Danae Thivaiou
@paleodanae.bsky.social
Palaeontology curator at Naturhistorisches Museum Basel 🇨🇭- loyal to Molluscs past and present 🐚
Keen knitter 🧶 Apprentice gardener 🪴🌿
Keen knitter 🧶 Apprentice gardener 🪴🌿
Can't get tired of Paleozoic life! 🤩
🔹 New semicolonial stem-medusozoan Paleocanna (deriving later than conulariids) from the Upper Ordovician of Quebec 🔹
#paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Can't get tired of Paleozoic life! 🤩
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇
t.co/k6Qdu82nti
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography
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[New Paper] From over 8000 nominations for the new chiton species naming competition with Ze Frank -- the winner is Ferreiraella populi ("chiton of the people")! The paper officially naming this species was just published: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14
@sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
@sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate.
🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00
📍 University of Reading, online
Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r
🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00
📍 University of Reading, online
Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r
February 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate.
🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00
📍 University of Reading, online
Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r
🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00
📍 University of Reading, online
Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r
Fossilised vomit - how cool is that!! 🤩
Une équipe internationale, impliquant Arnaud Rebillard et Jean-Sébastien Steyer du CR2P, vient de publier dans Scientific Reports l’analyse du plus ancien vomi fossile (régurgitalithe) d’un animal terrestre.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe de chercheurs a identifié le plus ancien vomi fossile terrestre connu à ce jour. Daté d’environ 290 millions d’années (Permien inférieur), soit plusieurs dizaines de millions d’années avant l’apparition des dinosaures.
👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Fossilised vomit - how cool is that!! 🤩
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
New year, new @saltages.bsky.social courses.
More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social
More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 11:25 AM
New year, new @saltages.bsky.social courses.
More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social
More info and link to register at sites.google.com/view/saltage... @costprogramme.bsky.social
Oh my! 🤔😶
Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Oh my! 🤔😶
While working on moving the 3 million objects of our collections in a new building next year (and not at the end of next year 😳), these are some of my thoughts 😇🧶
January 28, 2026 at 11:56 AM
While working on moving the 3 million objects of our collections in a new building next year (and not at the end of next year 😳), these are some of my thoughts 😇🧶
Can't wait for the next #MolluscMonday to post this:
This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀
#biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling
This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀
#biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀! Check out Ze Frank’s newest True Facts video and drop your name suggestion for this new chiton in the comments: youtu.be/G7HkBBJO7ZU?...
@sgn.one @bdj.pensoft.net
@sgn.one @bdj.pensoft.net
True Facts: New Species Naming Competition
YouTube video by Ze Frank
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Can't wait for the next #MolluscMonday to post this:
This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀
#biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling
This adorable chiton gets to be named by the public! Let's find it the name it deserves 😀
#biodiversity #deepsea #deepseacreatures #redlist #DeepSeaDrilling
"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even
subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."
Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."
Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
www.science.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even
subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."
Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."
Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
#MolluscMonday Neither nautiloid nor ammonite, this is an early ammonoid, Timanites keyserlingi (Order Agoniatitida) of Devonian age. The large body chamber in this specimen is sediment-filled, whereas the chambers forming the phragmocone are infilled with calcite.
January 19, 2026 at 7:56 AM
#MolluscMonday Neither nautiloid nor ammonite, this is an early ammonoid, Timanites keyserlingi (Order Agoniatitida) of Devonian age. The large body chamber in this specimen is sediment-filled, whereas the chambers forming the phragmocone are infilled with calcite.
Preparing a talk on the Mesozoic marine life for #Museumsnacht Basel, I am learning so many fascinating things about Ammonoids. Not that i ever doubted how cool they are - they are Molluscs so of course they are fascitating ☺️ - their long evolution is more eventful than i remembered!
#MolluscMonday
#MolluscMonday
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Preparing a talk on the Mesozoic marine life for #Museumsnacht Basel, I am learning so many fascinating things about Ammonoids. Not that i ever doubted how cool they are - they are Molluscs so of course they are fascitating ☺️ - their long evolution is more eventful than i remembered!
#MolluscMonday
#MolluscMonday
If there was one specific thing that would be groundbreaking about exploring Mars in the future, this would have been IT... Pity...
After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ferry Martian material collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth, looks set to be cancelled.
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.
go.nature.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
If there was one specific thing that would be groundbreaking about exploring Mars in the future, this would have been IT... Pity...
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...
Doctorat INPhINIT
Coneix les 60 beques de doctorat dINPhINIT per a investigadors que vulguin realitzar estudis de doctorat en universitats d'Espanya i Portugal.
fundacionlacaixa.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...
Happy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The ambience at the office today ☺️
a woman in a yellow shirt is smiling in front of a crowd of people with the words it 's oh so quiet below her
ALT: a woman in a yellow shirt is smiling in front of a crowd of people with the words it 's oh so quiet below her
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The ambience at the office today ☺️
Maybe it's gonna be a Mollusc 🐚
in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸
in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸
We are calling for your nominations for the WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2025!
Details: marinespecies.org/news.php?p=s...
Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worm...
Deadline: Sunday January 25th 2026
@oceancensus.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be @lifewatcheric.bsky.social
Details: marinespecies.org/news.php?p=s...
Nomination form: form.vliz.be/en/form/worm...
Deadline: Sunday January 25th 2026
@oceancensus.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be @lifewatcheric.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Maybe it's gonna be a Mollusc 🐚
in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸
in any case, looking forward to see the nominations!! 🪸
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
#MolluscMonday Another fossil in the galleries of the South Australia Museum, the heteromorph ammonite Tropaeum imperator, Collected from Early Cretaceous rocks at Coober Pedy, this is claimed to be the largest known ammonite from Australia with an uncoiled length of 3 metres.
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
#MolluscMonday Another fossil in the galleries of the South Australia Museum, the heteromorph ammonite Tropaeum imperator, Collected from Early Cretaceous rocks at Coober Pedy, this is claimed to be the largest known ammonite from Australia with an uncoiled length of 3 metres.
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
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Science of the total environment (elsevier) gets deindexed.
This is your regular reminder to please stop chasing impact factors and shitty metrics so we can stop feeding this awful system...
An alternative is to publish in more society journals (when possible).
This is your regular reminder to please stop chasing impact factors and shitty metrics so we can stop feeding this awful system...
An alternative is to publish in more society journals (when possible).
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Calcifying plankton: From biomineralization to global change
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Danae Thivaiou
New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...