Christina Belanger, Ph.D
@belaforams.bsky.social
Paleoecologist using the past to understand the future. Forams are the best! Associate professor at Texas A&M in College Station teaching about fossils and Earth’s deep past.
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Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can?
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can?
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
“Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%.”
Each box in the figure below “represents 1% of global wild mammal biomass on land.”
Each box in the figure below “represents 1% of global wild mammal biomass on land.”
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%.”
Each box in the figure below “represents 1% of global wild mammal biomass on land.”
Each box in the figure below “represents 1% of global wild mammal biomass on land.”
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Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09...
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09...
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Protists #Microbes #Diatoms
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A few recent foraminifera. These are amoeboid protists that have little shells!
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A few recent foraminifera. These are amoeboid protists that have little shells!
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
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ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
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The Museum of the Earth isn't just a place to marvel at the physical record of how life evolved on Earth - it also provides virtual access to that collection with remarkable 3D models!
www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi...
Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.
www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi...
Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Museum of the Earth isn't just a place to marvel at the physical record of how life evolved on Earth - it also provides virtual access to that collection with remarkable 3D models!
www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi...
Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.
www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi...
Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.
A geology class from 1900
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A geology class from 1900
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Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents - bioGraphic
In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold.
www.biographic.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
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And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!
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The Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville seeks a new Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager! www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...
Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager
The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida seeks an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Departme...
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville seeks a new Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager! www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...
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Lovely plate patterns from this isocrinid stalked crinoid- NOT a fossil but dang! sure looks like a "living fossil"!! Skeletons are calcium carbonate. #echinoday
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lovely plate patterns from this isocrinid stalked crinoid- NOT a fossil but dang! sure looks like a "living fossil"!! Skeletons are calcium carbonate. #echinoday
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New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
Pollen transport to deep-marine environments: Considerations for reconstructing past vegetation from marine sediment cores
Deep-marine sedimentary records provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term vegetation changes in response to climate through pollen analysi…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
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#FossilFriday: Take a look at these microfossils (foraminifera, mostly globigerinid) that we find in early #Neolithic Għar Dalam ceramics in #Malta!
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#FossilFriday: Take a look at these microfossils (foraminifera, mostly globigerinid) that we find in early #Neolithic Għar Dalam ceramics in #Malta!
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Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
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Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
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Finally finished this #fossilexplainer comic I started back in June. No. 62 - marine invertebrate borings/traces
October 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Finally finished this #fossilexplainer comic I started back in June. No. 62 - marine invertebrate borings/traces
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October 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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📣My department is hiring a hydrogeologist!📣 Note the priority application deadline of Nov. 15. Find me at #GSA2025 or email me if you have questions. We’re excited to find our next new colleague! Please share!
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
📣My department is hiring a hydrogeologist!📣 Note the priority application deadline of Nov. 15. Find me at #GSA2025 or email me if you have questions. We’re excited to find our next new colleague! Please share!
Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D
Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D
Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter!
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter!
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
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Isaac Newton is buried beneath a fossil snail as I discovered yesterday when visiting Westminster Abbey. Near the centre of his gravestone is a rather nice section of a gastropod, probably from the Carboniferous.
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Isaac Newton is buried beneath a fossil snail as I discovered yesterday when visiting Westminster Abbey. Near the centre of his gravestone is a rather nice section of a gastropod, probably from the Carboniferous.
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I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Laboratory Coordinator I - Geosciences
Maintenance and repair of the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory equipment, including but not limited to gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs & ...
arizona.csod.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
New paper from Dr. Selina Cole's lab!
"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"
"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"
Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)
www.cambridge.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History