the thing about trilobites is that they're such cool little guys

PowerPoint's automatic alt text is endlessly entertaining. No, this is not "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated" Reminder to edit the auto alt text before distributing slides to your class....

SIO faculty position - Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04481

Hey Aggies… TODAY at 9:30 AM: Professors Martin Peterson and Adam Kolasinski will be debating Plato, censorship and academic freedom in MSC 2406 Apparently the debate is hosted by Young Americans for Freedom

I don’t think I’ve ever seen clouds that look so much like colonial salp chains before…

It’s a dendroid graptolite

More of the evidence showing that the megaclimate is fundamentally shaping diversity and disparity: "Subsequent Neogene and Quaternary extinctions erased much of this variation, reversing a ~30 million-year trend of greater body mass disparity" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

A couple of weeks ago at Goleta during a minus tide. I've never seen such a large stretch the beach completely scoured of sand. It was wild seeing so much of the exposed wave-cut platform [composed of Sisquoc Fm. mudstone].

Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very proud of OU Paleobiology students and always excited to see students make use of our extensive fossil invertebrate collections at the OMNH

In a world shaped by climate change and the biodiversity crisis, you're far more likely to actually purchase ocean front property in Arizona from George Strait than resurrect the dodo from extinction

god dammit i knew the linkedin games were all just trying to Enders Game me

Darrin Schultz (Stanford University) will be speaking in 24 hours on "Understanding animal evolution through multi-scale synteny" www.youtube.com/watch?v=714Z...

Came for the crab logic gates, stayed for the Unconventional Computing Centre?!?!?

The award for best press release goes to.... #canpoli #chillax

Absolute gut punch to learn this news of @dremmaljohnston.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Goodbye friend. I'll always remember you for your easy, beautiful brilliance. You've been an inspiration. Thinking of your family and our shared friends everywhere today.

Help geo/paleo hive mind! A student asked how much time is represented in a band of a banded iron formation and not only am I clueless, but my Google Scholar search didn’t yield a clear answer.

As many things of the Meso-Cenozoic the origins of cowries starts in the Triassic to Jurassic 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Maybe it should matter that the President of the United States threatened the lives of the Iranian soccer team, who can say

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

holy shit

Next month, at the 2026 meeting of the @thebsls.bsky.social at the @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, I'll be talking about what the heck literary scholars can, might, or should be doing with natural history collections.

Check out the dual view scope for visitors to follow along!

As an ant scientist, I… I’m not even sure what to do with this.

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy! Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27... with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

Do you ever wonder about trilobite appendages? Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑 osf.io/preprints/pa...

"We’re all bearing witness to the institutionalization of intellectual violence at a university that should be free from aggressive political interference."

New preprint!! 🌟📝 Can we tell if a horseshoe crab will moult ? Will it moult tomorrow or maybe in a week? 🤔👀 In this study, we developed a simple and non-invasive approach in determining the moult stage of the Atlantic #horseshoe crab by looking at key structures. #inverts #science

“Who gets to be an Aggie, a citizen, a Texan, an American? Is it people like me, women, young people, Black and brown and Latino and Muslim and so on? Or is it people who claim they represent a true, rugged Texan-ness or American-ness...?”

I don’t know what I like better: the bloat-and-float kangaroo(?) or the expression on the whale as it is taken down by a giant squid #FossilFriday From: Ager 1963 Principles of Paleoecology

Cambrian Foundation: Fortunian Cambrian Nemesis: Stage 2 Cambrian Wrath: Stage 3 Cambrian Starfall: Stage 4 Cambrian Revival: Wuliuan Cambrian Imperium: Drumian Cambrian Hegemony: Guzhangian Cambrian Restoration: Paibian Cambrian Rebellion: Jiangshanian Cambrian Frontier: Stage 10

Cambrian animal party time

Jensen out here going "listen they need to spend more money. what are they going to do? go broke?"

Interesting slide from the presentation of the merit review shows NSF staff opinions about intellectual merit and broader impacts (both of which are factored into approving awards).

Slide about streamlining. Plan is to reduce the number of solicitations by about half, to less than 100. Simon Malcomber, the chief science offer is working on this.

Slide about changes to decision-making. Cheatham claims there are challenges associated with the discipline-based structure because of siloing. There's apparently to be a whole separate organizational structure for presidential priorities like quantum and AI.

say that to Boxer from Animal Farm’s face I dare you

Well, @walthickey.bsky.social , I also suspect there was also a spike in the version of this song many nineties kids remember, which is Weird Al's excellent 'Jurassic Park' www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4z...

Soliciting travel advice: I'm heading to Nova Scotia this summer for the first time with my family. I have 10 days. I want to see the Bay of Fundy & Cape Breton Island. I have a free place to stay in Sydney (Jason Loxton), & have already booked Fundy-adjacent lodging. Any must-sees between them? ⚒️🦉

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

It’s this. It’s been this scene for a decade. It has been and remains Homer declaring he likes ballet because he thinks this is ballet.

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Oh hey that's me, @leptaena.bsky.social, Melanie Hopkins, and other AMNH colleagues! I * think * we were very excited about finding a large number of well-preserved cyclocystoid echinoderms when this photo was taken

Starting to regret my decision to cover their internal musculature as well... #SciArt #WIP #Brachiopod

Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

UMMP is hiring: Administrative Assistant Senior position with primary duties related to administrative support, collections and publications compliance, and museum outreach and communications work. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

I’ve probably imagined that something was a foram that wasn’t at some point….

It looks CUHK is hiring new PIs in Earth/Paleo Sciences broadly: cuhk.taleo.net/careersectio...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but there are multiple academic societies around the world that center the science of paleontology, as well as other scientific societies and academic conferences focused on evolution, systematics, and ecology where research on fossils is welcome

How long until this is used as basis to censor discussing climate change in the classroom, now that the president has declared climate change a hoax?