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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

⚠️ Few PhD and project opportunities. More details below ⬇️ palass.org/phd-opportun... #PhD #opportunity #palaeontology #project

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some interesting invert photos from my first few days in Greece! A very polite jumping spider. A bug (nymph?) Drinking sap from a Magnolia. And two slugs mating! #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotogeaphy #insects #greece

An orange jumping spider looking at the camera, wktb white stripes on the abdomen and dark front legs. Sitting on a grey backdrop.

A squat grey leaf/sheild/stink bug with orange spots, sitting on grey bark

They same bug but a front view, showing odd the proboscis penetrating the bark, with a white underside and white and dark brown stripes on the legs.

Two cream coloured snails with black spots wrapped around each other hanging from a wall.

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hot Take for #FossilFriday - the quest to make paleontology "useful" and "relevant" and "high impact" has backfired spectacularly. A hypothetical "Big Data Approaches to Deep Time Ecosystem Services" almost always end up largely disconnected from actual fossils. (thread) <1/n>

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The moon was super bright tonight. So you know what that means... #MoonPics!!! Mounted my camera and got a nice pic of it (best pic I've ever taken of it, at least). The first image had some poat production light balance altering, second is the raw photo, and the other two are the setup. #moonphoto

Clear photo of the moon showing all the craters and surface details.

The same image but lighter - the raw photo.

The camera mounted, pointing up and out of my window.

Pic of the camera screen with a zoomed in pic of the moon on it.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My review of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants is now up at Palaeontologica Electronica. Approaching it wanting to know more about Mesozoic plants for my #paleoart, the reconstruction-heavy format is welcome, but many aspects could be improved. palaeo-electronica.org/content/?vie...

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Review: The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

paleontology, palaeontology, dinosaurs, Palaeontologia Electronica, Palaeontologica Electronica, Paleontologia Electronica, Paleontologica Electronica

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I just realised I don't think I ever shared my Duckling Witch!!! So... here you go! Enjoy! #witch #witches #duckling #duck #digitalart

A cartoon ducking standing in a glowing magenta pink pentagram on the ground (with a purple backdrop). Is is a brown and yellow mallard Duckling, very cute and podgy. It is facing the left and is clutching a book and wearing a green witches hat which looks a little like a pond lily leaf.

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Alexis Rastier 🌿 @alexisrastier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here is our new paper: Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests. Peng J, Slater S. M, McLoughlin S, Rastier A, Vajda V: doi.org/10.1038/s445... #Paleobotany #lycopsids #Jurassic

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Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests - npj Palaeoecosystems

npj Palaeoecosystems - Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So, had a great time. Massive thanks to @markwitton.bsky.social for setting it up and for the tour, learnt a lot. Many vistas at Crystal Palace - shaped when the park was built - have a bucolic, Constable-like feel, and I don't think this is a coincidence. Visit, and support this amazing place :)

A lake vista at Crystal Palace, with very well-placed trees.

A set of people who visited Crystal Palace yesterday, plus the dog Kolby who refused to face the photographer.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...

View of some of Crystal Palace models from top of the hill.

3D print of pterosaur head being held in front of actual models way back in the distance, Iguanodon at left.

Local mural on side of building celebrating Crystal Palace prehistoric animals. Art by Nacho Welles.

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Hoyaboya @hoyaboya1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Bever et al. (2026, The American Naturalist) Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution doi.org/10.1086/740891

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Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#FossilFriday The archaeological museum and art gallery in Aurillac has a small display of Cenozoic fossil leaves from the Massif Central of France collected and described by the palaeobotanist Pierre Marty (1868-1940).

