Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

I encountered an Electric Flame Scallop exhibiting its illusory method of warding off predators by shimmering its mantle, giving the impression it is electric. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

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Welcome back to #FossilFriday Here is a tooth from a shell crushing shark known as Ptychodus mortoni. This comes from the Smokey Hill Chalk in western Kansas.

A massive mollusc for #FossilFriday Bourgetia is a 160 million year old gastropod from the tropical seas of the Yorkshire Jurassic. The grid on my desk is 50mm. There's a good article about these and other upper Jurassic snails here: fossilsinthills.weebly.com/blogs/the-tw... ⚒️🌍🐚🐌🔬🧪

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

Why would a species of ocean plankton coil its shells to the right for millions of years and then suddenly, flip to the left? To find out more see Flipping Plankton in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... by Bridget Wade , Paul Pearson, David King and Valeria Luciani

Seashell studies in watercolour. #art 🐡

📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this #FossilFriday, submit your abstract for the IPC7! 👩‍💻

The R package 'hespdiv' is now in the CRAN! 🥳 cran.rstudio.com/web/packages... cran.rstudio.com/web/packages... Now automatic hierarchical and statistically testable contiguous bioregionalization is available for everyone! #Bretskyan_hiearchy 🧪⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology #Biogeography #Macroecology

The Nature Restoration Regulation is the first continent-wide, comprehensive law of its kind. It is a key element of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, which sets binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems. environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/natur...

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Big implication 🌍🦴 We can now reconstruct ancient food webs with trait data alone! Manual: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

🚨🚨 Last 2 days to apply for our workshop! Get those applications in 📝✨

New R package 📦: pfwim reconstructs ancient food webs from traits + body size rules 🌿🐳🕸️ cran.r-project.org/web/packages... by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social @jackolivershaw.bsky.social @barankarapunar.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social with lots of help from @cemac.bsky.social

It's now less than 24 hours until #JurassicOceans opens at the Natural History Museum London, UK, marking it's European debut. - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... Come see #ichthyosaurs #plesiosaurs #mosasaurs #Leedsichthys & many more wonderful marine fossil creatures. 🌊🐚🐟🦈 @nhm-london.bsky.social

Spending time this summer on an exhibit celebrating the centennial of UMMP. It highlights the museum's growth, why we collect, and the versatility of specimens. One part features fossils with interesting backstories, which brings us to these ?Pleistocene crabs from Guam. #FossilFriday

Exporting Moroccan fossils without a licence has been illegal since 2020, but the law has been a little unclear for those outside Morocco. In our new paper, my colleague and friend Kawtar Ech-charay clearly explains the law, using our field area as a case study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Come join us! We have a one-year, part-time, education-focussed Assistant Professor post in Palaeobiology. Deadline for applications is 2nd June 2026. Please see more at the below link: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Shells from 'Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini and Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz. Nurnberg: Gabriel Nicholaus Raspe. 1769-1829 Courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Library and Archives. #rarebooks #sciart #shellart

Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩‍💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇

The New Paleobiology Database User Guide is here! This is the second edition of the volume designed to be a comprehensive guide for Paleobiology Database users -- escholarship.org/uc/item/9gg7...

Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Student photo of a brachiopod that is almost completely covered with a mat-like colonial organism. Bryozoan? One of my favorite fossils from the Devonian Traverse Group of Michigan.

Rugose coral video is done! Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkM... #SciArt #paleoart #3dAnimation #coral #reef

New tattoo idea. Taxonomic tree of 35 thousand genera 😂

So you've heard about trilobites, but do you know Naraoids? These trilobite cousins shared similar bodies but differed in details. Most importantly, they lacked hard exoskeleton and had only soft cuticle. That's why they are known only from sites with exceptional preservation, such as Burgess Shale.

Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Sunny day out with @taphonomist.bsky.social to Lyme Regis teaching @uniofreading.bsky.social Biology undergrads about Jurassic marine ecosystems and how to make a stratigraphic log ☀️⚒️ @colezoology.bsky.social

Bathymodiolus mussels can be found at deep ocean geothermal vents, cold methane seeps, decomposing whalefalls, and other spots which other life might find toxic. But because their gills are packed with sulfur-oxidizing and methane-eating bacteria, they use these compounds as food! (338)

Dreaming of Jurassic conifer forests this #FossilFriday 🌲🌲🌲 Brachyphyllum mamillare, a conifer twig with scale leaves from the Yorkshire Jurassic about 170 million years ago. 10 cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌲🦕🔬

There's a paper that touches on this by Rachel Warnock et al osf.io/preprints/os... Side note: No idea. It feels more like systematic reasons stopping women, rather than a conscious choice.

Richards & Ortega-Hernández - Predator–prey scaling laws support a suspension-feeding lifestyle in Cambrian luolishaniid lobopodians #paleontology #fossils #arthropods #cambrian doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Did you recognise this half a billion year old fossil worm? The answer to last week's #FossilFriday mystery object comes with a story of the distant past and a remarkable fossil deposit.

I’m super happy to share that we’re looking for a PhD student to join us! It’s an exciting project and a great opportunity to work together on big questions about biodiversity and human impacts. Come work with us! and please share with people who might be interested 👉 m.refline.ch/673277/1356/...

Species names are commonly treated as unique identifiers, but how similar are they really? How far apart are congeneric species names? By analysing the scientific names of over 𝟐𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, we found some interesting results. 🪸🦀🦈

What specimens could possibly be MISUNDERSTOOD? Let’s find out! With the amazing @spissatella.bsky.social! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1h... Please enjoy the real Megalodon! 🦇 🪰 🦟🐚

Some taxonomists name species after bands or book characters, but this is one that actually makes sense! Meet the shark genus Gollum 🦈 described by Compagno in 1973 and named by him as such because it "bears some resemblance in form and habits" to the character. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum_...

🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de

A nice image of a pleurotamariid aka a slit-shell snail from Caja de Muertos during the 2018 #okeanos Oceanos Profundo expedition to Puerto Rico! #molluscmonday

Lobocorallium - Ordovician #WIP #SciArt #Paleoart #3DAnimation #Blender3D #horncoral #coral

⚠️ Upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetic 🤓 🕒 Open for applications until May 24 ⬇️ www.lorentzcenter.nl/site/index.p... #workshop #registration #open

We are pleased to introduce Molluscan Horizons, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal born from a joint effort of Latin American malacological societies, led and funded by the Brazilian Society of Malacology. To learn more, please visit our website: www.molluscanhorizons.org

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

📢 Do you have a paleoart you would like to share with us? Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6

The world is warming. Every country is warming. www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