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Laura Cotton

@lauraminifera.bsky.social
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Curator of all things fossil (and a few not-fossils) at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Fan of larger foraminifera.

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Pasha van Bijlert @pashavanb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Do you use (musculoskeletal) physics simulations with contact spheres? Then my new paper in @jbiomech.bsky.social is for you! This is my first single-author paper, and the third published chapter from my PhD at @uugeo.bsky.social 🥳 Paper (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New in GPL by Foster & Evans: The chemical composition of corals suggests either ACC undergoes near complete dissolution & exchange with the calcifying fluid during crystallisation, and/or skeletogenesis via ACC is of minor importance buff.ly/vxCgn70 @thefosterlab.bsky.social @amoeba-lab.bsky.social
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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New #megalodon paper! A set of meg vertebrae from Denmark described in the 1980s was thought lost. Now, Shimada et al. have rediscovered it, confirming its origin from a huge meg that may have eaten a basking shark as its last meal! Big congrats to the authors! doi.org/10.26879/1674 🦈
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Otodus megalodon vertebrae from Denmark
Rediscovery of the associated gigantic vertebrae of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, from the Upper Miocene Gram Formation in Denmark, and comments on its paleobiological significance an...
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Congratulations to Zoe Kinzella for passing her master exam on plesiosaur ontogeny deduced from microstructure and anatomy in an absolutely excellent way! I am a very proud supervisor🥳 @sdu.dk 🧪
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科学探求おしゃべり番組「ススメ!有孔蟲」 @susume-foram.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Tiny Baculogypsina (“star sand”), Calcarina (“sun sand”), and Neorotalia — all foraminifera! They really are adorable, aren’t they? ちっちゃい太陽の砂とホシズナとネオロタリア カルカーです! やっぱかわいいよね〜
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
JOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol!

Closing date: Sunday 8 MarchJOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more!

Closing date: Sunday 8 March
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We're delighted to announce our latest paper, which argues that seawater chemistry changes may have played a key role in driving the long-term carbon cycle: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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The major ion chemistry of seawater was closely coupled to the long-term carbon cycle during the Cenozoic | PNAS
A ~fivefold decrease in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 took place during the Cenozoic. This has often been viewed within the context of silic...
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Vincent Bouchet @vincentbouchet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!
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Raptor's Nest (He/Him) @drmambobob.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
and another on the evolution of gastropods (Polystira) in response to changing climate with Prof Chris Venditti and Dr Jon Todd (NHM UK). #PhD #zoology #paleontology
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CR2026_28 – Crocus DLA
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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
OPal is recruiting! We are looking for a Managing Editor and 2* Steering Committee members. Apply if you want to shape the future of open-access palaeo. Please share widely!
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Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
📣Postdoc in whale biomechanics and evolution based in Bristol and Oxford, UK, with Dr Katrina Jones and Prof. Erin Saupe 📣🐋 #evolution #biomechanics #CFD
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Did you know we are one of two journals produced by the Natural History Museum London. We champion the importance of collections-based systematics and our papers cover fossil species from across the tree of life, substantially contributing to the systematics of extinct taxa. So, why publish with us?
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
why we are doing this: PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So happy to see news coverage on our new #plesiosaur fossils, including the juvenile, from Bornholm @videnskab.dk! Paper led by Zoe Kinzella with @lauraminifera.bsky.social. 🧪🥳 videnskab.dk/naturvidensk...
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Bornholmerne gør det igen: Finder 190 millioner år gammel plesiosaur-unge
I alt fem plesiosaurer er blevet identificeret fra bornholmske fossiler. Især et af dem begejstrer forskerne bag opdagelsen.
