Jane
@fossilyarns.bsky.social
Palaeontologist. Post-Doc @OfficialUoM Poking about with burrowing worms 🔍🪱
Early Vertebrate fan girl. 🐟
She/Her #BLM @fossilyarns pretty much everywhere
Early Vertebrate fan girl. 🐟
She/Her #BLM @fossilyarns pretty much everywhere
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Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
All Devils Are Born With a Name — Riley Black
Paleontologists have named a new prehistoric sawshark after the iconic Chainsaw Man.
rileyblack.net
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
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Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
Dinosaur Traitors ...who’s the Imposter in the Castle? 🦖 | CBBC
YouTube video by CBBC
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November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in Palaeozoic fish and temnospondyls, dinosaurs old and new, sabre-tooth cats, biomechanics, biogeography, museum ethics, etc? Don't look any further, the Lautenschlager Lab got you covered - thanks to a lot of hard work by students, post-docs and colleagues!
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Flamingo-like pterosaur holotype discovered in fossilised vomit 🤮
🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Flamingo-like pterosaur holotype discovered in fossilised vomit 🤮
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‼️New PhD project in Edinburgh: "Animals, traits, and oxygen in the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia". Supervised by Rachel Wood (Amelia Penny and I co-supervising) — big UK+Namibian team — help us understand early animal evolution! Apply by Dec 14th #paleontology
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
‼️New PhD project in Edinburgh: "Animals, traits, and oxygen in the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia". Supervised by Rachel Wood (Amelia Penny and I co-supervising) — big UK+Namibian team — help us understand early animal evolution! Apply by Dec 14th #paleontology
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Palaeontologists and comparative neurobiologists share a common interest in the evolution of the mammalian brain, but often fail to realize the benefits of this shared interest. This Review draws thes...
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
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Perfect.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Perfect.
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🦕 Thinking about a career in Palaeosciences? 🌍
Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨
If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]
Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨
If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🦕 Thinking about a career in Palaeosciences? 🌍
Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨
If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]
Explore a list of Masters Courses and take the next step toward uncovering Earth's ancient secrets! 🔍✨
If you coordinate a Masters course that you’d like to see listed, need to update existing information,[1/2]
Absolute state of our building Facebook group:
Diwali - endless complaints about fireworks, citing safety, dogs happiness, noise levels, and confessions about calling the cops(!)
Bonfire Night - ….. *crickets* ….
I wonder what the difference is 🤔
Diwali - endless complaints about fireworks, citing safety, dogs happiness, noise levels, and confessions about calling the cops(!)
Bonfire Night - ….. *crickets* ….
I wonder what the difference is 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Absolute state of our building Facebook group:
Diwali - endless complaints about fireworks, citing safety, dogs happiness, noise levels, and confessions about calling the cops(!)
Bonfire Night - ….. *crickets* ….
I wonder what the difference is 🤔
Diwali - endless complaints about fireworks, citing safety, dogs happiness, noise levels, and confessions about calling the cops(!)
Bonfire Night - ….. *crickets* ….
I wonder what the difference is 🤔
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Once again I am taking my special traditional role in a malacological conference of being the person who asks bewildered students if they're aware that molluscs have a fossil record 😂
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Once again I am taking my special traditional role in a malacological conference of being the person who asks bewildered students if they're aware that molluscs have a fossil record 😂
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New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
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Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸
We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.
🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.
🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
How did the closure of the Tethys Ocean impact global marine biodiversity? | TREES DLA
The closure of the Tethys Ocean during the Miocene represents one of the most profound reorganisations of Earth’s surface systems in the Cenozoic. Once a vast marine corridor linking the Indo-Pacific ...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸
We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.
🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.
🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
Don’t back down, double down!
The professors caught (other reports say) sixteen students cheating in a Data Science course. The students apologized. Only problem- they all sent identical, AI-written apologies...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Don’t back down, double down!
if you want a little procrastination break then may I offer an insight in to the WILD method to buying a Hermes Birkin bag - spoilers, it's complex, expensive AND you don't get to even pick the bag at end. Legit fascinated.
You can have too much money.
thehustle.co/originals/ho...
You can have too much money.
thehustle.co/originals/ho...
How to win the Hermès game
Hermès is being sued over its rare Birkin bags. Is there an ideal strategy for scoring one?
thehustle.co
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
if you want a little procrastination break then may I offer an insight in to the WILD method to buying a Hermes Birkin bag - spoilers, it's complex, expensive AND you don't get to even pick the bag at end. Legit fascinated.
You can have too much money.
thehustle.co/originals/ho...
You can have too much money.
thehustle.co/originals/ho...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🌊 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling
Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social
🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
#Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social
🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
#Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🌊 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling
Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social
🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
#Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social
🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
#Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs
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feeling a lot better about all the times we didn't donate just $2 to keep Wikipedia running
Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
feeling a lot better about all the times we didn't donate just $2 to keep Wikipedia running
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I am so unsettled by the title of this show. It sounds like it should be a pun. It is not a pun. Becoming increasingly distressed by this as my brain tries and fails to bridge this gap.
Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter review – Tom Daley is a twinkling, passionate joy of a presenter
Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter review – Tom Daley is a twinkling, passionate joy of a presenter
The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he’s on screen. He absolutely makes this show
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I am so unsettled by the title of this show. It sounds like it should be a pun. It is not a pun. Becoming increasingly distressed by this as my brain tries and fails to bridge this gap.
Game of Wool was pitched as a knitting competition but it seems to be largely about design than the technical ability?
It’s fun but the judges are just skimming over some glaring basic mistakes
Maybe I’m being a bitch for week one challenge one, but colour dominance is a thing 👀
It’s fun but the judges are just skimming over some glaring basic mistakes
Maybe I’m being a bitch for week one challenge one, but colour dominance is a thing 👀
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Game of Wool was pitched as a knitting competition but it seems to be largely about design than the technical ability?
It’s fun but the judges are just skimming over some glaring basic mistakes
Maybe I’m being a bitch for week one challenge one, but colour dominance is a thing 👀
It’s fun but the judges are just skimming over some glaring basic mistakes
Maybe I’m being a bitch for week one challenge one, but colour dominance is a thing 👀
Not just any Medusa but Ray Harryhausen’s Medusa from Clash of the Titians 💕
Halloween Queen as always 👑
I read Klum’s philosophy is that she spent her whole life being paid to be sexy, so why do that on a night she can be anything she wants.
Halloween Queen as always 👑
I read Klum’s philosophy is that she spent her whole life being paid to be sexy, so why do that on a night she can be anything she wants.
Heidi Klum’s costume for her annual Halloween party was meant to be petrifying. On Friday, the model and host of “Project Runway” transformed into Medusa, the powerful monster from Greek mythology said to instantly turn onlookers into stone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/s...
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Not just any Medusa but Ray Harryhausen’s Medusa from Clash of the Titians 💕
Halloween Queen as always 👑
I read Klum’s philosophy is that she spent her whole life being paid to be sexy, so why do that on a night she can be anything she wants.
Halloween Queen as always 👑
I read Klum’s philosophy is that she spent her whole life being paid to be sexy, so why do that on a night she can be anything she wants.