Announcing a PaleoSoc Art Competition!
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Calling all paleoartists! \uD83C\uDFA8 The Paleontological Society is holding an art competition! We are searching for designs that capture the spirit of the Paleontological Society. Winners \uD83C\uDFC6 will receive yearlong membership, recognition across our social media profiles, and their design on swag or merch. \uD83D\uDC55\uD83D\uDECD️ We will also celebrate and credit the winners on our website and at the annual GSA meeting. All members are welcome to submit their entry via email to stude...@paleosoc.org by May 15th.
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Eligibility: Members of all levels are encouraged to submit a design.
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Requirements: Designs should be simple, original works (no AI or clip-art) with square dimensions and be submitted at the highest resolution possible. We encourage submitters to implement the text “Paleontological Society” but it is not required. Keep in mind that designs will be reproduced on some swag in single color. The Paleontological Society reserves the right to use submitted art for marketing and promotion. Images should be submitted as .PNG, .JPEG, or .TIFF files. Minimum image size is recommended to be at least 10” x 10” to maintain resolution with scaling.
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Upcoming Deadlines & Events
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- Applications for the AWG/PS awards are due soon! Each includes a cash prize and membership in PS and AWG.
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Are you a student or an early career scientist? The Global Geosciences Societies Initiative [co-sponsored by GSA, AGU, and many other associations around the world], is looking for your insight on career opportunities in the Earth and space sciences. The goal is to help societies to develop programs, resources, and tools to ensure students and early career professionals can excel in their chosen career field.
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Christa Cherava (National Parks Conservation Association, USA) reviews Dale Greenwalt’s exciting new book Remnants of Ancient Life that shares emerging discoveries on how fossilized biomolecules can shed dramatic new insights on ancient life.
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Blandine Hautier (Bonn, Germany) reviews Jamale Ijouiher’s new book The Desert Bones that comprehensively surveys the rich fossil record of the North African mid-Cretaceous, encompassing plants, animals, and depositional environments alongside vividly rendered artistic reconstructions.
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From 1992 to 2012, members of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) received American Paleontologist (AP) magazine in the mail four times per year. PRI is excited to share that American Paleontologist is back for its members as a quarterly electronic newsletter. The first issue of the American Paleontologist Newsletter is freely available for everyone here: https://www.priweb.org/research-and-collections/american-paleontologist. Don't miss the recipe for trilobite cookies! If you are not yet a member of PRI, please consider becoming one today to receive future issues of the AP Newsletter. (AP is edited by Jonathan R. Hendricks, recently our PS CFO!)
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Follow Paleo Society social media accounts for the most up-to-date announcements, opportunities, event details, and more on our Twitter (now X), Instagram, Facebook, and Blog.
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Congrats to Dr. Carolina Gutiérrez, who received a PalSIRP Sepkoski Grant to visit key collections and type localities representing distinctive Paleozoic ichnogenera!! Support for early-career paleontologists is possible through generous donations from our members. To support more international paleontologists, donate today!!
- Are you taking advantage of all your membership benefits? The Paleontological Society is pleased to announce that members are eligible for substantial discounts on books published by many university presses. We are grateful to the publishers for their generosity and support of paleontology! Note that these discounts are for PS members only. Please do not distribute publicly!
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Columbia University Press: Receive a 20% discount on paleontology titles using discount code CUP20. For a full list of paleontological titles on sale, please visit their website.
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Indiana University Press: Receive 30% off list prices of Indiana University Press books (sale items excluded). Enter discount code PaleoSoc at checkout. View their paleontology titles here.
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University of Chicago Press: Receive a 40% discount when you use promo code PALEOSOC40. This applies to all publications marketed by the University of Chicago Press books division at their website, and you can view paleontology titles HERE.
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Paleo Society Distinguished Lecturers make their visits available on an expenses-only basis; no honorarium is required. The Society will work with the local institution to partially, or sometimes fully, offset speaker’s travel to give lectures. Those institutions with available funding for visitors and willing to fully cover the Distinguished Lecturer visit are encouraged to do so; this allows to maximize the reach of the PS Funds that can be available to other participants.
- See this year's schedule so far on our Blog.
- We really do love our amazing PS members, and want to showcase more of our community! Do you (or a student!) want to be featured in a #MemberMonday post? You can complete this short survey, upload a photo, and our social media team will take it from there!
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What's New in PS Journals? |
Journal of Paleontology
Paleobiology
Elements of Paleontology:
Make sure you catch the latest open-access Element from Petsios et al., The Ecology of Biotic Interactions in Echinoids! This Element reviews the ecologies of skeletal trace-producing interactions on echinoids in Modern ecosystems and the recognition of those biogenic traces in the fossil record.
As always, Elements are free to publish for authors. Please see additional benefits to publishing HERE.
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We invite submissions of short items for the above newsletter sections to be considered for Priscum! Please send submissions to our Paleo Society Communications team, due by the 1st of each month. This new version of Priscum is focused on sharing very brief announcements, key dates, and links to other pages with relevant resources, to streamline and improve communication with our membership.
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Contact Us:
The Paleontological Society (IMI Office)
12110 N. Pecos Street, Suite 220
Westminster, CO 80234 USA
manag...@paleosoc.org
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PALEO SOCIETY COUNCIL • PRESIDENT: Anne Raymond, Texas A&M University • PRESIDENT-ELECT: Rowan Lockwood, College of William & Mary • PAST PRESIDENT: William DiMichele, Smithsonian Institution • CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER: Diana Boyer, Winthrop University • CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: Nicole Bonuso, Cal State Fullerton • REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE: Nigel Hughes, University of California Riverside • REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE: Elizabeth Sibert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute • AVOCATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Linda McCall • PROGRAM COORDINATOR: John Huntley, University of Missouri • EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR: Pedro Monarrez, UCLA • DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Patricia Kelley, University of North Carolina Wilmington & Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois at Chicago • DIVERSITY & INCLUSION CHAIR: Pedro J. Marenco, Bryn Mawr College • COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: Madeline S. Marshall, Albion College • STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES: Samantha Ocon, West Virginia University & Carmi Milagros Thompson, The Ohio State University • EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, Journal of Paleontology: Elizabeth Hermsen, Paleontological Research Institution • EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, Paleobiology: James Crampton, Victoria University of Wellington
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