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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s winning data label goes to this flea

I’ve no idea who collected it but I’d love to met them, sounds like they are my sort of person 🤓

#collections @nhm-london.bsky.social #fleas #databasing

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 20d

Possibly the most chaotic #museum collection I've ever seen: a drawer containing literally thousands of pinned #flies, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at @sydney.edu.au.
True fact: this drawer contains more museum objects than the entire UK National Gallery.

A close-up of the flies. Each fly is glued to a piece of card, labelled "NSW" [New South Wales], which is pinned into the drawer. The pins are tightly packed and chaotically arranged

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · Jul 22

One like, one clam fact

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 21

One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Jul 21

1 like, 1 housing opinion

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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · Sep 5

We’re so excited to be presenting our workshop at #SVP2025: Designing For All: Creating Accessible Graphics For Science! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Come and learn our top tips and simple effective techniques for enhancing your figures to make them clearer, more accessible, and more impactful!

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Roxanne Armfield @dinoroxy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy 1st of #ssSnaketember! Today’s theme is Asymmetry!
Take a face. The left and right side will often be mirror images. Not the case for the face of the Keeled Slug #Snake.
These snakes have up to 50% more teeth on the right side of their jaw than their left
But WHY?

[1/5]
#Herpetology #SciComm

A tan coloured snake with a copper coloured eye, on a black background

A grey coiled snake with a rounded head (right) amongst green foliage

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Roxanne Armfield @dinoroxy.bsky.social · Sep 1

#ssSnaketember is migrating to Bluesky, and it’s bigger than ever!
We’ll be bringing you an awesome #snake story, every weekday, for the rest of the month!
I can promise that there will be noodles, and there will be highly boopable snoots.

Come for the #snoots, stay for the #science! 🐍

#SciComm

a green snake with a red tongue is surrounded by yellow letters that say yasss

Alt: An excited coiled green snake with a red tongue is surrounded by yellow letters that say "yasss"

media.tenor.com

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Kim Chandler @kimchandler.bsky.social · Jul 18

Research out that I was involved in at the @nhm.org under the @chalksea.bsky.social project!

I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project.

Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!

Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂
She would be 206 years old today!

We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms:
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Images of the trace fossil Osspecus eunicefooteae. The inset shows a post mortem burrow in the bone of an fossilised ichthyosaur (from the Cretaceous of the UK) as seen in a slice from a micro X-ray CT scan. The main panel shows a 3D digital model of the burrow made in specialist software (Avizo) by tracing the burrow slice by slice. The burrow is about 2.7 mm across.

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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 18

As well as @plesiosarahs.bsky.social,
other authors on this study include:
@jdwitts.bsky.social
@marcehjones.bsky.social
@dntangunan.bsky.social
@kimchandler.bsky.social
@pbown.bsky.social
@chalksea.bsky.social

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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 17

She now has a trace fossil named after her:
bsky.app/profile/marc...

Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂
She would be 206 years old today!

We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms:
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂
She would be 206 years old today!

We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms:
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🦴🪱

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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not a bad homage given that we didn't have much time and it was done from memory.
#JAWS50 #JAWS #4thofJuly

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jun 29

New #RSOS paper: The earliest #fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic #whales. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology @plesiosarahs.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social‬

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 25

Sculled 20km of Thames tideway today 😮‍💨 ☀️

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 22

Fun afternoon in the tank room with the great white sharks @marcehjones.bsky.social

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Jack Lovegrove @jackl0vegr0ve.bsky.social · Jun 16

PhD dream team (including @lej-palaeo.bsky.social and @plesiosarahs.bsky.social) from the NHM stand at the #lymeregis #fossilfestival. We had an amazing weekend talking to everyone about fossils!

A group of PhD students posing with a variety of skull casts. Some of the PhD students look more normal than others...

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 11

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales | Royal Society Open Science

Borings of the extant bone-eating worm Osedax have previously been found in Cenozoic cetaceans and Cretaceous marine reptiles. The stratigraphically youngest Cretaceous example is from the Maastrichti...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Squaring early, missing the catch 😇 .. lots of splash as a result

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · May 29

Best way to spend a summer evening. Bonus points if you can spot the flaw in form that made my coach take this video from the launch to show me.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 21

power to the tail

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · May 20

The UK’s collective insect biodiversity currently trying to drown itself in my pint

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · May 20

“What will you do when you finish writing your thesis?”

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · May 13

The Thames gifted me another fossil sea urchin this morning.

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · May 3

Bank holiday weekend mood

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Apr 30

Apparently I'm at the stage of my career where random men I don't know email me and explain in a patronising tone things I already understand and then get upset when I don't reply. Quite enjoying continuing to not reply.

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