Darcy Shapiro

Two part-time fossil preparator jobs: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

If there's any other version of life via the multiverse, we're considering ourselves incredibly lucky, too! It would be cool to be in the NBA, though. 📺: youtu.be/EZUKE84z_nY?... 👥: @hankgreen.bsky.social & @shaynetopp.bsky.social

My op-Ed published by @greenphilly.bsky.social 🦕🐌 You can find more info on how to take action with @savetheacademy.bsky.social #philly #dinosaurs #acadnatsci #museums greenphl.com/opinion/dino...

UK edition is coming from Hodder & Stoughton soon, as well!

Our buy 3 get 1 free sale is ending soon. Stock up on pins at complexly.store/collections/...

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Is the multiverse real??? Find out right now with @hankgreen.bsky.social and @shaynetopp.bsky.social! 📺: youtu.be/EZUKE84z_nY?...

Do I know any Near East archaeologists or historians who know about ancient Babylonian kitchens? 🏺

It is reptile awareness day, and we need you to be aware that snakes can roll. youtube.com/shorts/A3Sxt...

I'm excited to give this free, online seminar next Wednesday, October 28 at 2pm Eastern Time - register here! mtsu.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thanks to @lizbarnes.bsky.social for inviting me. 😊

The hobbit book is finally real and you can preorder it, which feels completely wild. Coming August 2027.

A few ppl have dropped and we have slots open for this free, virtual coaching series starting tomorrow! We want to support faculty/staff/etc doing #SciComm research, teaching, and enabling in higher ed. Our series is NSF-funded as part of a larger study: how can we nudge academic culture?

The final episode of Ask Hank Anything Season 2 comes out this week on Wednesday. We are thrilled to finish out the season with the one and only Shayne Topp! Come find out if telepathy is possible and ponder the what your multiverse lives look like with us. youtube.com/complexly

The Biggest Extinction You’ve Never Heard Of youtu.be/Ya99xCWXQdc?...

The Academy of Natural Sciences is the first natural history museum in the country. It is invaluable to the people of Philadelphia, visitors from around the world, and the science it inspires and supports. @acadnatsci.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social #SaveTheAcademy

Interested in doing a PhD related to human and primate evolution? Applications now open for PhD funding through the TREES doctoral training partnership: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects

Our Endlings Season 2 finale is out now! Learn how we saved California Condors and proved that we could save a species even at the very final hour which may have changed the field of conservation, forever. youtu.be/E4DkTVavyMk?...

Happy #NationalFossilDay 2026! Fossils connect us to the lands we live on and the ecosystems we're a part of. They show us that everything around us is part of a 3.5 billion years story that's still ongoing. I just think that's magical. ☮️❤️🦣🦕

Director...time out. Jonny is "right." 📺: youtu.be/bKuLzTA0eF8?...

Please watch our Deep Dive on the Dyatlov Pass Incident. It’s one of the most infamous cold cases of all time, and we get deep into the snowy model that unexpectedly helped us figure it out. The episode is available now at youtu.be/9yYQHUTv9t4?...!

This was a fun one to research, AND they still let me include some of the dumbest jokes I've ever written!

Did ancient people really eat the way today’s “paleo” diet enthusiasts imagine? Find out during the #InternationalArchaeologyDay edition of AIA (Archaeological Institute of America) Archaeology Hour w/a free online lecture by yours truly! October 21, 8pm ET. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FossilFriday Rutiodon carolinensis, specimen AMNH FARB 1 (yes, literally the first fossil reptile in the the catalogue of the @amnh.org )

This month's pin was designed by @pansybeast.bsky.social Julian Miholics aka Jules is a full time illustrator and ceramicist born, raised, and currently working in Ontario, Canada, and owner of a one-man shop to peddle his wares.

Our TENTH Deep Dive comes out on Thursday, and we wanted to share a little more about what makes them special! Check out this thread for some credits on the little things that you might not know!

Professional question-asker Jonny Cakes gets answers to way more than is it cake? on the next episode of Ask Hank Anything! Watch the episode Wednesday at youtube.com/complexly

This month's beast is, of course, the Greenland shark! We blamed Greenland sharks for the gruesome deaths of over 5,000 seals from 1993-2001 near Sable Island. The only thing it's actually guilty of is outlasting every other vertebrate on the planet. youtu.be/ldAGbtpD9uI?...

It's fall! What says fall more than the Red Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus pitanga) from the Atlantic rain forests of Brazil. 📸 Carlos Henrique Luz Nunes de Almeida discover more at buff.ly/kdAbY7q

PhD opportunity: 🦠🪱☠️🪣🔬🏞️ Do you want to test hypotheses of how fossils form, figure out if lab experiments reflect the real world? Come and join our lab! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I wrote a bit about the two university museums slated for closure. There is *still* time to do something about each! 🧪🦖

People are commenting Save The Academy on all of Drexel's instagram posts and I think that's pretty cool. If you're looking for something to do tonight 👀

The Sternberg Museum has been an essential institution for more than a century that's let us understand the Western US's Cretaceous Interior Seaway. What's the Cretaceous Interior Seaway? Well, you can visualize it as a vast ocean from Texas to northern Canada where scenes like this played out:

#FossilFriday The pachycephalosaur Stegoceras has an itch at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Daeodon is a genuinely horrrifying animal. #FossilFriday

“The issue has surpassed any local organisation’s capacity. We need large-scale water bombing and skilled firefighters.” “The orangutans need the forest. What are we studying if the orangutans are all gone, and the food they have is all gone? They can’t survive without that forest.” 🧪🐒🦊🏺🌏

We’re excited to announce, we have a new shirt for you! Our celebration of arthropods! Are we over-representing Hymenoptera here? Probably not! There are so many.⁠ ⁠ Anyway… get a new shirt to show love to the whole arthropod community. complexly.info/arthropods4

Great job (w/ a great supervisor): Program Specialist (National Engagement)… “supporting partnerships, coordinating outreach activities, and fostering relationships with Smithsonian Affiliates and external stakeholders.” Salary $85,447-$111,087. Apply by Sept 24. trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a5a...

#FossilFriday The Dimetrodon mount for the @NMNH prior to its installation

Save the Academy organizers need some volunteers to help hand out informational flyers at the academy of natural sciences this weekend. If you are able to help please get in touch via this contact form save-the-academy.org/contact.html

Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org

Posters ready Speakers lined up See you at the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of the academy of natural sciences. We’re asking Drexel, the Academy Board, and the city to find a way to keep the museum open to the public. RSVP luma.com/1qwnrqz2

New blog post: The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing—how we got here and what you can do. Probably nothing you haven't already heard, but increasing the signal to anyone who has missed the news. extinctmonsters.net/2026/09/05/a...

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

For #FossilFriday, the mysterious & geometrically satisfying deep-sea trace fossil Paleodictyon, preserved on the bottom of a Miocene (~10 mya) stratum in southern Spain. Similar traces are in modern deep-sea environments, but we still don't know who makes them. 🧪 #ichnology

#FossilFriday Skull of Torosaurus latus at the @acadnatsci.bsky.social