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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

"… I carry the lesson with me that good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4q6ea31

An iIllustration of man looking in mirror with his reflection and students' reflections looking back, with text: I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.

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Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

Dr Daniel Villar (Durham University) @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will speak about the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution at our next Lapworth Lecture, open to everyone and free to attend both on campus and remotely.

🕠 Mon 27 Oct, 5:30pm

More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · 18d

Dr Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will be giving a Lapworth Lecture @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 27th October at 17:30 GMT, title: The Importance of Fieldwork for Macroecology and Macroevolution. Tea and biscuits in @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social afterwards (then pub).
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Lapworth Lecture - The Importance of Fieldwork for Macroecology and Macroevolution - University of Birmingham

Join us for Dr Daniel Villar's Lapworth Lecture on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · 20d

It’s totally anonymous, so make sure the results represent you! (And feel free to find me at #SVP2025 to dish in person) #digoutthegoodthebadandtheugly #thebonesofthematter #fossilsforpositivechange

Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · 20d

Hi palaeofriends! All PhD candidates and palaeontology early career researchers: please tell me about your field work hopes and dreams and how all that panned out for you. Vent your frustrations, gush your successes, shrug your ambivalence into the #yourpalaeolife survey 🦣🦕
forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...

#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork

Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 3

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

Map showing locations where high-quality mtDNA samples have been recovered from mammoths. The dot size corresponds to the approximate number of samples recovered. Columbian mammoths recently discovered in Mexico are the first from a tropical area to yield mtDNA; the Basin of Mexico location is the largest dot on the map and the furthest south. Columbian mammoths in North America descend from a 1-million-year-old steppe mammoth discovered in Krestovka, Russia, with additional ancestry from woolly mammoths.

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you are an early career researcher in palaeontology (PhD or post-doc), fill in the anonymous survey and tell us about #yourpalaeolife. #digitup #shinebrightlikepyrite #speaktruthtopalaeopower #anonymouslyobviously 2/2

Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Sep 2

What even a palaeontologist's relationship to field work? Where does it figure in our research lives? What, if any, are the growing pains we suffer to become our fully-fledged palaeo selves? We all need to know this, to understand it, in order hopefully make it better.
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#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork

Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...

forms.gle

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 21

@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 🦘

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 20

My first poster at #SVP2025 😁 looking forward to ranting about marsupial biogeography. I will also be running the last few days of the #Yourpalaeolife survey at that time - so much excitement all at once!

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 16

No name or contact details will be taken, so feel free to be as honest and as unfiltered as you wish... #todigornottodig #whatevenishappeninganyway #spilltheresearchtea

Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 16

It’s about your experiences of finding those early field work trips that teach you how to prospect, how to dig, map etc. Even if you have no interest in field work at all, but you’re a post-graduate or post-doc palaeontologist, I want to hear from you!
#yourpalaeolife

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Calling all Palaeontology PhD candidates and post-docs everywhere! No matter what your particular field of research or country of institution, please follow forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT... and fill in my ANONYMOUS RESEARCH SURVEY – #Yourpalaeolife : investigating fieldwork by early career palaeontologists

#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork

Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...

forms.gle

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anything by Sarah Winman but most especially this. Always this.

Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Aug 4

‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’
- Elizabeth Vrba

Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · Aug 3

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba

During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 1…

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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · Jul 31

New study reveals surprising jaw diversity in early ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)!
Using XCT, researchers analyzed mandibles of 19 Devonian species—showing considerable variation in size, structure, and teeth.
Research by Ben Igielman et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Davide Foffa @davfoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

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joeflansan.bsky.social @joeflansan.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!

Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using a newly developed spatiotemporal phylogeographic path analysis method combined with phylogenetic niche modelling, the authors estimate clade-wide dispersal maps spanning the early Permian to end...

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Jun 5

The first little large white butterfly hatchlings 😁 plant brassicas for them and they will come, clever reliable little things 🐛 #plantingforbutterflies #britishsummertime #lazygardening

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Nature @nature.com · May 20

💍 The Gollum Effect: possessive behaviours, attempts to undermine others, and efforts to restrict access to data, resources or opportunities

https://go.nature.com/4mnqGZW

Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour

Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but early-career researchers are most often affected.

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · May 14

Spotted a couple of #coolrocks in the last couple of days - in the Sibillini Mountains yesterday and on the Adriatic coast today 🇮🇹

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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · Apr 27

How has it taken this long for a parliamentary party leader - ANY party leader - to stand up and say this thing that is basic respect for human dignity?

#transrightsarehumanrights

Greens call for single-sex guidance to be withdrawn www.bbc.com/news/article...

Greens call for single-sex guidance to be withdrawn

Carla Denyer says the equalities watchdog's guidance puts trans people at risk of discrimination.

www.bbc.com

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IPC7 @ipc7.bsky.social · Apr 25

📣 Calling all palaeoartists!!
Showcase your work at IPC7

We’re offering FREE stand/booth space for you to exhibit your art at the conference.
Email us to get involved!

Let’s bring science to life!
www.ipc7.site

#IPC7 #Palaeoart #Fossilfriday

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