Lectures on Tap

Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in NYC bars. 📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email 🧠 Lecture: "The Bone Wars: A Feud That Shaped American Paleontology" 🎤 Speaker: Museum Educator, Kate Schmidt Join us for a thrilling journey into the infamous Bone Wars rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh—two brilliant paleontologists who turned fossil hunting into one of the messiest feuds in scientific history. Through dramatic betrayals, stolen fossils, public insults, and some truly questionable decisions, we’ll explore how their cutthroat competition fueled major discoveries, reshaped American paleontology, and left a complicated legacy in science. You’ll find out how much of what we know about dinosaurs today was dug up in the shadow of this bitter rivalry. Kate Schmidt is the Gottesman Learning Center Manager and a planetarium pilot at the American Museum of Natural History, where she highlights the Museum’s rich history through archival collections. She also hosts and produces Biology on Tap, a monthly program that brings scientists to a Brooklyn bar so we can all drink in the beauty of our weird and wonderful planet together. Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌 Agenda 6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key. 6:55 PM – Host introduction 7:00 PM – Lecture begins 7:45 PM – Audience Q&A 8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round 8:30 PM – Wrap up.