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Tom Challands

@tom-challands.bsky.social

Palaeo-ichthyologist geoscientist, lecturer at University of Edinburgh, mountaineer and outdoor instructor, husband and dad. Views are my own

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Tom Challands @tom-challands.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Registration is now open for the Second International Symposium on Palaeo-bioinspiration to be held here in Edinburgh this June. Evolution, form, function, architecture, engineering, art and more. Please forward to all those who might be interested. palbins2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

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International Symposium on Palaeo-Bioinspiration 2025 - Sciencesconf.org

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did you know, that the famous reconstruction of Sacabambaspis, which became a meme sensation in Japan, was created by Estonian palaeontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik (1928-2016) Sometimes the world is beautiful.

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Tom Challands @tom-challands.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Beautiful day out on Beinn an Dothaidh today. Looking SW towards Ben Cruachan.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The new paper from our lab has dropped! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature

Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Homies, this looks like a fantastic oppurtunitiy 👇👇

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

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Tom Challands @tom-challands.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ready for the chop! A series of rocks from last summer's and this year's holidays ready to be made up into thin sections in my workshop #scottishgeology #alpinegeology

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Tom Challands @tom-challands.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dr Natalia Jagielska, former PhD student from the University of Edinburgh Palaeo group (now at the Lyme Regis museum) giving a great talk today at UoE Geosciences about the history of Mary Anning, women in palaeontology and social class in Victorian science.

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