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Sadie Mills replied to the topic Open Access Papers Overview in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years, 5 months ago
6 years, 5 months ago6 years, 5 months agoThanks @llundgren for the summary, and @taorminalepore for the great overview of the skull anatomy terms!
Like Lisa wrote in her summary, I wondered what a “sister group” means? It had been a while since my college evolutionary biology classes, so I did some Googling to review and found a great, short phylogeny overview from UC Berkeley,…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren started the topic Stefen (2014) Cranial morphology of the Oligocene beaver Capacikala gradatus… in the forum Open Access Papers 6 years, 5 months ago
6 years, 5 months ago6 years, 5 months agoHere’s the second paper in our weekly series on open access paleontology. Click on the link to read it yourself: http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2014/722-skull-of-capacikala-gradatus
The main point of the journal article:
Some key terms and their definitions might be helpful here:
Castorids: the scientific family to which beav…[Read more]
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Geologic Time Scale Activities: Which works best? in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 7 months ago
6 years, 7 months ago6 years, 7 months agoI tried to teach geologic time during a museum summer drop-in program. The age range varied from 4 year old to 5th graders. I tried the calendar way (e.g. the Paleozoic started on November 18th, the Mesozoic began on December 13th, etc.) with visitors using different colors to represent the different eras. Then, to reinforce the concept, we built…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Supporting women in paleo in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 6 years, 8 months ago
6 years, 8 months ago6 years, 8 months agoHi, all! Reviving this thread to share the following story that was published via Wired Magazine today: https://www.wired.com/story/why-men-dont-believe-the-data-on-gender-bias-in-science/. Although it highlights problems in engineering specifically, the problem is broadly applicable across all areas of STEM.
Over the years, I’ve sadly en…[Read more]
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Tynessa Morgan replied to the topic We Got Your Back in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years ago@llundgren, @taorminalepore, @jeanette-pirlo
I do have several verts in my classroom. I now have an articulated human skeleton in my room so I can compare that way as well. I can email the students clips from Your InnerFish where Shubin discusses comparative anatomy.
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Jeanette Pirlo started the topic Help Make Augustynolophus morrisi California's State Dinosaur! in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years ago
7 years ago7 years agoCalifornia is on the verge of having a state dinosaur, Augustynolophus morrisi, but it needs your help! The bill’s purpose is to increase curiosity in the sciences of students, the Southern California Paleontological Society is asking young members to submit posters in support of AB1540 . More information is provided in the myFOSSIL Ne…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoHi, everyone! Don’t forget to join us for the second installment of the Women in Paleontology webinar series tonight at 7pm Eastern. Dr. Brenda Hunda from the Cincinnati Museum Center is our featured speaker. Her talks promises to be great! 🙂
Dry Dredgers and friends, show your support! @jkallmeyer, @kyle-hartshorn, @bheimbrock, @david-meyer, [Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic What are these? in the forum What Is It? 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@mackenzie-peil – Do you have any information on where these objects were found? (location, geologic formation, etc) @taorminalepore is a coprolite specialist, so perhaps she could give her opinion about the first image.
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Michelle Barboza replied to the topic Women in Paleo – Spotlights in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@taorminalepore – ah shucks, thank you! I’m really excited about the next episode, which marks the start of guests on the podcast! The subject of the episode is environmentalist Rachel Carson, and I’ll be joined by ecologist Priya Shukla of the UC Davis Marine Lab. She’s a rad woman of color who runs a project called the Prosaic Mosaic, which is…[Read more]
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Michelle Barboza replied to the topic Supporting women in paleo in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoWelcome to the Women in Paleontology forum @kate-griener! I really connect with your note on unconscious bias. I’m a graduate student in vertebrate paleontology (I’m actually one of the many female grad students of @bmacfadden that @egardner mentioned!) but I’m also really interested in science communication and I run a podcast about the history…[Read more]
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Michelle Barboza replied to the topic Just watched the video of Tara in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoFor those who may not know what we’re talking about, the Alf Museum of Paleontology in Southern California uploaded a great video on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2017 (this past Saturday, February 11). The video featured paleontologist @taorminalepore, giving us a quick word on what it is like to be a woman in…[Read more]
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Gabriel-Philip Santos replied to the topic Just watched the video of Tara in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@taorminalepore is my hero also! She inspires me everyday to be a better scientist and educator!
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic Women in Paleo – Spotlights in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months ago@michelle-barboza, @taorminalepore, @sboessenecker, @kate-griener – I saw this article from The Guardian today and thought it would be of interest to our Women in Paleo forum folks: http://bit.ly/2ew5K5F.
And Michelle, it goes along nicely with your new podcast (please please please tell us about it here!).
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Gabriel-Philip Santos posted a new activity comment 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoAh. @taorminalepore beat me to the punch. But in the mean time, we some Oligocene aged coprolites that I can probably get entered!
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months agoIf you’d like to watch @taorminalepore‘s webinar from last night, the recording link is now live on the ‘Resources’ page: http://www.myfossil.org/video-tutorials/#tara
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Kent Crippen posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months agoHey @gsantos, as a celebration of @taorminalepore‘s talk in the Women in Paleontology series, we want to have a better representation of coprolites on myFOSSIL. Are there any key fossils from the Alf Museum that your students could contribute to gallery? @emily-chu@joyce-yuan can you help? We love and appreciate what you’ve been doing with the gallery!
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Hi Kent! I’m currently working on a paper on some Alf coprolites. When we publish, I can add that in as a resource! Best, Tara
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That’s great news, Tara, thank you!
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Ah. @taorminalepore beat me to the punch. But in the mean time, we some Oligocene aged coprolites that I can probably get entered!
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months agoHi, everyone! Don’t forget to attend the first Women in Paleontology webinar tonight at 7pm Eastern! @taorminalepore will share her personal story, resources for pursuing paleontology, and talk a little bit about coprolites. Connect at http://bit.ly/WiPWebinar
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Gabriel-Philip Santos posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
7 years, 3 months ago7 years, 3 months agoHi myFossil community! Forgive, but I’m about to do a shameless plug for an upcoming event at our museum. This month’s Discovery Day will dedicated to boss ladies of paleontology! This will be the Alf Museum’s first ever Women in Paleontology event and we will have many of our local paleo’s as special guests (such as @taorminalepore) to talk…[Read more]
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This sounds really awesome, @gsantos! You know the FOSSIL Project is always excited to promote Women in Paleontology events 🙂 Can you reveal who the original Princess of Paleontology is? Is it Mary Anning?
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It might just be the one and only Mary Anning! 😀 We’ll know more once we make sure she can safely get to our TARDIS. . .
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Hold up @gsantos, the Alf has a TARDIS?! I’m so jealous! Please post some pictures here (Women in Paleo forum would probably be best) so we can share in this awesomeness! 😀
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Lisa Lundgren replied to the topic Increasing Visibility: K-12 Mentorship in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months ago@jbokor Yes, WISE groups at the HS level would be awesome. I wonder if this is something that can be done? The UF WISE group is pretty strong, it’d probably be able to pilot it?…We have some Gainesville teachers affiliated with FLMNH (right, @jeanette-pirlo ?)
Great to know that there are TED Talks worksheets! I bet they could serve as a m…[Read more]
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Michelle Barboza replied to the topic Increasing Visibility: K-12 Mentorship in the forum Women in Paleontology Forum 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! As some of you know, the spring 2017 webinar series is specifically dedicated to Women in Paleontology. I’m super excited about this series, and I wanted to get your opinions on how we can make this series useful for and accessible to high school students (specifically juniors/seniors who are in the process of preparing for college…[Read more]
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