"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." Carl Sagan

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

We are around 27 hours away from the furthest a human woman has ever gotten from Earth. And honestly, who can blame her?

The reason this position has been so much fun is because you get to work with lots of different people you might otherwise not have. And those people are creative and innovative. All three societies are hungry for ways to bring new value to members via meetings. Anyway, apply!

Rocks, Fossils, and Ecology: Understanding How Time Is Sampled in the Fossil Record - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Your annual reminder that in this day and age, posting hoax paleontology (and other science) "discoveries" on April Fool's Day **will be misinterpreted by MANY people** unless the discovery is incredibly absurd.

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029. Please spread the word! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

We are looking for a new PhD student: Parallel Evolution of Clonality in Angiosperms www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...

A new @thefossilfiles.bsky.social pod just dropped! If you like your iggys spikey and your bumholes....errr....Permian, listen here or wherever you get your podcasts share.google/fCruBi3aqMDz...

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Today I want to share a few works that feel especially classic and interesting to me. Monday is almost here, and I hope your new week will be wonderful and full of good energy. Take things with balance and ease, and don’t forget to come take a look at these line art cats 😊 #shouxinsketch

It's World Bear Day, so here's a bear who's had it with all this. #MosaicMonday

Submit your proposals for our new special feature! It aims to examine time-dependency in evolution across scales, exploring empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🌍 🧪 Find out more👉https://buff.ly/dgxI6YD

for those who want to see many beautiful crabs, here's my megathread from last year with one for every letter of the alphabet

A lot of people on here don’t seem to understand that the role of art is often to raise questions, not to give clear answers. When Bruno Mars sings “what good is beauty if a booty can’t find a beat?” that’s for us to work out on our own for the rest of our lives.

Few spaces left now so do hurry if you want to get involved in some #palaeontology fieldwork in the UK! This #Carboniferous site is already yielding great floral fossils & we’re hopeful to find some more faunal fossils soon!🤞 See below for more details ⬇️ #Fossils #Science #Research #Geology

Views of Ireland, including my hometown Wexford. Please be sure to visit there if you ever travel to the Emerald Isle. Happy St Patrick’s Day.

Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n

Super excited to reveal my new collection I’ve been working on! Tiktaalik’s Tea Room! Combining cute Paleoart with cosy tea room vibes ☕️🫖 Now available for preorder! 🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cle... #paleoart #Archaeopteryx #kaprosuchus #tiktaalik #latenivenatrix

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job

Chair in Earth Sciences position @uniofstandrews.bsky.social closing soon - Monday 23 March. Very broad remit, so if you’d like to join our lovely school, and get to live in the super beautiful and friendly wee nation of Scotland, please apply! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc... ⚒️🌊🧪

Our PhD opportunity is still open. A match-funded project with @chesterzoo.bsky.social, where the student will also be a Conservation Scholar. An exciting interdisciplinary project that can be tailored to the student. Even the pigeons are interested in our LiDAR scanner!

Exciting position at The School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University. We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology. A great opportunity to teach, mentor students and contribute to plant ecology research on the Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.

UCLA's Goldberg lab seeks postdocs for projects in population genetics, ecology, and more. Flexible start date, fully funded. Interested candidates should contact Amy Goldberg. Details: https://www.goldberglab.org/join #postdoc

ICAL are ON TOUR! We’re taking part in FunLabs at the Trafford Centre all weekend, chatting fossils, biomolecules and bones with anyone who comes by. Big thanks to the @thepalass.bsky.social engagement grant for giving us the funds to improve our resources (and buy a trolly which is awesome!) 🙌

"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua." Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Registration for virtual #Evol2026 on May 20-22 is free for SSE members in 152 countries and territories around the world! Check if you’re eligible and request your discount code on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo... @evolmtg.bsky.social

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Richard C Lewontin lab 1976: See Russ Lande, top left; Jerry Coyne bottom right. Who are the three others? Help me folks!

Imagine being so correct, so beautiful and so eloquent

HIRING: CMS Manager You will provide systems management and user support for the Collections Management System (EMu) used by the Museum of Natural History and the History of Science Museum. Learn more: https://oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/cms-manager-0

Judith Pardo-Pérez and I are organizing a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social 🤩 Hope to see very many interesting abstracts! Get in touch if there are questions.

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We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

"For the boys in the club, the arrangement worked to their benefit. Epstein donated millions of dollars to their research, hosted them at networking dinners at his home, invited them to visit his island or his ranch in Santa Fe, and connected them to potential funders to further their work." 1/

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭 news.agu.org/press-releas...

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If humans evolved from monkey, why monkeys do not turn into humans now? Currently, they don't, but in the past there were more experiments which lead to the convergent bipedalism in the monkey clade besides hominids. Plio-Pleistocene was the generator time. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Hey look -- merch featuring shoebills, leopard seals and cryptid sea monsters :) tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com

Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪

"There is surprisingly no empirical support for the fact that loneliness is increasing, let alone spreading at epidemic rates." ourworldindata.org/loneliness-e...