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. 👇

Also on Tuesday found beer. #CENTATRiPP2025 #CotswoldLakesBrewCo Molly’s photo again 🍻

Escaping to the outdoors on #CENTATRiPP2025, found some cool rocks. Photos from Molly, Anna and Andy 🌿

This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...