Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I thought we included a note in our 2025/2026 papers, but maybe we were saving that for the TOAE manuscript... 010
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026B. Travis, Stéphane and I have been saying this in all our talks since ~2021, but the TOAE paper is still in review. 110
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A. A personal communication isn't the most reliable thing... We added it in 2019 as a "maybe they survive" but taxonomically it wouldn't hold water (especially since Stéphane is not a bivalve taxonomist). So that one "maybe is definitely not "taxonomically reliable". 210
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Lithiotid facies is just an association of bivalves commonly found with lithiotids. Strictly speaking only 3 genera are lithiotids: Lithioperna, Lithiotis, and Cochlearites 120
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026@dantheclamman.blog is right (at least according to my current knowledge/the current data) 120
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Gervilleioperna is not a lithiotid, also see our more recent papers for more updated opinions. I have not seen a published image of anything that is demonstrably a post TOAE lithiotid. Lots of bivalves look similar but are not lithiotids. 220
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Geoscience teachers, interested in playing my GeoTimeline Game? You can now buy your own copy, these little timescale cards come in a cute mint tin! www.thegamecrafter.com/games/geotim... 0115
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Created with the help of Ashley Matheny and the Center for Education Through Exploration at ASU (VFT is built on a user-friendly virtual tour technology effort spearheaded by Geoffrey Bruce) Funding for VFT software from the NASA Science Activation program. 000
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Check out this awesome virtual field trip of Jamaican Mangroves by my colleague Denise Henry and her team at Forestry!! 🇯🇲 🌳 💕 Take a virtual tour of the beautiful mangrove ecosystem and learn about the different types of mangrove trees and their habitats. www.forestry.gov.jm/wetlands/vir...forestry.gov.jmForestry Department | Virtual Field TripsForestry Department | Wetlands 120
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleRyan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026My History of Earth and Life lab is having fun playing @rowanmartindale.bsky.social “Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized” game today. I always find it interesting how different groups of students organize their boards, erm, differently. Highly, highly recommend this game. 1193
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Many thanks to all our wonderful colleagues who helped out with the work Bernard Lathuilière, Francois François-Nicolas Krencker, Tanner Fonville, Sinjini Sinha, Lahcen Kabiri and Stéphane Bodin. 010
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Congratulations to Travis Stone on the acceptance of his third PhD Manuscript! Early Jurassic Reef 🪸 Recovery patterns following the Pliensbachian-Toarcian crisis in Maroc 🇲🇦 The paper is open access, and you can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...doi.orgRedirecting 1102
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleClaire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Look what arrived in the mail! A colorful cute geotimline game from @rowanmartindale.bsky.social ! 072
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026It has been online for a year, but it is now published, (w)undergrad Barbara Sulbaran's thesis is a paper! Factors that promote cooperation, learning, & engagement with geoscience concepts when playing educational board games in an entry-level college paleontology lab. doi.org/10.1080/1089...doi.org 050
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Details about how to apply (questions and rubric) and the application link are here: www.jsg.utexas.edu/geopathsgoja...jsg.utexas.eduApply | GEOPAths GO: Jamaica | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin 000
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026GEOPAths GO Jamaica is an NSF-supported program to introduce students to the geosciences by working on conservation projects with communities in Jamaica. Undergrad and grad students from the US and Jamaica collaborate with researchers and conservation experts to solve environmental problems. 120
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Hey Everyone, this is the last week to apply for GEOPAths GO Jamaica www.jsg.utexas.edu/geopathsgoja...! This is the last year, so be sure to have interested students sign up! 144
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I should mention that I don't have external support to send fancy versions out for free this time, but the games are pretty cheap. 011
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Things are pretty awful in the US right now, so I am trying to channel my nervous energy into creative and educational things... So I'm designing a new geoscience education game for my freshman class. It's a quick play card game about the geological timescale... Anyone want to play this semester? 7335
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Super cool! Well, feel free to pass my info along to those working on the stuff if they want to chat! 100
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Haha, sorry to add to the complexity... I'd love to hear more about those modern samples (wrinkles or Beggiatoa?) 110
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Yay! Man, my students get vicious... Board games bring out something primal in some of them 😜 and it's never the ones you expect! 020
