📣 Lapworth Lecture postponed We are sorry to inform that the Lapworth Lecture scheduled for Monday, 15 June, with Dr Benedetta Dini is postponed to a later date. Please keep an eye out for further notices.

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

@science.org is look for a new Biology Perspectives editor to join our commentary team. Join us in Cambridge UK or Washington DC! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

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

Worrying that this requires a whole article and is not simply the default position for academics… there is no shortcut to learning and research, at least none that has any lasting value. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well this is delightful: a woman getting her Masters in Archives and Preservation reached out to me because she's creating a digital collection of pictures of birds on statue heads taken from around the world. You can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Journey back to ancient #Antarctica at our next #LapworthLecture with Dr Saurav Dutta. Explore past climate change through geochemical analysis of #fossil bivalve shells. Free and open to all. 📅 Mon 11 May, 17:30 📌 Uni of Bham campus and/or Zoom More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Anatomists at large: I love you, I support you, I value your brilliant descriptive work but please, for the love of all that is unholy, write SOMETHING about the ligaments.

The Natural History Museum Stuttgart is seeking to fill a position as Curator / Researcher (m/f/d) in Ichthyology Permanent, full-time (80–100%) Remuneration in accordance with TV-L E13 Application deadline: 17/05/2026 ➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/3svwg

My ECR colleagues at Birmingham do some incredibly important research around protecting UK woodlands - this blog post by Rachel Mailes about ash dieback is just one example 🌳🍃 forest640.wixsite.com/bes-forest/p...

2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

This is an excellent essay, and I would encourage anyone to read it, scientist or no. And I’m only one PhD student among gods know how many on this swirling planet, I might as well articulate where I stand: I do not and will not use GenAI or LLMs at all, ever. Big words, for a puny PhD student. 1/9

My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

We are looking for a new volcano-petrology postdoc to join the NERC-funded large grant ‘ex-x: understanding dangerous eruptive transitions’ Based at Bristol University! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA042/s...

Join us on Monday at 5.30pm for our free Lapworth Lecture with Dr Zoja Vukmanovic. 🌋 How can rock microstructure reconstruct the cooling and movement of large magma bodies migrating through the crust? 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭 Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research. Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀 ➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🤓 New M.Sc. program: Earth System Dynamics & Evolution 🤓 fau-earth-system-science.github.io starting October 2026! PostDoc positions available

Dr Zoja Vukmanovic will speak at our next free #LapworthLecture, about how we can reconstruct the cooling and movement of large magma bodies through the crust via microstructural analysis. 📅 Mon 23 Mar, 17:30 📌 Uni of Bham campus and/or Zoom 💻 For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

The #yourpalaeolife 2 survey closes very soon, so no matter where you are in the world, what area of palaeontology has your heart, tell us how field work does (or doesn’t) play a role in your work. forms.gle/kGLhdeK876xi...

Don't miss our Lapworth Lecture tomorrow with Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza Alessandro Chiarenza, exploring dinosaur ecosystem responses to climate change in the Mesozoic. Watch in-person or on Zoom, the lecture is free and open to all. 1/2

Do you love fieldwork? Or hate it? Do you sort of think it’s fine but are not very interested? If you're a palaeontologist, fill in the #yourpalaeolife survey. Do it now! #wereallstandinginafield #anditsaverybigfield #withnichepartitioning #andcomplexbioticinteractions forms.gle/61LiJpD5RfWxVg1U6

Common sense prevails over politicised greed - for now at least 👏🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us tonight from 5.30pm for Dr Hannah Byrne's #LapworthLecture on shark skeletons and how they may have aided their evolutionary success. 🦈 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, University of Birmingham 💻 Also on Zoom For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...#LapworthLecture #Geology #Sharks

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨 Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️ #Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR

Strictly speaking our next Lecture is Hannah Byrne’s on 🦈, Wednesday next week (18th Feb), but after that it will be Ale 😊🦖

At our next #LapworthLecture on Mon 9 March, Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza will speak about his research on #dinosaur ecosystem responses to #climatechange during the Mesozoic. Free & open to all. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... Illustration: Davide Bonadonna Alessandro Chiarenza

A postdoc position in Biogeography and Macroecology is available at Palacky University, Czech Republic, with an application deadline of March 15, 2026. For details, contact prof. Vladimir Remes at [email protected]. More info: https://vladremes.github.io #postdoc

Are you a palaeontologist? Do you have OPINIONS about what that means? Want to vent them anonymously in a scientifically productive way? Fill in the #yourpalaeolife survey to ensure you are represented in our results! forms.gle/5db3uUVeSNYm... #disgruntledpalaeomasses #showusyourhydrothermalvents

Did you know sharks and their relatives predate trees? Join Dr Hannah Byrne on 18 Feb at her Lapworth Lecture on sharks' evolutionary success due to a lightweight cartilage skeleton, both on campus and Zoom. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... 📸: Upper and lower jaw with teeth of an Angel shark.

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Our next Lapworth Lecture will be on Wed 18 Feb with Dr Hannah Byrne! Hannah will speak about innovations in shark skeletons, aiding their remarkable evolutionary success. Free to attend, open to all. 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom 💻 For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Delve into the world of Ancient Egypt at our #LapworthLecture on Monday with Prof. Paul T. Nicholson 🔍 Free to attend, open to all. 📅 Mon 12 Jan, 17:30 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

It’s back and it’s as anonymous as a mosquito in your tent - #yourpalaeolife! This time, we need ESTABLISHED RESEARCHERS (more than 5 years post-PhD? That’s YOU) to tell us how field work works – or how it doesn’t! #therockfatherpartII #showusallyourlayers #sedimentarystyle forms.gle/61LiJpD5RfWx...

I am extremely excited about this one 😀 #egyptology #catacombs #ancienthistory #burialrites

The University have moved to close Cambridge Vet School in 2032 despite the enormous shortage of vets in the UK for public and government practice, the growing reality of imported exotic disease and enormity of health research that will be lost. Petition to save it at the link savethevetschool.co.uk

Had a cracking #PalAss25 with some really great discussions after my #Yourpalaolife talk, a brilliant dinner and some extremely geeky time at the Historic Dockyard. Might have left my heart on the Mary Rose ⚓

#YOURPALAEOLIFE IS BACK! But we’re a bit different this time - If you're an established researcher, over 5 years post-PhD, it’s time to shine. Tell us about your field work ambitions, triumphs and (rock-) crushing disappointments. #whenthestudentsaway #thePIgetstoplay forms.gle/etx3gqg7DWZb...

Looking for a master student to work on the microstructure of metapodials and phalanges in arboreal mammals!! Fully funded by the MNHN. Cool collab with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social ! Contact me for more info 😁

Our next Lapworth Lecture is on Mon 1st Dec with Prof. Antony Morris, exploring seafloor spreading through grain-scale observations of oceanic crustal rocks. Open to everyone, free to attend. 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lapwo...

Join us on Mon 24 Nov for Alice Whittle's @acwhittle.bsky.social Lapworth Lecture. How does peatland restoration affect microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs? Open to all, free entry. 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Join Alice Whittle (University of Derby) @acwhittle.bsky.social as she explores the effect of peatland restoration on microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs in our Lapworth Lecture on Monday 24 Nov. Available in-person on campus and on Zoom. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

BE PART OF THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF THINKING VERY HARD ABOUT FIELDWORK. Thank you so much to everyone who has filled in the #yourpalaeolife survey so far, you are all extraordinary people – but we need more! forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...