Congratulations Kiera!!

Incredibly proud to see this project hit the light of day! Begun in the 1980s as the M.S. research of D. Govoni, I've led the charge with Dave the past few years to revise and expand his unpublished thesis and ensure that this diverse gastropod fauna received the formal description it deserved. 🧵

If your work involves Big Palaeo Data, you should be *begging* people to publish little local studies of new observational data, jfc. Without that you have absolutely bupkiss. I say this as someone with a foot in both camps:

Just one more week (till 5 Sept) to apply for the postdoc position with me at UA Museums' Department of Museum Research and Collections. NSF-project together with Jill Leonard-Pingel, @odealab.bsky.social, and @sethf.bsky.social focused on marine ecosystems in Panama.

bsky.app/profile/pale...

Type locality of Pecten pealeii Conrad, 1831 [=Chlamys islandica (Müller, 1776)] is the mouth of a river in Maine maybe involving an otter.

The Online Version of the Marvelous Mollusks exhibit I helped with is now live!
I expect more photos will be added in the next few weeks of the 400+ modern and fossil specimens on exhibit!

🐚🐌🦪🦑🐙⚒️
#Ithaca #SavePRI #MuseumoftheEarth
#invertebrates

www.museumoftheearth.org/exhibit/marv...

A Mother's Love Totem 🍃🦕✨💖

My piece in the upcoming Giant Robot Store Reanimated exhibition! Can you guess the inspiration?

Art will be available online Saturday, July 5th at 11am PT via the GR webstore here:
www.giantrobot.com

#art #pottery #SciArt

This is a fun multi institution project looking at recent past environmental change that caused extinction to predict responses to modern climate change in the marine realm. Modern and fossil colab. I was Jon's prior postdoc on the same project and would be happy to answer questions in DM. ⚒️ 🦑

It's finally out! 200 years since the description of Eurypterus remipes, the first eurypterid named in the scientific literature, I present a summary of the history of eurypterid research and an updated taxonomy of every known species.🧪⚒️

doi.org/10.1206/0003...

Happy #molluskMonday! A display from our new exhibit at the Museum of the Earth in #Ithaca. This case is meant to show how diverse marine #snails are, with predatory species on this side, and other ecologies on the other. 82 snails in this case, >500 mollusc specimens on exhibit #Invertebrates 🦑🐌

Reposting for #MolluscMonday / #MolluskMonday

🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Invert Paleontology🚨
Milwaukee Public Museum is searching for a postdoc to assist with a research project focused on Plio-Pleistocene to Recent mollusks from the southeastern United States. Details available at: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Please share #FossilFriday

The Milwaukee Public Museum seeks a postdoctoral fellow in Invertebrate Paleontology to assist with an NSF-funded project on W. Atlantic Mollusks.

The position is dependent upon continued NSF support and will have a duration of two years.

www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7...

🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Invert Paleontology🚨
Milwaukee Public Museum is searching for a postdoc to assist with a research project focused on Plio-Pleistocene to Recent mollusks from the southeastern United States. Details available at: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Please share #FossilFriday

Oops - my bad. The one on the upper right is labeled Hemipsalodon (also a cast; original specimen from Wyoming).

The label says "Hoplophoneus oreodontis," but I'm not sure if that name is current. The specimen is a cast of a specimen from Nebraska.

Happy #FossilFriday!! Here's MPM's "Swift-Running Rhinoceros," Trigonias osborni from the Eocene of Colorado. Looks pretty fast I guess.

Happy #FossilFriday from this Devonian rugose coral from Nevada that had a bad day but managed to right itself. MPM collections.

Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology
(They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies)

Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What's up #InverteFest, I've been embroidering a mollusc alphabet on and off since 2018, and I haven't shared them on bsky yet, so here we go - A is for Argonauta, Aporrhais, Aplysia and Architeuthis!

😲 #FossilFriday‼️ Not one but two rare, pyritized ammonites were discovered at Harrell Station during a recent trip organized for the Birmingham Paleo Society. The only two non-jaw pieces in the last 5 years! Cretaceous (~82 Ma), Alabama. Collectors: Chase Egli & Adiel Klompmaker @almnh.bsky.social

Partial cephalon of Ceraurus mifflinensis with a doozy of a genal spine. From the Ordovician Platteville Fm. of Rock Co., Wisconsin. MPM P31657. #fossilfriday

New "On the Basis of Stasis" paper out with @bruceslieberman.bsky.social in Paleobiology where we emphasize -- using Eldredgeops rana as a test case -- the importance of museum voucher specimens for documenting stratigraphic durations in the fossil record. doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Great to be involved in #Paleobiology paper led by @jonhendricks.bsky.social showing #stasis & #punctuatedequilibria in fossil record @nilese.bsky.social #macroevolution - also evaluates records in databases @paleodb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....