This Tuesday at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Brittany Hupp from George Mason University, USA.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Calling all fossilologists! Can anyone help identify this? It was found loose in a drawer, no data or providence.

What on earth could our little weird friend be? Please RT for reach because it's flummoxing us!

Screenshot der SPIEGEL-Website: Artikel mit dem Titel "Nach Artemis-2-Sensation: Ungarn schießen Orban auf den Mond"

Für die deutschsprachige Community: Die SPIEGEL-Online-Redaktion (bzw. der Praktikant, der nachts für die Überschriften zuständig ist) ist heute ganz offensichtlich gut aufgelegt... :-)

I know!
And we have to narrow it down to 10 pictures. How is this even supposed to be possible?

SEM picture of an echinoid skin, with flower-like shapes where needles once were attached.

The interior-design scenographers working of the new building asked for "photos of cool structures from your collections".

Hard questions now need answers: Why are echinoids so cute? How many forams can I sneak in? Which is the cooler diatom? (Nobody warned me of those hard moments as a curator!)

Curvey sand dunes with one in the center showing the slip face

An abstract view of san dunes showing concentric ripples radiating outwards from left to right

A sand dune slip face showing numerous collapse features that extend from crest to base

A dune creature showing sand blowing off the top with dunes and hills in the background

Some more photos of Mesquite Dunes from my Death Valley trip earlier this month. This place always has a bit of a dreamy quality to it.

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This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

A radial symmetry pattern featuring an anomalcaris, in blue and green tones. There are hidden stingrays, jellyfish and crabs in the design. This is digital art made Procreate #palaeoart

Finished the Anomalocaris pattern!

Ever wanted to see how a coral skeleton grows? In this paper (led by: @jtrendbio.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we use Live CT, a method of scanning live organisms using microCT, to visualise how the skeleton grew over about one month.

Ach so.

Comparison of species richness curves and environmental proxies.

High-resolution quantitative stratigraphical study shows the heterogenous extinction responses of foraminifera, with benthics being struck hard and collapsing fast.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Happy #taxonomistappreciationday!

Here we celebrate the day with a 🍻 after are ICZN reading club :)

@mohnika.bsky.social

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...

Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy (Published 2024)

Quote: "We need to be able to interpret genetic data in a way that humans can understand and use. That's taxonomy's job. And if we want to save what's left of the vast diversity of life on Earth, we'll have to reinvest in this science."
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...

Figure 2.1 the variety of organisms with very different habits and habitats which may accumulate as fossils in one layer of sediment on the sea floor. Drawn by Miss Mary E. Pugh.

I don’t know what I like better: the bloat-and-float kangaroo(?) or the expression on the whale as it is taken down by a giant squid #FossilFriday

From: Ager 1963 Principles of Paleoecology

There is an irony to generate some AI slob to promote a Critical Minerals Workshop...

🛰 Meteosat captured today a lot of

#Dust from Sahara over the Atlantic.
This Timelapse started at 07:10UTC ended 18:20UTC with 📸 every 10Min.
Footage: @eumetsat.int

Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...

A screenshot of a presentation slide with black and white, scribble-like drawings, picturing selected organisms, which were highly impacted at the KPg boundary. This includes plants, a mososaur, a plesiosaur, a triceratops, an ammonite, a belemnite, corals and bivalves (rudists and inoceramus), as well as microorganisms (a planktic foraminifera, a coccosphere and an ostracod)

I recently gave a pop-science talk about the KPg boundary. I think by looking at my (excellent! ^^) drawings one can easily decipher which organisms I deal with on a more common basis ...

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)

Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

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

A schematic image showing Recent changes in reef zonation of western Atlantic coral reefs, brought about by lack of recruitment of elkhorn, staghorn, and massive boulder corals. Without these key reef builders, the reefs have already measurably eroded. Image credit: Rashpal Dhilon. Adapted from ref. 6, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The panel on the left labeled Late Pleistocene to ~1978 shows a vibrant ecosystem, the middle panel (the 1980s) is depleted but still many corals remain (though some key species are lost). The panel on the right (2020s) is like a moonscape with a few hardy species left.

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/... 🪸🧪🌊

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

🚨 New vacancy🚨

Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚

werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...

Picture of the entrance to the Natural History Museum Basel in winter. Snow is falling, covers the street and the two pine trees standing on both sides of the door. Behind the trees there are red flags hanging on the wall, advertising the special exhibition and framing the large, black and gold door, with "museum" carved in the stone above the frame.

A brief stint of winter in Basel - entrance to the Natural History Museum #NMB

What a nice anniversary!

@mohnika.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social

Don't do this to me!

I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