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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 7h

Just in time for #FossilsFriday but here are a few photos from my trip to the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster! I was mainly visiting for their Lepidodendron canopy specimen!!! It's a wonderful museum! #museum #paleontology #paleobotany #dinosaurs

A model of a lepidodendron tree with the fossil of the branch mounted into the wall.

A GIANT adorable looking ammonite model with a massive eye and short tentacles.

A close up of a Wielandiella model, with the cone and leaves visible.

Two sparrows sat in the mouth of a T. rex skull.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart

A long-necked dinosaur walks along a shallow river surrounded by various Jurassic trees, ferns and shrubs. A small predatory dinosaur watches from the nearest riverbank.

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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also had the opportunity to co-lead the first symposium on Plant Paleoart together with @palaeojules.bsky.social! It was extremely successful, with speakers coming from different career stages and paths and bringing interesting perspectives. Looking forward to repeating the experience at IOPC!

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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 · 12/09/2026

Ahhh! I'm really looking forward to EPPC! Still need to go through and highlight all the talks I wanna attend. Haven't been to such a big conference before, and first (paleo)botany one too! Eee! Excite excite excite!!!

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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

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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 · 12/08/2026

Ooh, yeah! So the second one does look like a Rhynie Chert slab! Not sure on what plants they are, they're very densely packed!

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

Aww, I'm sorry you missed it: there were a lot of amazing artworks on display!

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

The plants depicted are: Yimaia capituliformis Brachphyllum crucis (not from China*) Wielandiella villosa Cladophlebis sp. (not based on a Chinese species*) These were all drawings I had ready to go from other projects, hence why some (*) aren't the exact species present. Anyways, enjoy!

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

Come along to Lapworth Museum next Wednesday to learn about palaeoart and the techniques involved, and meet some of the palaeoartists who create it! #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany (Taxa depicted in the next slide)

A close up of a Ginkgo like plant with narrow branches and bright green yellow leaves

A scsle-leaf conifer with many small random branches covers in scale like 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 · 02/06/2026

Eee, thank-you!!! (The rainbow was so fu**ing cool when I noticed it! I hope you have a nice Pride Month too, darling!

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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

Thank-you also so much to the @palaeontosoc.bsky.social for everything they've done! It was a lovely few days at the AGM! Anyway, hope y'all have a nice weekend! Toodles! #paleoart #paleontology #FossilFriday

Me and my partner cheers-ing infornt of my artwork.

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

I'm incredibly happy to have recieved this award, but I would also like to say a MASSIVE Congratulations to @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for also recieving a Highly Commended, and to James McKay, who won this year's overall prize!!! Congrats, both of you; you deserve it!!!

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

This artwork was created last year for @jeremywyman.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social, to accompany their paper 'Comparative rhizotaxy of fossil and living isoetalean rhizomorphs reveals development through rootlet intercalation within a triangular lattice'. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology

A screenshot showing the first page of their paper.

One of the figures from the paper showing the adult plant and associated scans

Figure from the paper of the juvenile plant

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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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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm sure we will! Still a lot of work to do but I'm looking forward to it!

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Ahh!! Hiya!!! Cool! Thanks so much for coming back to this!!! I hope the studies have been going well!!!

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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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