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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 1d

🔹Acanthodians 📸 from J. Valiukevičiaus #collection stored at the Nature Research Centre in #vilnius 🇱🇹 ✨ 🤓

#archives #paleontology #paleozoic

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Exactly four years ago today, I became a Doctor of Geoscience, defending a cool topic about Late Permian fish from 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇵🇱 at Vilnius University 🎓✨🤓
#poland #latvia #lithuania #phd #university #diploma #geology #permianbasin

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 10d

⚠️ Paper is in #process 🐠 Silurian ichthyofauna from #lithuania 🇱🇹

#palaeontology #science #research #collection #museum #vilnius #fossils

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 13d

🍁Jurassic ammonites from #Lithuania 🇱🇹 stored at the Nacional visitors centre in #vilnius ✨

#Fossil #palaeontology #museum #collection #exhibition

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ 15th edition of the geological excursion, which took place this weekend in the southwest of #lithuania 🇱🇹

#trip #geology #meeting

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 20d

🤓Beautiful #jurassic invertebrates specimen from #lithuania 🇱🇹 stored at the Nature Research Centre in #vilnius ✨

#fossil #palaeontology #museum #collection #exhibition

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 21d

✨ The #PalAss2025 organisers are preparing something special for icebreaker participants together with Staggeringly Good ! 🥳
Don't forget to register for this event during the registration period ⬇️ 🎉
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#icebreaker #porstmouth #uk🇬🇧 #events #december

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 23d

I am glad you red the post then :)

Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 23d

⚠️ ~130 million-year-old 🦈 shark teeth from 🇱🇹 #Lithuania, discovered in the 1960s by Romualda Mertinienė, are now stored at the Nature Research Centre in #Vilnius ✨🤓

#museum #fossil #paleontology #science #research #collection

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 23d

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · 26d

⚠️ More #devonian 🐟 fossils are coming from 🇱🇹 #Lithuania

#palaeontology #science #research #collection #museum #vilnius #FossilFriday

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Sep 5

✅ A paper has been submitted to the special issue on micropalaeontological collections 🤓☀️
#FossilFriday #paper #fossil #paleontology #collection #museum #vilnius

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌞 I would like to share my interview, published in the Lithuanian newspaper Savaitė, where I talk about palaeontology as a profession, including its main issues, challenges, and adventures [in Lithuanian] 🤩
#palaeontology #newspaper #interview #lithuania #vilnius

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 25

☀️Old-style science on Creataceous 🦈 teeth from 🇱🇹 #Lithuania #museum #collection #fossils #exhibition #science #research #vilnius #shark

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 19

☀️Ordovician conodonts from #lithuania 🇱🇹 stored at the Nature Research Centre in #vilnius ✨
🔹 View via binocular vs SEM ⬇️
#fossils #paleontology

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Aug 15

⚠️ We are delighted to announce that registration for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association is now open!
🔹Join us at the University of Portsmouth from 11th to 15th December 2025.
🔸 Deadline for early-bird registration and abstract submission is 19th September 2025 [1/2]

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 11

🤓 Ordovician gastropoda from #lithuania 🇱🇹

#palaeontology #science #research #collection #museum #vilnius #nature #research #centre

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 8

🤓 Excited to share our new paper on the #coccolith group, published in the CPN Newsletter [Issue 30, July 2025], together with Dr. Francesca Lozar 🌞

#paper #fossils #paleontology #friday

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Aug 5

🤓 I’d like to share my recorded oral presentation from the 3rd @women-archeopal.bsky.social [2023], where I spoke about fossil finds from #Portugal 🇵🇹🌞

🎥 Full recording available on #YouTube ⬇️
lnkd.in/dqRkJ6V5

#paleontology #record #conference #virtual #fossils

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 28

☀️In the local newspaper 📰 our geological trip to the north of #lithuania exploring Permian - Triassic-Jurassic quarries ✨🥳

#Newspaper #Geology #article #north #visit #rock #news #paper #Team #working

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌟 I’d like to share my exciting results and insights into 3D modeling, which can not only digitize your fossil (in this case, a baby mammoth tooth from Lithuania) but also remove infilled sediment to reveal its true morphology🤓⬇️

#lithuania #model #palaeontology #fossil

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 21

💥Triassic reptile vertebra from #Lithuania 🇱🇹, stored in the museum at the Nature Research Centre in #vilnius
#paleontology #Fossil #collection #FAUNA

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 17

✅ Cretaceous ptychodus from 🇱🇹 #Lithuania #museum #collection #fossils #exhibition #science #research

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 15

✅One of the awardees of the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social grant ✨ thank you! 🎉

#grant #paleontology #award #Poland #conference #krakow #research #travel

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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠 @darjadankina.bsky.social · Jul 14

✅ Continuing work on my defended PhD topic about the Upper Permian (Zechstein cycles) in 🇱🇹 🥳👏 together with my colleague and friend, Geanina Adriana Butiseacă, under a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) of the COST Action ⬇️
🔗https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23124/
#research #science #project

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