Dr Darja Dankina 🐠
@darjadankina.bsky.social
🔹Supervisor and researcher in Palaeobiology #paleozoic #ichthyofauna 🔹Palaeontological collection's curator 🔹PhD in Geology 🔹Conferences organiser
🦖✨ My first experience leading paleontological educational workshops for children aged 5–6 and 7–8 was a success! 💚 The greatest joy was seeing the children's curiosity, their thoughtful questions, and their eagerness to learn about Earth's history. 🤩 #workshop #paleontology
📸🦴 Some memorable moments from the EAVP Field Trip to Northern Lithuania! 🇱🇹🌿 #lithuania #excursion #fieldtrip
⚠️ The 23rd EAVP Conference ended less than one week ago✨ 💚 Thank you as well to all our speakers, sponsors, and everyone who joined us—both in person and online. It was a pleasure to welcome more than 150 participants from nearly 25 countries 🌍🤝 #conference #eavp2026 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social
📚🦴 Delighted to share the Abstract Book of the 23rd EAVP, edited by Olivia Vanhaesebroucke and Darja Dankina! This volume brings together the abstracts presented at the 23rd EAVP Conference, featuring 142 oral and poster presentations✨ ⬇️ www.researchgate.net/publication/... #conference #paleontology
📢 We are pleased to announce the upcoming workshop, "Besides Your Thesis," which will be held as part of the 23rd EAVP Conference in collaboration with The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) and the leaders of the Microvertebrate Group🔬 #Workshop #lithuania #fossil @micropalaeosoc.bsky.social
⚠️ An overview paper on Paleozoic acanthodians based on specimens from the J. Valiukevičius Collection 🇱🇹 #paper #news #research #palaeontology
I was very glad to join the trainers’ team 🤝 while also participating as a student 🎓 during the COST Action CA23124 Salt Ages: “WG1–WG3: Numerical models and proxies for salt giant formation” event @saltages.bsky.social #project #cost #action
🌟 It was a fantastic meeting in Bucharest 🇷🇴 under the COST Actions CA23124 project — Social, Biological and Climatic Impacts of Salt Ages (SaltAges) ⬇️ @saltages.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/saltage... #geology #bucharest #meeting #project
⚠️ More #ordovician gastropods from #lithuania 🇱🇹 stored in the Nature Research Centre in #vilnius ✨
✨ Very glad to participate in the 🇱🇹 TV project and to share with my Palaeontological career story. Full episode [in Lithuanian] ⬇️ www.lrt.lt/mediateka/vi... #palaeontology #television #interview
🎉 It was a great honor to open a wonderful student conference at Vilnius Žemyna Gymnasium, present my talk on paleontology in Lithuania 🦴🌍, and lead a hands-on workshop on 3D fossil creation 🧬🖨️ together with Neringa Gastevičienė ✨🎓🙌 #school #conference #paleontology #vilnius
🤩 On April 7, we hosted the first event of the newly re-established Microvertebrate Working Group of The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), held online 💻🌍 We co-led the session together with my colleague from Poland, Dr Przemysław Świś 👩🔬👨🔬🇱🇹🇵🇱 #workshop #fossils #digitalization #online #paleontology
⚠️ Grateful for the opportunity to serve with the PalAss for the next 3 years as a Publicity Officer! 🙌 I’ll be responsible for its social media and will be working closely with the council’s Public Engagement Groups to help connect, inform, and engage our community 📱✨ #palass #council #publicity
⚠️Preparing for the 23rd EAVP #conference 🇱🇹 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #vievis #lithuania #paleontology #international #research #fossil #fossilfriday
🤓 MicroCT scan session in #vilnius 🇱🇹 for the very first time ☀️ looking for the tomorrow's results 👌 #project365 #paleontology #research #ctscan #microct #kompiuterinėtomografija #fosilijos #fossil
#EAVP2026 Palaeoart submissions are open! We’re looking for artwork related to vert palaeo, incl. palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. More info here or on the eavp website. eavp.org/wp-content/u... eavp.org/palaeoart-ex... #palaeoart
🤓It was a lot of fun speaking about palaeontology to a young audience and giving an introduction before the Mary Anning animated cartoon 🇱🇹 #Lithuania #vilnius #cinema #paleontology
🤓I’m very happy to share some wonderful news! 🎬✨ 🎉Together with my colleague I. Satkūnienė, we will be opening a paleontology-themed animated film about the remarkable Mary Anning 🦴🦕 #maryanning #fossil #paleontology
✨ I am very glad to be part of the @women-archeopal.bsky.social organising team 🤓 We have just started the 3-day conference (6th edition)🥳🎉 #conference #paleontology #online #archeology #womeninscience #workshop #paleoart
One of the joys of working with palaeontological collections 🦕🦴 is discovering something wonderful every time ✨ — like Jurassic ammonites 🐚 from 🇱🇹, photographed over 40 years ago 📸⏳ #fossil #palaeontology #museum #collection #exhibition
🎉✨ Together with Dr. Przemysław Świś, we will lead the first activity of the renewed Microvertebrate Group under The Micropalaeontological Society 🔬 @micropalaeosoc.bsky.social 📌 Please note: This event is exclusively for TMS members. 👉 www.tmsoc.org/membership/#... #workshop #online #digitalart
🤓 Today was a different day at work ☀️ — filming for 🇱🇹 📺 together with Kristina Jonaitė and Viktorija Zonytė #interview #filming #lithuania #vilnius #job #paleontology #collections #fossil
⚠️ I am very happy to be part of the organising team and to invite you to join our WG1 online Training School under the SaltAges COST Action 🌊 Registration⬇️ 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/saltages/home/training-schools/wg1-quantitative-and-hierarchical-methods-in-biogeosciences?authuser=0 #SaltAges
🌍🔬 Calling all aspiring palaeontologists! Here are 3 open PhD opportunities from across the palaeo world 🦖📚 Explore the projects, find deadlines, and start your research journey! 👉 More info on our official website: palass.org/phd-opportun... #PhD #opportunity #ApplyNow
🌍 Very glad to participate in the 18th ISELV Conference online, even though I couldn’t join onsite in Morocco 🇲🇦 So many interesting talks, inspiring keynote speakers 🎤✨ 🙏 Many thanks to the organizers for making this hybrid opportunity possible. Looking forward to the upcoming days! 🚀📚 #conference
⚠️The 23rd EAVP is coming in 5️⃣ months to 🇱🇹 #Vilnius ✨🤓 Don’t forget to register ⬇️ eavp2026.weebly.com/registration... #conference #paleontology #Lithuania
Happy to be at the University of Turin continuing our work on coccoliths from Italian samples with Francesca Lozar 🤓🔬 Looking forward to great discussions and exciting results! 🎊🇮🇹 #Italy #paleontology #nanofossils
