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Danae Thivaiou

@paleodanae.bsky.social
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Palaeontology curator at Naturhistorisches Museum Basel 🇨🇭- loyal to Molluscs past and present 🐚 Keen knitter 🧶 Apprentice gardener 🪴🌿🫜

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 02/10/2026
"Invasive species had been a major factor in 60% of recorded global animal and plant extinctions," @theguardian.com reports, citing @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment. How biological invasions are addressed is key for protecting biodiversity.
Man wearing a hat walking through a fiel of fresh ground at sunrise.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Best part of the #tourdefrance is back!!
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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🧪 calling deep water drill core paleo people! I'm searching for a "nice", ca. 3m long section of a drill core - spanning at least 100k years - visibly layered - somewhat ok studied (hyperthermals? Eocene?) - preferable #IODP / #ODP / #DSDP for a "science dry run" for visitors at a museum.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Green spaces should/can be omnipresent in urban areas. --> In my town in #Greece they cut down all the trees in the main street. (there's obviously also no green roofing)
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Le GIEC invite les représentants des gouvernements et les experts à examiner la deuxième version du Rapport spécial sur le changement climatique et les villes. La période d’examen va du 8 mai au 3 juillet 2026. S’inscrire ici: www.tinyurl.com/srcities 👉 bit.ly/PRSRSOD
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Is this a case of "if you don't look at it it's not there"? 🫣🫣
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malacogreece.bsky.social @malacogreece.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📷 We are happy to announce that we are organising a ✨photo contest✨ in collaboration with WWF Greece, @wwfgr.bsky.social We are looking forward to discover beautiful pictures of #Molluscs! 🐚 🐙Deadline for submissions - 31st August 2026 🦪
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Happy #taxonomistappreciationday! Here we celebrate the day with a 🍻 after are ICZN reading club :) @mohnika.bsky.social
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Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ @vliz.be · 19/03/2026
🪸🪼🦈 Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! 🐋🐙🐚 @marinespecies.bsky.social celebrates this day by releasing its annual WoRMS Top-10 Marine Species. In 2025 alone, almost 2600 new marine species were described. Find out the top-10 of newly described species in 2025 👉 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/ten-...
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Monoplacophorans => molluscs that have been around since the dawn of the Phanerozoic 😍 #Molluscs #deepseamining #biodiversity
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Limusoceras japonicum gen. et comb. nov. (Yabe, 1904) from the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, Vancouver Island. A–C, RBCM.EH2014.049.0025, Trent River Formation, Hamm Road/Highway 19 roadcut, extrapolated earliest two helical volutions with grey silhouettes illustrating schematized morphology of initial gyroconic stage, lateral and umbilical views, and left septal hemisuture at Wh = 7 mm. D–G, CDM 162, Trent River Formation, Trent River, two and one-half helical volutions with retroversal section, apertural, right lateral, umbilical and left lateral views. Scale bar = 1 cm.Artist’s rendition of hypothetical life orientations of species of Limusoceras gen. nov. A, Limusoceras traski gen. et sp. nov. B, Limusoceras japonicum gen. et comb. nov. (Yabe, 1904). C, Limusoceras neojaponicum gen. et sp. nov. Artistic renditions by Connie Resch.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Cool project :) #PhDlife #science #biology #molluscs #phd @malacogreece.bsky.social
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Chrysomallon squamiferum: what an amazing example of variation in appearance! ‼️Danger: deep ocean drilling can have unpredictable damaging effects on deep-sea biodiversity. 🔸the deep-sea might be far but perturbations occurring there are felt globally!
