Christina Belanger, Ph.D
@belaforams.bsky.social
Paleoecologist using the past to understand the future. Forams are the best! Associate professor at Texas A&M in College Station teaching about fossils and Earth’s deep past.
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
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#FossilFriday: Take a look at these microfossils (foraminifera, mostly globigerinid) that we find in early #Neolithic Għar Dalam ceramics in #Malta!
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#FossilFriday: Take a look at these microfossils (foraminifera, mostly globigerinid) that we find in early #Neolithic Għar Dalam ceramics in #Malta!
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Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
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Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
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Finally finished this #fossilexplainer comic I started back in June. No. 62 - marine invertebrate borings/traces
October 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Finally finished this #fossilexplainer comic I started back in June. No. 62 - marine invertebrate borings/traces
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October 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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📣My department is hiring a hydrogeologist!📣 Note the priority application deadline of Nov. 15. Find me at #GSA2025 or email me if you have questions. We’re excited to find our next new colleague! Please share!
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
📣My department is hiring a hydrogeologist!📣 Note the priority application deadline of Nov. 15. Find me at #GSA2025 or email me if you have questions. We’re excited to find our next new colleague! Please share!
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Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter!
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Remember to mark your calendar for PS events at GSA in San Antonio, there will be 6 fantastic events across 5 days. Find more information at paleosoc.org and from our Priscum newsletter!
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
We hope to see you there, & safe travels!
#PSEvents #GSAConnects #GSA #GSASanAntonio #Paleontology
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Isaac Newton is buried beneath a fossil snail as I discovered yesterday when visiting Westminster Abbey. Near the centre of his gravestone is a rather nice section of a gastropod, probably from the Carboniferous.
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Isaac Newton is buried beneath a fossil snail as I discovered yesterday when visiting Westminster Abbey. Near the centre of his gravestone is a rather nice section of a gastropod, probably from the Carboniferous.
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I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Laboratory Coordinator I - Geosciences
Maintenance and repair of the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory equipment, including but not limited to gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs & ...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
New paper from Dr. Selina Cole's lab!
"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"
"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"
Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)
www.cambridge.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
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The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA
October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA
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Thin section images of glauconitic pellet sand dredged from about 300 m on Chatham Rise, an elongate marine platform extending 1400 km east of South I. NZ. It is underlain by continental crust - a submerged part of Zelandia continent. Includes barnacles, foraminifera & echinoderm plates, spines. ⚒️🧪🌊
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Thin section images of glauconitic pellet sand dredged from about 300 m on Chatham Rise, an elongate marine platform extending 1400 km east of South I. NZ. It is underlain by continental crust - a submerged part of Zelandia continent. Includes barnacles, foraminifera & echinoderm plates, spines. ⚒️🧪🌊
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Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
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October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
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Lovely examples of how BUTTONS used to be made from the nacreous layer of these bivalves! Just take "hole punches" through the shells! #molluscmonday
October 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Lovely examples of how BUTTONS used to be made from the nacreous layer of these bivalves! Just take "hole punches" through the shells! #molluscmonday
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Detecting environmentally dependent developmental plasticity in fossilized individuals.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Detecting environmentally dependent developmental plasticity in fossilized individuals.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
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Clams + other inverts can serve as records of temperature and salinity, via ratio of oxygen-18 and 16 in their shells. A new study uses records from ocean quahogs and bittersweet clams to show that Atlantic overturning current may be reaching a climate tipping point (290) bsky.app/profile/cezz...
Congratulations Beatriz, Tim, Paul and team on this important new study! @gsiexeter.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves
Clams reveal North Atlantic destabilization in the early 20th century and at present.
www.science.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Clams + other inverts can serve as records of temperature and salinity, via ratio of oxygen-18 and 16 in their shells. A new study uses records from ocean quahogs and bittersweet clams to show that Atlantic overturning current may be reaching a climate tipping point (290) bsky.app/profile/cezz...
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Tiny fossils called foraminifera lie buried in marine sediments.
Their shells display astonishing diversity from spiraling forms to chambered clusters and even architectures that resemble miniature buildings.
But what if this morphological variety could be explained by only a few simple rules? 1/n
Their shells display astonishing diversity from spiraling forms to chambered clusters and even architectures that resemble miniature buildings.
But what if this morphological variety could be explained by only a few simple rules? 1/n
October 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Tiny fossils called foraminifera lie buried in marine sediments.
Their shells display astonishing diversity from spiraling forms to chambered clusters and even architectures that resemble miniature buildings.
But what if this morphological variety could be explained by only a few simple rules? 1/n
Their shells display astonishing diversity from spiraling forms to chambered clusters and even architectures that resemble miniature buildings.
But what if this morphological variety could be explained by only a few simple rules? 1/n
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𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪, or the Saban crab 🦀, made its debut on ESPN College GameDay! This fossil is housed in UA Museums' paleontology collection under the care of the Department of Museum Research and Collections.
LEARN MORE: ➡️ bit.ly/46Mrhxm
LEARN MORE: ➡️ bit.ly/46Mrhxm
October 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪, or the Saban crab 🦀, made its debut on ESPN College GameDay! This fossil is housed in UA Museums' paleontology collection under the care of the Department of Museum Research and Collections.
LEARN MORE: ➡️ bit.ly/46Mrhxm
LEARN MORE: ➡️ bit.ly/46Mrhxm
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It has now been 2 years since my book, Microbiology for Earth Scientists, was published online. It has been downloaded in over a hundred countries worldwide! Very happy to see that it is being found and hopefully serving as a helpful resource! #openaccess
Microbes are collectively one of the biggest forces shaping Earth, and yet undergraduate #geology students typically receive little training in microbiology. My new open access textbook seeks to help. “Microbiology for Earth Scientists” is freely available here newprairiepress.org/ebooks/53/
October 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It has now been 2 years since my book, Microbiology for Earth Scientists, was published online. It has been downloaded in over a hundred countries worldwide! Very happy to see that it is being found and hopefully serving as a helpful resource! #openaccess
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🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
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🚨Job alert🚨
The Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to operate/maintain lab instrumentation, process samples, train scientists, contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, techniques, and software.
This is a sailing position!
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...
The Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to operate/maintain lab instrumentation, process samples, train scientists, contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, techniques, and software.
This is a sailing position!
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨Job alert🚨
The Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to operate/maintain lab instrumentation, process samples, train scientists, contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, techniques, and software.
This is a sailing position!
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...
The Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to operate/maintain lab instrumentation, process samples, train scientists, contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, techniques, and software.
This is a sailing position!
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...
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I’m looking for a PhD student to join my lab @ NC State starting Fall 2026!
Lots of room to develop projects, esp. around paleoceanography, ocean deoxygenation & foraminiferal ecology. Field, lab & computational angles all possible.
Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!
Lots of room to develop projects, esp. around paleoceanography, ocean deoxygenation & foraminiferal ecology. Field, lab & computational angles all possible.
Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I’m looking for a PhD student to join my lab @ NC State starting Fall 2026!
Lots of room to develop projects, esp. around paleoceanography, ocean deoxygenation & foraminiferal ecology. Field, lab & computational angles all possible.
Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!
Lots of room to develop projects, esp. around paleoceanography, ocean deoxygenation & foraminiferal ecology. Field, lab & computational angles all possible.
Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!