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Nile Stephenson

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PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying coral reef and Ediacaran ecology He/him 🪸🪼🦈

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to #climatechange, new research shows Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Read our press release below 👇 @nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
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Social media can help track species as climate changes
Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research shows. The “range” inhabited by many species is shifting, and this is mostly tracked ...
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Nile Stephenson @nis38.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New paper alert!! With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Occupancy of Urban Habitats by the Jersey Tiger Moth Is Revealed by Social Media Data but Not Traditional Monitoring
Photos posted on social media could provide information on species' responses to climate change that is up to date and from areas under-represented in traditional biological record data. Instagram an...
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
River-lovers: the Riverfly initiative is a brilliant way to help protect your local river. Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference! @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
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Prof. Martin Solan @profbenthos.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.
Global map of bioturbation
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays. Footage by Sebastian Staines. #saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
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Dr. Amanda Godbold @amandagodbold.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access. We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.
Reconstruction of the spatial and temporal arrangement of the microfacies and fossil communities found at two of the three outcrops. Image created in collaboration with Tanner Strachan.
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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
1/11 New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A new assemblage of Cambrian 'ecological pioneers' colonising extreme environments at the edge of habitability for marine animals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #FossilFriday
In the centre is a map of western Canada with the locations of the Pika Biota (red) and Burgess Shale (blue) marked. Underneath is a detail of the Jasper National Park area, where the Pika Biota is found.
Around the outside are brown-coloured images of fossil specimens found in this locality, with individual scale bars underneath each main specimen. Clockwise from top left: Badgiromorpha delicata (holotype; GSM 143757; scale bar 50 microns); Ottoia prolifica (GSM 143728; scale bar 50 microns), with an enlargement showing detail of pectinate scalids (scale bar 10 microns); barred chaetae attributed to cirratuliform annelids (GSM 143854; scale bar 100 microns); Wiwaxia sclerite (GSM 143808; 100 microns); Selkirkia (GSM 138107; scale bar 50 microns).
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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Are you looking for the opportunity to join a dynamic team at our iconic waterfront location in Plymouth? If you're passionate about marine science and want to support the MBA’s vital marine research, we want to hear from you. We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse
Join our team!
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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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CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25
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| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
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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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Javier González @reefjav.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef @earthdotcom.bsky.social www.earth.com/news/fish-di...
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Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef
The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s.
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching
Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸 PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...
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Lessons from the past: predicting the tropicalisation of marine communities | TREES DLA
Global climate change is warming temperate coastal waters, causing ecological disturbances and range shifts of marine organisms. Recently, hermatypic corals (reef-building corals) have expanded polewa...
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪
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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost! Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Priority areas: ‘Responding to anthropogenic change’ ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
PhDs with competitive funding from myself and Davide Pisani (Jan 13+20 deadlines) o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes o Early fossil record of sponges and animals
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Postgraduate research projects
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word! We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳
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Dr. Ming Khan @ming-tfk27.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island
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Dr. Ming Khan @ming-tfk27.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Happening this afternoon!!
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Next up from DTE is Euan Furness talking about his work considering ecosystem stability over the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Super excited to kick off this post coffee session with @princessairab.bsky.social talking about her work on the #Ediacaran fossils
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Great start to the second #PalAss24 session in the great hall in Erlangen today, with @princessairab.bsky.social from @deeptimeecology.bsky.social sharing her work exploring morphological variation in the iconic Ediacaran fossil Charniodiscus #fossils
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 07/12/2024
🚨 ANOTHER JOB OPENING 🚨 We are looking for a Chief Editor for a new @natureportfolio.bsky.social journal launching in 2026: Nature Sensors 🧪 📍 Berlin or New York 🗓️ Closing date: Jan 05, 2025 🙏 Re-posts very much appreciated! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu... #Chemsky
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a man in a suit and tie with the words it makes perfect sense
Alt: a man in a suit and tie saying the words 'it makes perfect sense'
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Jeff Shima @drjeffshima.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Come join us at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand! We are hiring a tenure-track marine biologist/ecologist (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer = US Assistant Professor). NZ lifestyle, a beautiful marine lab, and great colleagues! tinyurl.com/ymmdsjus Please share widely!
School of Biological Sciences building, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! @ming-tfk27.bsky.social will be speaking on Day 2: Session 6B at 14:30 at the Kleiner Saal, about "Metacommunity structural changes of Antarctic invertebrates over the latest Maastrichtian".
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."
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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 09/12/2024
Hello #birders, meet Paul Whitelaw! 🪶🐦 He's studying the (globally significant) shags and skuas who live near Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. Paul's also the guest on the latest episode of ICEWORLD, our podcast about people living and working at the poles. 🎧 tinyurl.com/5xw4t3kd
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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
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PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 11th 2024
SWbio application link: https://www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular-and-biophysical-studies/ For inquiries, please email: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK....
