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Rachel Warnock

@rachelwarnock.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist, Professor at FAU.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Huge congrats to my student @crowleyk.bsky.social, who just had the first paper of her graduate research accepted for publication today (and first 1st authored paper)! Looking forward to sharing her fantastic work on the phylogeny, macroevolution, & biogeography of flexible crinoids with the world!
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PhD opportunity: 🦠🪱☠️🪣🔬🏞️ Do you want to test hypotheses of how fossils form, figure out if lab experiments reflect the real world? Come and join our lab! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Bridging the taphonomic gap between the lab and the real world: Experimental Insights into Fossilization and Preservation at The University of Manchester ...
PhD Project - [School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Bridging the taphonomic gap between the lab and the real world: Experimental Insights into Fossilization and Preservation at The University ...
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PARADIVE UW @paleoparadive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦠 We're hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join the PARADIVE lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469223
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Assistant Professor (post-doc) - Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (WB-KG-15/2026)
The position of Assistant Professor in the programme/project/undertaking The impact of mass extinctions on parasite diversity and evolution.
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amazing opportunity to work on co-phylogenetics in Warsaw! Kenneth is a wonderful collaborator and mentor. Please spread the word!
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New preprint led by grad student Caleb Charpentier that I'm very excited about! This is a hefty review & perspective on how we can close the gap in trust between new "Deep comparative methods", and the biological meaning & inferences that systematists want. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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On the Promise (and Practice) of Deep Comparative Methods: Expressivity, Limitations, and Design
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Laura Mulvey @lauramulvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🟢 Great start to the week with an intro into stratigraphy from the one and only Mark Patzkowsky 🪨📉✨ @thepalass.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stratigraphers, evolutionary biologists and software engineers aim to advance the joint modeling of stratigraphic and phylogenetic processes to bridge this knowledge gap between earth sciences and biology. bit.ly/4dbfDjH @lauramulvey.bsky.social @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @niklashohmann.bsky.social
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A reminder that our lecture series continues today - 15:00 UTC!
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love to see ecology and conservation being combined with local languages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦪 Really highlights the importance of including languages beyond English in our research! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language
Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 16/09/2026
An update following feedback from several kind people. As before, reuse as you see fit..
An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.
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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey paleo friends, looking for paper recs (for my macroevolution senior seminar)! Topic is currently labeled as “deep time, fossils, taphonomy”. I’d ideally like a research paper that will expose my students to some “typical” paleobio research, but include discussion of biases in the fossil record.
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Elegant study on experimental taphonomy, links to broader discussions about phylogeny and molecular dating led by @taphonomist.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Could be useful! bsky.app/profile/neur...
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excellent thank you - please share any others you come across!
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The timescale of #nematode #evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of #parasitism: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415... You should be able to access it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #Fossils #Evolution #Parasites #Genomics #Nematodes
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The timescale of nematode evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of parasitism - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Establishing a universal evolutionary timescale of nematodes has been complicated by their patchy fossil record and analytical limitations. Combining genomic data from 156 nematode species with fossil...
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you ever wanted to hear me talk about shit for an hour now is your chance 😅 www.palaeocast.com/cambrian-fec...
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Some useful positive points in here! (among some bleak) www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Dr John Clarke @jclarkepaleo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our new paper introduces a fast & Bayesian state-dependent OU model in RevBayes that implements joint inference, to test adaptive macroevolutionary hypotheses. Congrats @prilau.bsky.social! Be sure to give her a follow & give her original tweet some love! Many more exciting PCMs in her future!
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Priscilla Lau @prilau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model
Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thanks! I've come to see reading skills are also important and have come across a few nice resources that support this - e.g., www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - but not yet found any really on writing
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BBC Radio 4 - Understand, How Reading Made Us, 1. How Reading Made Our Brains
Did learning to read rewire your brain? With James Marriott.
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm teaching in a different context (paleobio) but also very concerned about this. I want to convey the importance of learning how write long-form to students & colleagues. Can recommend any convincing articles or other resources I could share? Grateful for any suggestions from you and others!
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨Tomorrow, 15:00 UTC🚨 Join us for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona on "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'"! Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
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Palaeoverse
A community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com
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PhyloSpec
A standardized way to describe phylogenetic model components, common assumptions, and best practices in the field of phylogenetics.
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our latest: The timescale of nematode evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of parasitism. Led by Liang Lü, with help from @djbirddanerd.bsky.social Mattia Giacomelli @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social Oleksandr Holovachov, Davide Pisani and myself www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The timescale of nematode evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of parasitism - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Establishing a universal evolutionary timescale of nematodes has been complicated by their patchy fossil record and analytical limitations. Combining genomic data from 156 nematode species with fossil...
