Prosanta Chakrabarty

@prosanta.bsky.social

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Hunter #SciComm Chair & Prof, Director & Curator of Fishes Museum of NatSci @LSU, TED Fellow, F@AAAS, Fulbrighter, #Evolution #TeamFish, ASIH Past President, he/him #BLM ✊🏿 #ProtectTransKids #SaveTheNSF

Me and Kent Carpenter in Virginia about 10 years ago
A scene from Jaws showing Quint saying ‘the head, the tail, the whole damn thing’
Curator of Vertebrates Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications. Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds. These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period. The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted. https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000 Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.
2 magpies on a street lamp
White wagtail, Motacilla alba
Fat house sparrow
jackdaw in its natural habitat - an outdoor restaurant
Cygnus olor Mute swam minding its own buisness
Parus major - great tit sitting on the edge of a plant display
Turdus merula - a blackbird that should be named after its bill color
Wood dove 🕊️
Sign for Evolution museum
Entrance to the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
Close up of the head of the four-eyed fish showing a split eye 👁️
Three fish standing on their spines
Screen a hi or of movie clip showing giant eel goby like monster with big teeth in a swamp with much smaller person in water
Solenostomus snuffleupagus, in situ, Papua New Guinea, 2003 (photograph by David Harasti). Showing a very ‘hairy’ reddish seahorse
Prosanta holding a small square shaped rock with a fossil fish in it
In front of Tiger Stadium with Gonzalo Giribet
With Amanda Townley holding up my NCSE card
The dorsal view of two remoras - one with a normal sucker disc and the other with two clearly separate ones.
David Boyd and Maddie unpacking fish in cheesecloth
Circular seabat a flat fish from the front
With Luiz Rocha curator of fishes at the CalAcad next to the infamous Tyson Roberts collection
Elephant seal 🦭 pup laying on the sand on its stomach
A gar painted in bright colors
Hand holding a big purple sea star
Cover of ‘Annapurna’ showing women climbing ona snow covered ledge
Cover of ‘Mr. Darwin’s Shooter’ showing a man with a rifle on the edge of a beach
Cover of book ‘Ask for it’ Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever is a guide that teaches women negotiation skills for professional and personal situations, offering a four-phase program to help them identify their worth, strategize, and overcome common barriers like the fear of asking. The book uses real-life stories to illustrate how to ask for raises, promotions, and more, emphasizing that negotiation is essential and can be done in a way that feels comfortable for women.
Round Fossil in triangular shaped rock.
Wearing a wig and biodegradable beads with okra seeds inside
Barbara Theirs discuss herbaria