There's still time to apply! University of Nebraska State Museum is searching for a Collection Manager for one of the most important Paleontology Collections in North America. Come join us and work with nice people and incredible fossils. Please apply! employment.unl.edu/postings/100...

Ever wondered what impact climate may have had on dinosaur body size? Us too! 🧵 Check out our new paper that tries to answer just that—out today in Palaeontology! @thepalass.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just listened to this. My phone died 5 mins from the end. Wasn't sure if it was part of the outcome. Then I found my charger and finished it. Properly unsettling. Amazing stuff.

While some of our University of Birmingham Palaeontology undergrads have been learning to prepare fossils this week, another team have been excavating Carboniferous fossil plants with the marvellous Tim Astrop at Brymbo Fossil Forest in North Wales.

I just made the kids watch this on the big telly. It's that special.

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Wakaleo alcootaensis Illustration! More context of the scene, fauna, flora and enviroment in comments! This illustration has had lots research and planning with help from the leading palaeontologist for the Alcoota Beds, Adam Yates! @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social #sciart #paleoart #megafauna #alcoota

Postdoctoral Associate - Seed Biology and Technology Program // Cornell University www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta... This position will support research on seed-applied, non-neonicotinoid protection strategies targeting early-season crop pests in New York cropping systems. #BotanyJobs

Michael Keating obituary by me : Michael Keating obituary www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Walthamstow High Street pegmatite #urbangeology

If you know what this is, you'll be just as excited about it as I am.

A second specimen of the enigmatic Wealden reptile Yaverlandia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The whole of series two is now available. Catch up. Be part of it. #brokenveil Patreon.com/brokenveil

If you are a fan of misplaced musical decisions, or Jeff Wayne's oeuvre (or both, as I am) then this is worth your time.

While writing my current Thing, this tweet from 2015 has been in the back of my mind for one of the characters but also the vibe overall.

Lilium fruits are capsules. Seed germination may be hypogeal (the seed stays underground) or epigeal (the seedling brings the seed aboveground). Also, some species require a cold period (winter) before they germinate, such as L. canadensis (📷: Jason K. CCBYNC4). #seed #Liliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Research Coordinator (PAFTOL Project) // Kew careers.kew.org/vacancy/rese... As Research Coordinator, you will coordinate project data production, including securing samples , managing collaborative networks and day-to-day curation of the project database. #BotanyJobs

In what feels like a fever dream, I sang on a recording of a world cup song for England's men in 2014, featuring Andy Serkis, Shakespeare, Elgar, and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. I have today discovered that there is video evidence. I'm so sorry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqbj...

“In the beginning, Doctor Who was created. This has made a lot of Doctor Who fans very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move”

Open afternoon at the Fossil Grove. Sunday 14th June 12-4. A Science Festival Event. www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien...

It is always striking to me when, meeting non-university friends, they ask how work is, and I say some variant of 'OK personally, altho obviously pretty shit in general', and they ask why, and I say some variant of 'sector in meltdown', and they are surprised and had no idea...

Patina bronze/aqua and rainbow/phantom purple are SOLD! I'll try to find time to remake and post new versions soon!

This fabulous image shows the Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Convalescent Home at Skegness, which was opened in 1929. You can even see the yellow sand of the beach in the very bottom right of the picture. #EYAColourful #1920s #coalmining

Beowulf swimming in Gendel's eerie mere (from Wilhelm Wagner’s Deutsche Heldensagen: erzählt für Jugend und Volk). Hey...is that a Pterichthys? If so, I guess Beowulf is set in the Devonian period.

