Well, arrow over Spain is not (not) accidental, since the first author (me that is) works in CSIC 😂

Also, 12.5% is just proportion of names, not publications done by women on UA palaeo, latter will be much higher, since many female scientists, like archaeozoologist Natalia Bilan (nee Tymchenko) were very productive uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%...

Quick calculation shows that at least 12.5% of the Vert palaeo papers from Ukraine (1823-2012) tinyurl.com/48964bwp were women (based on quickly searching gendered surname endings), but since initials and not full names are used, I am certainly missing many women with non-gendered surname

Also, to my undying sense of shame I have no such photos from Ukrainian institutes, because before 2013 I was mostly cooperating with PIN and had little interest in UKrainian palaeontology :(

In the times before the war, when I had better (or any) relations with PIN I got this photo of the PIN Palaeo-Arthro Lab in 1981, so there were only three man- Kovaliov, Rasnitsin and Zherikhin. They had seniority, but if you look at the pubs most of the work was done by Kalugina etc

Additionally in this study, we have described a funny looking #fossil march fly larva - Dinobibio hoffeinseorum
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Fossil Mycetobias¨are quite similar to the extant one, remarkably, we did knew so little about the extant once, that we have first learned how many larval instars they have based on #fossils first. Its not as trivial as it sounds a larval stage of the window gnats is a useful forensic marker 🦖⚒️

I think people generally see animals as collectible cards/ comic superheroes or warhammer minis - immediately asking "who would win". Which is hilarious, as even for warhammer mini that's a nonsensical question, as you need to play the game and throw dice first, for living systems its just strange

Thanks Maria!