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Romain Vaucher @romainvaucher.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🎓 Looking for a PhD opportunity in #sedimentology? We’re recruiting a PhD student at @jcuofficial.bsky.social (Townsville, Australia) to work on Triassic palaeoclimate sedimentology in the Bowen Basin (QLD, Australia). 🗓️ Apply by: 30 Sept 2025
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Kate Davis @seavdavis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New Paper Alert! 🚨 Emily Havard documents dramatic decreases in planktic foraminifera and carbonate fluxes in the Pacific. 🐚🌊 A striking example of marine ecosystems responding to climate change and the rapidly shifting carbon cycle. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Job Alert‼️ Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums: careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b... Aim: assess biotic interactions using mollusks from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely! @paleosoc.bsky.social @almnh.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity. The NSF-funded project “Energetic Controls on Marine Benthic Community Structure in Space and Time”  aims to (1) evaluate how productivity affects the energetic and trophic structure of marine benthic communities on either side of the modern Isthmus of Panama, where there is now a strong contrast between the high productivity, upwelling-dominated regime of the eastern Pacific and the low-productivity, low-seasonality regime of the Caribbean (2) use this knowledge to evaluate the fossil record of Caribbean benthic ecosystems before, during, and after the uplift of the isthmus during which planktonic productivity decreased in the Caribbean and (3) relate ecosystem changes driven by productivity shifts to the well documented Caribbean extinction event ~2 Ma. This is a project in collaboration with Ohio State U, UC Berkeley, and STRI.
One key component of this project is to assess biotic interactions such as predation and possibly parasitism using fossil and modern molluscan assemblages from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. I am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow with a background in paleontology and/or biology/ecology with strong quantitative skills, attention to detail and organization, and someone who can effectively supervise students. Conference support is provided. The postdoc will work with Dr. Adiel Klompmaker (aaklompmaker@ua.edu) within the University of Alabama Museums’ Department of Museum Research and Collections (https://collections.museums.ua.edu/). 
Initial appointment will be for 1 year, with renewal contingent upon funding. The deadline to apply is 5 September 2025 at 22:55 US Central Day Time. The salary will be $56,000 per year. Please upload a cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications, a CV, and contact details of at least two references. To apply and for more information see: https://careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232bd-b82e-49d3-90ea-06601c242dab
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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I just had to buy this vintage brooch because it uses probably the most unexpected stone I have ever seen in jewellery - nummulitic limestone! It’s probably 1930s and the other stone used is marcasite #decorativestone
A 1930s bar brooch with a central oblong polished stone which is a nummulitic limestone (nummulites are small fossils). The brooch has marcasite set scrolls of foliage at each end. A close up of the nummulitic limestone with white and grey grain-like fossils in a red-orange matrix.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni 🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
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Laura Cotton @lauraminifera.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Last couple of days to apply for our mineralogist position!
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Steph Henson @stephhenson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
First juvenile plesiosaur from Denmark! Congratulations to Zoe Kinzella who just published her bachelor🥳 I am impressed and a very proud co-author with @lauraminifera.bsky.social 🥳🧪 Early Jurassic plesiosaurs from Bornholm in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark doi.org/10.37570/bgs...
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Bulletin Volume 74 – 2025
Contents Peel, J.S. 2025: Fauna of the Sæterdal Formation (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Surlyk, F. 2025: A cluster of the brachiopod Magas chitoniformis (von Schlothe…
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura
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Laura Cotton @lauraminifera.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉 Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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211-0241/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Mineralogy at Natural History Museum Denmark
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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...
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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...
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Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Careers At Field Museum
Position Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology FLSA Status Exempt Department Negaunee Integrative Research Center Our Mission Since the 1893 World Columbian Exposition our organization has aimed...
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Julia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Dr Luke Mander is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (3 years) for palynological work on the project "Mind the Gap: Tackling the Molecule–Fossil Divide in Angiosperm Evolution Using Fossil Pollen, Super-resolution Microscopy, and Deep Learning". jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Post-Doc...
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Palynology
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Palynology
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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 07/06/2025
Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short 🧵 (1/16)
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fun architectural detail at the Danish Natural History Museum, Copenhagen: a lamp modeled after stalked crinoids (sea lilies). Want want want. 1/2
A metal lamp sitting on the stepped balustrade of a staircase. It has 8 bulbs, each held by the basket-like tentacles of a crinoid "flower" and borne at the end of a long, slender stalk. The base of the lamp resembles a large stone, and the crinoid stalks are anchored to it by forking holdfast structures.
