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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح

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SNF Ambizione Fellow | Taphonomist at University of Lausanne | École Normale Supérieure Alumni | 🇱🇧 | Views my own | he/him

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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New paper 🧪🪨🦐: We describe the N'kob Biota, a new Middle Ordovician Biota from Morocco that fills a critical gap between the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota. Out now in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G546... Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🧪 Free to publish, free to read, for everyone 💜 🩶 🤍 Our new website is live, and we would be glad to see your work at Open Palaeontology.
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Didier B. Dutheil @didierdutheil.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
⚠️ " Nouvelles données sur les écosystèmes de haute latitude de la faune de Cabrières (Ordovicien inférieur), France " by @taphozoan.bsky.social @pgueriau.bsky.social & Bertrand Lefebvre | Lethaia ➡️ www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...
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Scandinavian University Press
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨 5 of 15 papers are out! They reveal diverse molluscs, cnidarians & preservation modes in the deltaic environment of Cabrières. The biggest shock? Abundant Ediacaran-type algae, which are highly unexpected for an Ordovician site! 🤯 Read them here: scup.com/toc/let/59/2
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's been a while! But I’m back with some massive 🧪 news: 15 papers on the Cabrières Biota have been accepted in Lethaia. They show the incredible complexity of life 470 million years ago (e.g., sponges, algae, worms🪱, arthropods🦐) and will be rolling out soon! 🎨 by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
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Nora Corthésy @noracc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New published paper 🗞️🦐 Led with the help of @gaetanptn.bsky.social, this project gives insight into the fossilization process of arthropod appendages and the decay resistance of setae 🫨 Want to know more? 🤨 ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org/article/view... @sineadlynch.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Very proud! Iacopo's first paper is out! 🎉 ❓Is XCT scanning viable for decay experiments? ✅ YES! 📢 X rays from CT scans don't kill decay bacteria (but can have weird side effects) opening exciting new experimental application, esp imaging buried rotting carcasses! ☠️🐟☣️ dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala...
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Investigating the impact of x‐rays on decay: x‐ray computed tomography as a non‐invasive visualization technique for sediment‐based decay experiments
Decay experiments are ever increasing in complexity to better understand taphonomic processes. However, adding new variables, such as sediment, can create methodological biases, such as artificial an...
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Dr. Joe Moysiuk @cambrojoe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale. Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.
Artwork by Danielle Dufault © ROMArtwork by Danielle Dufault © ROM© ROM
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Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL @fgse-unil.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
pourquoi certains animaux se fossilisent-ils ? Une étude de l'@unil.bsky.social révèle que la taille et la composition chimique d'un animal font partie des facteurs déterminants dans sa chance de traverser des millions d’années sous forme de fossile, ou de disparaître. www.unil.ch/news/1746001...
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Fossilisation ou disparition : une étude révèle pourquoi seuls certains animaux du passé laissent des empreintes
Pourquoi certains animaux anciens deviennent-ils des fossiles alors que d'autres disparaissent sans laisser de traces ? Une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Lausanne révèle que la taille et la compos...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 30/04/2025
New study examining the redox conditions around different decaying carcasses reveals that size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex preservation patterns in the fossil record. @noracc.bsky.social @taphozoan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Taxon-specific redox conditions control fossilisation pathways - Nature Communications
Redox conditions surrounding different decaying carcasses were investigated. The results reveal that carcass size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex...
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🧪 New paper led by @noracc.bsky.social! We measured redox around decaying organisms. Turns out, the bigger and richer in protein you are, the more easily reducing conditions form around you after death, making you more likely to get mineralized and become a fossil (?). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Taxon-specific redox conditions control fossilisation pathways - Nature Communications
Redox conditions surrounding different decaying carcasses were investigated. The results reveal that carcass size and chemical composition play critical roles in redox dynamics, which explains complex...
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳 We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Simplified flowchart illustrating generalised steps in palaeobiological research processes and the various factors that introduce inequity with regard to data collection, storage, study, analysis, publication, and reuse.
