The ambience at the office today ☺️

I see #Crustmas seems to be a thing, and people are sharing Ostracod photos!? I don't need an excuse to share photos of my Favourite crustacean! Or better yet, here's a video! #BugSky #invert #PondLife

Maybe it's gonna be a Mollusc 🐚 in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸

#MolluscMonday Another fossil in the galleries of the South Australia Museum, the heteromorph ammonite Tropaeum imperator, Collected from Early Cretaceous rocks at Coober Pedy, this is claimed to be the largest known ammonite from Australia with an uncoiled length of 3 metres.

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Paleo session for all those joining the @egu.eu meeting in 2026 🪸🐚

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Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!

Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Greece is one of the countries with the lowest number of applications in ERC projects. There are so many reasons I can think of but maybe this will change some day... #research #academia #ERC #Greece #paleontology

📯Collection manager position in the Natural History Museum of Basel 🇨🇭 Collection: "invertebrate" fossils Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av... Workload: 70% of full-time Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...

I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today. zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...

Highlight of the World Malacology Congress last month in São Paulo!

Great week ahead in São Paulo! 🐚 World Congress of Malacology 2025 - five days of molluscs 😻

New paper from the Miocene of France - includes some snails 🐌

Usually I don't work on Fridays, today I can really enjoy the work as well as the weather 🙂 🐚