🦣 Meet one of the research projects supported by the 2026 Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant! Support for science like this is only possible because of the contributions of Paleontological Society members and donors🤝

Do you want to see fantastic coral reef structures from 450 to 300 million years ago? Contemplate the ebb and flow of life forms over time? @kiabugboy.bsky.social has got you covered 🦑🪸🧪⚒️

Rugose coral video is done! Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkM... #SciArt #paleoart #3dAnimation #coral #reef

What I wouldn’t give to move back there…

Job doing what even Randall Munroe of XKCD thought was a huge issue years ago. Some things in tech get better! 🦆🦃🦢🦉🐦‍⬛🦩🦚🦅

this is awful news

Heya! The rugose coral video is out early on patreon if you wanna check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/ancien... Also you'll be included in the end credits if you join the $3 patrons before the video is posted #Paleoart #SciArt #coral

I'm done with today. You can post an unpub image of a graptolite into google and it will tell you its a fossil. You add 'what sort of graptolite is this', it will tell you what genus it is and why. Maybe not the right genus, but close as a grad student's guess. And this is graptolites, people.

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

I left positions in 2007 & 2016; both positions are vacant and probably will never be filled.

I mean literally this

In a new editorial in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (free to read, link below), the journal’s editors lay out critical findings on the computational reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some of the best reporting on #NSF lately is by @dangaristo.bsky.social . Read this thread and the article on the state of the budget. And please, please keep the current budget conditions in mind when writing tenure letters and such. Science & people matter; $ is a tool for science 🧪 #AcademicSky

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇

Oh my goodness THIS. Students don't take notes. They refuse to read. They don't engage- this is not just me, its most profs. It's gotten far worse.

Apply for a Paleosynthesis workshop with a Co-PI! Deadline 26 June 2026. Gather up to 14 participants for a workshop for a burning palaeontology question! I have participated in a couple in the past and they are really fun! www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/info-callws/

nothing weakens your war-fighting capabilities like *checks notes* not having the flu

Fibo-cacti 😀 🧪 #EvoBio #Math

Cool: "Package adapt 3 is available on CRAN and can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Ecology #Macroecology #Paleobio

In retrospect, perhaps the least accurate thing is that deportations are the above-the-fold headline. Telling in itself.

One other thing I want to acknowledge is that I know there are difficult feelings about going back to Cleveland. This meeting was booked in 2020, as part of a negotiation to be able to reschedule our meetings due to the pandemic. In 2024, the Tri-Societies ratified a rubric for location choice 🧵

I was just thinking about how absurd it feels to be dealing with per diem expenses and travel reports in Concur

Funded in part by a @paleosoc.bsky.social Student Research Grant!

Rumi is gonna have like twelve different hair colors in the next movie

you know how Empire Strike Back had a bunch of cool new guys added — all the bounty hunters, for instance? well that is because George Lucas suddenly owned the merch rights, at which point of course you invent Boba Fett. mark my words KPOP Demon Hunters 2 is going to add so many cool looking guys

Happy #FossilFriday! Here’s a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a tiny but mighty ostracod🦀 📢 This image shows the trefoil-patterned left valve of an ostracod, a minuscule bivalved crustacean from the Eastern Coral Sea (Australia) 📸Thank you to Lalita Weerachai for your submission!

I've said this before but as a reminder the Knuckes miniseries spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies is absolutely incredible. 10/10

The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I was visited by a sphinx moth, which was so large I nearly mistook for a hummingbird until it uncoiled its proboscis — can you see it? ( @inaturalist.bsky.social tells me even from these low-res out of focus snapshots that it’s a white lined sphinx)

Me now that Brent crude oil is up 50%

I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle. This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.

Help! We're removing the aboral disk of the brittle star Amphipholis squamata in search of juveniles - they're brooders - and we're finding these hollow ossicle-like rods, arranged in sequence. What the heck are they? #ophiroid #echinoderm #calcite @echinoblog.bsky.social

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th March 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Brooke Long-Fox @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social from Phoenix Bioinformatics, on “Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank” 💻 bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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