PalaeOzeki Boring Lady
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PalaeOzeki Boring Lady
@palaeozeki.bsky.social
Palaeobiologst researching microbial bioerosion on ancient marine reptiles. Fossil microbes involved in decomposition, taphonomy, marine reptiles, parasites, deep ocean and deep sea organisms. (Mainly posts about palaeontology, Japan and simulation games).
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Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale.
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…
Thi#fossilil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.
May 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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If you happen to see a friend across the street, odds are you might raise an arm and wiggle your hand to say hello. Cuttlefish apparently do something similar—and that’s not the only arm gesture they use to communicate.

Learn more: scim.ag/4j5nmQv
May 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Me and @richardjbutler.bsky.social have a new review paper today in which we make the case for the importance of systematics, taxonomy and fieldwork in palaeo. You should read it: you'll like it
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New frontiers in dinosaur exploration | Biology Letters
Two hundred years after the naming of the first dinosaur, taxonomic studies remain an important component of dinosaur research. Around 50 new dinosaurs are named each year and are discovered from acro...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Make your voice heard. Tell the House to #FundLibraries in FY26: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House

More ways to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: ala.org/showup
April 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Also now available are the titles of the four (!) special symposia at #2025SVP:

- Ancient Biomolecules

- Synchrotron radiation micro-CT scanning in paleontology

- Evolution of Triassic non-marine tetrapod communities

- Multidisciplinary approaches to skull function and evolution
April 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Planning on joining us in Birmingham for #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in buying merchandise featuring our heavy metal inspired logos designed by @markwitton.bsky.social? We're exploring what merchandise options should be available - please reply to this post & let us know your thoughts!
January 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🌟⏰SAVE THE DATE⏰🌟

I'm super excited to announce that the second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology will be held in Luxembourg City between 15th - 18th June 2026.

Watch this space for more details coming soon! 👀

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February 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Tomorrow I’ll be calling all of my representatives to demand that they call for RFK jr’s immediate resignation.
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes

Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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So some extraordinary news came out today! We have received footage for the first time of a colossal squid in it's natural habitat! I remember watching the footage live and being in chat saying "Could this be Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni"? And glad to hear it was!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPo...
Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Join Us at The 7th International Palaeontological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa
November 30 – December 3, 2026.

📢 Calling all paleontologists worldwide! The IPC7 bringing together researchers from across the globe!

Don’t miss out on this incredible experience!

More info👉 www.ipc7.site
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"The photic zone euxinia was likely driven by increased nutrient delivery given its coincidence with carbon isotopic perturbations and enhanced weathering immediately before the end-Devonian Hangenberg Crisis."
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology
April 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This needs to stop! Literature is for everyone and it should not be up to those tangerine turd's groupies to decide who can and can't read something! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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We've created a BandCamp page and added a new song called, "Fascist Clowns, Fuck Off."

A lot of anger and rage went into this song and we hope you enjoy it! (But we hate that it had to be written!!)
#punk
#resist
#musicsky
🎧

wolvesatthewall.bandcamp.com/track/fascis...
Fascist Clowns Fuck Off, by Wolves at the Wall
track by Wolves at the Wall
wolvesatthewall.bandcamp.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Announcing 11th Discovery Day on the Ochota Campus, University of Warsaw on 22 March! Registration opens on 17th March.
Visitors can enjoy field games, lectures & workshops on mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, bioinformatics, medicine, psychology & computer science >>
March 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Picky predators on planktonic #foraminifera
March 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Dopest cover ever
March 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today is World Kidney Day, take care of your kidneys!
This day is especially important to me because I will donate one of my kidneys to a close family member, very soon.
www.worldkidneyday.org/2025-campaig...
2025 campaign - World Kidney Day 2025
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www.worldkidneyday.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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More than 60 dinosaur #footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years

One-square-metre slab has one of highest concentrations of fossilised prints documented in #Australia, new analysis reveals @donnadlu.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
March 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco
Royal Society Open Science 12(3): 241624
doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco | Royal Society Open Science
The cerapodan dinosaurs were an ornithischian clade that achieved a global distribution in the Cretaceous Period. The ichnological record suggests that these dinosaurs had evolved by the Middle Jurass...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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WHOA. Some big ass Eunice with hand for scale! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Eunice roussaei
Eunice roussaei from Cambados, Pontevedra, España on August 8, 2007 at 09:00 AM by Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval
www.inaturalist.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM