Reposted by Lucy JacksonNatural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dorothea Bate has been honoured with a Historic England blue plaque at the Natural History Museum in Tring! 🌟 Dorothea had no formal qualifications when she walked into the Museum in 1898 looking for a job. She went on to become a renowned palaeontologist, known for her fossil mammal discoveries. 213444
Reposted by Lucy Jacksonfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt 10327121
Reposted by Lucy Jacksonbookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Speaking of echinoderms, here’s some hand-colored illustrations of echinoderm species showing off their unique, pentamerous radial symmetry. Plate from ‘Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle’ by French botanist Charles d'Orbigny, published in 1849. #invertefest Coin for scale. 🦑 0296
Reposted by Lucy JacksonLisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 30/08/20261315m Nice zooms on a stalked crinoid. I don't get tired of the Okeanos ROV cameras. #OkeanosExplorer EX2606 dive 3 #MarineLife 2508
Reposted by Lucy JacksonGHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Fascinating work. I've been thinking along similar lines, too. Could you have something that's not-quite-alive but that would look like life when fossilised? How complex could these nearly-biological entities become? Could they also evolve? 282
Reposted by Lucy JacksonDr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Modern science outreach" 6 recs for scientists: 1) Craft research summary 2) Get public comms training 3) Engage w/ media, journalists 4) Challenge yourself w/ public speaking 5) Amplify your impact online (90% of Americans use social media daily) 6) Join podcasts www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comModern science outreach: A guide for scientistsThis paper outlines six actionable practices to help scientists effectively reach and engage broad audiences, with a focus on leveraging modern media and emerging dissemination channels. We encourage ... 062
Reposted by Lucy JacksonThe Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🌾 Species Spotlight: Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) It's no wonder this stunning camouflage expert is tied to the theme of the July issue of The Marine Biologist! #SpeciesSpotlight #MarineLife #WeedySeadragon #TheMarineBiologist 153
Reposted by Lucy JacksonWill Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New Paper: Ornaments evolve faster than weapons Combining a new theoretical model of sexually selected trait evolution with comparative analyses across ten clades, we suggest that drift in female preferences accelerates the rate of ornament evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgOrnaments evolve faster than weaponsAbstract. We investigate the evolutionary dynamics of sexually selected traits using both a mathematical model and comparative analyses, focusing on the re 06026
Reposted by Lucy JacksonIUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC) @sscmarine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Meet the IUCN SSC Sea Cucumber Specialist Group! A global network of experts seeking to advance research, raise awareness and inform policy to improve knowledge and protection of sea cucumbers around the world #WeAreSSC #SeaCucumber #biodiversity #conservation #marine 061
Reposted by Lucy JacksonIUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC) @sscmarine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026NEW PUBLICATION ALERT Read about the discovery of a sea cucumber with remarkable powers by members of the IUCN SSC Sea Cucumber Specialist Group Read here: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #WeAreSSC #SeaCucumber #BiodiversityMatters #Publication 083
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Cool new paper led by James McDermott in Proceedings B exploring how and why different symmetries evolved in animals 🐟🪸⭐🪱 "A morphological phylogenetic approach to the evolution of symmetry in animals" - doi.org/10.1098/rspb...doi.orgA morphological phylogenetic approach to the evolution of symmetry in animalsAbstract. Animal body plans exhibit different forms of symmetry, which plays a major role in their physiology and interactions with the environment. Howeve 041
Reposted by Lucy JacksonNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Early British Palaeontology trivia. Divorce was impossible till 1857. It's unusual, wife of Gideon Mantell, Mary, seperated in 1839 Mary illustrated works of her husband to rather condescending credit The dispute between the pair complicates attributing discovery of the first dinosaur (Iguanodon) 26015
Reposted by Lucy JacksonNoam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 12/05/2025Dr Rita García Seoane and I (with valuable input from other colleagues) have put together a little (unofficial) applicants' guide to applying for EU Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships! We hope that this guide will make the process a little less overwhelming for other first-time applicants.doi.orgApplying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship: A Fellow's Perspective"Applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship: A Fellow’s Perspective" is an informal, non-official guide written by two successful recipients of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow... 22113
Reposted by Lucy JacksonFelix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Phylogeny, classification, and evolutionary history of Neogastropoda: doi.org/10.1093/zool... #evolution #phylogenetics #systematics #mollusca 02716
