🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

🗓️30th April 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week for a talk by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
@joeflansan.bsky.social

from University of Birmingham, on “Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package” 💻

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Heading home after another excellent week of Skye fieldwork. Rain, sunshine, otters, a dolphin, lots of fossils and great company. Looking forward to finding out exactly what we’ve collected once we start to CT scan the fossils, and to returning again in 2027!

Flinders Uni 3rd year #palaeontology students have had a great time working at the original #Canowindra Age of Fishes #fossil site this week! Huge thanks to David and Aleysha for having us out there! 🦴 🐟
@flindersuniversity.bsky.social

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!

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Open positions

🐟 Are you an ichthyologist driven by collection-based research? 🧑‍🔬
Apply by May 17 ⏰

At SMNS, we extend our collections integrating genomes 🧬, distributions 🗺️, and species interactions 🕸️ to understand and conserve biodiversity 🌱🐞🦎🦅

Join us! Please share 🔁

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Interior of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.

Table with 3d printed fish jaws and posters

Science outreach day at the UM Museum of Natural History! Come by and learn about fish jaws.

‘World’s oldest octopus’ fossil isn’t an octopus after all | Natural History Museum Pohlsepia mazonensis is still a landmark fossil – but not in the way it was first thought.

The world’s oldest octopus isn’t actually an octopus at all! 🐙

New research reveals that Pohlsepia mazonensis is actually a relative of the nautilus, revealing more about what these animals were like.

Dive into the history of this mysterious fossil 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Infographic showing the main steps in the preparation and publication of 3D datasets.

How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daniajinn.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday

a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a blue dress are touching a turtle statue . Alt: a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a blue dress are touching a turtle in a museum, with a "Do Not Touch" sign behind them.

🚨MUSEUM JOB KLAXON🚨
Join us to work with one of the country's best natural history collections at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social!
We're recruiting for a new **Assistant Conservator** to help us with a major moves project. IS IT YOU?
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
#MuseumJob #MuseumJobs

A picture of a small concretion (rock) with a white blob in the middle. this blob was described as the worlds oldest octopus and called Pohlsepia. Our research shows that hidden under the rock are teeth that confirm it is a nautiloid (a relative of modern nautiluses).

An artistic rendering of the rotting Pohlsepia on the seafloor 310 million years ago. Sharks, fish and arthropods lurk in the background

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!). 🐙❌

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The Dermal Skeleton of Stem‐Actinopterygian Moythomasia durgaringa and Its Implications for the Nature of the Ancestral Osteichthyan The figure presents a model of Moythomasia and a schematic histological model illustrating the internal structure and features of the cranial bones. These include bone (brown), osteocyte spaces (red)...

Our latest: Dermoskeletal histology of Moythomasia and the evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton, led by Xianren Shan and Edine Pape, with a little help from Martin Rucklin @evopalaeo.bsky.social and Davide Pisani @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

📖Trilobites, dicynodonts, 19th century frigates: you'll find something for everyone in upcoming PalAss Newsletter 121, heading to members now. 📬 Turn to the back for a puzzle-based giveaway of the new book Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs🧩🦕#newsletter #PalAss #palaeontology

Awesome to see my correspondent’s piece on new discoveries of the late Permian of Zambia and Tanzania out!

Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Upper Cretaceous fossil fish Konservat-Lagerstätten of Lebanon Cenomanian deposits are well exposed in Lebanon and consist mainly of limestones that cover about 40% of the Lebanese territory. The sedimentary series is rich in fish fossils known from a distinct le...

Really delighted to see this brilliant new paper on the biostratigraphy and ecosystems of several Lebanese Lagerstatten. A wealth of new knowledge and hypotheses for future research to work with!

sjp.pensoft.net/article/1818...

Our new #exhibition GROUNDTRUTH The Art of Science has been open for a week now, showcasing #artworks by Dr Rick Greswell around the #Museum. Have you seen it yet?

What do you think is the biggest anthropogenic impact on the #environment?

For more information: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

PDRA positions at Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (York, UK)

These include four that I am involved with:
beta diversity change
ecosystem metrics
ecological monitoring & Indigenous and local knowledge
food system dynamics & biodiversity

sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you

📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues.

🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾

For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -

Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process

Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Are you an evolutionary biologist who thinks about the evolution of protein sequences/structure/function across scales? Do you want to implement your skills in industry? We’ve opened a full-time role on our platform team (think computational research group)!
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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

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029.

Please spread the word!

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:

PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
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PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
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Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Sillitoe Research Leader, Economic Geology:South Kensington

ANOTHER JOB!! Research Leader in Economic Geology - come work on our minerals collection!
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Bringing Birmingham to You: Dinosaur Detectives YouTube video by University of Birmingham Alumni

Interested in hearing more about dinosaur research at Birmingham, including the "Dinosaur Highway" and the "punk rock dinosaur"? Join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social me &
@kirstymedgar.bsky.social online on Thursday 7 May, 6pm.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/bring...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K88...

Applications are open for the LinnéSys Systematics Research Fund: we offer up to £1,500 for research in taxonomy & systematics - from fieldwork to equipment, specimen prep, and more. Open to researchers at any stage (UG+).

Deadline: 27 March 2026, 23:59

Apply now: buff.ly/8eryOMN

Imaging Assistant:South Kensington

JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Our new exhibition GROUNDTRUTH The Art of Science opens on Fri 27th March. Explore anthropogenic impacts on the environment through a series of thought-provoking artworks by Dr Rick Greswell around the Museum.

🌞 Free entry

For more information: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

#LapworthRocks #Exhibition

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

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I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Very interesting - seems that like ammonites, some belemnites may also have survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. ☄️☠️ Unlike ammonites which only persisted a few 100 thousand years they lasted a long time - into the Eocene at least! 🤯