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Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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HeadLab (Jason Head) @headlab.bsky.social · 7d

Who's got unfused parietals and probably wasn't a stem snake? This guy.

Henry Gee @endofthepier.bsky.social · 7d

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate, from the Jurassic of Scotland www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate - Nature

Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov., an early squamate identified from a newly discovered Middle Jurassic skeleton on the Isle of Skye, provides new evidence on the origins of snakes.

www.nature.com

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8d

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

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Evolution Soup @evolutionsoup.bsky.social · 10d

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨
EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils
👇🏿👇🏽
youtu.be/Rr_ojpUDj0c

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 11d

Incredible 😮🪼

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 12d

They have a huge size range from under a centimetre like these ones to over 40cm!

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 12d

😂 maybe a scale bar for future then! We dont want the baby Fractos making you uneasy

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 12d

This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

Likely lots of food!

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19d

This #FossilFriday we are wrapping up a fantastic week of fieldwork @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social imaging their #Ediacaran fossils and thinking about what shapes early animal evolution. Thanks so much to Edith at the Coaker Foundation for looking after us so well

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 19d

Beautiful day out @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social admiring the tiny Fractofusus on the Johnson surface 😍

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 21d

Fantastic being back in @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social mapping out their wonderful #Ediacaran fossils 👌

Jenny stands on a fossil surface, about to image the surface to make 3d model of the surface. A Fractofusus and Hiemaloria from Discovery Geopark

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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Wouter van der Bijl @vdbijl.bsky.social · 29d

Our paper on the genetics of guppy color patterns has now been assigned an issue in NEE: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

With this paper, we also publish all 14,100 guppy photos used in the study, including before and after alignment and ornament extraction:
doi.org/10.20383/103...

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · Sep 4

New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…

daveyfwright.wordpress.com

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · Aug 27

¡Qué lindo!

Every bit of this south wall in the #MarDelPlataCanyon is vibrant and alive. Read and imagine how a tiny sponge larva or other stationary animal finds a home in a place like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DN37jxs...

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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · Aug 29

Let’s take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy!

Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Associate Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how some marine creatures use bacterial symbioses to provide organic compounds for growth and reproduction.

Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · Aug 29

My friend and I went hunting for soft corals (her favourite) the other day and we didn't find any, which was too bad, but we ended up seeing SO many stalked jellyfish which still blow my mind #InverteFest

A rock covered in barnacles feeding, in the centre is a stalked jellyfish which kind of looks like a gelatinous flower with pom-poms at the tip of every petal.

A close up on the stalked jellyfish, showing the feeding tentacles on the pom-poms better.

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Deep Sea Conservation Coalition @deepseaconserve.bsky.social · Aug 28

Seamounts are vast underwater mountains, home to deep-sea corals, sharks, whales & fish. They’re biodiversity hotspots but destructive bottom trawling puts them at risk of irreversible damage.

#ProtectSeamounts
@wwf-australia.bsky.social
@bluemarinef.bsky.social
@savingoceans.bsky.social
@nrdc.org

An informative graphic by NOAA Ocean Exploration highlighting seamounts as underwater mountains rich in diverse life forms, emphasizing their role in a healthy and resilient ocean.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Dec 13

Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), 🐡🧪🦑 literally the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side,

This is a hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print on delicate ivory Japanese mulberry paper, 9.25” x 12.5” of a vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). The ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side, unlike either octopuses or squids. The squid is upside down with purple head and yellow tent like areas between its legs. The filaments arc around above against the blue background.

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