Reposted by Lucy JacksonJay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Proud of the DinoCon team for standing up for the community and for celebrating human art and artists ❤️ I was heartbroken and disappointed with that talk specifically, but being part of a community of incredible, creative, kind people who are so supportive of each other - that is special. ❤️ 410024
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMenna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Stoked to see our paper out as a pre-print! Check it out if you're interested in how we can expand comparative methods to better accommodate the many-to-one mapping of evolutionary process to pattern... (or if you think frogs are cool) @gjslater.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgBeyond the Panglossian paradigm: adaptation, constraint, and anuran functional trait evolution.Recognizing patterns in functional trait evolution is a necessary step in testing macroevolutionary questions. Quantification of these patterns and interpretation of their generative processes relies ... 067
Reposted by Lucy JacksonCam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Welcome back to another #fossilfriday Here is a large heart urchin known as Macraster sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Fort Worth Formation in Tarrant County, Texas. These were burrowing in the sands on the seafloor in the Western Interior Seaway about ~112 million years ago. 14911
Reposted by Lucy JacksonCharmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026It's another stunning 2026 find for July's Fossil of the Month! Tony Gill found this rock showing a hint of ammonite back in January. Some expert prep work from Kayleigh Gill has revealed this stunning, rare ammonite, an ancestor to the ones found up in Yorkshire! #FossilFriday 392447299
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMatt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Excited to share that "Common Ancestry, Contemporary Phylogenetics, and Process Ontology" is posted at Systematic Biology. @maureenmkearney.bsky.social and I argue that GCD Griffiths' process view of systematics provides a powerful foundation for contemporary systematics. doi.org/10.1093/sysb....academic.oup.comCommon Ancestry, Contemporary Phylogenetics, and Process OntologyAbstract. Recent advances in systematics and evolutionary biology have revealed extraordinary complexity in phylogenetic diversification, challenged our tr 23012
Reposted by Lucy JacksonAndrea L. Mack @andreamack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I really liked this nonfiction picture book DON’T CALL ME FiSH written by Charlotte Guillain and illustrated by Sally Agar. It IS confusing that so many creatures have fish in their names but aren’t actually fish. Great concept and fun facts. Will share with my Grade 1 students. 📚👍🏻 #kidlit #edusky 2233
Reposted by Lucy JacksonThe Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 06/07/2026two new t-shirt designs coming to #DinoCon! "bad choices man" and a pile of dinosaur cookies (as well as our previous t-shirt designs, people really liked the invertebrate fossil one at Lyme Regis!) #SciArt 06213
Reposted by Lucy JacksonTom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 22/07/202622 July 1775: birth of Wiltshire geologist Etheldred Benett. A contemporary of Mary Anning, and as well-known and respected, she donated fossils to the Geological Society from 1813, sent a measured section of a local quarry in 1815, and published a monograph on Wiltshire fossils in 1831. 072
Reposted by Lucy JacksonUniversity of Reading @uniofreading.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Centuries-old collections. Millions of objects. AI unlocking discoveries their original collectors could never have imagined. What could we learn next? Join experts from UoR, the British Museum & Natural History Museum for Fossils to Futures Live. 📆 7 Aug | 14:00 BST 🎟️ rdg.ac/fossilstofutureslive 012
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Talk highlights from the final day of #ECE12 ⭐️ a fantastic week thanks to the organisers and all the incredible presenters I learned so much about echinoderms 011
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMuseum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Echinoderms have pentaradial (5-fold) symmetry but DNA tells us that echinoderms are part of the animal group Bilateria, animals with bilateral symmetry. Associate Doctoral Researcher @lej-palaeo.bsky.social is uncovering the evolutionary steps involved in this transformation body plans 0228
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Plus more talk highlights from today and Tuesday! #ECE12 011
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Really enjoyed presenting the methods and results of the first chapter of my PhD today at #ECE12 , only one day left of the conference! 030
Reposted by Lucy JacksonJournal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Did you know..? The living echinoderms have a body plan which is equivalent to only the head of other bilateral animals. @echinerd.bsky.social Read about the Ordovician diversification of sea urchins by Thompson 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2022): buff.ly/FseMBZR #PaleoSky #Echinoderms #ECE12 www.euroechino.net 0113
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMatt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑 211025
Reposted by Lucy JacksonGwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It's always nice to have biological collections acknowledged as "irreplaceable evidence bases" and essential records of life on Earth. 🧪🪲 iucn.org/news/202607/...iucn.orgFrom collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museumsThe IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,... 27629
