Wayyyyyyy too long! Below is an example of the kind of complex imagery we annotated, which went on to become part of the training dataset for the Antarctic seafloor project!

“Why didn’t you use AI to get the data” was the question I was asked most during my PhD. There was no Antarctic dataset on which an AI model could learn. & it took me an average of 8 hours per photo to label everything. @camerontrotter.bsky.social’s new model can do it in a matter of seconds.

🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision! 📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665 🧵1/4

Photoshopping @lastweektonight.com John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Fossil shell of the ammonite Grossouvrites sp. from the Cretaceous Lopez de Bertodano Fmt of Seymour Isl, Antarctica (PRI 60629). Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Lots of Earth System Modelling (🌍ESM) jobs up for grabs at @bas.ac.uk! 🫧 ESM - Past Carbon Cycle (w/ me and Xu Zhang) 🇦🇶 ESM - Antarctic Sea Ice 🌡️ ESM - Past Extremes 🧊 UKESM Sea Ice Model Developer 💧Research Assistant: Palaeoclimate Meltwater Modelling www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Photoshopping John Oliver onto fossils until the Paleontological Research Institution secures their funding! Section of fossil tree fern, Tempskya wesselli, from the Cretaceous of Idaho. Comedian is H. sapiens. Not to scale.

New paper alert! 🚨 rdcu.be/entY4 In the second paper of my PhD, published today in Scientific Reports, we investigated the spatial ecology of two solitary scleractinian coral morphotoypes, which are likely Caryophyllia or Flabellum, from the Powell Basin slopes of Antarctica 🇦🇶 .

Reminder the AWG Chrysalis scholarship applications are due May 31st ⚒️ The scholarship "provides degree-completion funding for women geoscientists whose education has been significantly interrupted by life circumstances" www.awg.org/page/Scholar...

What a crazy last few days… passed my PhD viva on Friday, and just 20 mins ago, the second paper from my PhD just got accepted in Scientific Reports! Woohoo! 🥳

PhDone!!! Passed my viva with minor corrections! Thanks to @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social and Andrea Manica for supervising, and Prof Rob Fletcher and @dralexdunhill.bsky.social for examining!

Great first day at my new postdoc: jumping off at the deep end with a workshop on AGELESS and BioDeepTime at FAU Palaeo. Will be presenting my PhD work tomorrow as part of the public talks for the meeting.

I submitted my PhD! Titled “Quantitative ecology reveals scale-dependent structural processes of the Antarctic benthos through time” - in 3.5 years I have 1 paper out (benthic ecosystem function), 1 in 2nd round of review (on competition between coral morphs) and a 3rd in the 1st rounds of review.

Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to #climatechange, new research shows Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Read our press release below 👇 @nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

Greetings from the Maldives! Husband & I are on last day of honeymoon, we snorkeled with giant manta rays this morning & when we got back, I submitted the third paper from my PhD! Slightly ironic to submit an Antarctic paper from here but Cretaceous Antarctica was hot anyway, so maybe I’m on brand.

Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island

Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!

Happening this afternoon!!

Go Dr. Emilia Jarochowska! Winner of the 2024 Hodson Award! Emilia was an excellent teacher and did so much to make all students in our Masters program feel like a valued member of the department! #PalAss24

Hiya @thepalass.bsky.social meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.

All the new BAS @bas.ac.uk.bsky.social Iapetus DTP PhD projects are summarised nicely in this Instagram link and here: @iapetusdtp.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DDaRfmUIRF...

Looking forward to a great Annual Address about humanity’s legacy on earth - will our use of plastics create techno fossils in the future? Fascinating, and I imagine quite sobering, stuff.

The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."

The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."

Concisely about the #PalAss24

It’s only day 1 of #PalAss24, & I’m feeling great! So many great talks and workshops by friends, colleagues and mentors, old and new. Having done my masters at FAU Palaeo in Erlangen, and having also met my husband here (who still lives in Erlangen), this PalAss is a homecoming in many ways!

Fantastic talk by @eileenstraube.bsky.social in the #PalAss24 symposium on #Extinction, talking about the 'gap' between conservation and palaeobiology (and issues for conservation palaeobiology), and calculating extinction risk.

I FOUND A FISH!!!! #PalAss24

@deeptimeecology.bsky.social enjoying exceptional jellyfish preservation at the Solnhofen Museum, #PalAss24! @princessairab.bsky.social @nis38.bsky.social

🚨 PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk with Rowan Whittle, @sauravdutta.bsky.social (BAS), Dani Schmidt (Bristol), @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (Leeds) & me! Interested in marine palaeoecology & links to climate in the Eocene of #Antarctica? Get in touch for more info. 🧪⚒️ www.bas.ac.uk/science/scie...

Travelling to Erlangen for #PalAss24 and already running into old friends on the way! @lauramulvey.bsky.social

I can’t make it because I won’t be in the country but if you are, you should go!! I’ve loved every Explorers event I attended!

Attending the #PalAss24 Meeting in Erlangen soon? Interested in #Antarctica? Mass extinctions? Dark data from #museums? Integrating #modern ecological theories with the #fossil record? Come along on Thursday, 14:30 - 14:45 at the Kleiner Saal, to watch my talk on Antarctic metacommunities.

As more and more people are now here and I am nearing the end of my PhD, time to reshare the first paper from my project! Having submitted my second paper two weeks ago, and intensely writing my third, it’s time to celebrate the little wins in life! More on those chapters later as things develop!

This initiative is to support paleontologists worldwide with fully funded workshops and summer schools. Please check out.

🚨New paper alert! doi.org/10.3389/fmar... Returning here after a long time to share the first paper from my PhD! “Network analyses on photographic surveys reveal that invertebrate predators do not structure epibenthos in the deep (~2000m) rocky Powell Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica" (1/n)

Very exciting tenure-track job in Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at UC Riverside (my alma mater Ph.D program) —please distribute widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01856

At the Natural History Museum in London today for The Explorers Conference! The Explorers Programme supports ethnic minorities in earth and natural sciences in the UK grow, network and collaborate with scientists who look like us!

Nuremberg airport is always an exciting place, because there always tons of fossils on the tiles! Feet for scale.

Attending the British Antarctic Survey Student Symposium today and tomorrow. Will be sharing snippets of the talks and posters I loved the best!

My supervisor Rowan Whittle, & I hosted the Cambridge Palaeo Journal Club at the British Antarctic Survey this afternoon! We showed off some of the thousands of Antarctic fossil specimens, some of which I am using for my PhD. An extra treat today was seeing the benthic camera system on the SDA ship!

Hello World! Slowly making the migration over.