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Emma Dunne
@emmadnn.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist | deep-time biodiversity 🦕 | macroevolution 🌍 | equity & ethics ⚖️ | 🇮🇪☘️ (she/sí) | All views my own. https://emmadunne.github.io/
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · Apr 23
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳

We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️

doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Simplified flowchart illustrating generalised steps in palaeobiological research processes and the various factors that introduce inequity with regard to data collection, storage, study, analysis, publication, and reuse.
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 10h
The Guardian has some really excellent reporting on scientific/academic publishing industry, including this one (now 8 years old but still very relevant) that I set as recommended reading for my students every year:

www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
www.theguardian.com
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 10h
Another great resource on the realities of scientific publishing by The Guardian (this time in audio format!)

www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast
Scientists warn academic publishing needs reform in order to retain trust in research system. Ian Sample talks to Madeleine Finlay and Dr Mark Hanson proposes potential solutions
www.theguardian.com
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 10h
Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 11h
🚨 SORTEE’s conference #SORTEE2025 is fast approaching

This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/
Past events
Past events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
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Bingcai Liu @bingcailiu.bsky.social · 1d
Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 2d
Let Palestinians lead: Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts
Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.
www.nature.com
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 4d
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 4d
Had the amazing privilege earlier in the year to watch a lithographic limestone plate be made by one last plate makers in Germany. Each plate is cut and then hammered by hand into shape - and after having a go it's very skilled work. Currently they have no apprentices, so a truly dying art.
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 6d
It's Kürbiszeit (pumpkin time) here in Bavaria! Bumper crops this year from the local farms, so every type of pumpkin dish is on the menu 🎃
Many many pumpkins Even more pumpkins
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 6d
Come for the important topic and expert commentary, stay for the wonderfully comical placement of ring lights 😂
Still photo from the documentary photo where a man stands in front of a dinosaur skull
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ReBecca @dinochick.bsky.social · 6d
Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market

www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/bones-...
Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market
For decades, Gobi Desert in Mongolia has been a hotbed for dinosaur fossil smuggling. Now, people are pushing back, determined to reclaim their stolen heritage and exposing the trade’s darker players.
www.channelnewsasia.com
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Prof. Juan Cisneros ⚒️🐉 @cisneros.bsky.social · 12d
Nota sobre a restituição do Homem de Java para Indonésia, com comentários meus e de @emmadnn.bsky.social
Não basta devolver os fósseis. A Holanda deveria cooperar com a Indonésia para proveer instalações adequadas para cuidar deste patrimônio como reparação colonial.
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands
The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era
www.science.org
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 15d
How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678777v1
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 17d
"The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities."

omg
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 19d
🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20d
From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 22d
Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci
Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice
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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Aug 2
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 25d
Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025:

Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science!

Spaces are limited so sign up while you can!

vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 25d
It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.

Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.
www.nature.com
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 27d
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 28d
Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment
Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...
www.nature.com
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 27d
"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · Sep 8
Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year.

Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.
Picture of a smiling Ichthyostega called Kevin. He is a chonk.
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Paul Stewens @p-stewens.bsky.social · Aug 20
Many people have sent me the CNN piece on trade in 🇲🇦 fossils. It does many things well; picking interviewees is not one of them. No legal experts, only palaeontologists repeating legal factoids. Please read my comment.

🌐CNN: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...
✒️Blog: paul-stewens.com/blog/2025/mo...
Paul P. Stewens | The 1970 UNESCO Convention applies to individual fossils
There is no legal grey area, and they don't have to belong to a collection.
paul-stewens.com
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Sep 2
Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing

Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help!

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