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The #whitefly puparia from Cretaceous #amber reveal early subfamily diversification @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/21463 #Biodiversity #Entomology #EvolutionaryStudies #Paleontology #Taxonomy #Fossils
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travis-park.bsky.social @travis-park.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you want an up-to-date summary of whale and dolphin evolution, have a read of my new review paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com! I’ve tried to cover as much research as possible in this, so apologies if I’ve missed you! doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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The evolution and diversification of Cetacea - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Cetaceans are a highly diverse and enigmatic group of animals with a well-documented evolutionary history. This Review describes the macroevolutionary and palaeobiological history of Cetacea, from the...
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So well deserved!! Congratulations!! 🍻🌍📈🌿
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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And don’t forget that if you upload your presentation in pptx format, you can take advantage of live captioning during your talk
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Niklas Hohmann @niklashohmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Carbonates are just built different! The structure of the #FossilRecord differs predictably between carbonate platform and ramps and can be explained by the properties of carbonate producing organisms #stratigraphy #paleobiology 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Stratigraphic Paleobiology of Carbonate Systems
Stratigraphic paleobiology is a newly established interdisciplinary approach, which has demonstrated that the fossil record is a joint expression of biotic and stratigraphic change, and all inferences...
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Still reeling from seeing this published. These fossils (and their implications) might be the coolest thing I've ever worked on #FossilFriday 🧪
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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
the method accounts for compo heterogeneity across sites, and perhaps more importantly, across lineages, the latter much less explored than the former before, greatly extending some prior works by the authors (to my knowledge) www.nature.com/articles/s41... elifesciences.org/articles/425...
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm reposting this because I want to make a correction. In the thread below I mention using the -mset flag for testing site profile mixture models. But in fact you should use -madd flag. I'm sorry for this mistake.
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Gustavo A. Ballen @gaballench.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And finally it was published! Massive thanks to my coauthors, the editor and reviewers, and the institutions that supported our research. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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What did the dove sing to Pope Gregory? Ancestral melody reconstruction in Gregorian chant using Bayesian phylogenetics
An attractive goal in the study of Gregorian chant melodies is reconstructing unobserved melodies as they may have been transmitted along their history, especially as early chant notation does not cap...
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Laura Mulvey @lauramulvey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data
Morphological data are essential for reconstructing evolutionary histories, particularly for fossil taxa, as they represent the primary source of information for integrating extinct lineages into ...
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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This will make my life easier! Nice work! "MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data
Morphological data are essential for reconstructing evolutionary histories, particularly for fossil taxa, as they represent the primary source of information for integrating extinct lineages into ...
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Register for online events or sign up to receive info about future events via this link: forms.gle/QtvJspraWBgq...
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Earth System Dynamics and Evolution MSc webinar
We are happy to announce a new international Masters of Science in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this October 2026 in Erlangen, Germany. The two year program will provide training in ...
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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New MSc in Earth System Dynamics & Evolution at FAU Germany! 🌍🧪 Starts Oct 2026. Interdisciplinary + Science Diplomacy. No tuition fees worldwide! 🎓 Funding: Elite Network of Bavaria. 🗓️ Deadline: July 15 💻 Webinars: May 26 (9:00/18:00 CEST) Info & Reg: earthsystem-master.nat.fau.eu
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Laura Mulvey @lauramulvey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨🚨 Last 2 days to apply for our workshop! Get those applications in 📝✨
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Looks like a very informative seminar on the historical phylogenetic biogeography 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology #Paleobio
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Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The New Paleobiology Database User Guide is here! This is the second edition of the volume designed to be a comprehensive guide for Paleobiology Database users -- escholarship.org/uc/item/9gg7...
Image of a world map with colored dots on it and a geological timescale below and the title "PaleoBios" at the top.
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Find out more via the program website: earthsystem-master.nat.fau.eu Or join one of our webinars: Tue 26 May 2026 09:00 CEST or 18:00 CEST. Register using this link: forms.gle/QtvJspraWBgq... There are no tuitions fees for students beginning this winter from anywhere in world
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FAU ESDE MSc.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5 91054 Erlangen
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩‍💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇
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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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How to date a molecular phylogeny: comparison of effective priors between node calibration and fossilized birth–death
Abstract. Time-calibrating a phylogenetic tree is a fundamental step in phylogenetic inference, as it allows the study of macroevolutionary processes such
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Laura Mulvey @lauramulvey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇
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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Here we are again with our call for workshops! The call opens today, and you have until June 26 to apply. Take a look at what’s been offered in the past—maybe you can stand out with a completely new topic. Visit: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/science-work...
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Dr John Clarke @jclarkepaleo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
~5 days left to apply
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
A picture of a small concretion (rock) with a white blob in the middle. this blob was described as the worlds oldest octopus and called Pohlsepia. Our research shows that hidden under the rock are teeth that confirm it is a nautiloid (a relative of modern nautiluses).An artistic rendering of the rotting Pohlsepia on the seafloor 310 million years ago. Sharks, fish and arthropods lurk in the background
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