my new #sciart for @chistinesd.bsky.social: her research in @newphyt.bsky.social reveals arbuscular mycorrhizae in the stem of the early plant Aglaophyton from 407 million years ago, showing that fungal-plant symbioses are as old as the earliest soils. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New light on old stones: a fossil #fungus in #symbiosis with one of the oldest known land plants @chistinesd.bsky.social, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @dromius.bsky.social @ffercoq.bsky.social #PlantScience Summary also available in French and Spanish.

For brave biologists/ecologists with a penchant for venturing beyond the boundaries of the intellectual comfort zone, I strongly recommend Jan Baedke's recent monograph "The Organism" in the series "Elements in the Philosophy of Biology". An absolute conceptual treat. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

💡 Need support to attend your next palaeontology event? Apply for a PalAss Diversity Bursary! 🌍✨ 👉 palass.org/palaeontolog... 💷 Funding available: up to £250 GBP per individual bursary. 📝 What you’ll need: A short supporting statement A breakdown of your anticipated expenses [1/2]

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

If you need a professional terrestrial phototroph you need a symbiont of plant+fungi. Lichen (Spongiophyton sp) colonized the land already at least in the Early Devonian: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology

Devil's Fingers, Clathrus archeri, on a Dorset heath today. #wildfungihour

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST! Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding. Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Drawing from early 2023, Lepidocaris rhyniensis, a crustacean from the Rhynie chert swimming through charophyte algae #crustacean #arthropod

From the vault: my Arthropleura (Carboniferous) model for Muse - Museo delle Scienze di Trento (2015). This is a smaller one, just 50cm long, but they grew to be over 2m long. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Arthropleura #Carboniferous

Walking in the footsteps of…giant Carboniferous trees? Some 325 million years ago these coal swamp trees were so heavy they made ‘tree prints’ in the soft coral-infused limestone under the soil. And today we saw them on our University of Edinburgh undergrad trip to Barns Ness!

Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta. Can you spot dividing chloroplasts? #microscopymonday #moss #plantcells

🦕 For #PalAss members: Are you planning to participate in #PalAss2025? 🌍 Don’t forget to check this option ✅ 💡 All information can be found here ⬇️ 🔗 palass.org/palaeontolog... #palass #conference #bursary #possibility #apply

Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time. doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

I'm frequently asked if we can use XRM imaging to study Arabidopsis, and the answer is absolutely yes. The pollen grains were segmented using basic grayscale thresholding. This scan used the 4X lens, stayed tuned for results from the 20X. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

🍀🔬 MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest, led by Edu Ocaña-Pallarès and @ssolo.bsky.social, a timescale for fungal phylogeny that wrangles calibration from the unstructured fossil record of fungi and a history of horizontal gene transfers www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Saw this in Maine in early August - just doesn’t look entirely real

Interrupted Clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum) and Marsh Clubmoss (Lycopodiella inundata) Two evergreen beauties and real bog-specials spotted this week! #WildflowerHour

A little break from reality: a delightful insect procession by Nishiyama Kan'ei (Japan, Edo period). Check out the original for more delightful details www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Fun read today: Did figs and chilli peppers 'domesticated' humans?

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era. My story: www.science.org/content/arti...

Is it a lizard? Is it a snake? Maybe a 'false snake'?? As that's what its name means in Gaelic! Hello to Breugnathair, a new fossil from the Jurassic of Skye with a curious mix of snake & lizard features, showing that early squamate evolution was complex www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Surreal images from a new book, Microcosms, show how confocal microscopy that uses laser scanning creates a super-sharp new journey around mind-altering plants and fungi

SPERM WHALE EATING A GIANT SQUID--filmed probably for the first time *ever*!!! 🌊🦑🐳

New paper by Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez presents the oldest winged insects 🦟 from Argentina 🇦🇷 dating back to the early #Carboniferous - More insight into the early diversification of animal life & ecosystems on land. ⬇️ #Paleontology #Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

Together with @scottishgeology.bsky.social, this Friday we're inviting you behind the scenes of the BGS core store 🪨 View real fossils from our collections and trace how life evolved across millions of years 🔎 🎟️ Tickets are free, but spots are limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotlands-...

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A couple of days in the Catskills and New York State museum. Here Bill Stein mulls over our latest theory, Prototaxites is a big halloween hand which grew out of New Yorkers front laws during Halloween, 380 million years ago.

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane. #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

Silica Complexities in Green 2/2020 20 X 13 inches [50.8 X 33 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #plankton #gawoski

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post! Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ✨🐀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but it’s all created in the same way!

JURASSIC NURSE LOG. A 150 million year old Scottish conifer log shows the same processes of white fungal rot, insect boring, then growth of new seedlings seen in modern forests. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Research by @sandyheth.bsky.social & co-authors.

It’s Trivia Tuesday! 🤓 Claude has a skincare routine! Once a week, Claude’s biologists will give him a scrub to help remove any algal buildup. Claude loves these scrubs and they only take place if he wants them. So, if he’s looking extra green one day, assume he just wanted to skip this week.

New paper led by my PhD student, Edwin Rodriguez! Building on previous work, we present a systematic description of the ONE BILLION YEAR OLD fossils of the phosphates of the Diabaig Formation, NW Scotland — including some early eukaryotes and new species... #paleontology #fossils #geology