Happy #taxonomistappreciationday! Here we celebrate the day with a 🍻 after are ICZN reading club :) @mohnika.bsky.social

🪸🪼🦈 Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! 🐋🐙🐚 @marinespecies.bsky.social celebrates this day by releasing its annual WoRMS Top-10 Marine Species. In 2025 alone, almost 2600 new marine species were described. Find out the top-10 of newly described species in 2025 👉 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/ten-...

Monoplacophorans => molluscs that have been around since the dawn of the Phanerozoic 😍 #Molluscs #deepseamining #biodiversity

Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cool project :) #PhDlife #science #biology #molluscs #phd @malacogreece.bsky.social

Chrysomallon squamiferum: what an amazing example of variation in appearance! ‼️Danger: deep ocean drilling can have unpredictable damaging effects on deep-sea biodiversity. 🔸the deep-sea might be far but perturbations occurring there are felt globally!

It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's #MolluscMonday, so here's the Limpet facts ep. 2: The small blue-rayed limpet got its bright colors (and name) not from blue pigments but from light being puzzled in a zigzag crystallographically co-oriented calcite lamellae. Function ? Look like a toxic nudibranch (Batesian mimic) ! 🦑🧪🌊

Earlier this year we had to say goodbye to a great colleague.

Can't get tired of Paleozoic life! 🤩

Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇 t.co/k6Qdu82nti 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography

💜💜

Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate. 🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00 📍 University of Reading, online Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r

Fossilised vomit - how cool is that!! 🤩

New year, new @saltages.bsky.social courses. More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social

Oh my! 🤔😶

While working on moving the 3 million objects of our collections in a new building next year (and not at the end of next year 😳), these are some of my thoughts 😇🧶

Can't wait for the next #MolluscMonday to post this: This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀 #biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling

"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues." Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂

#MolluscMonday Neither nautiloid nor ammonite, this is an early ammonoid, Timanites keyserlingi (Order Agoniatitida) of Devonian age. The large body chamber in this specimen is sediment-filled, whereas the chambers forming the phragmocone are infilled with calcite.

Preparing a talk on the Mesozoic marine life for #Museumsnacht Basel, I am learning so many fascinating things about Ammonoids. Not that i ever doubted how cool they are - they are Molluscs so of course they are fascitating ☺️ - their long evolution is more eventful than i remembered! #MolluscMonday

If there was one specific thing that would be groundbreaking about exploring Mars in the future, this would have been IT... Pity...

Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...

What a nice anniversary! @mohnika.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social

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 🪸🐚

🧪

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 🙂 🐚