Dr. Morrigan Nolan
Researcher and Teacher. Research Scientist at Virginia Tech. Ediacaran-Cambrian Paleobiogeochemistry, esp stable isotopes.
- Let‘s open this question up: who are the kindest, most wholesome paleontologists you know (Current/retired/historical/whatever)? Who SHOULD be featured in documentaries? I’m tired of doomering, let’s focus on the bright lights among us.
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- Favorite paleontologists who are also wonderful people: - Karen Chin (UC-Boulder), "Queen of Coprolites," kind & funny. - Patricia Vickers-Rich (Monash U.), from Ediacara to dinosaurs, great science educator & humanitarian. - Tricia Kelley (UNC-Wilmington), evolutionary scientist & mentor to many.
- Today we submitted paleo paper with 6 UA co-authors. Its -10 to -30Cº in Kyiv in the last week. Most of my colleagues does not have heating or electricity due to russian attempts to freeze Ukraine into surrender. Most of the don't sleep that well due to air raids. Still... we finished the paper 🦖⚒️
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- Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
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- Georges Cuvier, the French "founding father of paleontology". Establishing ideas of extinction and naming first prehistoric animals, such as Pterodactylus. Also, promotor of scientific racism, propagating own ideas while experimenting on Sarah Baartman, a young South African Khoikhoi woman.
- William Buckland, responsible for naming Megalosaurus. Below communicating the need for women to not attend academic lectures in Oxford, where he was a lecturer (and relied on his wife to transcribe, illustrate his own papers, and curate geological collections)
- Henry De la Beche, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. A palaeontologist cited for creating one of first pieces of palaeoart, Duria Antiquior. Owner of Sugar Plantation, Halse Hall in Jamaica, and 200 enslaved people.
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- Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), responsible for coining terms such as phylum, phylogeny, ontogeny. An advocate of scientific racism. Sporting proto-Nazi Social Darwinist views. Honorary invited member of the German Society for Racial Hygiene.
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- 👇 The list is growing 🌿at://did:plc:jwao2pl5dciu2mg5gkdoydan/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lcavrm4noh2i
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- Here's a throwback video of me digging out a massive Exogyra ponderosa shell from the Cretaceous aged Demopolis Chalk in Tupelo, Mississippi. (March 5th 2020)
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- In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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- Posting this because it might prevent some additional swearing from happening: if you are trying to log in to the AGU website, do not use Safari
- Looks like AGU has decided that Macs (and people who use Macs) can just be ignored
- 'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
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