Why the pressure's on to make the megalodon Maryland's state shark
"I don't want people to be afraid of sharks. I want people to respect sharks," said the curator of paleontology at Calvert Marine Museum, Dr. Stephen Godfrey. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/p...
This is the first publication from a long-term collaboration with Matt Carrano’s research group at the Smithsonian and Sunil Bajpai’s research group at IIT Roorkee. Stay tuned for more exciting Indian Mesozoic science in the coming years!
Bryozooloigsts! Remember to register for Larwood Oslo 1-3 June 2026 #bryozoa www.bryozoology.org/kopie-von-20... the deadline is coming up fast! Please remind your friends and colleagues!
Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered.
This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
New paper out today! Using accelerometers to generate thermal performance curves in great hammerhead sharks. Their low activation energies may explain why they can perform well across seasons.
Rocks, Fossils, and Ecology: Understanding How Time Is Sampled in the Fossil Record - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Cooperative lifting out of the water by sperm whales for a newborn so that it can breathe, amazing work, second paper on this sperm whale birth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.
The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Deep-sea hermit crabs from the Parapaguridae family live 1,000+ meters deep! Unlike typical hermits, they often use soft “homes” made by anemones or zoanthids instead of shells. #marinelife Image from @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN!
Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸
⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026
🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026
TDWG 2026 Working Sessions, 11 to 22 May. More details coming shortly. Image: a group of small green plants sprouting out of the ground by Christian Holzinger. Unsplash.com
Curious to learn how standards are developed? 🤔
Do you want to know who makes the magic happen? 🪄
Have you been thinking of joining a Task or Interest Group?👷♀️
🗓️ Then save the date!, #TDWG will be running online working sessions from 11 to 22 May, everybody welcome!
More details coming shortly!
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
New from #RSOS: Use of the notochordal canal as a reliable proxy for prenatal stage, a case study in #Ichthyosauria. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @feikosaur.bsky.social #palaeontology
Register now for the Oslo Larwood meeting 1-3 June 2026 calling all bryozoologists and #bryozoa enthusiasts! Oslo does get expensive in the summer, start planning your trip to keep costs low!
www.bryozoology.org/kopie-von-20...
Diversification rate shifts are everywhere. Analyses of phylogenies covering >300k species reveal widespread changes in speciation dynamics across the Tree of Life.
@bjorntko.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @acapomorphic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
My extremely talented colleague, Samaneh Pazoki, drew this portrait of R. Fisher as a reitrement gift @uio.no #naturalhistorymuseum #evolution #oslo
Deadline is this Sunday!
Judith Pardo-Pérez and I are organizing a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social 🤩 Hope to see very many interesting abstracts! Get in touch if there are questions.
It is finally out! In this paper we show an easy way to stage ichthyosaur fetuses based on the relative size of their notochordal canal on their vertebrae (NCI). Important findings: NCI clearly separates fetal stage together with cranium
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Great news! We’ve extended the deadline! The TDWG 2026 Call for Sessions extended deadline is 2 March 2026, 23:59 UTC-10. Image: Nasjonal turistveg Aurlandsfjellet by Håvard Nesbø. Visitnorway.com
👏 Great news! We’ve extended the deadline!
Extended deadline for session proposals: 🗓️ 2 March 2026, 23:59 UTC-10!
Submit an organized session for #TDWG2026 in #Oslo.
Theme: 🔬& 🤖 Research & robot‑ready biodiversity data standards.
More info: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
a musk ox in an open field in a mountainous landscape
📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026 closing soon!
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...
@tdwg.org
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends.
🧪🦑🌍🐟
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But wait, there's more
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an eagle soaring over a lake
📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...
@tdwg.org
Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
A cream coloured background with a biological drawing of a shell and text reading ebbe nielsen challenge 2026 with the GBIF logo at the bottom
🚀 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is now OPEN!
Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸
⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026
🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026
TDWG 2026, Oslo, Call for Sessions, Deadline: 26 Feb 2026, 09:59 UTC
📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
Happy Saturday @malihr.bsky.social made a lovely gallery with some beautiful #Norwegian #byrozoans specimens
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... #NorDigBryo
All videos from our #LivingData2025 conference with @geobon.org, @gbif.org, and @obis.org are now public! It was an amazing conference in Bogota, Colombia, thanks to our hosts at Instituto Humboldt. www.youtube.com/@LivingData2...