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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement. Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg
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Spencer K. Pevsner, MSc @skpevsner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy #FossilFriday! Did you know that on rare occasions fossils can preserve soft features such as feathers? These remarkably preserved fossils (and the sites they’re from) are known as lagerstätte, and they can give us so much more information about what prehistoric animals looked like in life! 🧪⚒️
A picture of a fossil bird head that preserves feathering around the entirety of the head. The fossil is on display in the natural history museum of Copenhagen in Denmark. The label for the fossil reads:
Fossil imprint of bird head with pigments
Found by Karsten Witteck, Fur, Denmark, 1996
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Javier Luque @javiluque.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A new fossil assemblage from Indonesia Borneo, which includes forams, molluscs, crabs, echinoderms, corals, & trace fossils, suggests that the Central Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot may date back to the Eocene, >34 Mya! 🐚🦀🪸⭐ doi.org/10.1017/jpa.... @camzoology.bsky.social #fossilfriday
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Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL) @norwbol.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Department of Natural History at NTNU is seeking an ambitious candidate for an open position as associate professor in vertebrate evolutionary genomics. Please see 👇 for details. Deadline for applications is May 25. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor in evolutionary genomics of vertebrates (279638) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Associate Professor in evolutionary genomics of vertebrates (279638), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025
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Gregor Mathes @ischi94.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’m looking to hire a postdoc (100%, 22 months, salary significantly above the standard postdoc in Austria or Germany). The position is set to begin on 1 June 2025. The project explores how biases in the fossil record affect our ability to use past biodiversity data for modern conservation. 1/3
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Natural History Museum Denmark is hiring a new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Curator of (Vertebrate) Palaeontology! Could it be you or someone you know‽ spread the word! Really excited to have a new colleague to work on our amazing collections! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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211-0238/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator of Paleontology
Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Paleontology Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural History Muse
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Jenn Fehrenbacher @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I just found what I thought were deleted photos from our 2023 field season of #forams grown in "The Bad Water" (pCO2 = 800ppm). The forams weren't happy, but the symbionts were! Here, we captured the moment the organic template formed in the final chamber of Orbulina universa for #transcriptomics
An orbulina universa with a new final chamber. The symbionts are out on the spines.
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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are hiring! We are looking for someone to join our exhibitions team to help work on our contemporary science and society exhibitions in our upper gallery. Could you be our next exhibitions officer? oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/exhibitions-...
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Exhibitions Officer
The Exhibitions Officer will be responsible for project managing identified exhibitions in the Museum’s ‘Contemporary Science and Society’ series.
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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Want to curate 18.000 Vertebrate paleontology collections including this Whiteia from the Eotriassic of East Greenland (NHMD 152923)? We are hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator at Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social Apply here: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...
https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=163917
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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Tenure-Track Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor position in ecology and biodiversity jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53161...
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HKU Careers
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
1 of 4 We're hiring a Laboratory Manager for the CODICUM project at @UniCopenhagen to help explore medieval manuscript fragments using cutting-edge biomolecular methods! Apply by April 13, 2025! Link: employment.ku.dk/staff?show=1... #LabJobs #BiomolecularScience #AncientDNA 👇
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Laboratory Manager Codicum Project
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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May #paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
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Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Surviving global cooling: morphological trends in reticulate Nummulites across the Eocene–Oligocene transition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @moononthebones.bsky.social @lauraminifera.bsky.social @nhmdk.bsky.social @oeadworldwide.bsky.social
Digital reconstruction of a CT-scanned reticulate Nummulites (foraminifera), shown from two different angles. Successive whorls are indicated by different colours (purple for the outermost whorl, followed by green, blue, red, and yellow in the centre). Scale bar at the bottom is 1 mm (whole organism has a diameter of about 2 mm).
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Laura Cotton @lauraminifera.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our new paper is out! If you often find yourself wondering about Nummulites at the Eocene Oligocene transition then this is the paper for you! If you don't, you might still like it anyway 🌀💙🌀 @ravikiran1623.bsky.social @moononthebones.bsky.social @nhmdk.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala...
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Morphological trends in reticulate Nummulites across the Eocene–Oligocene transition
At the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT), c. 34.44–33.65 Ma, the Earth's climate shifted from ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’ conditions. This change coincides with the first continental ice growth on Ant...
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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#MolluscMonday The Bluewater shopping centre south-east of London is a great place to see fossils in the floor slabs made of Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation from Bavaria. Here is an almost perfectly sectioned belemnite guard with a chambered phragmocone.
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On 18th March I'm doing a free, hybrid, public lecture at the GeolSoc on stegosaurs. Come along or join online: www.geolsoc.org.uk/03-PL-stegos...
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The Geological Society of London - Public Lecture: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs
Event details Stegosaurs are a group of dinosaurs characterised by the possession of two rows of plates and spines that extend from the neck to the end of the tail. They are known from the Middle Jura...
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