportunity relative to Dinosaur National Monument!
Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications - Morrison - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Netflix promo poster for The Dinosaurus, showing Spinosaurus jaws in shallow water with a shark swimming toward them.
Last night I watched all 4 eps of the new Netflix series The Dinosaurs. I tend not to comment on these kinds of shows as, having worked on them, I find that those people who criticize or critique them have no understanding of the competing pressures and factors inherent to the TV industry... 1/8
Paleontology kids books are the best.
Going to print this out and put it above my desk
Looks like a super awesome paper! Very timely for some work we are doing with tyrannosaur teeth in the "Mesaverde" Formation of Wyoming, too.
Our study on the southernmost occurrence of Purgatorius was published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology! Thanks to all the Brooklyn College undergraduates and DMNS interns who found these needles in a haystack of fossiliferous sediment!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! 🤢🤮
Current citation style:
MacFadden, B. J. et al. (2026). AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification. Paleobiology, 1–17. doi: 10.1017/pab.2025.10084
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Really? Nearly 80% of respondents say they understand the differences among IPA styles. I am not sure 80% of professional brewers understand the differences between IPA styles."
The ultimate in niche comic strips: mathematicians encounter mammalian dental formulae:
xkcd.com/3213/
Last week, amidst the hoopla over a new Speen, @fishfetisher.bsky.social suggested a review of naming papers in fancy journals in response to a post by @daveyfwright.bsky.social - I got bored after work and now I have (some) data!
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#FossilFriday
#CharismaticTaxaAreOverrated
I am unreasonably excited to be able to access the Tar Pits via Metro.
