Edwin Rodriguez
@edarrd.bsky.social
PhD student @EdinburghUni @UKAstrobiology Paleobiology | Molecular paleontology | Microfossils 🔬🪨🌎🏳️🌈 He/Him. 🇲🇽 Spanish/English.
‼️New PhD project in Edinburgh: "Animals, traits, and oxygen in the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia". Supervised by Rachel Wood (Amelia Penny and I co-supervising) — big UK+Namibian team — help us understand early animal evolution! Apply by Dec 14th #paleontology e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
A 1.4 Ga iron oncoid made of berthierine and greenalite. The black dot is a micro #fossil. The black lines are branching filamentous fossils. All preserved in the ooid. #Geology #Paleontology #FossilFriday
Did you know? Not all biofilms are bad. Biofilms actually play important roles in wastewater treatment, bioremediation and even producing electricity in microbial fuel cells! @ukbiofilms.bsky.social #BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware
Sharing a beautiful photomicrograph of Trichormus variabilis, a nitrogen-fixing biofilm-forming cyanobacterium with long tangled filaments.🌀 Those eye-like structures made me feel "observed", a fun sort-of revenge from the microbial world.😯 #BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware @ukbiofilms.bsky.social
Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have far-reaching consequences
Coral reefs are at a tipping point after surging global temperatures
Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have far-reaching consequences
newscientist.com
New paper led by my PhD student, Edwin Rodriguez! Building on previous work, we present a systematic description of the ONE BILLION YEAR OLD fossils of the phosphates of the Diabaig Formation, NW Scotland — including some early eukaryotes and new species... #paleontology #fossils #geology
A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch on the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct.
Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago
newscientist.com
Delighted to see our work on #diatom motility published in @pnas.org !🎉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... These abundant single-celled algae are responsible for a significant portion of the air we breathe yet often overlooked. Here we show how how diatom (raphe) shape impacts their gliding function... 1/3
🎊We are very pleased to announce that our paper investigating what we think Prototaxites, the mysterious giant of the Devonian landscape, actually was is now available as a pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature that hunts by projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Zealand’s bug of the year. 🧪🐛 Peripatoides novaezealandiae, or Ngāokeoke in Te Reo Māori, have rows of pudgy legs & skin speckled like a galaxy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Worm-like creature with ‘dark secret’ wins New Zealand bug of the year award
Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo
theguardian.com
The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 has risen to 2.8%. This means that it has surpassed the chance of impact briefly held by the much larger asteroid Apophis back in 2004. @esaoperations.esa.int ☄️🔭
A paper in Nature Methods presents Segment Anything for Microscopy, a tool for segmentation and tracking in multidimensional microscopy data. https://go.nature.com/3QiRonW
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Nature reports on the work scientists are doing to understand their effects on your health. 🧪
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
go.nature.com
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Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into "zombies."
Newly discovered fungus turns cave-dwelling spiders into ‘zombies’ | CNN
Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing them and using their corpses to spread.
cnn.com
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
I couldn't help but draw her as if she were an member of the God Hand from "Berserk" or a Cenobite from "Hellraiser"💋💅🏻 #LadyGaga #ABRACADABRA #fanart #digitalart
Completely in love with the degree of preservation of a little (4 cm) 120-million-year-old dinosaur (Yanornis) foot!
