Natalia Jagielska
@nataliajagielska.bsky.social
A Pole in China 🍲 PhD in Paleontology 🦴 Postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (soon East China Normal University) 🦕 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖 Brexit-causing immigrant 💼
Pinned
Pinned. I'm a doctor in palaeontology 🦕 specialising in pterosaurs, with years of museum experience in 🇬🇧 & 🇵🇱 Currently starting a postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰
I also work on initiatives for social mobility & migration, draw dinosaurs and consult for TV & games 📺
I also work on initiatives for social mobility & migration, draw dinosaurs and consult for TV & games 📺
Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases.
Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈
Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases.
Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈
Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈
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I was trained entirely in vet epi, where the only (mild) beef is Europe vs US, so the first time I was given a list of reviewers to exclude, I thought it wasn't needed. I was wrong. Some fields are just vicious.
I hate navigating the world of palaeontology. "If you author with this researcher, you'll be barred from working with that other research team" or "if you access this collection you can't access that collection". Petty cliques getting in the way of accessing public resources and good science.
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I was trained entirely in vet epi, where the only (mild) beef is Europe vs US, so the first time I was given a list of reviewers to exclude, I thought it wasn't needed. I was wrong. Some fields are just vicious.
A proxy for the degree of gatekeeping, is seeing if there are close to no early & mid-level career people, or a suspiciously high drop out rate, in a popular field. If the recent literature is dominated by a prolific emeritus professor, with tendency to be excessively scathing. Here's the gollum.
Turns out, cliques & specimen restrictions, are perpetrated chiefly by high-profile researchers and target early careers. I do wonder if famed academics know, they're hurting & wasting young talent. Or do they marinate in arrogance & self importance?
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A proxy for the degree of gatekeeping, is seeing if there are close to no early & mid-level career people, or a suspiciously high drop out rate, in a popular field. If the recent literature is dominated by a prolific emeritus professor, with tendency to be excessively scathing. Here's the gollum.
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It has been two years since my cat first started having bad health problems. This is a revamp of an older illustration I made as a fundraiser to get him treatment, which everyone very generously supported. Two years on we know he has IBD for sure, it is hard, but he is still going strong!
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It has been two years since my cat first started having bad health problems. This is a revamp of an older illustration I made as a fundraiser to get him treatment, which everyone very generously supported. Two years on we know he has IBD for sure, it is hard, but he is still going strong!
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Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again
Turns out, cliques & specimen restrictions, are perpetrated chiefly by high-profile researchers and target early careers. I do wonder if famed academics know, they're hurting & wasting young talent. Or do they marinate in arrogance & self importance?
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Turns out, cliques & specimen restrictions, are perpetrated chiefly by high-profile researchers and target early careers. I do wonder if famed academics know, they're hurting & wasting young talent. Or do they marinate in arrogance & self importance?
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This is a problem in NZ too. Entire research teams who aren’t on speaking terms, snipe at each other’s publications, and fight over fossil sites because of middle-aged scientists who act like squabbling children. Pathetic in such a small country.
I hate navigating the world of palaeontology. "If you author with this researcher, you'll be barred from working with that other research team" or "if you access this collection you can't access that collection". Petty cliques getting in the way of accessing public resources and good science.
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is a problem in NZ too. Entire research teams who aren’t on speaking terms, snipe at each other’s publications, and fight over fossil sites because of middle-aged scientists who act like squabbling children. Pathetic in such a small country.
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If it's anything like journalism, the old heads know they're choking young new talent out of the industry, but they would rather rule over a scorched field as long as they're the ones holding the matches.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If it's anything like journalism, the old heads know they're choking young new talent out of the industry, but they would rather rule over a scorched field as long as they're the ones holding the matches.
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Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🎨 Paleoart deadline extended! 🎉
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🎨 Paleoart deadline extended! 🎉
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!
