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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrapping up a fantastic field season #laserscanning #Ediacaran fossils in Newfoundland @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social and Mistaken Point. Our 10th year of laser scanning 🥳

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fantastic day out #laserScanning @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social #Ediacaran fossils from 565 million years ago! Collecting data for our @erc.europa.eu research grant understanding selection in Ediacaran early animals 😀

A team of palaeontologists laser scanner a rock surface

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Delighted that our new paper on #Ediacaran early animal life is now out rdcu.be/fnksl @natecoevo.nature.com We show that asexual reproduction, stoloniferous reduces competition for Ediacaran early animals 580-560 million years ago, and that this then reduces early animal diversity

Ediacaran community by Hugo Salais, showing the stoloniferous, asexual reproduction

Correlations between stoloniferous reproduction and competition for Ediacaran animals

Using neural networks to see what describes the Ediacaran second wave, showing small dispersal distances in the Avalon restrict diversity.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wrapping up a fantastic four days with the GSA Thompsom Field Forum visiting the wonderful #Ediacaran type localities in Namibia. Thank you so much to all the organisers 🤩

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Interesting week with Victor Bonito from Fiii Reef Explorer mapping out our time-series coral plots. There was a recent bleaching event so many soft corals have died but some are bleached but still hanging on. Fingers crossed most of them recuperate 🤞

On left are bleached soft corals on right three dead and decaying soft corals on the Coral Coast, Fiji.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This #FossilFriday we @camzoology.bsky.social are in our first year Evolution undergrad fieldcourse @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social Dale Fort including the fabulous Marloe Sands Silurian Fossil site 😍

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This #FossilFriday we have a fantastic post as part of our 5 year project on Understanding selection in the early animals of the #Ediacaran. This research technician post will process our #Ediacaran laser scan data - DM/email: ek338@cam.ac.uk, deadline 12th April 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Incredible festive card from @rachelwarnock.bsky.social and colleagues at FAU - hope everyone has wonderful holiday season!

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This #FossilFriday I am delighted to say that I have been awarded a @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant looking at selection in #Ediacaran animals. If interested in Ediacaran life, do come and chat at #palass2025 @thepalass.bsky.social

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This #MolluscMonday here are some great ones from my recent fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito, Reef Explorer Fiji: two octopus watch Victor take video to make 3d models, a clam and a nudibranch. We are mapping out different areas in the reef flats to see how soft corals change through time.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This #FossilFriday we are wrapping up a fantastic week of fieldwork @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social imaging their #Ediacaran fossils and thinking about what shapes early animal evolution. Thanks so much to Edith at the Coaker Foundation for looking after us so well

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Beautiful day out @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social admiring the tiny Fractofusus on the Johnson surface 😍

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Fantastic being back in @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social mapping out their wonderful #Ediacaran fossils 👌

Jenny stands on a fossil surface, about to image the surface to make 3d model of the surface. A Fractofusus and Hiemaloria from Discovery Geopark

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Was super excited to see the new #JurassicRebirth featuring none other than D. rex because it could only be the mega giant of the #Ediacaran world Dickinsonia rex! But yet somehow @stevebrusatte.bsky.social had turned it into yet ANOTHER dino 🙄

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Too wet and windy for fossil research today but luckily there ar puffins @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social 👌

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Fantastic to be back @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social to research the start of animal life in the #Ediacaran

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We demonstrate biological differences in community composition are distinguishable from post fossilisation processes such as erosion and while density and community dynamics can differ even if community composition is consistent.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This #FossilFriday our paper on the Slopey G surface at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. Both the E and G surfaces outcrop at two different places 1 kilometres apart which means we can compare how ecological dynamics change over large spatial scales.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Fantastic day ahead at the @lclu.bsky.social Annual Science Day with talks from 9 different departments @cambridgeuni.bsky.social 👌

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Fantastic Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe Annual Talk by Jack Szostak on the chemical pathways for Life on Earth

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just finished some fantastic fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito @ Reef Explorer Fiji. We have started out a long-term project looking at soft corals on the reef flats mapping out multiple plots from four different sites to see what the ecological dynamics are & how they change through time.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Interested in a PhD understanding the community dynamics of hard and soft corals in Okinwawa reefs with @JDReimer @EGMitchell @DrManica using newly methodologies for the analyses of community ecology & 3D model reconstruction? www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello folks! I currently have two PhDs advertised: with Andrea Manica investigating the eco-evolutionary dynamics of Ediacaran early animal communities www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

Ediacaran fossil community in the Discovery Geopark Newfoundland Canada

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

This #FossilFriday the @cambridgeuniversity @weareukri NERC PhD Projects are now online nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/pr... - get in touch if you are interested in #Ediacaran fossils or using trace fossils to understand the invasion of non-marine habitats by animals

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

After ten days we are wrapping up our soft-coral ecology work on Okinawa and Kochi - thank you so much James Reimer and Chloe Fourreau - we cant wait to be back!

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Fantastic visit to OIST to talk about our work understanding #Ediacaran evolution

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

from Discovery Geopark, Newfoundland, Canada. These #Ediacaran fossils reproduce asexually via stolon or runners so the babies are clones of their parents and grandparents. This runner-like reproduction means they are often found in little clusters.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

Wonderful trip to New Walk Museum to visit Charnia masoni - the first macroscopic complex fossil found in rocks known to be Precambrian 🤩👌

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