Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.

Hi bryozoologists (and other people interested/working with bryozoans)! We have opened a pre-registration form for the Oslo Larwood Symposium 2026, and it would be very helpful if you could fill it out (it helps our planning a lot!). Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... #Bryozoa #bryozoology

New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections: Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

The Royal Ontario Museum is hiring a Curator of Birds to promote awareness and research on bird biodiversity. Apply by Nov 15, 2025. More info: https://royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2YcQAfM/Curator-Of-Birds. #job

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.

#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social

A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure #savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑 @lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...

Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology (They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies) Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

Isaac Newton is buried beneath a fossil snail as I discovered yesterday when visiting Westminster Abbey. Near the centre of his gravestone is a rather nice section of a gastropod, probably from the Carboniferous.

🚨🚨JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Fresh new position in Comparative Biology at OSU! We're looking for a comp. biologist, especially those who investigate biomechanics, functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, or morphological development. Feel free to ask me any questions! jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Smithsonian museums to close Oct. 12 if shutdown persists. About 62% of the Smithsonian’s budget comes from the federal government. Employees will be unpaid once the shutdown closes the museums. Zoo #animals “continue to be fed and cared for.” thehill.com/homenews/adm... #globalmuseum

While politicians in DC argue, working people pay the price. Audrey cleans the Smithsonian. Tiara protects it. Maria keeps federal buildings spotless.
 All three are losing income & sleep as the government shutdown drags on. Shutdowns don’t punish politicians—they punish people. seiu.co/4o8jpgA

Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Zooid size reduction in cyclostome bryozoans from the Late Triassic to the present-day onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @datadryad.bsky.social

The Incredible Shrinking Bryozoans. Published today, our study of long-term zooid size decrease in the cyclostome form-genus 'Berenicea'. doi: 10.1111/pala.70027

Always wonderful to do a bit of bryozoan work with @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social, led by Ma Junye from NIGPAS in Nanjing!

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Detecting environmentally dependent developmental plasticity in fossilized individuals.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

I wrote a short post about some characters to use when identifying and differentiating between the cyclostome genera Hornera and Stigmatoechos! #Artsdatabanken #NorDigBryo #Bryozoa www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

Another fish gig!

Come join us at UF!

Ready to take the next step in your research career at @icmcsic.bsky.social?We’re seeking enthusiastic candidates to join our team + apply for prestigious pre/postdoc fellowships. Learn more👇 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... 🔗 icm.csic.es/ca/oferta-tr... @em-oyster.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social

@malihr.bsky.social found a ctenostome bryozoan growing on a crustacean in one of our museum jars .. super cool! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

It was truly a pleasure to be part of this group. NIGPAS was amazing to visit, and the conveners were generous in opening their long-term work to a broad collaboration. I can't wait to see what comes of it. I also learned a lot about fossils and some deep cuts of Nanjing history and cuisine.

I followed my visit to Nanjing’s NIGPAS with a very short visit to The Chinese University of Geosciences (CUG) in Wuhan. Thank you Dr Song Haijun and Feng Yan for being wonderful hosts. Chatted with many brilliant young paleobiologists and geologists there.

A scientifically productive but also socially fabulous week at the Nanjing’s NIGPAS where they house c 150 paleontologists!! Excited to continue work we started with Li Qijian, Na Lin @davenquinn.com Ye Shan Adam Kocsis @kiessl.bsky.social & many other fantastic scientists!

When chanchitos fly, it happens 2,340 meters deep in the Ocean! This is a sea pig, or chanchito, if you’re a member of the #Uruguaysub200 science team. Scotoplanes sp. is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

#FossilFriday The ‘face’ of the brachiopod Ancistrocrania from the Late Cretaceous Chalk of Belgium. One of the unused images taken for ‘Fossils, The Essential Guide’ which I wish was available at all good booksellers.

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

watch this space! congrats @mluerig.bsky.social ! this will be fun!

Anyone have an example of an interactive hands-on lab for teaching phylogenetic tree thinking for a zoology course?

#MolluscMonday Miocene (Burdigalian) oyster bed at Sainte-Croix-du-Mont in SW France. Remarkably, this site is a tourist attraction and even has its own bar.

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

Can’t agree more.

And I got to visit the public museum quickly and entomology collection!

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

New paper out in Geology! Cheilostome bryozoans evolved aragonite skeletons dozens of times during the transition from calcite to aragonite seas, in contrast to other marine calcifiers. Fossil occurrence data corroborate the story and help nail down the timeline. doi.org/10.1130/G537...

Cheilostome #bryozoans highly evolvable, at least when it comes to their skeleton. Switched to araonite many times! Phylogeny and fossil record agree on that! Read it in Geology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... led by @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

Please repost at #eseb2025 so people will be more careful.

Hi #eseb2025 folks. Last night my laptopbag was taken /picked pocketed from me at outdoor seating at a restaurant. Close to the conference centre. Please keep your belongings close even in not crowded places. I was with 7 other people and no one saw it happening. cCTV did.