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🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"I Contain Multitudes"
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"I Contain Multitudes"
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
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Chile wählt den deutschstämmigen José Antonio Kast zum Präsidenten. Er ist Sohn eines NSDAP-Mitglieds, neunfacher Vater und strenggläubiger Katholik.:
Stichwahl in Chile: Rechtsextremer José Antonio Kast wird Präsident
Chile wählt den deutschstämmigen José Antonio Kast zum Präsidenten. Er ist Sohn eines NSDAP-Mitglieds, neunfacher Vater und strenggläubiger Katholik.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chile wählt den deutschstämmigen José Antonio Kast zum Präsidenten. Er ist Sohn eines NSDAP-Mitglieds, neunfacher Vater und strenggläubiger Katholik.:
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Everybody is rightly praising the man who bravely disarmed that shooter, but if you’ve seen the whole video, I want to give a shout out to the woman that came to his aid and the other dude who started chucking things at the disarmed shooter. It takes a village.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Everybody is rightly praising the man who bravely disarmed that shooter, but if you’ve seen the whole video, I want to give a shout out to the woman that came to his aid and the other dude who started chucking things at the disarmed shooter. It takes a village.
Hong Kong perks. How it feels having both, European and Chinese holidays and days off work.
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hong Kong perks. How it feels having both, European and Chinese holidays and days off work.
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Rod Ruth's Coelophysis and Trilophosaurus!
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Rod Ruth's Coelophysis and Trilophosaurus!
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E. Boyd Smith's Permian Scene!
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
E. Boyd Smith's Permian Scene!
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Another of my "Whimsical Stardust" illustrations, and another of my favourites <3
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#art #digitalart #spaceart #goldfish #fish #illustration
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#art #digitalart #spaceart #goldfish #fish #illustration
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Another of my "Whimsical Stardust" illustrations, and another of my favourites <3
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#art #digitalart #spaceart #goldfish #fish #illustration
🪐🐟🌠
www.redbubble.com/people/ghost...
#art #digitalart #spaceart #goldfish #fish #illustration
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Hi! I'm Elen and I love drawing illustrations with animals, adding deep emotions and atmosphere, I also work on "Raptor" comic about dinos :)
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Hi! I'm Elen and I love drawing illustrations with animals, adding deep emotions and atmosphere, I also work on "Raptor" comic about dinos :)
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Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵
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11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
Hello. I’m a “same-sex attracted person” (loathe that description of my sexuality) & I support Trans rights, like the majority of female “same sex attracted people”.
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What do lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Britons think the British public thinks of them? | YouGov
Gay and lesbian Britons tend to think the public has a favourable view of them, but bisexual and particularly transgender Britons feel less positivity from the public
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December 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
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15 December 1829: in reply to an enquiry sent via their mutual friend Charlotte Murchison, Mary Anning provides Charles Lyell with information about the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs at Lyme Regis which he uses in his 1830 book, 'Principles of Geology', acknowledging Anning as his source.
![Top left: portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet; top centre: portrait of Charles Lyell with a high forehead and long sideburns, in a grey coat with a dark collar; top right: early 20th century photograph of Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis; bottom right: extract from Lyell's 1830 'Principles of Geology' acknowledging Mary Anning as the source of information on the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs: At Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire, the "Church Cliffs"...consisting of lias about 100 feet in height, have gradually fallen away, at a rate of one year a year, since 1800. [footnote:] This ground was measured by Dr, Carpenter of Lyme, and again in 1829, as I am informed, by Miss Mary Anning of Lyme, well known by her discoveries in fossil remains.' ; bottom left: extract of a letter of 15 December 1829 from Anning to Lyell with the information used in his 'Principles': 'I have made enquires of Dr: Carpenter he says that in the year 1800 he paced the Church Cliffs from a certain hedge and that (’they’ deleted) it was thirty paces to the edge of the Cliff (which is about 100 feet perpendicular height) it is fallen away from that hedge so as to leave about one yard between edge hedge and the edge of the Cliff having lost 29 yards in as many years.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreig3h2kknxp4urk6zbq3caq6s6gzblauuc7z6og3uyneltqponqkti@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
15 December 1829: in reply to an enquiry sent via their mutual friend Charlotte Murchison, Mary Anning provides Charles Lyell with information about the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs at Lyme Regis which he uses in his 1830 book, 'Principles of Geology', acknowledging Anning as his source.
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Who's looking forward to #DinoConUK 2026? July might seem like a long time away but it sure isn't when you're arranging events :) Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for news (photos by Alfred Barwick)
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Who's looking forward to #DinoConUK 2026? July might seem like a long time away but it sure isn't when you're arranging events :) Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for news (photos by Alfred Barwick)