mauritiantales

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palaeontologist. applied #datascientist. social #justice. #ethics. she/her. views my own.

Many know the #climatestripes, created by @JoanESheldon and popularized by Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading in 2018. They are a simple series of vertical coloured bars, showing the heating of the planet over 200 years.

Not everyone knows about the Global Bio Stripes. They show the decline of wildlife from 1970 to 2016 (based on data from Living Planet Index)

#sustainability #ESG #Biodiversity #ForNature

https://findingnature.org.uk/2022/08/10/biodiversity-stripes/

Biodiversity Stripes โ€“ A Journey from Green to Grey

Finding Nature
Global South has been subsidizing the Global North for centuries. Climate coloniality extends imperialism, extraction, and colonial violence from the past to the present into the future. #ClimateColoniality #ClimateJustice
It's been quite an interesting day...
Had fun working on this one with Gene Hunt and @lhliow highlighting our view of the future growth in macroevolutionary research, and how the new generation of "science tweeners" can get us there.
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00280-4

Drop me an email or send me a request on ResearchGate for the pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365722541_Fossil_Trafficking_Fraud_and_Fakery

Our (w. @emmadnn) book chapter entitled "Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery" edited by Naomi Oosterman and @Drdonnayates is out! We cover topics such as colonial looted fossils, smuggling, forgeries among other things ๐Ÿ˜‰

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14084-6_5

#fossil #smuggling #colonialism

Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery

The fascination with ancient flora and fauna is a centuries-old phenomenon and is one of the main drivers of fossil crimes. Fossils have been sought by the rich and famous since the advent of colonialism, propelling development in the field of palaeontology but also...

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Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

No better day than #FossilFriday for an #introduction!

Hi everyone, I'm Emma ๐Ÿ‘‹ and I'm an Irish #paleobiologist at FAU Erlangen-Nรผrnberg ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช I'm interested in understanding the drivers of deep-time #biodiversity patterns (e.g. of ๐Ÿฆ• ๐ŸŠ ๐ŸฆŽ and ๐Ÿ ) I'm also interested in how ethical issues and the legacy of colonialism influence paleontological research โš–๏ธ โ›๏ธ

#NewHere #ScienceMastodon #sciencedon #paleontology #palaeontology #fossils #dinosaurs

From the SVP meeting, an article on Andy Huynhโ€™s haunting talk about the effects of legal mammoth ivory on elephant poaching: https://www.science.org/content/article/booming-trade-mammoth-ivory-may-be-bad-news-elephants?
Booming trade in mammoth ivory may be bad news for elephants

Paleontologists are urged to shun unscrupulous fossil collectors who feed the market

Using the same dataset, our approach yielded mostly lower extinction risk estimates for the polystome-anuran parasite-host system (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0432).

This is not necessarily a good sign for the future as it shows that parasites might be more resilient than their hosts and more than commonly assumed in models and predictions.

Where traditional extinction estimates fall flat: using novel cophylogenetic methods to estimate extinction risk in platyhelminths | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Today parasites comprise a huge proportion of living biodiversity and play a major role in shaping community structure. Given their ecological significance, parasite extinctions could result in massive cascading effects across ecosystems. It is therefore ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences