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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 10h

👯‍♀️ SAVE THE DATE: Join our social event at GSA 2026 in Denver, Colorado! The mixer will be held on October 10th from 8- 10 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Centennial A room (3rd floor). 💪🦴 See you there! #GSA2026 #PaleontologyResearch

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #FossilFriday!!🌲 🌍Here we have MacCulloch’s Fossil Tree from the Isle of Mull in Scotland! 📸Thank you to Ruaridh Alexander for sending us this fossil! Submit your fossils here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfriday🔗

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PaleoArt Highlight!🦕 🌲This week we have this fantastic poster featuring the Hell Creek Formation's Triceratops prorsus! 🎨Thank you to @graysev.bsky.social for sending in this impressive piece! Submit paleoart here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt🔗

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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some of the most important conversations in geoscience this year will happen in one room. The Pardee Keynote Symposia are back at #GSAConnects2026 and will feature some of the most pressing and exciting topics in earth science today. 🔗 Explore sessions: geosociety.co/Pardee_26

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you are a student, why not sign up to the annual Schuchert Lunch at GSA Connects 2026 on 11th October, 12-1pm, and get a free lunch! 🔗Sign up here: forms.gle/Ze97ddbiyE3q... 🚨Only student members are eligible for a free lunch 📆Deadline: 29th September

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PaleoArt Highlight!🐟 🪨Here we have a roughly 1:1 scaled clay relief of Dunkleosteus terrelli!! 🎨Thank you to Elio Oregel for sending in this impressive piece! Submit paleoart here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt🔗 #PaleoArt #Fossil #Paleontology #Fish #Dunkleosteus

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The time has come! MorphoBank Connects is this week, Thursday Sept. 17! 🧪 Join us for a free virtual conference to connect with other users, explore new projects, and tips for using the MorphoBank toolset. READ MORE: bit.ly/4gUd2wI REGISTER: bit.ly/3VsWB1Y

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Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2026: A virtual gathering of MorphoBank users across biology and paleontology - Phoenix Bioinformatics

You're invited to attend our free virtual conference MorphoBank Connects on Thursday September 17, 2026. Hope to see you there!

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🌎 How can past extinctions help us recognize what is happening in the present? Crampton and collaborators investigated this question using a high-resolution dataset of graptoloids (marine colonial filter feeders). #Paleobiology #Paleontology #MassExtinctions #LifeDiversification

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some exciting news for #TrilobiteTuesday I've been nominated to be the Avocational Representative for the @paleosoc.bsky.social Council. I will be a voice for fossil clubs and amateur collectors, connecting the academic community with the general public. I'm excited to work with everyone.

Pencil sketch of Cambrian trilobite, Olenellus gilberti from the Pioche Shale of Nevada.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been awarded the 2026 🎉Diversity Engagement & Enhancement in Paleontology Award by the Paleontological Society🎉 For "early career professionals who enhanced the global paleontology community by advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the field" Poignant, given recent work resignation.

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Bubble: Won the Diversity Engagement and Enhancement in Paleontology (DEEP) Award

Recognising the efforts of those promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in palaeontology.

A $1200 reward will be given to one early career professional each year.

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📢 ATTENTION PS MEMBERS: August Priscum will be coming out soon! Learn more about the Paleo X Mixer and PS Short Course at the 2026 GSA meeting in Denver, Job updates & more!

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🚨 PS SHORT COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GSA 2026 October 10th (location TBD) A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Description in comment below!

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Even unassuming specimens have backstories. Here’s a good example for #FossilFriday: the Paleocene gastropod Turritella mortoni from near Fredericksburg, VA (UMMP IP 329).

Irregular brown rock with cone-shaped shells and a yellowed specimen label.

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PETRARCH @petrarch-project.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Many thanks to the Paleontological Society for their support! And to the organisers of Green Man Festival, and of course to the festival-goers for their pizazz in decorating our tent with microfossil-printed bunting ✨ @greenmanfest.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social

PETRARCH postdoc Markus - a man wearing a blue baseball cap and a colourful shirt - cheers on a small child in a tie dye tshirt, bucket hat and yellow rain boots as they lift the lino stamp off of a sheet of paper see the swirly print they have made. They are printing on a table full of other stamps and linoprinting materials, inside a gazebo with light coming through a transparent plastic window, a poster and some blue and green lino-stamped bunting in the background, and some paper with more lino prints pegged to lines in front of the window. The lino prints are of various shapes - some like popcorn, some swirly, some like horned helmets - that are all types of microfossils.

Two hands hold up a cream coloured fabric pencil case with a swirly purple foraminifera lino-printed onto it.

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📢 IPC7: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Due to the high number of abstract submissions 🥳, the early-bird registration deadline has been extended to Monday, 7 September 2026. See you all at the Gala dinner! 💃🕺 #IPC7 #Paleontology #ScienceConference

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Applications due TOMORROW! Help us support brilliant undergraduate students :)

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

⛰️ NPS-PS Paleontology in the Parks Fellowship Program is now OPEN! 👀 We are seeking a candidate to assist with an inventory of fossil birds from NPS lands. 📌 The selected candidate is expected to: ◾Work remotely 20-30 hours per month ◾ Maintain online access and participate in regular meetings.

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 Early Registration for GSA Connects 2026 DUE! Members of the Paleontological Society are eligible for a 15% discount during registration. Check our Monthly Priscum for more information! #GSAConnects2026

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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're looking for passionate geoscientists to share authentic stories that celebrate geoscience, showcase research, and highlight opportunities in our field. Apply to be an official GSA Ambassador today: geosociety.co/ambassador

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy #FossilFriday!🪸 🦴This week’s fossil is Namacalathus, a goblet-shaped animal from the Ediacaran and one of the first examples of biomineralisation in the fossil record! 📸Thank you to Ruaridh Alexander for sending us this fossil! Send us your fossil photos: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfriday

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📢Paleontological Society GSA Connects Travel Grants! 💰Awards: Up to $1200 for in-person attendees and $250 for online attendees. 📅Deadline: 15th of August 🔗Application form: forms.gle/… If you have any questions, contact grants@paleosoc.org 📧

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Check out this week’s PaleoArt Highlight!🎨 🦈Here we have an acrylic painting of the prehistoric shark Dracopristis hoffmanorum! Thank you to Joshua Ballze for sending in this fantastic piece!🖌️ If you’d like to see your Paleoart featured, fill out this form: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt🔗

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🪸Meet one of the research projects supported by the 2026 PS Student Research Grant! 💡Niko Balan is a student at the University of Vienna using corals to reconstruct sea surface temperatures! Support for research like this is only possible because of the contributions of PS members and donors 🤝

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wrapping up another spectacular field season exploring the early Paleozoic of Anticosti Island. This is the 7th field season that Melanie Hopkins, Lena Cole, & I have been working together. Very proud of this year's team comprised of folks from the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & the AMNH! 🧪⛏️

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A group of 7 happy people from the OMNH and AMNH standing in front of a river outcrop

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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Survey time - we want to hear from YOU! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses @paleodb.bsky.social and will help shape future work on the database. Browsed Navigator once? Entered 1,342 taxa? Either way, we want your feedback! forms.gle/GFZukC1koFAb...

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Paleobiology Database (PBDB) User Community Survey

Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your experiences and insights with the Paleobiology Database team! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses the PBDB ...

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Delighted to say that The Fossil Woman A Life of Mary Anning has been reprinted and is available once again. It can be ordered through your local bookshop, or uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... If you’re lucky enough to visit Lyme Regis you’ll find it at the Lyme Regis Bookshop and Lyme Regis Museum.

Book cover in greens and yellows with a fossil skeleton and a silhouette of a woman, and the title The Fossil Woman A Life of Mary Anning by Tom Sharpe.

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Deltoblastus from Permian Nusa Tenggara Timur #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt #paleoart

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy #FossilFriday!🪨⛏️ 🌊This week we have a juvenile colony of the graptolite Hustedograptus found in a Middle Ordovician sandstone olistolith. 📸Thank you to Fernando Lopez for sending us this fossil! Submit your fossil: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid...

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

PaleoArt Highlight!!🖌️🦕 🌲Here we have a herd of Gryposaurus monumentensis migrating through a Late Cretaceous forest! 🎨Thank you to @tonysdinosaurartistry for sending in this awesome piece! Submit your paleoart here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt%F...

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Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“[Reefs of Time] conveys a sense of humanity, portraying scientists not as distant figures but as creative, diverse, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers working together toward a solution to combat reef mortality” - @paleosoc.bsky.social book review at www.paleosoc.org/index.php?op... #booksky 💙📚

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Know an undergrad attending GSA 2026? Share this opportunity with them! 🤝 Students selected are expected to engage in mentoring opportunities throughout the meeting, 5 hours of volunteering at the PS booth, and interacting with our social media team.

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday! 🌲 🏋️This week's fossil is this huge Calamites fossil from Kansas weighing 17 pounds (7.7 kg)! 📸Thank you to Marty Wilson for sending us this fossil! Submit your fossils here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid... #paleontology #fossil #paleobotany #carboniferous

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

PaleoArt Highlight!🦖 🖌️This week’s paleoart is inspired by Art History and depicts a Carcharodontosaurus posing like the iconic Romanticism painting by Caspar David Friedrich. 🎨Thank you to Samuele Consolo for sending in this awesome piece! Submit your paleoart here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt%F...

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

⛏️Meet one of the research projects supported by the 2026 PS Student Research Grant! Alejandro Corrales-Garcia is a PhD Candidate focusing on the ichnology of Burgess Shale-type deposits. 🪨 Support for research like this is only possible because of the contributions of PS members and donors 🤝

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

⏰ GSA abstract submissions close in just 10 days! Submit your abstract before August 6th to present at the Annual GSA Meeting in Denver, Colorado 🚀 Check their website for more information: connects.geosociety.org #GSA #PaleoResearch #GSAConnects2026

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday!! 🐚 This week, we have a serpulid trace fossil from the Turonian. The cool thing about this is that the serpulid is actually on the surface of an inoceramid shell!🪨⛏️ Thank you Dawid Mazurek for sending us this fossil!📸 Send in your fossils here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid...

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This week's PaleoArt Highlight showcases a beautiful, embroidered Camarasaurus lentus!🦕 🎨Thank you to Kaylee Ambrose for creating this piece! If you'd like to see your art featured in a future PaleoArt Highlight, submit here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt%F... #paleoart #fossil #dinosaur #sauropod

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

PS Travel Grants! 💰Awards: Up to $1200 for in-person attendees and $250 for online attendees. 📅Deadline: 15th of August 🔗Application form: forms.gle/nxGvQu2gGY4K... If you have any questions, contact grants@paleosoc.org 📧

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

📌 The North American Paleontological Convention is a major international paleontological event administered by the Paleontological Society under the auspices of the Association of North American Paleontological Societies.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 17/07/2026

Did you know? The Museum's Apatosaurus was originally displayed with the wrong skull. Because this dino's remains were incomplete, a speculative skull (based on a different sauropod—Camarasaurus) was sculpted. As new research emerged, it was updated.

A photo of a Museum preparator working on a speculative skull of Apatosaurus. It is huge with a domed head and peg-like teeth.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For #FossilFriday, abundant Eocene (~50 mya) shorebird tracks from the Green River Formation, WY; seen last week in the Tellus Museum of Science, Cartersville GA. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾🐦

Beige to gray slab of fine-grained limestone mounted vertically on a wall as a display, with many thin-toed bird tracks (3 toes per track) on its surface.

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday!! 🪸 📌This Carboniferous-aged (~325 mya) colonial coral Siphonodendron is from Barns Ness in Scotland! 📸Thanks to Craig Mellon for submitting this fossil! Want to see your fossil featured? Submit photos here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid... #paleontology #fossil #Scotland

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

PaleoArt Highlight!🎨 This piece by Patrik Oberstar depicts a Triceratops in a misty forest!🌲 Want to see your favorite paleoart featured? Submit here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt #paleoart #dinosaur #paleontology

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Worse than I could have imagined with near total loss of our Campanian dinosaur beds. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @natgeosci.nature.com @paleosoc.bsky.social No one asked my opinion as Utah's State Paleontologist! @paleontologizing.bsky.social

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