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Some Cambrian mollusks (1-8) and a mollusk-like problematic fossil (9)
Source: https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app45/app45-119.pdf
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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026
It's #MolluscMonday, so here's the Limpet facts ep. 2: The small blue-rayed limpet got its bright colors (and name) not from blue pigments but from light being puzzled in a zigzag crystallographically co-oriented calcite lamellae. Function ? Look like a toxic nudibranch (Batesian mimic) ! 🦑🧪🌊
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Li, L., Kolle, S., Weaver, J. C., Ortiz, C., Aizenberg, J., & Kolle, M. (2015). A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet. Nature Communications, 6(1), 6322.Figure from 
Li, L., Kolle, S., Weaver, J. C., Ortiz, C., Aizenberg, J., & Kolle, M. (2015). A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet. Nature Communications, 6(1), 6322.Figure from 
Li, L., Kolle, S., Weaver, J. C., Ortiz, C., Aizenberg, J., & Kolle, M. (2015). A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet. Nature Communications, 6(1), 6322.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Earlier this year we had to say goodbye to a great colleague.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Can't get tired of Paleozoic life! 🤩
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇 t.co/k6Qdu82nti 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography
Visualization of the Lessepsian invasion as a human-induced partial reversal to the west (right panel) of the formerly eastward shift in species ranges and diversity hotspots that occurred in ostracod descendants of Tethys taxa (left panel). Symbols indicate climate cooling/warming, tectonic continent–continent collision and evolutionary diversification.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
💜💜
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate. 🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00 📍 University of Reading, online Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fossilised vomit - how cool is that!! 🤩
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Konstantina Agiadi @kagiadi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New year, new @saltages.bsky.social courses. More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Oh my! 🤔😶
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
While working on moving the 3 million objects of our collections in a new building next year (and not at the end of next year 😳), these are some of my thoughts 😇🧶
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Can't wait for the next #MolluscMonday to post this: This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀 #biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues." Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
science.org
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#MolluscMonday Neither nautiloid nor ammonite, this is an early ammonoid, Timanites keyserlingi (Order Agoniatitida) of Devonian age. The large body chamber in this specimen is sediment-filled, whereas the chambers forming the phragmocone are infilled with calcite.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Preparing a talk on the Mesozoic marine life for #Museumsnacht Basel, I am learning so many fascinating things about Ammonoids. Not that i ever doubted how cool they are - they are Molluscs so of course they are fascitating ☺️ - their long evolution is more eventful than i remembered! #MolluscMonday
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there was one specific thing that would be groundbreaking about exploring Mars in the future, this would have been IT... Pity...
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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...
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Doctorat INPhINIT
Coneix les 60 beques de doctorat dINPhINIT per a investigadors que vulguin realitzar estudis de doctorat en universitats d'Espanya i Portugal.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What a nice anniversary! @mohnika.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The ambience at the office today ☺️
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a woman in a yellow shirt is smiling in front of a crowd of people with the words it 's oh so quiet below her
ALT: a woman in a yellow shirt is smiling in front of a crowd of people with the words it 's oh so quiet below her
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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I see #Crustmas seems to be a thing, and people are sharing Ostracod photos!? I don't need an excuse to share photos of my Favourite crustacean! Or better yet, here's a video! #BugSky #invert #PondLife
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Maybe it's gonna be a Mollusc 🐚 in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸
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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#MolluscMonday Another fossil in the galleries of the South Australia Museum, the heteromorph ammonite Tropaeum imperator, Collected from Early Cretaceous rocks at Coober Pedy, this is claimed to be the largest known ammonite from Australia with an uncoiled length of 3 metres.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Paleo session for all those joining the @egu.eu meeting in 2026 🪸🐚
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Dr. Sven N. Nielsen @snnielsen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
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Will Gray @willerstorfi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Calcifying plankton: From biomineralization to global change
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three...
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Greece is one of the countries with the lowest number of applications in ERC projects. There are so many reasons I can think of but maybe this will change some day... #research #academia #ERC #Greece #paleontology
erc.europa.eu
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📯Collection manager position in the Natural History Museum of Basel 🇨🇭 Collection: "invertebrate" fossils Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av... Workload: 70% of full-time Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Paolo G. Albano @pgalbano.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I am pleased to advertise the publication of the first part of the catalogue of type specimens of the #molluscs (and a brachiopod...) in the Born collection in the @nhmwien.bsky.social. Many Born's names introduced in the late 18th c. are still valid today. zse.pensoft.net/article/1618...
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An illustrated type catalogue of Born’s collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Part 1: Mollusca (Bivalvia and Scaphopoda), Brachiopoda
The Natural History Museum Vienna houses a valuable and rich mollusc collection that traces back to the early days of the Linnaean system of nomenclature. Its foundation was laid by Emperor Franz I St...
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Highlight of the World Malacology Congress last month in São Paulo!
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Great week ahead in São Paulo! 🐚 World Congress of Malacology 2025 - five days of molluscs 😻
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New paper from the Miocene of France - includes some snails 🐌
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Révision des données sédimentologiques et biostratigraphiques des gisements à vertébrés des sables de l’Orléanais, à Beaugency, Tavers et Le Bardon (Miocène Moyen ; Loiret, France)
We present a review of sedimentological, biostratigraphic, and structural data from the vertebrate sites of the Sables de l’Orléanais (Orléans sands Formation) in Beaugency, Tavers, and Le Bardo...
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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Usually I don't work on Fridays, today I can really enjoy the work as well as the weather 🙂 🐚
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