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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazing opportunity to work on co-phylogenetics in Warsaw! Kenneth is a wonderful collaborator and mentor. Please spread the word!

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart

A long-necked dinosaur walks along a shallow river surrounded by various Jurassic trees, ferns and shrubs. A small predatory dinosaur watches from the nearest riverbank.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨Big News🚨 I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order now! 🦈 Published by UniPress Books & @princetonupress.bsky.social & featuring incredible art by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social, you can pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Ot... 🦈 (1/4)

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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‼️Here's a nice trackway possibly made by a scorpion on the mudflats of Alabama ~315 million years ago (Pennsylvanian)🦂. This one comes from the famous Union Chapel Mine, and was cited in Buta & Kopaska-Merkel (2016). #FossilFriday @The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections! #fossil

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PARADIVE UW @paleoparadive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦠 We're hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join the PARADIVE lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469223

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Assistant Professor (post-doc) - Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (WB-KG-15/2026)

The position of Assistant Professor in the programme/project/undertaking The impact of mass extinctions on parasite diversity and evolution.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two further slit shells, Pleurotamariids from Puerto Rico, 283m or thereabouts, Vieques Island seen by #Okeanos in 2018 during the Oceando Profundo expedition #molluscmonday

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A pleurotamariid "slit shell" snail at 262 m from Pichincho Wall East, Puerto Rico during the 2018 #Okeanos Oceando Profundo expedition EX1811 #mollucmonday

brown-orange shell sitting on a deepsea cliff face

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Íñigo Vitón @vitoninigo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐚🧛🏻‍♂️ ¿Qué relación hay entre Drácula y los ammonites? La respuesta puede ser sorprendente: una abadesa 🧕🏻 Esta historia tiene su escenario en Whitby (1) un pueblo pesquero de la costa este de Inglaterra, donde destaca una abadía en ruinas (1,2)

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Temnodontosaurus

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Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This little undescribed Nembrotha is munching on its ascidian prey - nom nom #nudibranch #seaslug #macro #invertebrates

A photo of a brown sea slug that has orange spots

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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky

An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

500k plants, ok, then 6 million fish. Important, sure but that's one uni making a bad choice. Then 7 million fossils and modern mollusks (PRI), 19 million specimens at ANSP, soon we're talking big data right? specimens you can hold in your hand are real data www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat...

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It's Hard to Be a Natural History Museum in the 21st Century

As belts tighten, rich collections of plant and animal specimens face relegation, dissolution, or worse.

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...

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The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them

"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

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European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We have a 2 year paleontology postdoc position as part of a DFG project www.smnk.de/museum/aussc...

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Paleontologist (Postdoc) (m/f/d)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

‼️Research Alert + #FossilFriday‼️ New paper by Cruz et al. @thepalass.bsky.social about the role that ornamentation plays in drilling predation by gastropods in deep-water ostracod prey. Turns out that ornamentation did not deter predation but did influence predation behavior. doi.org/10.1111/pala...

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!

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Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)

Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#FossilFriday Multispecies fenestellid bryozoan hash from the Permian of Spitsbergen. Image taken for my forthcoming mass extinctions book.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#DeepWonders science team, led by @divaamon.bsky.social located 25 cold seep ecosystems and discovered 20 suspected new species. They also encountered abandoned fishing gear and trash — an important reminder that humans have an impact in places they’ve never seen or visited before.

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Baran Karapunar @barankarapunar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce that I started as an Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich 😄 Here are the first fossils I inventorized, some lower Jurassic Palaeonucula from the Yorkshire Coast 🦪

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Íñigo Vitón @vitoninigo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Back home after a fantastic week of fieldwork in the Middle #Jurassic of Portugal 🇵🇹🐚 Tiring days, but incredibly rewarding ones. Working alongside the international M-JET team in the field has been a great privilege ⛏️🪨 Looking forward to studying the samples and bringing news soon!

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 01/09/2026

In totally unrelated news, Duke decided to get rid of its world-renowned herbarium, with UNC Chapel Hill stepping in to save it. Biodiversity collections are under threat www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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Duke is moving its major collection of plant life to UNC. Here’s why

Eventually, UNC plans to build a Plant Biodiversity Research Center in Chapel Hill that will house all 1.7 million specimens.

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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Interesting sea cucumber with a collector's behavior! in the Atlantic, a similar genus, Oloughlinius does something with pteropod shells! 1365m North Tutuila Flank, american samoa

sea cucumber, white with sediment and shells

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hello there.

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IPC7 @ipc7.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

⏰ Early Bird rates available until 7 September Save your spot and start planning your IPC7 experience! 🔗 Submit your abstract 👉 ipc7.site

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For #MolluscMonday, a plate from “Naturgeschichte Des Thierreichs” by Christian Friedrich August Kolb, published in Stuttgart ny Krais & Hoffmann in 1868. About as good as it gets for mid 19th century, German natural history illustration. 🐌

A variety of land gastropod species in what looks like a rural 19th century German landscape with a tierd roofed house in the background. Some species are depicted by just their empty shells, one in the foreground is a shellless slug.
Lots of colors.

