"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Taphonomy is the science of what happens between death and discovery.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

daily mollusk. Nautilus and Allonautilus are the only living genera of nautiloids, a once very diverse group of cephalopod mollusks 🧪

I just deleted my account. Not much use anyway and this is just too much... 🧪

daily mollusk. platycerids are neritimorph gastropods. as it states here, they are coprophages - they literally ate sh*t 🧪

Are you a #geoscientist looking to transition to an #editorial career? Our #Earth team in Nature Communications is hiring, take a look here. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Do you want to practice conversational Spanish & English with us? The GeoLatinas Professional and Personal Development Committee invites you to participate in the SIXTH year of "Conversando con GeoLatinas", a language-exchange initiative for Spanish & English at all levels. 👇

Umm, ok. Far-left, eh?

Daily mollusk - sea silk

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French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny, who founded the science of #micropaleontology, was born #OTD in 1802 wp.me/p3ihHu-1bc #histsci In Mémoire sur les foraminifères de la craie blanche du bassin de Paris, he proved that foraminifera could be used to classify geological strata. 🧪⚒️🔬

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

My 2025 Historical Biology article 'The response to and rejection of Brian Ford’s Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis' is now officially published (Historical Biology 37 (9), 2147–2156) and here ... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

Now, I like that video a lot. It would have been nice to have the time representing geologic age. From the beginning of the process counting down to now. Yes, usually I post interesting critters, but I'm still a geologist... 🧪

Someone dreamed this up, right? Very cool ankylosaur 🧪

Very cool idea! 🧪

The American Museum of Natural History’s Microscopy and Imaging Facility is seeking a full-time Laboratory Manager to manage their key interdepartmental research facility. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

Job Alert‼️ Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums: careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b... Aim: assess biotic interactions using mollusks from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely! @paleosoc.bsky.social @almnh.bsky.social

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📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future. 🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Hi, does anyone have an idea what museum might have had labels like the one on this specimen. We're trying to return a bunch of old loans, and this specimen has no information. It's a receptaculite, maybe that helps.

daily mollusk. polyplacophoran teeth are heavy metal 🤘 - at least in part 🧪

🦐 New article honoring my PhD advisor Dr. Rodney Feldmann, who passed away last year. Lobetelson feldmanni n. sp. is a ~305 million-year-old shrimp from New Mexico. Open access paper J Paleo: doi.org/10.1017/jpa.... @paleosoc.bsky.social Specimen @almnh.bsky.social collection. #FossilFriday #fossil

Too many manuscripts and not enough reviewers! The reviewer fatigue issue compromises the #peer-review process. 🧪 🌍 🌐 #ScientificArticles www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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daily mollusk - world oyster day from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social 🧪

Der Herr Nuding wieder...

whoa. One healthy adult oyster can filter up to 50 GALLONS a day! #worldoysterday youtu.be/EAUq0X0GMFo?...

daily mollusk - Zygochlamys patagonica. Impossible for me not to share our southern scallop. Look at those beautiful eyes. Well, they are photoreceptors, so we call them eyes. 🧪

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Motherfucking wind farms…

Introducing Ocean Art, my new illustrated book. Out in August. Featuring some of the most striking and meaningful images of sea creatures from ancient times to modern and from the coasts to the deepest abyss, I reflect on how art shapes our view of marine life 🦑🐟🐙🦈 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/ocean-art

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

daily mollusk. chitons are their own class of mollusks called Polyplacophora. they always have 8 shell plates when adult 🧪

New article out with Open Access. No new data, but some interesting analyses. Still way to go to get a better idea about the evolutionary history of Chilean fish faunas 🧪

daily mollusk - nice plate of higher Caenogastropoda from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

@guillermodelia.bsky.social tal vez para los tuyos?

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

RIP Ozzy. You gave us metal \m/

Let's give this a wider audience! 🧪

I have a fully funded open #position for a PhD student/postdoc in marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are seeking someone to study seafloor fluxes and their interactions with microbial communities in biodiversity hotspots. 🧪⚒️🌊 Contact me if you want more details.

daily mollusk. a cute nudibranch. nudibranchs are gastropods, like snails, that at some point during their evolution reduced the shell. since they now have no physical defense, they often have chemical weapons (poison) or do camouflage. 🧪