A necklace with lotus-shaped pendants, made of faience. Lotus was an important symbol in ancient #Egypt. It was associated with rebirth and rejuvenation.The plant was also valued for its pain-relieving properties. Ca 1,400 BC, from Theben. On display at Neues Museum, Berlin. 📷 me

I thought I had missed the stage when young holly leaves emerge as tiny light green tender leaves but did come across a few yesterday in the woods. @loupgarou.bsky.social alerted me to them many years ago. They are so lovely to touch before they go all spiky 🌿

Research Assistant (PAFTOL Project) // Kew careers.kew.org/vacancy/rese... As Research Assistant, you will be an active member of the project’s multi-disciplinary team led by the Head of the Tree of Life Team, playing a critical role in the delivery of data production in PAFTOL. #BotanyJobs

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

This is a really well-written article about photosynthesis and some clues to how it evolved. It's really challenging to explain photosynthesis to non-biologists without it being too technical or else just really, really dull. This is really readable.

Unique magnoliid flowers from the Late Cretaceous of Bohemia Xieting Wu (吴谐婷), et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

An early step on the long strange road to photosynthesis www.quantamagazine.org/an-early-ste...

A reminder as the far right tries to spread hate and division: they're not even that popular, they're just loud https://goodlawproject.org/aurelien-mondon-the-far-right-isnt-populist-theyre-not-even-popular/

Why do you care? Why not just block them? Because these people are ruining one of the greatest things about the internet: the hobbyist communities and the wonderful niche knowledge they shared and made available to the world. They're all getting drowned out by AI bullshit to make a quick buck.

TONIGHT: public meeting on the future of higher education in Sheffield. Job cuts and restructures are threatening both universities and the city that depends on them. Hear from Abtisam Mohamed MP and TUC regional secretary Dave Pike, and have your say. Register below!

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Plant Physiology // Umeå www.slu.se/en/about-slu... The subject area for the position is plant physiology with a focus on RNA biology, primarily in trees. #BotanyJobs

Because I’m so rock n roll, while I was watching the football last night I did some infographics about the actual movement of local councillors on refukked.lovable.app It feeds from opencouncildata and you can see it by tapping further statistical analysis

"This is your captain speaking, so stop whatever you're doing and pay attention. First of all I see from our instruments that we have a couple of hitch hikers aboard. Hello wherever you are. I just want to make it totally clear that you are not at all welcome."

Whale Necropolis, and weird fishes. Glorious chewy carcasses, the real circle of life: ‘we report a vast whale necropolis extending 1,200 km along the floor of the Indian Ocean, comprising 5 modern whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans.’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When did liverwort oil body cells originate? Here, Susan and I provide quantitative evidence that they emerged by at least the Middle Devonian (~390 Ma!), shedding light on a key anti-herbivory defense mechanism of early land plants!

Bit of a one two punch from the Nottingham Post today. Student's are already at their wits' end with this administration's unwillingness to negotiate with out members and now their data has been breached. Leadership desperately needs to get their act together and actually lead.

There's a great production of Little Shop Of Horrors at Derby Theatre until 20 June, if you are in the area and like catchy musicals where the plant wins 🖤

Glad to see this little review published! Do you want to read about the challenges of integrating molecular and fossil data in plants? Check this out for free! With amazing illustrations by Emma Antonena doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way which was strangely different from the other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.

At last! A coherent plan for dealing with the perversity of fossil gas largely setting electricity prices, even though it supplies only 1/4 of our power. Stepping into the market like this offends the government's deepest instincts. But it needs to happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My #LymeRegisFossilFestival headline talk: A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting & Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job. This Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm at the Marine Theatre: www.marinetheatre.com/lyme-regis-f... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark #LymeRegis

Just had a heads-up from Andrew Cartmel that my 30-minute play THE HORN is on the iPlayer for the next 13 days

The Sea Devils! #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoArt

An AuDHD woman was forced to reckon with the transience of existence this morning when she remembered halfway through brushing her teeth that she has a driving lesson in three days, it has been rumoured.

Evolution of root systems in land plants: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Protect Yourself from Ticks! #ticks #safety #health #nature It's a bad year for ticks, so be very careful out there. Remember, do frequent tick checks and use insect repellent!... https://esconi.org/2026/06/protect-yourself-from-ticks/