I'm excited to see @taphonomist.bsky.social's newest paper out @royalsociety.org. Our analytical investigations reveal an important cautionary tale about decay: what was believed to be the worlds oldest octopus remains (Pohlsepia) - is in fact, a highly decomposed nautiloid! Congrats again, Thomas!

Dr Thomas Clements@taphonomist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

#PalAss25 kicked of yesterday with our #ERC workshop! Three absolutely fantastic talks and panel discussion with expert speakers on academic publishing, grants and funding applications along with applying for jobs.

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship! Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @thepalass.bsky.social

Join us in just over an hours time (1730 GMT) to hear from our panellists about their exciting career journeys! #PalAss Register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Careering of course. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

We are excited to bring you our next ECR webinar series on careers in Palaeontology on Wednesday, November 12th, at 05:30 pm (GMT). This event is free of charge, but you will need to register. Aim of...

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The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/2]

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST! Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding. Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ERC Starting Grant. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

We are excited to bring you our next ECR webinar series beginning Wednesday 29th of October at 05:30 pm (GMT) on the ERC Starting Grant. This event is free of charge, but you will need to register. A...

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The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎓 Member News! 🌟 We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡 Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/3]

🚨Check out our new paper! 🦠 Led by @taphonomist.bsky.social our experiments show the influence of endogenous bacteria in the early stages of decay.

Dr Thomas Clements@taphonomist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils! Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year. Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Really interesting and excellently executed taphonomic study alert! The authours designed neat insect disarticualtion experiments to better understand preservational patterns of insect found in the Crato Formation, Brazil. 🪰🪳🦟 Very very cool work by Storari et al. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Taphonomy of aquatic insects from the Crato Formation Lagerstätte (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) under an actualistic look

The Crato Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) is a fossiliferous deposit of global significance, representing a lacustrine palaeoenvironment which offers insights into aquatic insect taphonomy. Despi...

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Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution rdcu.be/eAmRU www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding environmental impacts of plastic requires a palaeontological lens - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...

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Check out my little sisters work published in Nature Communications today! 👩‍🔬📃

Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications from my current work with fantastic collaborators @rececochange.bsky.social ! We show that moth communities are experiencing an overall “warming,” with a clear latitudinal pattern: extinction in the north and colonisation in the south. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Out today, our Nature cover debut! @stephanspiekman.bsky.social @she-paleo.bsky.social @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

A paper in Nature describes a Triassic reptile with a crest of appendages on its back, which are neither feathers nor skin. The findings demonstrate that feathers or hair-like protrusions are not unique to birds and mammals. go.nature.com/4nZCySR #Paleosky 🧪

Although large, elongated protrusions on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil have some similarities to feathers, they are not feathers go.nature.com/3J0pOLt

Unusual fossil skin appendage is not a feather

Although large, elongated protrusions on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil have some similarities to feathers, they are not feathers.

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Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

My sister Orla and team just changed our understanding of the fossil record! 😍

Dr Orla Bath Enright@orlabe.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 So excited to finally share an incredible discovery from the #Triassic, Grès à Voltzia! Our international team, led by @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and published today in @nature.com, reveals a new reptile, #Mirasaura grauvogeli, donning an elaborate crest 🦎🔬✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Check out our video for a wonderful illustration of #Mirasaura @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Stephan Spiekman@stephanspiekman.bsky.social · last yr.

Also, here is a video of me by @smnstuttgart.bsky.social explaining more about Mirasaura! youtu.be/6RcsTRDNY6A

🚨 So excited to finally share an incredible discovery from the #Triassic, Grès à Voltzia! Our international team, led by @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and published today in @nature.com, reveals a new reptile, #Mirasaura grauvogeli, donning an elaborate crest 🦎🔬✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Tonight✨ we are kick starting our new and fully booked #ECR #PeerReview Training Programme with the wonderful help from our editorial officer and journal editors as review mentors! ✨Tomorrow✨ we have our panel discussion on "Careers in Palaeontology" Join @thepalass.bsky.social to get involved!

The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · last yr.

⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨ 🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST 🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #webinar #June #palaeontology #career

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....

A great opportunity to join online and learn more about ichnology ⬇️ #ichnology #online #webinar

☎️Calling PalAss members! We have an exclusive webinar this Wednesday on our #EngagementGrant with expert panellists to answer all your questions. 💫Register using the link below

The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · last yr.

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🌟Members Exclusive!🌟 Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers. 🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST) Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

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On 18th March I'm doing a free, hybrid, public lecture at the GeolSoc on stegosaurs. Come along or join online: www.geolsoc.org.uk/03-PL-stegos...

The Geological Society of London - Public Lecture: The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

Event details Stegosaurs are a group of dinosaurs characterised by the possession of two rows of plates and spines that extend from the neck to the end of the tail. They are known from the Middle Jura...

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Check out this new paper by Chiarella et al. in #Sedimentologika, exploring the impact of #plastic sediments in natural environments. If you were inspired by Prof. Gabbott's "Future Fossils" talk at the 2024 #PalAss Annual Meeting. Get stuck into this! #OpenAccess #Palaeontology #Sedimentology

Sedimentologika@sedimentologika.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Opinion Paper 🚨 Chiarella (2025) discusses the use of mixed siliciclastic-bioclastic sediments as an analogue for plastic-rich systems in natural environments. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... #Plastics #Sediments #Geology #Sedimentology #OpenAccess

Calling all creative minds in science communication! 🧠💡🎨 Join us at SMNS as a Content Creator and help bring biodiversity research to a wider audience! 🌿🧬📱 📅 Apply by 16.03.2025 🔗 Details: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta... #JobAlert #Hiring #ScienceComm #SocialMedia

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

Offene Stellen

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Eli Amson@eliamson.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are creative and want to become a Content Creator in an amazing museum, this 🚨job🚨 is for you @smnstuttgart.bsky.social www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta...

Hello, BlueSky! 🦋 Excited to reconnect, exchange ideas, and build a collaborative space driven by curiosity and innovation. We’re launching the Dept. of Biodiversity Monitoring at SMNS!🚀 Using museum & monitoring collections, we study genomic diversity 🧬 and species persistence in a changing world.

Just read a great paper by McMahon et al. 2025, "Remarkable fossils on unremarkable bedding planes? The role of true substrates in the fossil record of the Ediacaran macrobiota" @philvixseboxse.bsky.social #Ediacaran #Palaeontology Check it out: www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Remarkable fossils on unremarkable bedding planes? The role of true substrates in the fossil record of the Ediacaran macrobiota | Geological Society, London, Special Publications

Strata from the late Ediacaran Period (∼579-539 Ma) host fossils of Earth's earliest assemblages of diverse macroscopic organisms: the Ediacaran macrobiota. Many Ediacaran macrobiota taxa are preserve...

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