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Great first day at the European Conference on echinoderms, looking forward to the rest of the presentations over the coming days #ECE12 #echinoderm 🌊⭐️🥒 091
Reposted by Lucy JacksonNadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Resharing for #MineralMonday Fun fact, the NHM has this set (still boxed) registered in the Mineral Collection - you can view its info here: data.nhm.ac.uk/object/829a1... #minerals #SciArt #Legodata.nhm.ac.ukCollection specimens - Specimens - BM.2026,2 - Data Portal 1226
Reposted by Lucy JacksonJohn Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Wonders of Deep Sea Mud - from "Das Leben in den grössten Meerestiefen" (Haeckel 1870). Rads, Forams, Diatoms & the infamous Bathybius- Lost art of scientific illustration. #protistsonsky 0113
Reposted by Lucy JacksonJournal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Next in our a series of short reviews on the systematics of major fossil groups from leading experts. Spiekman and Ezcurra's contribution looks at the evolutionary origins of modern reptiles, one ofthe key unanswered questions in vertebrate evolution. Read here: buff.ly/ulDNoNx #PaleoSky 091
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMaija @maijasauna.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A 7-year-old found a 250 million-year-old sea star fossilized in the rocks used in landscaping at a Calgary playground.newsroom.calgary.caYoung Calgarian Discovers Rare Fossil at Local PlaygroundCalgary playgrounds are designed to spark adventure and curiosity for thousands of children each year. For one seven-year-old girl, this sense of adventure led to an extraordinary discovery. After pla... 46415
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Finally got round to reading this! Loving it so far @jackdashby.bsky.social 1102
Reposted by Lucy JacksonMuseum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 17/06/202634: Critical Raw Materials opens today! This temporary exhibition is free! At a time of rising geopolitical tensions and growing competition over the resources needed for clean energy, modern technology and defence, there has never been a more timely moment to shine a spotlight on them. 1158
Reposted by Lucy JacksonDr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026@iszi.com and I sat down with @paleokieran.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis Fossil festival to talk about everyone's favourite / the most famous fossil hunter Mary Anning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtlA...youtube.comMary Anning, Marine Reptiles & the Jurassic Coast | Terrible Lizards PodcastYouTube video by iszitube 0209
Reposted by Lucy JacksonTom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Just popped by to say cheerio to Mary Anning and I see that over the Fossil Festival weekend some belemnites and an ammonite have been left on her grave. The ammonite looks like one from the Lyme Regis Museum fossil polishing children’s activity, which is rather lovely. 09423
Reposted by Lucy JacksonDr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Lovely, but exhausting, weekend at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Hundreds of visitors visited the stand to learn about trilobites, how animals turn into fossils, and getting to meet real palaeontologsts! Very proud of our team, representing the very best of @thepalass.bsky.social! 1376
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Move around the plaice? Nah just go under it 📍Gozo, Malta 📷 Chris Jackson Diving on YouTube 121
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I finally made an Instagram account for all things science! 020
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Yearly Lyme Regis Fossil Festival #palaeoart haul! 1101
Reposted by Lucy JacksonDavid Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I recently picked up a Helicoplacus for my collection. One of the earliest and strangest echinoderms. 2332
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Belated #FossilFriday from the schools day at the Lyme Regis fossil festival, I ran an activity where the children drew what they thought ammonites, belemnites and crinoids looked like in life, we then spoke about taphonomy and how we figure out what extinct animals looked like from their fossils! 0355
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Had an absolute blast speaking at the #LymeRegis #FossilFestival today as part of the student talks series! I spoke about weird fossil echinoderms, recent research showing that #starfish are all head no trunk and shared some of my own research, thanks to all who came along! 😊 0268
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026And if anyone’s at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this Saturday I’ll be giving the talk again! ⭐️ 073
Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Last week I gave my talk “Starfish before they were star-shaped” as part of the monthly Reading “Cafe Scientifique” talk series. This was my first time talking to the public about my research (!) and it was lots of fun sharing the weird world of extinct echinoderms with them! 020
Reposted by Lucy JacksonGHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Day one of the #Redcar #fossil event was excellent. Spoke to hundreds of people, at least. Got to show all those people very old mud and tiny dead things, and some younger mud and dead things from Redcars #Jurassic rocks #geology #paleontology 2508