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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 6h

Between all these ‘never before’
New trees will grow and glow
like never before

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Jaspertine @jaspertine.bsky.social · Sep 6

For those of us whose strongest connection to this song is Pulp Fiction.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6q...

The original Misirlou - Μισιρλού (Τέτος Δημητριάδης -1927)

YouTube video by Xorisame

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 5d

Pleased to report that the Chinese edition of my book 'Life Sculpted' (2023, @uchicagopress.bsky.social) was published in December 2024 as 雕刻地球的生命 by Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House. The cover image is beautiful, featuring a bioeroded clam shell as its main image. 🧪📚✍️

Book cover for the Chinese edition of my book 'Life Sculpted,' published by Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House in December 2024. Cover has the title in Chinese, but also includes English with "Life Sculpted" and "Anthony J. Martin." Cover image is a closeup view of a clam shell with small holes and branching tunnels from bioeorsion, and an out-of-focus beach sand is in the background.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 6d

How do you select a name for a new dinosaur? Sneak peek on #FossilFriday of the next @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/5Cbz9...

How do you choose a name for a new #dinosaur ? #thefossilfiles #taxonomy

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 6d

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 Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 6d

A frond of Phlebopteris, a 230 million year old fern from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.

#FossilFriday #FernFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿

Phlebopteris frond on a grey mudstone, Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 6d

For #FossilFriday a chance to shake hands with the #IsleofWight dinosaur Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 9d

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons

27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts

You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 12d

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 12d

Made me laugh too!

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Made me laugh!

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 13d

300 million year old Neuropteris foliage, on display in Wollaton Hall, Nottingham's natural history museum.

Specimen is about 20cm across, locality is Clay Cross, Derbyshire.

#FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 12d

This is the only "complete" crinoid in my collection, from holdfast to crown.

It's easy to see why they are sometimes called sea lilies, even though they are animals related to starfish and sand dollars.

This is Abatocrinus gallatinensis from the Mississippian Lodgepole Fm of MT.

#FossilFriday

Crinoid with "feathered" arms, long stem and holdfast root system.

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 13d

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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Emma @palaeobarbie.bsky.social · 12d

For #FossilFiday a new paper on the size change of Hopolopteryx fish during the #Cretaceous with varying ocean temperature. The study was part of the @chalksea.bsky.social project & led by Masters student, Chloe Griffiths.
Well done Chloe 👏

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fossil fish, Hopolopteryx in Chalk matrix

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

For #FossilFriday a posterior view of the braincase of the Early Cretaceous fish-eating spinosaurid dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri. In the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social. First discovered in Barremian aged Smokejacks brick pit Surrey by collector William Walker in 1983. Time flies!

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13d

It's induction week at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social and there's nowhere better to take the new @buarchanth.bsky.social intake than the mighty Maiden Castle

Love this place 😍

#IronAge #Hillfort #Dorset #Archaeology

#HillfortsWednesday on a Thursday

Distant grass covered earthworks comprising an Iron Age hillfort in the distance with an English Heritage information board in the foreground

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Walking round the perimeter at the top is a truly remarkable experience. I did it for the first time this year and had no idea how incredible it was.

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 15d

#PFI loved by Tories, Labour, LibDems and Farage put profits in the hands of companies and do nothing to improve health issues

Get the private sector out of the #NHS

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics

Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 17d

This wax model of a human head from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain, complete with its protective covering, the meninges, the eye, cheek, neck and jaw. Wax models were used for teaching anatomy to medical students or as part of popular anatomy shows.

A wax model of a head, with the brain and underlying neck anatomy on display.

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations! A great addition.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 19d

Similar cousins, and yet so different animals!
See the skull of my new species Cariocecus bocagei -published this week- at the foot of the Iguanodon statue at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social for #fossilfriday
#dinosaur #paleontology

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 20d

This week’s #FossilFriday features a very cool opalised dinosaur femur, belonging to an Early Cretaceous Australian ornithopod (Click the image to see it in full detail)

#PaleoSky ⚒️🦕

A dinosaur femur, broken into three pieces. It's main interest comes from the post-depositional process known as opalisation : in certain conditions silicium gradually replace the original bone or organic material, creating a shining cast made of opal.

This example is particularly beautiful, showing white and electric blue hues.

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 19d

Prepping for the start of this year's teaching this #FossilFriday, starting with a story about Ginkgo leaves which fell in an Autumn 160 million years ago, and how the microscopic details of those fossil leaves can tell us about climate change.

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A slab covered in Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, inside a red plastic tray lined with bubble wrap

A close-up of one of the Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, about 3cm across

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 20d

#FossilFriday A succession (anagenetic?) of Two Medicine Formation centrosaurines from @museumoftherockies.bsky.social: Stellasaurus, Einiosaurus, Achelousaurus

A series of skulls from earlier to later of Two Medicine formation horned dinosaurs

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