Best part of the #tourdefrance is back!!

Geology of the Tour de France@geotdf.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today's Tour de France stage ends at Le Lioran, at the top of the Cantal Volcano, Europe's larges stratovolcano. Two years ago, we made this clip there, our favorite :) How volcanism led to the invention of the bicycle! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social @uugeo.bsky.social

🧪 calling deep water drill core paleo people! I'm searching for a "nice", ca. 3m long section of a drill core - spanning at least 100k years - visibly layered - somewhat ok studied (hyperthermals? Eocene?) - preferable #IODP / #ODP / #DSDP for a "science dry run" for visitors at a museum.

Green spaces should/can be omnipresent in urban areas. --> In my town in #Greece they cut down all the trees in the main street. (there's obviously also no green roofing)

IPCC@ipcc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can green roofs keep us cool? 🌿 Compared to conventional roofs, green roofs can reduce surface temperatures by up to 4°C in winter and 12°C in summer. Find out more from IPCC's #ClimateReport: Climate Change 2022 - Mitigation of climate change → Chapter 8 - bit.ly/3SmWofu

Le GIEC invite les représentants des gouvernements et les experts à examiner la deuxième version du Rapport spécial sur le changement climatique et les villes. La période d’examen va du 8 mai au 3 juillet 2026. S’inscrire ici: www.tinyurl.com/srcities 👉 bit.ly/PRSRSOD

Is this a case of "if you don't look at it it's not there"? 🫣🫣

Eos@eos.org · 2mo ago

NSF has begun to dismantle ocean observation infrastructure as part of an announced descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. eos.org/research-and...

📷 We are happy to announce that we are organising a ✨photo contest✨ in collaboration with WWF Greece, @wwfgr.bsky.social We are looking forward to discover beautiful pictures of #Molluscs! 🐚 🐙Deadline for submissions - 31st August 2026 🦪

Happy #taxonomistappreciationday! Here we celebrate the day with a 🍻 after are ICZN reading club :) @mohnika.bsky.social

WoRMS@marinespecies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

(1/2) In labs, museums, fieldwork etc., taxonomists are busy collecting, cataloguing, identifying, comparing, describing and naming species new to science. About 350 taxonomists globally give their valuable time to keep @marinespecies.bsky.social up to date. #taxonomistappreciationday

🪸🪼🦈 Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! 🐋🐙🐚 @marinespecies.bsky.social celebrates this day by releasing its annual WoRMS Top-10 Marine Species. In 2025 alone, almost 2600 new marine species were described. Find out the top-10 of newly described species in 2025 👉 🔗 www.vliz.be/en/news/ten-...

Monoplacophorans => molluscs that have been around since the dawn of the Phanerozoic 😍 #Molluscs #deepseamining #biodiversity

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 5mo ago

Scientists have uncovered five new species of deep-sea #limpets in the family Lepetodrilidae thriving around deep-sea hydrothermal vents along three underwater mountain chains in the Indian Ocean: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @squamiferum.bsky.social #RSOS

Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cool project :) #PhDlife #science #biology #molluscs #phd @malacogreece.bsky.social

EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PhD position in integrative evolutionary biology at Lille University to study mollusks from Lake Tanganyika. Funding available for 3 years. Apply by April 5. Info: https://eep.univ-lille.fr/en/presentation-english/ #phd

Chrysomallon squamiferum: what an amazing example of variation in appearance! ‼️Danger: deep ocean drilling can have unpredictable damaging effects on deep-sea biodiversity. 🔸the deep-sea might be far but perturbations occurring there are felt globally!

C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec@squamiferum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our paper is on the COVER of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! www.cell.com/current-biol...

It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's #MolluscMonday, so here's the Limpet facts ep. 2: The small blue-rayed limpet got its bright colors (and name) not from blue pigments but from light being puzzled in a zigzag crystallographically co-oriented calcite lamellae. Function ? Look like a toxic nudibranch (Batesian mimic) ! 🦑🧪🌊

Earlier this year we had to say goodbye to a great colleague.

Elisa Ramos@eksramos.bsky.social · 5mo ago

David Marques: An amazing scientist, birder, musician, and a truly great mentor and friend. I’m so glad we crossed paths. His lessons and kindness stay with us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can't get tired of Paleozoic life! 🤩

Ninon Robin@ninonrobin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔹 New semicolonial stem-medusozoan Paleocanna (deriving later than conulariids) from the Upper Ordovician of Quebec 🔹 #paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇 t.co/k6Qdu82nti 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography

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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec@squamiferum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

[New Paper] From over 8000 nominations for the new chiton species naming competition with Ze Frank -- the winner is Ferreiraella populi ("chiton of the people")! The paper officially naming this species was just published: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14 @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social

Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate. 🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00 📍 University of Reading, online Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r

Fossilised vomit - how cool is that!! 🤩

Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris@cr2p.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Une équipe internationale, impliquant Arnaud Rebillard et Jean-Sébastien Steyer du CR2P, vient de publier dans Scientific Reports l’analyse du plus ancien vomi fossile (régurgitalithe) d’un animal terrestre. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New year, new @saltages.bsky.social courses. More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social

Oh my! 🤔😶

Gavin Foster@thefosterlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

While working on moving the 3 million objects of our collections in a new building next year (and not at the end of next year 😳), these are some of my thoughts 😇🧶

Debbie T Knits 🧶@debbietknits.bsky.social · 7mo ago

😊 🧶 #knit #knitsky

Can't wait for the next #MolluscMonday to post this: This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀 #biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling

Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA)@oceanspecies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀! Check out Ze Frank’s newest True Facts video and drop your name suggestion for this new chiton in the comments: youtu.be/G7HkBBJO7ZU?... @sgn.one @bdj.pensoft.net

"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues." Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂

Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles

Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns

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#MolluscMonday Neither nautiloid nor ammonite, this is an early ammonoid, Timanites keyserlingi (Order Agoniatitida) of Devonian age. The large body chamber in this specimen is sediment-filled, whereas the chambers forming the phragmocone are infilled with calcite.

Preparing a talk on the Mesozoic marine life for #Museumsnacht Basel, I am learning so many fascinating things about Ammonoids. Not that i ever doubted how cool they are - they are Molluscs so of course they are fascitating ☺️ - their long evolution is more eventful than i remembered! #MolluscMonday

If there was one specific thing that would be groundbreaking about exploring Mars in the future, this would have been IT... Pity...

Nature@nature.com · 7mo ago

After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ferry Martian material collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth, looks set to be cancelled. go.nature.com/4aTLe9i

Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...

Doctorat INPhINIT

Coneix les 60 beques de doctorat dINPhINIT per a investigadors que vulguin realitzar estudis de doctorat en universitats d'Espanya i Portugal.

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What a nice anniversary! @mohnika.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social

Vincent Bouchet@vincentbouchet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!