Female researchers: interested in a postdoc at @univienna in #sedaDNA, #metagenomics or #ancientDNA? Apply via the E-STEEM fellowship through my group. Projects are flexible and can be shaped together! careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

Our branch stands with all of those brave communities and individuals standing up against the fascist Trump regime in the US. We will be joining this protest on Saturday in solidarity. We hope you can too.

🚨Today the fog lifts, ending the moratorium on our Exp403 reports. Check out the amazing cores we drilled & data we generated that will help to better understand past climate & ice-sheet dynamics, & thus contribute to focus our future projections. #NSFfunded publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

🚨 Closing date: 18-Jan-2026 🚨 Not long left to apply now! Come join the @palaeoverse.bsky.social at @es-ucl.bsky.social as: - Research Software Engineer: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... - Community Engagement Coordinator: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

One week left to apply! ⬇️

It’s been too long since I posted some Zoothamnium - a colonial ciliate that contracts when disturbed. So pretty! #marineplankton 🦑

We're giving out FREE Foldscopes to educators and community leaders in the US! Visit foldscope.com/pages/fast-c... for more information or... 📌 Apply now at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #freefoldscopes #educatorworkshop #fastandcurioustour

Draft NSF Strategic Plan- FY2026–2030 💡Public Comment Period is OPEN Deadline: Jan 27, 2026 at 2359 ET Details, Plan draft, + specific NSF solicitation questions 🧪🌊

@americanair.bsky.social - stuck on the tarmac at Boston for over 4 hours now for a maintenance issue with flight 0108 and no snack has been provided per DOT guidelines. Staff offered meal vouchers but everything closed since we got off plane - seems like a flawed system! Sincerely, Hungry at Logan

Come work with the vertebrate paleontology team at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC this summer! REU Students will have the opportunity to study and reconstruct the skulls of Permian and Triassic reptiles 😃 Reach out to me if you have any questions (: Apply by the 31st!!

Just putting this out there again - deadline 19th January: shorturl.at/wKh2W

Just putting this out there again - deadline 8th January: www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

📢 PhD Alert! 🌊 Join the fight against coastal plastic pollution caused by mass tourism. Fully funded 3-year position at ICTA-UAB, Barcelona & Cyprus. Apply by 19 Jan 2026! 🌍 #PhD #MarineScience #Sustainability www.uab.cat/web/el-centr...

Visited the Museum of the Earth for the first time a few days ago (can’t believe I’d never been, having grown up not far from it) - a gorgeous museum and an incredible resource for the region. So glad it will continue!

Apply for Sepkoski Grants $1000 USD if you are a paleontologist from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-gra... deadline March 1 @paleosoc.bsky.social

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

…to improve the “quality” of students applying… All that is wrong with the U.K. in one sentence. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Wait? What? There is a rariolarian in Stanger Things season 5? 🫨

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

**Undergraduate Summer Internship Opportunity! I'm excited to launch the Accessible Ichthyoliths Internship Program starting summer 2026! Seeking undergraduates interested in contributing to accessible paleo research and communication. More info here: www2.whoi.edu/site/paleofi... Please share!

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

“By placing the blame where it belongs (academia), you may find more peace in your science.” Amen, I had a very similar realization about 6 or 7 years ago; and, like this author, found a solid fit for my career (which is dissimilar from the traditional arc ingrained in us by the old guard).

Happy #fossilfriday everyone, Enjoy a feel good story about one of the Museum of the Earth's high school supporters! Thanks to big giving Tuesday support, PRI is now within ~400,000 of its end of year goal of ~4 million for the mortgage+ops. We can #SavePRI !🧪⚒️🦣🐚 www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...

Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan has a neat little natural history museum on campus with a wonderful microfossil exhibit featuring hand-made glass radiolarians and 3D printed foraminiferans.

Who else is running the vacuum around today? Sunday chores brought to you by this Gastropod larva 😍 #marineplankton 🦑

Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now: 'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ 'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R... Deadlines early Jan '26

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Petition to save Geology at the University of Leicester c.org/h9rysz2C9x Finances are extremely stretched in UK higher education, but it's hard to understand a university drastically cutting a field critical to the energy transition and understanding of the changes taking place in the world today.

As an Leicester palaeo PhD alumni, I am shocked and appalled by this seemingly uncosted and short sighted descision by the @uniofleicester.bsky.social. Please sign the petition.

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

I attended a talk by a scientist at a Chinese University and realized that all the background climate data that she used came from the US (CO₂ Keeling Curve, global temperature time series, etc.). Although China funds a lot of research, the destruction of US science will affect science globally.

#JobAlert 🚨: Press Assistant Are you a science communicator with experience in science writing? We are looking for your support during the press conference at #EGU26. 📨 Send your application by 26 November to [email protected]. 👉 More information: egu.eu/1H0J7I

We have so much work to do!!

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Diatoms from 77° North

I was awarded the Alan Higgins Award by @micropalaeosoc.bsky.social for my work on planktonic foraminifera reproduction and culture. I feel very honored and can only thank all the great colleagues who supported me along the way in Norway, Ireland, the UK, Germany and France!

You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS. I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The amoeba Difflugia bacillifera builds its shell from things that contain silica, and it is not particular about the source. These ones have incorporated whole shells from another testate amoeba (Euglypha), along with diatoms, algal cysts and chunks of rock. #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #peatlands