WE. ARE. OUT. OF. JAMMIE. DODGERS.

A new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil: insights into the last representatives of the family onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday

I’m all ready for the Cambridge Festival tomorrow! @cambridgefestival.bsky.social family day in the Pathology Department from 10am. If you are local to Cambridge UK please visit! @kfarrow14.bsky.social will be presenting her work on the @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social patient survey.

One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

🧪🦣 🧬 New #Neanderthal genome just dropped! Denisova cave male, c. 120 Ka, some Denisovan ancestry, and living in very small effective breeding population <50. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Welcome back to #FossilFriday Here is section of limestone full of brachiopods shells. There are at least 3 different types of brachiopods species featured here. This includes Cincinnetina, Glyptorthis and Rafinesquina. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Liberty Formation from Cincinnati, Ohio.

The only difference is sheep.

Dr. Joseph Barratt. His memorial. #FossilFriday

Sir Fulke Greville d 1559 and wife Elizabeth Willoughby d 1565 by Royley, alabasters of Burton on Trent. #ChurchMonuments #Churches #Tombs St Nicholas Alcester #Warwickshire

#BrokenVeil BROKEN VEIL II Only on Patreon. Coming soon.

The beautiful preservstion of trilobite compound eyes will never cease to amaze me. On this little 400ish million year old Phacops you can see all the little lenses - each one a rigid calcite mineral crystal! Together they had excellent 360° vision, perfect for finding lunch on the seafloor.

TIL that bobcat is a species of Lynx. Another N Am species I only know from pop culture demystified.

There are physiological ways of avoiding the daily drought stress of epiphytism. Many epiphytes are CAM plants, so they open their stomata only at night, when it's cooler & transpiration isn’t so harsh. Orchids, bromeliads, & hoyas (📷: H. kerrii) are familiar CAM plants. #Apocynaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Shining Hookeria (Hookeria lucens) typically grows around streams and on slopes and banks in temperate woodlands. Hookeriaceae is, however, mostly a tropical family. Related species grow, e.g., as epiphylls on the leaves of other plants in tropical rainforests.

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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌴🍂🌳🐝🪳🧪 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 - UK and Ireland's quiz and festival for degree students enthusiastic about plants. Currently seeking financial support!

Jurassic Dactylioceras slab for #FossilFriday. Germany. ⚒️

How Thale Cress adapts – or goes extinct. In an unprecedented field experiment plant scientists investigated evolutionary adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana to a wide range of climates at 30 locations: from the Alps to the Negev Desert was investigated. In @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

📢 Paper alert! Excited to share the first publication of my PhD!😁 We analysed fossil occurrences of the last 23 Ma to understand how geographic range change relates to extinction risk.🌍🐚🪸🦈 Keen to learn more? Here is the paper: 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

For #FossilFriday a little pinecone still preserved in 3D after 125million years. Early Cretaceous Wessex Fm #IsleofWight

Getting a lot of adverts for the Star Trek exhibition at the science museum (which, fair enough, the algorithm got me), and this is objectively the funniest promotional image for a museum of all time.

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION OF SILICIFIED MELASTOMATACEAE FRUITS BURIED BY INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM IN THE EARLY OLIGOCENE CAPELLA FLORA, EASTERN AUSTRALIA Andrew Carl Rozefelds et al www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

Teaching about lichen & found this marvellous exhibit on my walk across campus. So many species to ID!

The gravestone of the Carl Linnaeus in the Uppsala Cathedral. It is made of Ordovician limestone. Here I've found several cephalopods. According to Alexander Pohl these are: i) a lituitid Ancistroceras; ii) endoceratid; and iii) orthoceratid. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Seventy-three of Australia's 283 epiphytic orchids grow on eucalypts or other Myrtaceae. These gum-loving beauties are under threat from the expansion of myrtle rust, a fungal disease affecting their host trees. Read more: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81552/1/81552.pdf 📸: Mark Clements

"Well, this is an interesting incident, Brian," said one radio commentator to another. "I don't think there have been any mysterious materializations on the pitch since, oh since, well I don't think there have been any — have there? — that I recall?" "Edgbaston, 1932?"

Tell me about photosynthesis or your genome gets it

Just spotted! - the rare and elusive tenure track position. This one in forest conservation genetics in my department - Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State. Help spread the word! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...

“Find a hedgerow on a bank and examine just one yard of it. Then make a list of all the different plants you can find in that yard. You will be astonished at the variety” (1965) Artist: Ronald Lampitt Writer: Richard Bowood

#FossilFriday: A Coprolitic Vision, Henry De la Beche's c.1829 take on William Buckland's coprolitic enthusiasms, portraying him in gown and mortarboard surveying a cavernous scene of antediluvial coprolite-production, from the Pleistocene mammals of Kirkdale to the Lias pterodactyls of Lyme Regis.

Zuck's whole crew look like they just threw those human suits on for the picture. ...and they're itchy.

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/r...

Can anyone work out what @flyingsquid.bsky.social has found?

Just a quick update to say that the remaining footpaths around the tidal lake are now open, as this photo from earlier today shows! Restoration on the sculptures is still very much underway, and we will post more info (including the stories behind the colours) closer to the finish line..

OK, now that the @aaas.org has officially published the list of 2025 Fellows, I can now say I'm on that list. Citation reads: "For exceptional contributions to the fields of paleontology and ichnology, and for public engagement in those fields, as exemplified by his popular-science books." 🧪📚🐾🪨⚒️

I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)

Postdoc Position in Experimental & Computational Plant Biology. Utrecht, The Netherlands. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

Are you: 1. In the UK? 2. A trade unionist or member of a tenants union? 3. Want to fight the far-right? 4. Want to finally be involved in decision-making, from the ground-up? Then good news! You can join Trade Unionists Fighting the Far-Right (TUFF) www.tuff.network

Skunk cabbage emerging from the autumn leaves, and a couple of tree swallows screeching overhead. Must be spring

How do ticks spread Lyme disease? Ticks pass through 3 life stages: larva, nymph & adult, & require a blood meal in each stage. The tick may become infected during one feed before transmitting infections during its next feed. www.lymeresourcecentre.com/about-ticks #TickBitePreventionWeek

This is the typical capitalist #AI approach: convince you to pay more for something that could be done with less and even more efficiently! #Learning is a social activity: if you strip that side from school, you are condemning your kids to a lifetime of emotional and intellectual confusion. 🧪

Say hello to my little frond

Parliament in Senegal adopted a bill on March 11 to double prison sentences to 10 years and criminalise speaking up for LGBT+ rights. The President still hasn’t signed it. Sign now to stop this anti-LGBT+ law: a.allout.org/s/Pa3jX/

Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism www.nature.com/articles/s41...