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Dr Darja Dankina 🐠
@darjadankina.bsky.social
🔹Supervisor and researcher in Palaeobiology #paleozoic #ichthyofauna
🔹Palaeontological collection's curator
🔹PhD in Geology
🔹Conferences organiser
Reposted by Dr Darja Dankina 🐠
🌍🔬 Calling all aspiring palaeontologists!
Here are 3 open PhD opportunities from across the palaeo world 🦖📚
Explore the projects, find deadlines, and start your research journey!

👉 More info on our official website:
palass.org/phd-opportun...
#PhD #opportunity #ApplyNow
February 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM
🌍 Very glad to participate in the 18th ISELV Conference online, even though I couldn’t join onsite in Morocco 🇲🇦
So many interesting talks, inspiring keynote speakers 🎤✨

🙏 Many thanks to the organizers for making this hybrid opportunity possible.
Looking forward to the upcoming days! 🚀📚
#conference
February 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
⚠️The 23rd EAVP is coming in 5️⃣ months to 🇱🇹 #Vilnius ✨🤓
Don’t forget to register ⬇️
eavp2026.weebly.com/registration...

#conference #paleontology #Lithuania
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Happy to be at the University of Turin continuing our work on coccoliths from Italian samples with Francesca Lozar 🤓🔬
Looking forward to great discussions and exciting results! 🎊🇮🇹
#Italy #paleontology #nanofossils
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
☀️ Such a special day — the Palaeontological Exhibition is now officially open!
Grateful to share a few moments from the opening ✨
#FossilFriday #Fossils #Paleontology #Lithuania #Vilnius
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🥳 A popularization article in the local Geology journal 🇱🇹 about my participation in the radio podcast about 🦕 for BBC from #pisa 🇮🇹 [in Lithuanian]
#bbc #italy #dinosaur #podcast #fossil #paleontology
January 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
⚠️ I’m happy to share that I will open a small, cute palaeontological exposition, featuring finds from 🇱🇹, including belemnites, ammonites, brachiopods, fish, and more 🦕

#exhibition #vilnius #fossil #lithuania #collection
January 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
⚠️ Before Ai - hand-made drawings from 1940s 🌟
#artificial #intelligence
#handmade #drawing 🖋️
#paleontology 🦕
#science #palaeontology #research #collection
January 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
✨📣 Exciting news! 📣✨

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be taking on the role of Publicity Officer for the Palaeontological Association (@the_palass ) for the next three years 🦖🦕
✨📣 Exciting news! 📣✨

📷 Thanks to Andrej Spiridonov for the #photo
#position #role #PalAss25
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🥳 A new petrified tree from 🇱🇹 was provided to an NRC specialist for floral studies to better understand this object ☀️
#fossil #tree #paleontology #research #lithuania
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🌟 Happy to announce that the next 23rd EAVP @eavpalaeo.bsky.social conference 🇱🇹 is supported by the @thepalass.bsky.social Grant-in-Aid 🙌🥳

#grant #conference #PalAss25 #EAVP2026 #vilnius #lithuania
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🥳🌟Glad to be invited to lead the Marine Vertebrate session at the Palaeontological Association conference 🙌🇬🇧 @thepalass.bsky.social

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology #science #research #collection
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🦈✨ Happy to attend the 69th Annual Meeting of the PalAss in Portsmouth, UK 🇬🇧!
Excited to present our poster on a wonderful collection of Cretaceous shark teeth 🦷🦴 preserved in Lithuania 🇱🇹, together with my amazing colleagues 🤝🔬
👉 No. 15!
#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology #science
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
☀️This morning started differently than usual ☀️
🔗 Full episode ⬇️ [in Lithuanian]

www.lrt.lt/mediateka/ir...

#lrt #lietuva #vilnius #television #channel #federal #news #palaeontology
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🤩 Exciting news! 🌍✨
I’m thrilled to share that two new research articles were published this week 🦴🔬
1️⃣ Micropalaeontological Collection at the Nature Research Centre;

2️⃣ Re-evaluation of the Devonian Fish Assemblage from Lithuania & Belarus
#Science
#research #article
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
⚠️ Big news!
Jurassic wood from 🇱🇹 ✨
#JurassicWorld #jurassic #dinosaur #Lithuania #flora
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🤓 Incredible objects in the Natural History Museum of the Certosa di Calci, Italy 🇮🇹 #italy #science #dinosaurs
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🌍🎧 Excited to share that I had the pleasure of joining BBC’s The History Hour to talk about one of favorite topics — dinosaurs! 🦕🦖

Have a listen to the full episode here 
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
#podcaster #radioshow #dinosaur #dino #bbcearth #palaeontology #experience #interview
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
☀️ I’m happy to collaborate and work on coccoliths with Francesca Lozar 🎊🤓 and being as a co-author of a poster based on our preliminary results 🥳

#FossilFriday #fossils #research #Italy
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🥳Excited to open #TMS2025 conference in beautiful #Pisa 🇮🇹 with my oral presentation:
“New insights from an unstudied collection of Pridoli (Late Silurian) acanthodians in Lithuania 🇱🇹”.

#conference #paleontology #research
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🌞 Difference between what my eyes 👀 see VS what tomographic analyses 🇧🇪 reveals ⬇️ #devonian 🐟
#Fossil #sundayvibes #researcher
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🐟 Accepted in PalZ! 🐠
"Re-evaluation of the Devonian ichthyofaunal assemblage from Lithuania and Belarus"
🔹 A fresh look at the fossil fish of the Devonian seas 🌊 🌞🎊

#fossil #fossilfriday #devonian #fish #article
#paper #news #fridayfeels
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
⚠️ New article on the way ⬇️
🐟 In this work, I propose a new #species named in honor of a talented geologist, colleague, and dear friend — Dr. Jonas Šečkus — who sadly passed away this year 💫

#Article #palaeontology #fossils
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM