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🦕 Thinking about a career in Palaeosciences? 🌍 Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨ If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]

Absolute state of our building Facebook group: Diwali - endless complaints about fireworks, citing safety, dogs happiness, noise levels, and confessions about calling the cops(!) Bonfire Night - ….. *crickets* …. I wonder what the difference is 🤔

Once again I am taking my special traditional role in a malacological conference of being the person who asks bewildered students if they're aware that molluscs have a fossil record 😂

New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini. 🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

Don’t back down, double down!

if you want a little procrastination break then may I offer an insight in to the WILD method to buying a Hermes Birkin bag - spoilers, it's complex, expensive AND you don't get to even pick the bag at end. Legit fascinated. You can have too much money. thehustle.co/originals/ho...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

🌊 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social 🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p... #Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs

feeling a lot better about all the times we didn't donate just $2 to keep Wikipedia running

I am so unsettled by the title of this show. It sounds like it should be a pun. It is not a pun. Becoming increasingly distressed by this as my brain tries and fails to bridge this gap.

Game of Wool was pitched as a knitting competition but it seems to be largely about design than the technical ability? It’s fun but the judges are just skimming over some glaring basic mistakes Maybe I’m being a bitch for week one challenge one, but colour dominance is a thing 👀

Not just any Medusa but Ray Harryhausen’s Medusa from Clash of the Titians 💕 Halloween Queen as always 👑 I read Klum’s philosophy is that she spent her whole life being paid to be sexy, so why do that on a night she can be anything she wants.

Heidi Klum’s costume for her annual Halloween party was meant to be petrifying. On Friday, the model and host of “Project Runway” transformed into Medusa, the powerful monster from Greek mythology said to instantly turn onlookers into stone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/s...

Join the live online course on Model-Based Statistical Inference in Evolutionary Biogeography by Nick Matze, Nov 10, 12, 14, 17 & 19, 2025. More info: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/model-based-statistical-inference-evolutionary-biogeography-2/ #course

The veil is thin and my soul is tired.

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

The earliest appearance of gigantic lamniform #sharks has now been pushed back by ~15 Ma (upper Aptian, ~115 Ma) with the discovery of enormous cardabiodontid shark remains from northern Australia.🦈🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daveyfwright.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

If you're in a higher-risk category, get your mpox vaccine. I know people who had the Clade IIb variety and it was *bad*. You don't want this one...

Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦂

I accept I’ve done a little soft, but It’s defo time to break out the big coat.

🚨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...

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/3]

It’s a making-figures day!

#ProcB in @science.org | Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern toads: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.

🌱 A new study reveals the dual role of common #mammals as #dispersers of #plants and micro-invertebrates across isolated #wetlands 🦌 Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard. But surely not *this* hard? #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Opportunity for beamline scientist (XChem) at Diamond Light Source (Harwell Oxfordshire UK) ref: 11716 | closing: 09-Nov-2025 #MX #StructBiol #FBD #FBLD #FBDD #chemsky 🧪 vacancies.diamond.ac.uk/vacancy/prin...

god this would be my perfect PhD 🥲

🪱🦪 New Fossil evidence from Morocco’s Fezouata Shale show spionid-like worms boring into Babinka bivalve shells — direct evidence of Early Ordovician parasitism, pushing back their origin by >60 million years! #Paleozoic #Paleontology #FossilFriday doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Trying to plan out my work and I just straight up forgot about November so… jet lag recovery is going just 👌

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils! Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Check out our new paper! 🦠 Led by @taphonomist.bsky.social our experiments show the influence of endogenous bacteria in the early stages of decay.

Turns out jet lag hits hard after literally flying around the world & bouncing between 3 very different time zones in a short period of time Melatonin and caffeine are doing some serious heavy lifting but I'm existing in a timeless liminal space right now. Thoughts and prayers gratefully accepted.

B ack in the UK! I’d had a great time at #SR2A conference. It was really interesting to see how different disciplines applying the same techniques to wildly different topics. I’ve learnt a lot about the science of art conservation and it’s fascinating!

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Obsessed with the “not a replica” label for this fine plesiosaur(?) skull in a rock shop window in Los Angeles. He also had the composite mosasaur jaw of my dreams but it wouldn’t fit in my luggage