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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 3d

Actually Sphenoceramus; Utah's Platyceramus cycloides in the Blue Gat Shale might get nearly this big. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 5d

For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.

This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍

#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️

A shell of a bivalve mollusc that was found in 1952 in the valley Qilakitsoq on the Nuussuaq peninsula in western Greenland.

The scientific name of these bivalves is Inoceramus steenstrupi. They lived between 83 and 63 million years ago. These are the largest bivalves ever to exist. It is thought that they lived in an oxygen-poor environment and that they layed unattached on the sea floor filtering plankton and detritus from the water.

The shell is 178 cm (70 inch) long. The other half of the bivalve is in the Geological Museum of Copenhagen. ___

On display at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. Link to this new Institute filled with many hallway displays at www.natur.gl/ hey now, "moi" for scale and a line-up of 2014 Nuuk Geoscience Workshop geologists waiting for their turn with the mighty mollusk.

The Nuuk display is geotagged instead of the Cretaceous fossil-bearing rock formation on the opposite side of Greenland.

Photo by H. Steenkamp with permission for my photo-shop'd posting.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 16d

Hendricks and @bruceslieberman.bsky.social discussed the vital importance of museum collections for studying macroevolution in an article for the Paleobiology special issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of Punctuated Equilibria
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On the basis of stasis: documentation of taxon durations in paleontology and the necessity of museum voucher specimens | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

On the basis of stasis: documentation of taxon durations in paleontology and the necessity of museum voucher specimens

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting a lot of recent theory-focused papers I've been reading about fossils don't acknowledge the vast amount of paleobiological literature on the subject(s) they're discussing. I'm happy folks are excited about fossils but also confused why folks seemingly aren't reading papers about fossils

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 13d

Completely agree @daveyfwright.bsky.social !

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations 🎉 !

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Marina Stoilova @stoilovamarina.bsky.social · Aug 27

First, first-author paper alert!

“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!

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Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris

Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited to announce another #groundbreaking paper by @andrejpaleo.bsky.social and colleagues is just out - should be required reading for all those interested in #paleontology #palaeontology #geology

Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Glad to share our latest article on the statistical structure of geological time scales. doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... time scales are defined by the most extreme epoch defining events, while we've found that the distribution of the boundaries is itself extreme multifractal! 1/4
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Temporal stratigraphical boundary densities of different time scales.

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KU EEB GSO @kueebgso.bsky.social · Aug 26

Andrés a PhD candidate in @ku-eeb.bsky.social and @kunhm.bsky.social studying the diversity and ecology of neotropical bees! Check out his recent project on outreach opportunities with bee collections in Columbia!

nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...

Outreach drawer collections and visual science communication enhance public engagement with native bee diversity in Colombia

Scientific research is often confined to academic circles, limiting public awareness of critical discoveries. This document highlights the transformative impact of science communication through an ent...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 25

And here is the popular synopsis (with some of my comments) of our recent paper on the scaling geological time scales:
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
www.vu.lt/en/news-even...

Hidden Patterns in Geological Time Revealed: Earth's Variability Saturates at Half a Billion Years

Vilnius University is a prestigious institution of science and studies in Lithuania, which develops world-class science and develops science-based international studies.

www.vu.lt

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 23

I think you're right, likely not about competition. Can't say enough about what an awesome paper you folks have written!

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 23

You showed they're a great record of cultural #macroevolution @svalver.bsky.social ! Including my own growing up in the early 1980's 😉 . Loved the shout out to "Battlezone" - that was a challenging game. "Defender" or "Asteroid" examples?? 😃

a screenshot of a video game with the score of 22530 aa

ALT: a screenshot of a video game with the score of 22530 aa

media.tenor.com

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Katie Collins is a molluscan palaeobiologist 🐚 specializing in bivalve macroevolution and the morphometrics of conchiferan molluscs.. and is a general measurement nerd!
Read more about her research: buff.ly/GDH0Obv

@spissatella.bsky.social #NHM

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Aug 21

From traits to collaboration networks, cultural systems provide testbeds for evolutionary theory that biology can rarely match in resolution. Arcade games are just the beginning:

"The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse"

👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse

doi.org

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amazing paper idea, brilliantly executed! Cultural #macroevolution of arcade video games by @svalver.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social and R. Alexander Bentley
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse

www.cambridge.org

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Aug 21

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

The Organism-Environment Pairing

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congratulations 🎉 !

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Aug 13

Practical applications of #geology #mineralogy

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Aug 1

In time for #FossilFriday, my new paper with Warren Allmon out in Paleobiology:

Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion 🧵

#Paleontology ⚒️🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Love the "That was the Year That Was" album!

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Love to see #Trilobites in ancient Rome: phys.org/news/2025-07...

Ancient Romans likely used extinct sea creature fossils as amulets

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, lik...

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Jul 28

RIP to the great #TomLehrer , a comedic genius: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Jul 24

New paper! The 1st publication from our NSF grant investigating local to global biodiversity patterns in marine invertebrates across the O-S boundary is out! Here, we describe a new crinoid from Anticosti Island & use Bayesian tip-dating approaches to quantify uncertainty in its stratigraphic age 🧪

Phylogenetic position and stratigraphic uncertainty of a new flexible crinoid from the Ordovician–Silurian boundary of Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Phylogenetic position and stratigraphic uncertainty of a new flexible crinoid from the Ordovician–Silurian boundary of Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada)

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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · Jul 24

Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...

Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline

Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU

biodiversity.ku.edu

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Jul 2

For perspective, last year, 1.2 million unique visitors used our online educational materials...it's really a need of only 1 or 2 dollars per user, and it won't be an annual ask. Just one make or break 6 month period for an almost 100 year old research institution

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