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 24/10/2025So this happened... ❤️ Thank you so much to all the wonderful students, colleagues, and mentors, I would be lost without you all and the science wouldn't be anywhere near as fun! 💕 1262
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Last day of #gsaconnects2025, but there are lots of great posters and talks by our @txgeosciences.bsky.social team and Jamaican collaborators 🇯🇲 030
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 20/10/2025#gsaconnects2025 people, go check out some cool posters and talks this afternoon! Gabriel and Wilson both have cool posters incorporatibg machine learning with forams or ooids... I'll also be giving my talk about ooids and acidification this afternoon! @txgeosciences.bsky.social 040
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 19/10/2025If you're at GSA Connects today there are going to be some great talks & posters given by current & graduated @txgeosciences.bsky.social mentees, check them out! 030
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Job Alert: UT Austin is hiring TWO Professors of Practice and Curators in Charge, one for the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab and another for the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab at the Jackson School of Geosciences Museum of Earth History. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175702 Review begins Oct. 27thapply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 067
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Strange... Michel Sepfontaine is a coauthor on both papers... 110
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleEGU SSP @egu-ssp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025#Job Alert! UT Austin is opening applications for Assistant #Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in #Sedimentary #Geosciences Apply here - apply.interfolio.com/173688 or send your inquiries to @rowanmartindale.bsky.social #sedimentology, #stratigraphy, #paleoenvironments 032
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 14/09/2025www.jsg.utexas.edu/martindale/p...jsg.utexas.eduPaleontological Board Games | Martindale Research Group 010
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 11/09/2025🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We (JSG @ UT Austin) are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in Sedimentary Geosciences More details here: apply.interfolio.com/173688 Or ask me!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 078
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Mass extinction/Paleozoic friends... I have some folks in my Extinction class eager to read about Paleozoic biotic crises, so what's your favorite paper/papers about these events? Both new/exciting and classic/seminal work in the field would be appreciated. Self promotion welcome 😜. 244
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 03/09/2025See Drew Muscente's work in 2018 and 2020 using network analysis! 020
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Yes, she was super quick (I did email the "contact us" thing and didn't just complain here 😜) 000
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025UPDATE: looks like it was just a weird glitch and they have fixed it now! 120
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025🚨Heads up GSA Abstract submitters🚨 This year you cannot edit abstracts after they have been submitted/paid for. I don't think this is GSA's intention (their confirmation email says you can edit up to the deadline), but don't pay for your abstract until you are done and have no more edits! 221
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Check out this great press release about @brontonorris.bsky.social's first paper! @txgeosciences.bsky.social www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/07...jsg.utexas.eduClues for Dinosaurs’ Diets Found in the Chemistry of Their Fossil TeethSome of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures that roamed the western U.S. during the Late Jurassic about 150 million… 0153
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Yeah, we are resubmitting and the journal said they will fast track the publication 100
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 24/07/2025You would think right? Nope "nothing they can do" 100
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Yep, we had to retract and resubmit the paper 010
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleChris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRegional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variabilityNature Communications - The Pliocene–early Pleistocene interval was characterized by climatic fluctuations. Here, the authors apply a bipartite network analysis to a database of planktic... 174
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Need advice: Colleagues and I recently published a paper, but the journal modified our figures after the proofs, they are now problematic. The only option seems to be to retract the publication, but that seems ridiculous when the journal could have worked with us to modify the figures. Suggestions? 461
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Congratulations to Katya on this awesome paper! 040
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without 12519376
Reposted by Rowan MartindaleLeslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”cen.acs.orgNSF employees brace for major restructuringAlthough paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future 29551
Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...spencer.orgRapid Response Bridge Funding ProgramIn the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap... 1106