Lasaea rubra are fun intertidal clams. Like some other Galeommatoidea, they are very mobile with a snail-like foot. They brood their young in their shell, and can do parthenogensis, so neighbors are often a mother and her lil clones living alongside her (342) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

May the fourth be with you: Death Star specimen of the bryozoan Volviflustrellaria volvox from the Upper Cretaceous of Germany. Photograph and allusion by Leila D’Souza.

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Stunning fossil butterfly from the Oligocene 🧪 Original publication: www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

Major transitions in AI as Existential threats. Who said that the theory is useless? 😃 "trends through the theory of major evolutionary transitions and suggest that eAI could mark a shift in the units and substrates of evolution—a possible “Life 2.0”" www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

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Trump continuing to dismantle science in the US 🧪

Extreme-right Chilean government planning to dismantle science funding 🧪

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Very nice Encope-like sand dollar from the Lower Miocene. We got similar ones here in Chile, although a bit younger in age 🧪

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That is impressive - but not in a good way

Hydrothermal vent snails of the genus Alviniconcha ❤️🧪

This #EarthDay EGU joins our siblings and friends around the world to make a single statement, to reinforce the importance of our collective action to preserve the integrity of Earth's dynamic systems. #EarthDay2026

great new #openaccess paper on archaeopteryx by o'konnor and clark 🐦 they explore the animal's ecology and modes of locomotion, offering new insight into archaeopteryx's lifestyle! link.springer.com/article/10.1... (art commissioned at the chicago field museum)

La universidad que renuncia a sus espacios culturales abdicta de una de sus tareas centrales: incomodar la inercia, ensanchar la mirada y disputar el sentido común.

I completely agree!

A supercolony of the freshwater bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica. Each patch on the large mass is itself a colony of animals. The colonies grow on a common base (in that sense, similar to coral) which is gelatinous. Each animal (or 'zooid') has a crown of tentacles used for suspension feeding.

Another cool ammonite 🧪

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Meet Iskra’s glitter worm! ✨ The World Register of Marine Species released the annual list of the top-ten marine species for 2025, including this beauty, which was named and described by @scrippsocean.bsky.social grad students Avery Hiley & Kiirah Green, alongside Professor Greg Rouse.

"Ten simple rules for postdoctoral mums to stay competitive in academia" provides good advice for anyone, but great to see an article focused on having a life in science

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Daily mollusk. A very beautiful pyrite lined ammonite 🧪

Received a review request for a journal I wasn't aware of. Manuscript title and abstract were fanciful. An opportunity to "discover" 😆 that Springer Nature copied MDPI with a bunch of (semi)predatory journals named "discover something". Be sure not to review or publish in these journals. ⚒️ 🧪 1/2

Daily mollusk. Cool work - but, umm, a specimen not being an original type cannot be considered a paratype. This, my friends, several of you should know 🧪

Wow! Nice reconstruction and video. Those legs look a bit like those of horseshoe crabs 🧪

New paper out about Scaphopoda. Tremendous work of my student Javiera Roco. Open access 🧪

#molluskmonday Some spectacular Clinocardium shells in a ~40-50 lb concretion on the beach in Santa Cruz. These are earliest Pliocene (~5 myo) and from the Purisima Formation; each is about 6-8 cm in diameter.

I love nautiloids 🧪

We need more of this

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Construction of the new Polarstern is gathering pace: A 5.66-metre-long model has successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the future research icebreaker in the HSVA ice channel. 🧊🚢 Construction of the ship is scheduled to begin in spring 2027. www.awi.de/ueber-uns/se... 📹AWI/Ocean Architects

It's getting more and more ridiculous, and obvious at the same time

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Ouch 🧪

Heteromorph ammonites are cool 🧪

Nearly twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been crawling ashore for over 450 million years. Sadly, their populations have plummeted by more than 70% in recent decades. So we just announced our intent to sue the federal government for denying them #ESA protections. bit.ly/41quLDj

A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪

This is old news, but still holds.

Scientists discovered South America’s first field of space glass, or tektites, in Brazil. These rare glasses were formed by an asteroid impact ~6.3 million years ago. 🧪 eos.org/articles/sci...