Eldest just sent me new #FossilFriday pics from his adventure today in Erie (he is at an intensive underwater archaeology 🤿 field school, but evidently keeps finding fossils, despite knowing the difference...😂)
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Alisa Bokulich
Профиль VivelyProfessor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone. Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Follow & pin this feed for info about the upcoming Philosophy of Science Association Biennial meeting in San Diego & use tags #PSA26 or #PSA2026 to share info about your session, etc. 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... (A huge thanks to @kevinzollman.com for updating this feed!) #HPS #philsci #philsky
@kevinzollman.com Would it be possible to update this feed as "PSA 2026-San Diego", picking up tags #PSA26 & #PSA2026 or do we need a new one? bsky.app/profile/did:...
An admin job at BU managing the cool marine program 👇
Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.Hi folks, the BU Marine Program is hiring! As the Associate Director of this program I am happy to answer any and all questions! Please share widely! jobs.silkroad.com/BU/External/...
Happy birthday to the #geodesist Irene Fischer. Of interest to #HPS, she studied mathematics & #philosophy under Vienna Circle members Moritz Schlick & Hans Hahn. She escaped Nazis in Austria & settled in Boston, where her son Michael Fischer became anthropology & #STS prof @ MIT.
Admirable WomenMathematician & geodeist Dr. Irene Fischer helped guide NASA to the moon. Joining the US Army Map Service in 1952, she unified centuries of broken data to calculate the Earth’s precise size/shape. Her calculations allowed NASA to safely program Apollo moon landing trajectories. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)🧵
"For more than 150 years a giant fossil jaw sat quietly in drawers of Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mistakenly reported as lost, the specimen—from a bus-sized aquatic reptile known as Tylosaurus proriger—was largely forgotten. Thanks to an offhand social media post, it recently was rediscovered"
How a giant predator of prehistoric seas was discovered — twiceAfter 80 million years, a giant fossil jaw has quite a story to tell. Back in the age of the dinosaurs, Tylosaurus proriger was a fearsome predator — a bus-sized aquatic reptile with a crushing snout...current.fas.harvard.edu