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THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is published 5 Feb 2026 and is available for pre-order. For more details inquire within: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
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📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
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PhD/Research Assistant position available at the University of Cambridge's Dept. of Zoology, starting October 2026. Work on insect evolution with Professor Stephen Montgomery. Details: https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistant-fixed-term-pf47939 #phd
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
www.cam.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
PhD/Research Assistant position available at the University of Cambridge's Dept. of Zoology, starting October 2026. Work on insect evolution with Professor Stephen Montgomery. Details: https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistant-fixed-term-pf47939 #phd
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THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is published 5 Feb 2026 and is available for pre-order. For more details inquire within: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is published 5 Feb 2026 and is available for pre-order. For more details inquire within: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
Words I do not want to hear again as long as I live no.14. — ICONIC.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Words I do not want to hear again as long as I live no.14. — ICONIC.
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We are recruiting PhD students!
Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr...
Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!
Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr...
Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!
LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are recruiting PhD students!
Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr...
Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!
Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr...
Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!
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Drove up to Green Bay last night to see Mammoth - they performed an amazing rock & roll show! 🤘
@wolfvanhalen.bsky.social
@wolfvanhalen.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Drove up to Green Bay last night to see Mammoth - they performed an amazing rock & roll show! 🤘
@wolfvanhalen.bsky.social
@wolfvanhalen.bsky.social
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Deadline for abstract submissions for the International Conference on Palaeogenomics (Stockholm, 23–26 June 2026) is 30 November.
Submit your abstract via the link below
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
#aDNA #archaeology #proteomics
Submit your abstract via the link below
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
#aDNA #archaeology #proteomics
Abstracts – International Conference on Palaeogenomics 2026
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Deadline for abstract submissions for the International Conference on Palaeogenomics (Stockholm, 23–26 June 2026) is 30 November.
Submit your abstract via the link below
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
#aDNA #archaeology #proteomics
Submit your abstract via the link below
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
#aDNA #archaeology #proteomics
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Burgess Shale-type preservation of Ediacaran Fronds
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The terminal Ediacaran Tongshan Lagerstätte from South China - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present Ediacaran fossils from the Tongshan Lagerstätte (South China), including Burgess Shale-type rangeomorphs preserved both with fronds and holdfasts. They use sedimentary and ch...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Burgess Shale-type preservation of Ediacaran Fronds
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Still time to register for our HEAS Seminar in Archaeological Science on Monday with Assoc. Prof. Jane Kershaw on the origins of the Viking age. 1230 CE Time today! @heasvienna.bsky.social
Link below!
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Link below!
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Jane Kershaw from the University of Oxford will give a talk on How lead isotope analysis of silver sheds new light on the origins of the V...
www.heas.at
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Still time to register for our HEAS Seminar in Archaeological Science on Monday with Assoc. Prof. Jane Kershaw on the origins of the Viking age. 1230 CE Time today! @heasvienna.bsky.social
Link below!
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Link below!
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Also, pets.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Also, pets.
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Called out 😭
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Called out 😭
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BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s PPF+ bonus is the 2nd part of David’s conversation with palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social. Can we continue to exist as a species if we carry on having fewer and fewer children?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Today’s PPF+ bonus is the 2nd part of David’s conversation with palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social. Can we continue to exist as a species if we carry on having fewer and fewer children?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s PPF+ bonus is the 2nd part of David’s conversation with palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social. Can we continue to exist as a species if we carry on having fewer and fewer children?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Today’s PPF+ bonus is the 2nd part of David’s conversation with palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social. Can we continue to exist as a species if we carry on having fewer and fewer children?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
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Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot
Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. How near are we to the end?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. How near are we to the end?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. How near are we to the end?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. How near are we to the end?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Podcast Alert! Here I am in conversation with David Runciman about the past, present and future of our species. This is Part One: concludes tomorrow www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...
The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens
240
www.ppfideas.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Podcast Alert! Here I am in conversation with David Runciman about the past, present and future of our species. This is Part One: concludes tomorrow www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...
It’s finally happened. There is absolutely no more bookshelf space in my office.
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It’s finally happened. There is absolutely no more bookshelf space in my office.
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Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University
Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.
www.cdu.edu.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
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A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab
While Mrs G is at the hairdresser I’m usually at Undercover Books in Norwich adding to my my library of ancient and medieval literature. Heliodorus, Ancrene Wisse, Holy Maidenhead, Arthuriana & three editions of Beowulf. Hwaet!
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
While Mrs G is at the hairdresser I’m usually at Undercover Books in Norwich adding to my my library of ancient and medieval literature. Heliodorus, Ancrene Wisse, Holy Maidenhead, Arthuriana & three editions of Beowulf. Hwaet!
If you enjoyed #SVP2025 half as much as I did, then I enjoyed it twice as much as you did.
To celebrate the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next highlight: Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs by Arbour & Currie (2015): buff.ly/vJN0Ygi
#PaleoSky #2025SVP #FossilFriday
Next highlight: Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs by Arbour & Currie (2015): buff.ly/vJN0Ygi
#PaleoSky #2025SVP #FossilFriday
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If you enjoyed #SVP2025 half as much as I did, then I enjoyed it twice as much as you did.
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New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
Alerce or lawal (Fitzroya cupressoides) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
César Marín feels privileged to work among giants.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
Solarion, a newly discovered, very weird Jekyll-and-Hyde protist, makes its debut in @Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Solarion, a newly discovered, very weird Jekyll-and-Hyde protist, makes its debut in @Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...