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...

How does peatland restoration affect microbes and carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs? Delve into the world of mighty microbes with Alice Whittle @acwhittle.bsky.social at our next Lapworth Lecture on Mon 24 Nov, available on campus and on Zoom. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lapwo...

Very exciting to be presenting a lightning view of the #Yourpalaeolife results for @thepalass.bsky.social #PalAss2025 in December. The survey still has a few more weeks to run though! Follow the link to complete it: forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT...

For anybody not in the UK, Dan’s talk will be live on Zoom and then later on the Museum’s YouTube channel 🦜 less than a fortnight to wait!

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:

"… I carry the lesson with me that good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4q6ea31

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured). #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Dr Daniel Villar (Durham University) @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will speak about the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution at our next Lapworth Lecture, open to everyone and free to attend both on campus and remotely. 🕠 Mon 27 Oct, 5:30pm More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Dr Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will be giving a Lapworth Lecture @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 27th October at 17:30 GMT, title: The Importance of Fieldwork for Macroecology and Macroevolution. Tea and biscuits in @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social afterwards (then pub). 🦩🦅🦜 rb.gy/nngu9u

Hi palaeofriends! All PhD candidates and palaeontology early career researchers: please tell me about your field work hopes and dreams and how all that panned out for you. Vent your frustrations, gush your successes, shrug your ambivalence into the #yourpalaeolife survey 🦣🦕 forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths. Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

What even a palaeontologist's relationship to field work? Where does it figure in our research lives? What, if any, are the growing pains we suffer to become our fully-fledged palaeo selves? We all need to know this, to understand it, in order hopefully make it better. forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r... 1/2

My first poster at #SVP2025 😁 looking forward to ranting about marsupial biogeography. I will also be running the last few days of the #Yourpalaeolife survey at that time - so much excitement all at once! forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...

Calling all Palaeontology PhD candidates and post-docs everywhere! No matter what your particular field of research or country of institution, please follow forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT... and fill in my ANONYMOUS RESEARCH SURVEY – #Yourpalaeolife : investigating fieldwork by early career palaeontologists

‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’ - Elizabeth Vrba

New study reveals surprising jaw diversity in early ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)! Using XCT, researchers analyzed mandibles of 19 Devonian species—showing considerable variation in size, structure, and teeth. Research by Ben Igielman et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41... My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!

The first little large white butterfly hatchlings 😁 plant brassicas for them and they will come, clever reliable little things 🐛 #plantingforbutterflies #britishsummertime #lazygardening

💍 The Gollum Effect: possessive behaviours, attempts to undermine others, and efforts to restrict access to data, resources or opportunities https://go.nature.com/4mnqGZW

Spotted a couple of #coolrocks in the last couple of days - in the Sibillini Mountains yesterday and on the Adriatic coast today 🇮🇹

How has it taken this long for a parliamentary party leader - ANY party leader - to stand up and say this thing that is basic respect for human dignity? #transrightsarehumanrights Greens call for single-sex guidance to be withdrawn www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 Calling all palaeoartists!! Showcase your work at IPC7 We’re offering FREE stand/booth space for you to exhibit your art at the conference. Email us to get involved! Let’s bring science to life! www.ipc7.site #IPC7 #Palaeoart #Fossilfriday

Check out the latest paper on a jawless fossil fish, and this time we were able to recreate a full 3D model! Thank you Lisa Schnetz, @nitroshutter.bsky.social, @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, @euphanerops.bsky.social et al. for having me on this @nhm-london.bsky.social #fossilfish #CTscan #palaeotology

Turns out in Rotterdam the dinosaurs only come out at night 🦕💫 @joeflansan.bsky.social

Second day of field work, found lots of bugs. And a mole. #universityofbirmingham #rotterdamditchlife

Lovely day for field work in Rotterdam 🦆 #universityofbirmingham #ditchbugs #lastminutefieldtrip

We’re kicking off our Bluesky journey with some big news! We’re delighted to announce that Professor Hannah Fry joins Queens' College as a Professorial Fellow. Queens’ College is also pleased to share the appointment of Reid Hoffman as a Distinguished Academic Visitor. More information below. 👇