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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🚨Just one month left to apply for this exciting project led by me and @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social, exploring sources of evolutionary rate variation in viruses with pandemic potential. Don’t forget to register your interest! 👇
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Dr. Ming Khan @ming-tfk27.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
🚨New paper alert! doi.org/10.3389/fmar... Returning here after a long time to share the first paper from my PhD! “Network analyses on photographic surveys reveal that invertebrate predators do not structure epibenthos in the deep (~2000m) rocky Powell Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica" (1/n)
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Frontiers | Network analyses on photographic surveys reveal that invertebrate predators do not structure epibenthos in the deep (~2000m) rocky Powell Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystems control population sizes, maintain species richness, and provide intermediate disturbance. Such ecosystem str...
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Frédéric Causeret @fredcauseret.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨🚨🚨 Not one, but 3 calls for junior group leaders opening at Imagine!!! [please share] - Systems and computational biology - RNA biology and epigenomics - AI for genetics, biology and medicine Come and join us! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Jobs with Imagine Institute | Nature Careers
Search and apply for jobs with Imagine Institute on Nature Careers
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Matthew E. Clapham @mclapham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A colleague, Tamara Pico, is conducting a study about potentially gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences: ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Responses welcome from subtle to more memorable, and even if you have not heard this language!
QR code linking to survey about gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences, geometaphorsurvey.com.
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Cambridge Earth Sciences @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Deadline for applications is 7 January 2025. More information on how to apply may be found here: www.esc.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ner...
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New NERC CREATES PhD funding programme announced | Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a series of new PhD studentships, starting from October 2025.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
New #FDRI_NERC PhD opportunity! Developing novel tracer-based methods to investigate how pressures on upland wetlands alter flood and drought resilience @britgeosurvey.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Find out more and apply by 9 January 2025! buff.ly/3ZDzTE9 #AcademicSky 🧪
Landscape of bog with wave cloud formation above
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Dr Rowan Whittle @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
PhD Opportunity: 'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'. Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University. Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Deadline 13th January www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
lots of fossils in Antarctica!
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Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🪸🦠🧫🔬 Join us in beautiful Oldenburg! We’re hiring a technician to help cultivate and study marine photosymbioses as part of our new ERC-funded focus group at @hifmb.bsky.social. Full-time, 4-year position in a new lab and a dynamic research environment! Apply now! 👉 jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/18...
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Technician (m/d/f) in animal, microalgal, and cell cultivation
Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch
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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 06/12/2024
For #FossilFriday have you ever considered the scorpion fossil record? This is surprisingly rich, but how we categorize these animals transcends being a hot mess. It's a spicy disaster. My colleague Jason and I wrote a paper on it which came out today: peerj.com/articles/185... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
An image showing a range of fossil scorpions, arranged by age. These are lovely fossils, ranging from scorpions in rocks, through ones dissolved out of rocks or resolved using CT scans, to photos of more recent scorpions in Amber. If you want the full details: (A) Palaeophonus caledonicus Hunter, 1886 (Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, UK) from the mid-Silurian (Llandovery to Wenlock) of Lesmahagow, Scotland, UK, image courtesy of Lyndsay C. Jess, and by permission of East Ayrshire Council/East Ayrshire Leisure Trust, and a reconstruction from Pocock (1901). (B) mid-Silurian Eramoscorpius brucensis Waddington, Rudkin & Dunlop, 2015 from Canada. (C) Proscorpius osborni Whitfield (1885b), Yale Peabody Museum (YPM IP 545850); photo by Jessica Utrup 2019. (D) Lower Devonian Waeringoscorpio hefteri Størmer (1970, image source Poschmann et al., 2008). (E) Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis from the Lower Carboniferous of the UK (courtesy of Andrew Jeram). (F) Compsoscorpius buthiformis from the Upper Carboniferous of the UK (left: courtesy of Lorenzo Prendini, AMNH; right: Legg et al., 2012). (G) Carboniferous taxon Cyclophthalmus senior from the Yale Peabody Museum collections (YPM IP 029827), photo by Jessica Utrup 2013. (H) Mesophonus perornatus from from the Triassic of the UK (courtesy of Lorenzo Prendini, AMNH). (I) Protoischnurus axelrodorum from the Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil (courtesy of Christian Neumann, Berlin). (J) Centruroides knodeli from Neogene Dominican amber (courtesy of Wilson Lourenço, Paris). (K) Tityus azari from Neogene Dominican Amber (courtesy of Wilson Lourenço, Paris).
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Imran Rahman @imranrahman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
For #FossilFriday, I'm delighted to share this amazing new specimen donated to the NHM. The slab preserves over 100 specimens of the Middle Jurassic crinoid Isocrinus nicoleti. This is the subject of ongoing research with Tim Ewin, Ebony Cutcliffe, @egmitchell.bsky.social & @echinerd.bsky.social .
A slab preserving over 100 specimens of the Middle Jurassic crinoid Isocrinus nicoleti.
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