This week, we are starting our first #PaleoArt Highlight! 🎨

This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊

🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway

✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer

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

Nominations for Student Representative to the Paleontological Society (2026-2028) The deadline for consideration is March 1, 2026. The Role: Student Representatives serve as voices for student needs in the Society and play leading roles in student activities including organizing...

⚡Applications for Paleontological Society Student Representative (2026-2028) are open! ⚡ @paleosoc.bsky.social

It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.

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‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!

Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI

www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

Very solid boy

I love a description of preservation as "a fine trilobite hash". Really captures the frustration of having smashed trilo bits

A photo finish this year!

'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.

Semi-infaunal squid?

Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one

www.livescience.com/animals/moll...

keep ai slop out of scientific journals

@sethf.bsky.social do you feel honored or just surprised? Hahaha

Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All my friends and I woke up with hope for the first time in nearly year and didn't know what to do with ourselves

This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.

Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.

www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...

@sethf.bsky.social you're currently destroying mollusks. You may just win this one 😂😂😂

Got the goods #GSA2025 #paleo

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My proetide paper is finally out!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

a close up of a toy dinosaur with sharp teeth standing in front of a fence . ALT: a close up of a toy dinosaur with sharp teeth standing in front of a fence .

Ok, I finally saw the Jurassic World movie. No notes… except maybe more Dunkelosteus content… and maybe don’t say there’s more oxygen in the tropics…ok lots of notes 🤣🤣🤣 #paleontology

Submit your research to a Paleo Society-sponsored session at @geosociety Connects 2025 in San Antonio! This year we have 30 paleo sessions, and today we’re featuring paleocology related sessions. 🦕🌴
Submit your abstract by August 5th!

#Paleo #Geoscience #Geology #gsaconnects2025

Omgggg it's perfection

Are you going to GSA 2025 and have a cool phylogenetic or computational study you want to talk about? Consider submitting to our session T159 "Phylogenetic and Computational Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology"! We would love to have you! #GSA2025 #paleontology #phylogenetics

There are Powder Blue Isopods (Porcellionides pruinosus) of various sizes on a pastel pink background. All of them are hanging with large and small ribbons. Happy and lovely atmosphere.

Blue isopods with ribbons🎀

In killing grants, NSF appears to follow Ted Cruz’s blueprint Senator’s report targeted up to $2 billion for diversity, climate change, and misinformation research

Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m in DC at the Smithsonian this week. Any recommendations on food and other places to check out?

Paleobiology Database Summer 2025 Workshop Application Dates: June 2-5, 2025 (4 days) Location: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚

Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!

More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

Congrats!!!

A stippled ink illustration of a fossil of a Phacops trilobite. It's an animal with a very rounded first segment and large eyes, and it's curved upward a bit on its matrix like a banana.

More old work for #TrilobiteTuesday - specimen of Phacops 🐡

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute “Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

Even *if* their fossil collections were somehow rehoused at other institutions, the potential closure of the Paleontological Research Institute would be an incalculable loss to specimen-based research. It would also eliminate an immensely important educational facility for students and the public. 🧪