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I recently had the opportunity to complete a Project Management (PM) Certificate from Google. This experience has been truly enlightening, and it has given me fresh insights into the valuable parallels between academia 🧪 and industry project management roles 🏭. A thread... (1/6)
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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Last day of the IRATE workshop in Erlangen. See the happy faces! Looks like everybody had a good time and hopefully fruitful discussions... can't wait to see the outcomes published ^^ (no pressure at all ;))
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very proud to be featured alongside other excellent early career scientists in a new video by @thepalass.bsky.social! We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are! youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...
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Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form? Palaeontologists explain: How do fossils form?
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is going to be awesome!!!
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Having so much fun in Morocco and making some mind-blowing fossil discoveries. Ordovician rocks still have a lot to tell us. 🔨👀✨🧪 @gaetanptn.bsky.social @noracc.bsky.social
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I had the privilege of sharing our research at the AnomLab (@fgse-unil.bsky.social) with the public at the natural history museums in Lausanne and Neuchâtel—diving into life from half a billion years ago! 🤿👀🦐 Science outreach is one of the most rewarding parts of what we do. 🧪
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Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hello 👋We are Open Palaeontology, or OPal, a brand new Diamond Open Access journal for palaeontology research. Our mission is to provide a flexible platform for research that is free to authors and readers. Read more in our editorial www.openpalaeo.org/article/view... or at www.openpalaeo.org!
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View of Open Palaeontology: a new model of diamond open access journal for palaeontology
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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Still a week left to apply for this PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk, working on palaeoecology of #Antarctic marine ecosystems in the #Eocene (deadline 13/1/25). Please get in touch if you're interested and want to know more about the project or the application process!
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨 Nora's second PhD paper is out! I can't be prouder! We experimentally demonstrate that marine shrimps can be rapidly replicated by clay minerals after death, even without burial, thereby increasing the likelihood of arthropod fossilization over geological time. 🦐 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps - Communications Earth & Environment
Instantaneous burial capturing animals alive may not be prerequisite for exceptional marine animal preservation and fossilization, according to experiments on marine and freshwater shrimps and cryogen...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Are you a dog lover looking for a PhD? You're in luck, becuase we are advertising a BBSRC-funded project that combines evolution, morphology, and biomechanics, and actually helps #dogs live better lives! Check it out here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool, l...
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The further you advance in academia, the more you see how widespread racism, bullying and harassment really are. I could probably write a book about the ad hominem attacks and other joys this year brought. But as someone wisely said: haters gonna hate, so I’ll just shake it off. 🧪👨‍🔬
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🌟 Exciting news! OPal is live—a new Diamond Open Access journal for palaeontology! 🦐 We welcome traditional formats, hypotheticals, preregistered protocols & multimedia articles. 🦖Together we build a platform for impactful and responsible research! 👀 Visit: www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
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Rebecca Rimbach @urban-squirrel.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Quite an interesting and important read by @taphozoan.bsky.social and a paper we talked about in our weekly journal club (when talking about the publishing system in general) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Peer review bullying threatens diversity, equity, and inclusion
Bullying during the peer review process is an overlooked form of academic bullying. Measures to limit its negative impact are insufficient, necessitat…
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A fantastic week spent at the University of Poitiers! Students often have the best ideas… Lots of interesting discussions. Now time to work on many exciting paleobiology/taphonomy collaborative projects… 🔬🧪👨‍🔬
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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I've been thinking about this issue a lot with respect to archaeological studies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.
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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello folks! I currently have two PhDs advertised: with Andrea Manica investigating the eco-evolutionary dynamics of Ediacaran early animal communities www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...
Ediacaran fossil community in the Discovery Geopark Newfoundland Canada
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Imagine travelling back 470 million years to dive alongside the marine polar animals of that era. Reconstruction by @prehistorica.bsky.social. Work published earlier this year in collaboration with @lukaslaibl.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤿 🦐
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I opened this app for the first time in months to do a little shameless ad. IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PEER REVIEW BULLYING. In a new paper, I discuss why this type of bullying is prevalent and how to prevent it. Plz reach out if you don’t have access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Not only does the place of birth dictate your potential for success, but so does the time of birth! In this piece, I discuss my own experience 🇱🇧 and the challenges I face in academia 👨‍🏫. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
In a recently published paper, we describe a new Ordovician polar ecosystem from the Montagne Noire in France 🇫🇷. A huge effort led by ECRs and locals 🤩 This is how polar ecosystems looked like 470 million years ago 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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