🌍🔬 Calling all aspiring palaeontologists! Here are 10 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 #PalAss #Opportunity

Idriss Pellettan a brillamment soutenu sa thèse intitulée "Etude morpho-fonctionnelle de la stabilité posturale des oiseaux», dirigée par Anick Abourachid, Raphaël Cornette et Christine Chevallereau. Félicitations !!

#FossilFriday The fossil history of the Christmas tree 🎄 ⚒️🧪 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/t...

We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for @petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane. #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

Fully funded PhD position available at @univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨

For #FossilFriday, a spectacular fossil palm frond from the Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous), North Dakota, in the process of being prepared at the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social last week: juvenile tyrannosaur skull for scale. (cc: @susieoftraken.bsky.social, @arctomet.bsky.social) 🧪🌴🦖

Calling all Palaeontology PhD candidates and post-docs everywhere! No matter what your particular field of research or country of institution, please follow forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT... and fill in my ANONYMOUS RESEARCH SURVEY – #Yourpalaeolife : investigating fieldwork by early career palaeontologists

#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork

Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...

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Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection Carlos Jaramillo, Surangi W. Punyasena, Daurys de Alba, Roxana Alveo, Angelica Arcila, Jorge Bermudez, Jonatan Bustos et al nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection

Large palynological collections have been built over decades and contain vital information. However, they are often difficult to access and use effectively. What is the point of having such collectio....

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*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿

PhD Assisted Migration

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Les membres d’Agora Paleobotanica organisent régulièrement des congrès qui permettent aux paléobotanistes et palynologues de se rencontrer, d’échanger et de présenter leurs travaux. Le congrès est organisé cette année par le CR2P du 2 au 5 juillet : paleo.mnhn.fr/fr/agenda/9t...

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

A new species of Karkenia (Ginkgoales) from the Lower Jurassic of East Siberia (Russia): palaeobiogeographical and evolutionary implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersInPalaeontology

Apply! 👇👇🐍🪱🥒

Marion Segall@marionsegall.bsky.social · last yr.

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Only one week left to apply to join our new lab at @sgn.one in Frankfurt am Main! Are you interested in #fossil #plants, traits, and the #Mesozoic? www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Reportage de @celineloozen.bsky.social > Itw d’Anne Bourra, maître de conférences au MNHN et Léa De Brito, ATER au MNHN au cœur des fossiles de plantes de la collection paléobotanique témoins de la terrestrialisation tinyurl.com/2ax2sn7p #ScienceCQFD

Comment les fossiles racontent la colonisation des plantes sur les continents ?

L'étude et la conservation de la végétation forestière à partir de bois et de feuilles fossiles aide à la reconstruction des paléoenvironnements et paléoclimats : c'est une des mission de la collectio...

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☀️ Le #mimosa, un brin de soleil en hiver, mais... Cette espèce originaire d'Australie est envahissante en France. ⚠️ En raison de sa multiplication rapide, elle entre en compétition avec la flore indigène et modifie le milieu. Les espèces invasives en 5 questions 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/les-espec... #EEE

Happy #FossilFriday 💚 This heart-shaped seed was produced a little over 300 million year ago by a plant that was growing in what is now southern France 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany 1/2

A sprinkling of leaves dropped from the host tree and gently landed on the wet ground below it. 260 million years later they find themselves encased in a block of stone in my study Glossopteris were the dominant trees of the Permian Period

Palynofloras of the Maaatrichtian Chorrillo Formation (with comments on other fossils of the unit). Final version. Free to download for some days. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CNRSnews 📰 While dinosaurs were previously perceived as dumb, clumsy creatures, the Jurassic Park saga shows them in a new light, all while questioning the role of science in society and its impact on the world 🦕 news.cnrs.fr/articles/how...

How Jurassic Park changed the image of dinosaurs

Are the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” realistic? How does the film franchise explore the impact and applications of science? These are some of the topics addressed in a book published last autumn, as e...

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