#Yourpalaeolife The ECR survey is published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! Early career palaeontologists from all over the world have talked about their experience with fieldwork - how could you change your working practices to get more early career researchers into the field? doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

#Yourpalaeolife: Interrogating the Status of Fieldwork Among Early Career Palaeontology Researchers

This global survey of early career palaeontologists provides the first quantitative data regarding the prevalence of field skills training and field work among junior researchers of the discipline. T....

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RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

Dr Saurav Dutta's Lapworth Lecture is now available on YouTube. What can bivalves tell us about Antarctic climate change millions of years ago? Find out in Saurav's intriguing talk: youtu.be/5I42TeNCXQw #LapworthRocks #LapworthLecture #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Palaeoclimates

23 month research associate job now available with our team to work on Middle Jurassic mammals from Scotland. Requires strong experience with segmentation of CT data but does not require a PhD. Deadline for applications is 26th July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Research Associate (Leverhulme) - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 105138 - Grade 6

This is a Research Associate position to assist in palaeobiological research conducted as part of the project “New Insights Into Early Mammal Evolution From Exceptional Scottish Fossils” funded by the...

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We extended the deadline for the Palaeoart Exhibition! We’re offering FREE stand/booth space for you to exhibit your art at the conference. Let’s bring science to life! 📩 DM us or email to get involved! Deadline: 13-July-2026 Check our website -> www.ipc7.site

Watch Alice Whittle's Alice Whittle Lapworth Lecture on YouTube now. Alice investigates how microbes affect carbon cycling in peatlands, sharing more about her current PhD research: youtu.be/cSemMQUUCDQ #LapworthLecture #LapworthRocks #Peatlands #Microbes

It’s almost as if not practising something means you aren’t able to do it very well… who would have guessed? 🤷‍♀️

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Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1

Dr Daniel Villar's Daniel Villar Lapworth Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. Daniel explores why fieldwork is important for macroecology and macroevolution in an engaging, informative talk: youtu.be/jKU7oQpThdg #LapworthLecture #LapworthRocks #Fieldwork #Ecology

📣 Lapworth Lecture postponed We are sorry to inform that the Lapworth Lecture scheduled for Monday, 15 June, with Dr Benedetta Dini is postponed to a later date. Please keep an eye out for further notices.

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

@science.org is look for a new Biology Perspectives editor to join our commentary team. Join us in Cambridge UK or Washington DC! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

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Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

Assistant Professor in Paleontology

Are you a team player and proactive innovator in an emerging field of paleontology? Please apply!

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Worrying that this requires a whole article and is not simply the default position for academics… there is no shortcut to learning and research, at least none that has any lasting value. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

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Well this is delightful: a woman getting her Masters in Archives and Preservation reached out to me because she's creating a digital collection of pictures of birds on statue heads taken from around the world. You can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Journey back to ancient #Antarctica at our next #LapworthLecture with Dr Saurav Dutta. Explore past climate change through geochemical analysis of #fossil bivalve shells. Free and open to all. 📅 Mon 11 May, 17:30 📌 Uni of Bham campus and/or Zoom More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Anatomists at large: I love you, I support you, I value your brilliant descriptive work but please, for the love of all that is unholy, write SOMETHING about the ligaments.

The Natural History Museum Stuttgart is seeking to fill a position as Curator / Researcher (m/f/d) in Ichthyology Permanent, full-time (80–100%) Remuneration in accordance with TV-L E13 Application deadline: 17/05/2026 ➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/3svwg

My ECR colleagues at Birmingham do some incredibly important research around protecting UK woodlands - this blog post by Rachel Mailes about ash dieback is just one example 🌳🍃 forest640.wixsite.com/bes-forest/p...

Hidden impacts of ash dieback – what is happening to our carbon stocks?

Written by Rachel Mailes (guest writer)Watching for roots, uneven ground, and other trip hazards, I remind myself to look up often; trees are what I am here for. Coming to a crossroad in the path I se...

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2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

Nyakatura-Lab for Comparative Zoology | News

See what’s been happening in the Nyakatura Lab. News: discover our latest publications, recent events, and research highlights.

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This is an excellent essay, and I would encourage anyone to read it, scientist or no. And I’m only one PhD student among gods know how many on this swirling planet, I might as well articulate where I stand: I do not and will not use GenAI or LLMs at all, ever. Big words, for a puny PhD student. 1/9

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

We are looking for a new volcano-petrology postdoc to join the NERC-funded large grant ‘ex-x: understanding dangerous eruptive transitions’ Based at Bristol University! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA042/s...

Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology at University of Bristol

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Join us on Monday at 5.30pm for our free Lapworth Lecture with Dr Zoja Vukmanovic. 🌋 How can rock microstructure reconstruct the cooling and movement of large magma bodies migrating through the crust? 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭 Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research. Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀 ➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login