#sciart #molluskmonday #mollusc #gastropod #invertebrate #invertefest

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Dr. Sven N. Nielsen @snnielsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Daily mollusk. A weird heteromorph ammonite

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our new Zulip community workspace is live! This is a place to connect with other palaeontologists and discover/share: 👩‍💻 Upcoming conferences & workshops 💼 Job opportunities 📄 Publications 💰 Grants & funding prospects 📚 Resources (e.g. books & websites) Join here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...

A flyer advertising the new Palaeoverse Zulip workspace: Join our new community workspace on Zulip! A place to connect with fellow palaeontologists, share the latest news, and discover new research, opportunities, events, and more!

Upcoming conferences and workshops.
Job opportunities.
New publications.
Grants and funding opportunities.
Resources such as books, talks, and course materials.

https://palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-zulip/

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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

[New Paper] Reveals the protoconch (larval shell) of the Scaly-foot Snail! Usually rapidly corroded by acidic vent fluid, we found a tiny 3 mm specimen still retaining it. Large protoconch = more yolk may have helped it spread across ridges. @malacsoc.bsky.social J Moll Stud: doi.org/10.1093/moll...

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MolluscMonday The ammonite Hildoceras sublevisoni outside and inside. A precursor of the better known Hildoceras bifrons. Early Jurassic of Whitby, Yorkshire

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Boundaries of #Geoheritage in the Tafilalt and Maïder Regions, an Eldorado for #Palaeozoic #Cephalopods: rdcu.be/fAk15 #Morocco doi.org/10.1007/s123...

Cephalopod (ca. 10 to 30 cm long) fossils from the Tafilalt: mass occurrence of Temperoceras ludense, a large late Silurian orthoceratid from Ouidane Chebbi

Cephalopod fossils from the Tafilalt: late Eifelian ammonoids from the Taouz region including Cabrieroceras, Subanarcestes and Agoniatites (reconstruction of the latter inserted, palaeoart by Christian Klug)

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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#FossilFriday. Here's a great example of a Paleocene nautiloid, with the phragmocone and part of the body chamber preserved. Who can guess where it is from, what species it is, and during which part of the Paleocene it lived?

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Netted Dogwhelks (Tritia reticulata) moving in on some food. These little scavengers behave like an intertidal cleanup crew and once they pick up a scent they move faster than your average snail. 🐌⚡️ County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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Erin Dillon @erinmdillon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How many #sharks should there be on a coral #reef? Our new publication in Science tackles this question using thousands of fossil shark dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like scales that are shed and preserve in sediments—from Panama's two oceans. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I feel like xkcd has been getting more into geoscience the last couple of years, and I absolutely love it. Bonus text reads "the administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal." xkcd.com/3284/

xkcd comic #3284, which shows a building labeled "department of geology," but all of the features of the building are slightly offset along a fault running diagonally through the middle. Caption is "The administration regretted giving the geology department free reign to design their new building."

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some nice Purbeck Marble in the new cafe at the National Gallery. In stone-speak the word marble can be applied to any soft stone that takes a polish rather than just a metacarbonate in the geological sense #urbangeology #purbeckmarble

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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

4 big concepts, 24 brand new cases, 7 years of work...

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Yourpalaeolife The ECR survey is published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! Early career palaeontologists from all over the world have talked about their experience with fieldwork - how could you change your working practices to get more early career researchers into the field? doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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#Yourpalaeolife: Interrogating the Status of Fieldwork Among Early Career Palaeontology Researchers

This global survey of early career palaeontologists provides the first quantitative data regarding the prevalence of field skills training and field work among junior researchers of the discipline. T....

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#MolluscMonday: Plagiostoma gigantea, Lower Jurassic, Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis. Described by Sowerby in 1814, this large bivalve was known to Mary Anning who recognised what she called 'the Plagiostoma Bed', one of a series of beds she named for their abundant fossils of a particular type.

A block of grey rock with a fragmented dark fossil shell and a £1 coin for scale.

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John Tweedie @johntweedie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fossil collection, found and prepared by collector Chris Moore, who has appeared in TV programmes, has gone to a museum in the UAE after there were no funds for UK-based museums to purchase them. www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

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One of UK’s best fossil collections sold overseas in ‘loss to the nation’

Exclusive: Lack of funds left British museums unable pay eight-figure sum for collection, which went to Abu Dhabi institution

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lithographic printing stone for Australian Fossils, Plate 4, from vol. 10 of the "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842", prepared by Sarony & Major from illustrations by J. D. Dana. (Smithsonian; ID: 1999.0145.458; n2t.net/ark:/65665/n...). #FossilFriday

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some large productid brachiopods for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪 While most brachiopods tend towards the small side for benthic invertebrates, often just a few mm to cm, late Paleozoic productids could get relatively large. There's a good case for the bizarre reef-forming taxa being photosymbiotic.

Chunks of limestone in a sample tray, including large productid brachiopods. Label:
"Phylum Brachiopoda
Class Articulata
Order Productacea
Genus Echinoconchus"

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