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A little game ahead of #FernFriday 🌿 🤔 Only 1 of these 4 photos doesn't show any #fern. Can you find which one? I'll post the answer and more details tomorrow! #botany

Green to reddish, clover-like lobed leaves

Several stout plants with crowns of large pinnate leaves, one of the plants with coiled leaflets on all its leaves

A large bipinnate leaf with a terminal reproductive portion

A pound with two types of plants with floating leaves. One has large water lilly-like leaves, the other forms dense areas of small leaves

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In preparation for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social's Family Fun Day next week, I've made a large poster of Middle Jurassic Chinese plants for an activity I'm running. But what will I be doing with it? Perhaps it involves a few hidden beasties. #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany

A photo art composite landscape of a jurassic forest, with a real photo background of a tree base and various jurassic plan drawings extending in from the edges of the image.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just submitted a review of the Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants. Short version: a book heavy on plant reconstructions is a great idea (and potential #paleoart reference), but it's let down by formatting issues and problematic plant recons. Thanks to @palaeojules.bsky.social for discussion.

The cover of the Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants, with plant reconstructions pushing in from the margins.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When growth form fossilizes: a new liverwort species from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas site onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @davidhorcajada.bsky.social #FossilFriday

Collage of photographs and diagrams of fossil and living liverworts.
Top left: carbonized compression fossil from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas site (MUPA-LH31437). Darker branched fossil on a paler matrix. Scale bar on left is 1 cm. Overlapping this, in the middle of the image is a coloured branched scheme used to measure the fossils, showing different growth modules as different colours.
Top right: annotated photograph of another fossil liverwort: new species Metzgeriites gynothallicus (MUPA-LH 28894). Below that is a photograph of the extant taxon Metzgeria, showing similar features. Scale bars for both of these images are 250 microns.
Bottom right are two photographs of living liverworts with different growth modes: a dendroid form on the left and a 'thalloid mat' growing on a tree branch on the right.
Blue rectangle in bottom left corner is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I haven't drawn anything in a while (outside of some comms), so here's an Archaeopteryx wip from this evening! #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #bird

An archaeopteryx, a bird with a big tail, side wings and shaggle feathers seen in lateral. Is it looking up at something out of frame.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm in the @rbgkew.bsky.social Herbarium again today photographing leaves!!!!! Eeeee, it's so exciting to see it finally all set up!!!! #Kew #Botany #PhD #SpecimenPhotography #science

Me next to my photography set up smiling

My photography setup with a mounted camera, backlighting sheet and photography light, with a herbarium sheet in the center

The herbarium sheet with the camera above it.

A photograph of a leaf on the herbarium sheet taken with the setup!

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Wenwei Guo, Li Tian, Daoliang Chu, Wenchao Shu, Michael J Benton, Jun Liu, Jinnan Tong (2026) Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction eLife 14:RP104205 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction

In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hi all, Just a reminder that we're still accepting talk and poster abstracts for our Symposium Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and Promises, and the deadline is in two weeks, on the 31st May! I'm really looking forward to seeing some of you there!!! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart

A black background with a plant recon on the right and logos in the bottom left.
Writing in white reads:
European paleobotany and palynology conference 2026.
20th to 25th September 2026
Symposium
Plant Paleoart: perspectives and promises
Julianne Kiely and Mario Coiro
Abstract submission deadline 31st May!

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy #FossilFriday, So, some fun news: I won a Highly Commended Prize for this year's Marsh Palaeoart Award, run by the @palaeontosoc.bsky.social, for My submission 'Life Restorations of the Rhizotaxy and Growth Architecture of Oxroadia'! #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

A photo of me looking hPpy standing next to my artwork.

A selfie of my smiling face next to my artwork

My artwork of Oxroadia, showing a sprawling plant taking up moat of the image, with various close ups and additional illustrations to the right.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

No collections day for me tomorrow since I'll be somewhere over the Atlantic in an aluminum tube. So to make up for that, I spent some time in the gallery of the lovely Lapworth Museum at the University of Birmingham.

Photo of a museum gallery with a wooden case in the foreground and a dinosaur skeleton behind. Two iron columns lead to girders supporting the floor above.

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Lukas Laibl @lukaslaibl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So you've heard about trilobites, but do you know Naraoids? These trilobite cousins shared similar bodies but differed in details. Most importantly, they lacked hard exoskeleton and had only soft cuticle. That's why they are known only from sites with exceptional preservation, such as Burgess Shale.

