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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
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Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Sep 5

A last paper. To our knowledge, the Biennale has never shown paleoart before. With Gabriela Amorós, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo & Federica Crivellaro, we bring a scientifically informed work that explores the ecological, artistic & social scope of the Venetian panel.

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Out of the cave: Rewilding deep time at the Venice Biennale

Out of the Cave, part of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, reimagines prehistoric human life through scientifically grounded paleoart. This visual installation bridges deep-time knowledge with co...

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Aug 20

Last paper: paleoecology of Cueva del Arco.
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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jul 30

WHY BOTHER VOTING IN SPAIN? Just ask the Supreme Court, bishops, IBEX bosses, and Franco’s leftovers who should rule, who gets crushed, and who pays in silence. Keep people ignorant, the hierarchy sacred, and the cash flowing up. It’s tradition.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 26

Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say

Researchers believe humans’ closest relatives may have stored meat from their kills for months before eating it

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 22

The flowers of Shanidar
by Charles Higham
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The flowers of Shanidar | The Past

A recent Netflix documentary, Secrets of the Neanderthals, has attracted a massive worldwide audience, and taken a major step forward in dealing with the wi ...

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just finished the Spanish edition of a book I’d already read in English. Flawless translation. Solid, well-told science—no drama, no nonsense. One of the great minds behind it. Congrats, Tom. (Photo: my old grape knife, harvest-trained in 1970).

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jul 13

Still buzzing after Parker Barrow’s wild set at #SanJavierJazz 🔥
Southern rock? More like a blast of blues, soul, metal & symphonic fire.
Megan Kane = unstoppable.

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jul 5

A 2014 photo at the Biology faculty cafeteria (Murcia), with Encarni Montoya. She started in palynology under my distracted watch… and has long since surpassed me. Brilliant work, always humble, honest, and generous. So proud. Grande, my Encarni.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Feb 5

Unique conifer assemblage from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous deposits (NE Brazil) unveils the paleoclimate and paleobiogeography in the interior of equatorial Gondwana
[Metapodocarpoxylon brasiliense sp. nov.]
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Art by Zeinner de Paula

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Jul 4

An oasis in Western Gondwana: A diverse Guadalupian paleoflora from South America

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Art by Zeinner de Paula

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Fernando Valladares @fernadovalladares.bsky.social · Jul 1

Un síntoma más de una sociedad débil y enferma que se vuelve incapaz de enfrentar realidades dificiles no es solo no escuchar las recomendaciones científicas sino que sea la desvergüenza la que lo impulse

#ciencia #fernandovalladares
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La desvergüenza y ‘libertad de las cañitas’ contra la ciencia

La lógica sostendría que para tomar buenas decisiones basta con los datos objetivos que arrojen luz sobre la cuestión en particular. Sin embargo, se

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 27

Ariadna, one of my two artists, gave me this drawing: it brings back my childhood and the bond with Estrellica, a stray dog a friend and I once rescued. It was a tense night—we truly put ourselves at risk, as the city was rounding up dogs to be killed. That night, over 100 were saved.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Jun 25

This Friday (June 27th), 11am BST (apologies to those far to the west), join me and Dr Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for a zoom chat about Natalia's work in the new palaeoart-themed @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social book #MesozoicArtII. Cont...

Natalia Jagielska art, showing mid-sized theropod with pterosaurs in misty landscape.

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · Jun 26

A closer look at yesterdays new dinosaur species, #Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, from the Morrison Formation. It is always a big thrill to be the first to reconstruct a new species.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wonderful paper by Sahra Talamo and colleagues: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland

Beginning with the Early Aurignacian, Homo sapiens demonstrated an enhanced symbolic capacity, expanding artistic expressions from body decoration to portable art and aesthetically refined tools. Thes...

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 26

How did Spain come to be one of the few nations holding firm on aid spending? | Ana Carbajosa

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 21

El capitalismo siempre encuentra un sustrato favorable en la estupidez colectiva, la cual viene de serie y además es fácil de promover si tienes acceso mediático. Si encima utilizas fundamentalismos religiosos, más fácil todavía. El sentido y el bien comunes importan un carajo si no convienen.

Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 12

Terrible times for academia. Those who enabled cuts, disrespect, and erosion of dignity—especially those in power—should be named. Their legacy is shame. If this continues, it will be a tragedy for British science. In Spain, we know the script

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"Miracle" if Bournemouth retains university status after cuts, says protester

Bournemouth University staff are protesting over planned job cuts in the first of four days of strike action.

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 9

My godmother is turning 100 this August. She has seen much, according to her too much.

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 7

Proud to share a profession with Juanma Rubiales — committed, generous, ego-free, and an outstanding teacher. He’s achieved his dream of becoming a university professor. An honor to have colleagues like him.

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Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social · Jun 7

Congratulations, very interesting.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Modified Stalagmites in Cave in Spain Reveal Millennia of Human Activity greekreporter.com/2025/06/04/m...

Modified Stalagmites in Cave in Spain Reveal Millennia of Human Activity - GreekReporter.com

100 modified stalagmites found in Spain’s Cova Dones cave reveal millennia of human activity at the underground site.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · May 31

New Article: "Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations" rdcu.be/eoSkA

Marine Charophyceae fossils from the Upper Ordovician confirm that morphological innovations key to the evolution of terrestrial flora predate emergence of land plants.

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