iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am looking for graduate students to join my lab in Fall 2027. If your interests lie within the realms of phylogenetics, macroevolution, and/or invertebrate biodiversity please reach out to me!!

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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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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spandrels of San Marco. Strictly speaking ‘pendentives’ but spandrels seems to work much better.

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Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

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University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did you send an email today to your head of department and multiple colleagues with an attachment about fossil jellyfish instead of a table about lab equipment? Because I certainly did not do that.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent example! Do you have links to press stories? I think we have have already covered the Kraken on the #FossilFails @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, but not how the press reported on McMenaMania

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How many litres of water I have wasted to do this

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LOL. If there was ever a use for AI, it is to generate a walrus-lizard-dog-pig. But then again, Colossal Biosciences might try and do it. Or perhaps just simply state they already did it when they simply put a tusk on a lizard.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Calling Fossil Fans - can you think of memorable occasions when palaeontology was reported in the news - when it went well, and perhaps more pertinently, when it didn't go well?

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are Early Career Researchers getting the field training they need? Or more, accurately, do they *think* they are getting the training they need?

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There were so many weird arthropods hanging around in the Cambrian, I wonder what they were all up to 🤔💭 💡https://youtube.com/shorts/CeQHe6X37b8?is=BOBVkOQR0ng78Svf

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Krabi Dir. Václav Mergl. 1976 #shorts #classicanimation #memes #animation #retrocartoons

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe Reddit isn’t quite a dumpster fire

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just taking myself to bed after staying up late to watch Weapons 👀

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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New paper out today! Led by Daniel Schwarz, we retrodeformed the skull and reconstructed the cranio-mandibular musculature of the giant stem-amphibian Mastodonsaurus giganteus. Our results show that Mastodonsaurus had a powerful bite and a crocodile- like bite-and-hold feeding style.

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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Calling creatives! 🎹 🎶 Could you create a 30 second musical intro for our palaeontology podcast? We can pay for your services, but our budget is 🤏

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Turtles. They're weird. Where did they come from? We find out in today's #FossilFiles. This one is hot off the press. We only recorded it this morning and it's out for your listening pleasure already! @fossilrob.bsky.social is my turtle hero. share.google/a5Aale2SzYyS...

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The Fossil Files: Where did turtles come from?

The origin of turtles has long been a scientific mystery. Not only do they have super weird things going on with their ribs, head, and teeth, but also its unclear if they were more closely related to ...

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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The origin of turtles has long been a scientific mystery. Where do they fit?🐢🐊🐓🦎🐍 What madness did they do to their ribs? 🩻 In latest episode we ask look at latest fossil finds to ask: Where did turtles come from?

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...

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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What happens when fossils that have been faked or ‘enhanced’ end up being used in scientific studies? How can we spot them and how much damage can they do? Three examples🦎🦅🐈 from our latest episode:

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Introducing Platyrhakis, Saigheadaspis, Ymersaspis, and Rochtarge, 4 new genera of British cephalaspids named after @aminff.bsky.social spent ages cleaning up centuries of messy taxonomy. ENJOY FOSSIL FISH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Update from the zone of totality in Spain. It was over in what felt like a flash. Shit picture, amazing moment

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poolside science☀️🌚part 1

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Final result: a pinhole camera to safely view the eclipse!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poolside science☀️🌚part 1

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Even though I demanded admiration, I’ll still take it

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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How could 476 whale skeletons accumulate at the bottom of 6km ocean trench over 5 million years? Introducing the WHALE NECROPOLIS

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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our latest: Xinyuan Meng @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social describes Bataspis crux, expanding galeaspid (jawless fish) disparity with a bat-like head adapted for dynamic lift. Xinyuan's study was aided by @ferronhg.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Zhikun Gai and myself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You can find it on Youtube or where ever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJf... www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwEz...

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The hunt for the first-ever animals, with Emily Mitchell

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Did a lack of sex hold back the evolution of the first animals? To answer this question, you need some lovely Ediacaran fossils and lots of interesting maths. An x-rated double hitter for @thefossilfiles.bsky.social this week with @egmitchell.bsky.social and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For reasons best known only to himself, in this week's Fossil Files, @fossilrob.bsky.social chose a paper neither of us understood. There are some surprising revelations about my sex life, however. Also, slug sex facts ("facts") open.spotify.com/episode/4ikt...