Naraoia from the famous Burgess Shale, photographed by JB Caron, deposited in ROM

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

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European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Fossil flower from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River formation. About 40-50 million years old. #fossilfriday

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

What’s also wild about these Eocene belemnites is their Late Lutetian early Bartonian age, about 41-42 million years old, so younger than Green River fish. Wild

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan. This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia. #paleoart #sciart #botany

A portrait page with a full restored branch onto the left. It has 6 palm like leaves at the end of one branch, hiding a cone, with a second mature cone below it. On the top right is a male floral organ, which is start shaped, and in the bottom right is a cut-way of the female cone showing its development.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime: Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart! Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm

A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.

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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

For #FossilFriday a panoply of the basal #ankylosaurid Liaoningosaurus, known by literally dozens of juvenile specimens. The largest specimens are around 50 cm #thyreophora #ornithischia

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So, just a last-minute reminder to everyone that I'll be giving a free online talk for the University of Birmingham LapSoc tomorrow evening ( #FossilFriday 13th) at 6pm UK time! You can book tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/guest-spea... #paleobotany #paleoart #botany #scicomm

Lime green slide with shadows of Ginkgo leaves on it with the following text:

Friday 13th @ 6 pm UK time!
The problem with plants.
Why restoring extinct plants is difficult for palaeoartists.
By Julianne Zelda Kiely (she/her)
Online!!!

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I just realised that I never finished colouring this little goober.... I might have to come back to him soon....#paleoart

A small feathery dinosaur sitting on a branch with a giant butterfly-like lacewing in its mouth. The lacewing has a broken wing and the dinosaur is podgie!!!!

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A few people asked for scale on this fossil. It's about 2.5 cm or an inch long. #FossilFriday

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I don't think I've shared this in a while, so here are some Middle Jurassic British pterosaurs for y'all! #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #Jurassic #sciart

A diagram of 4 pterosaurs in overhead view, with them in lateral view lined up at the bottom.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It's amazing how the Cambrian fossil record can overturn our understanding on the disparity, ontogeny and evolution of key groups! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Ahh!!! It's published its published, it's finally officially published!!!

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hiya, I have 4 more school fact file sheets for #FossilFriday: #Tianyulong, #Darwinopterus, #Oregramma, and #Caytonia! These are really relaxing to do, and I plan on doing more plants next! I hope you like them! #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #schoolwork #publiccommunication

A fact file of Tianyulong with a drawing oc it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.

A fact file of Darwinopterus with a drawing of it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.

A fact file of Oregramma with a drawing of it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.

A fact file of Caytonia with a drawing of a tree on the right, and the leaves and reproductive organs on the left, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'm making a series of infographics at the moment for some school groups, and, honestly, I'm really enjoying it!!! They're learning about paleontology, and I was asked if I could provide some images of extinct plants and animals! Here are the first few: #paleoart #scicomm #education #paleontology

An infographic of heterodontosaurus, with a lateral view I the centre surrounded by labels, and a close up of the head on the right, next to a geological time scale

An infogrwphic of dimorphodon with in in lateral view, flying, in the centre, with a block of text top right and a geological timescale to the right

And infograpgic of Anchiornis in lateral view, with labels surrounding it, and a block of text I the top right, next to a geological timescale.

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Fossil Record @fr.pensoft.net · 08/01/2026

🕷️Preserved in #Eocene Baltic amber, an impressive new #fossil of a harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones) with unique features on its pedipalps emerges! ➡ Dive into the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/fr.2... #paleontology

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids: Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports

We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at ...

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Fossil leaves at the Yale Peabody Museum. A belated #FossilFriday

Two large, somewhat complete leaves and the fragment of another in a rock slab.

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

WIP preparing a VERY paleoflora heavy piece... pray for me

WIP of an Apatosaurus meandering through a Jurassic clearing

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