Britain may be 0, but Ireland is barely a shade better as one of the 10 countries with the lowest connection to nature. It's about time we get together and sort this out. Great paper by Myles Richardson @findingnature.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

Fossils are cultural objects - and this is not some woke b*llshit that people come up nowadays to spoil the fun in #palaeontology; this classification actually has a long history. If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...

#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics

Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...

Can't get enough of Pal(a)eoscience? Pal(a)eoPERCS is looking for new committee members! If you are interested in joining our For-Early-Career, By-Early-Career Pal(a)eo-Community, please find any details in, and apply through the following link until November 10, 2025: forms.gle/xVdiNnSFma8z...

A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!

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/...

Another great resource on the realities of scientific publishing by The Guardian (this time in audio format!) www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍

Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time. doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Let Palestinians lead: Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Had the amazing privilege earlier in the year to watch a lithographic limestone plate be made by one last plate makers in Germany. Each plate is cut and then hammered by hand into shape - and after having a go it's very skilled work. Currently they have no apprentices, so a truly dying art.

It's Kürbiszeit (pumpkin time) here in Bavaria! Bumper crops this year from the local farms, so every type of pumpkin dish is on the menu 🎃

Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/bones-...

Nota sobre a restituição do Homem de Java para Indonésia, com comentários meus e de @emmadnn.bsky.social Não basta devolver os fósseis. A Holanda deveria cooperar com a Indonésia para proveer instalações adequadas para cuidar deste patrimônio como reparação colonial. www.science.org/content/arti...

How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678777v1

"The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities." omg

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Don't forget to sign up for our workshop at #SVP2025: Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science! Spaces are limited so sign up while you can! vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...

It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review. Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year. Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Many people have sent me the CNN piece on trade in 🇲🇦 fossils. It does many things well; picking interviewees is not one of them. No legal experts, only palaeontologists repeating legal factoids. Please read my comment. 🌐CNN: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s... ✒️Blog: paul-stewens.com/blog/2025/mo...

Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help! nisoplusglobalonline.cadmore.media/Home

Wholeheartedly agree with Emma. The piece is a really mixed bag: very comprehensive, topical, and timely, but with a selection of experts that I find partially questionable. Call me crazy, but I do think that a piece about the legality of the fossil trade should include legal experts. [cont'd]

⚒️🧪Attention here 👇🏼!!! 🎯🎯🎯🎯

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦 But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1] edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyers ⚒️🧪 theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

If you are ever close to Tübingen, a great experience is the "Ammonite Pavement" in Ofterdingen. They are huge! Geopark Swabian Alb. www.geopark-alb.de/geopark-erle...

More #AmniotaLab science! 📢 Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊 the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species! Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩 So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder! @fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666730v1

Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and deepened understanding of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in seawater. adalovelaceday.subst...

🌿 How does Bayesian inference deepen our understanding of evolutionary histories? Registration is now open for the new edition of the course "Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference with BEAST2" https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/bayesian-phylogenetic-inference-with-beast2/

Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

The CPEG & CPB meeting is officially underway! 🎉 We kicked things off with two fantastic workshop sessions: 📊 R-based open data science in palaeobiology and ecology 🧠 Deep learning for macroevolutionary analyses Big thanks to all our speakers and participants - spot yourself below! #CPEGCPB25

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

I've had a few conversations about people still not enjoying #BlueSky as much as some traditional social media platforms. One tip I have is pin the OnlyPosts feed: you will then see posts from folks you follow, chronologically, with nothing else.