Katie Collins
@spissatella.bsky.social
Taxamorphologist, mollusc-botherer (they/them).
Pinned
bivalves are great lol no heads no legs no gods no masters no genders no husbands
I notice that despite all the other "international" versions of menu items that McD's are blaring ads for up and down the high street, they have not yet brought the Kiwiburger to English shores.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I notice that despite all the other "international" versions of menu items that McD's are blaring ads for up and down the high street, they have not yet brought the Kiwiburger to English shores.
Best drawer annotation of the day: "samples of 06.10.1996, ex-blue cat poo tray". Truly geologists will store samples in anything that stays still long enough.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Best drawer annotation of the day: "samples of 06.10.1996, ex-blue cat poo tray". Truly geologists will store samples in anything that stays still long enough.
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🚨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 10:23 AM
🚨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...
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As today is #MolluscMonday and the 173rd anniversary of the death of Sussex palaeontologist Gideon Mantell, here's the Cretaceous ammonite Mantelliceras mantelli described (as Ammonites mantelli) by James Sowerby in his Mineral Conchology in 1814 from a specimen from Lewes sent to him by Mantell.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As today is #MolluscMonday and the 173rd anniversary of the death of Sussex palaeontologist Gideon Mantell, here's the Cretaceous ammonite Mantelliceras mantelli described (as Ammonites mantelli) by James Sowerby in his Mineral Conchology in 1814 from a specimen from Lewes sent to him by Mantell.
It's museum audit week!! We do this twice a year and it means I get to decline meetings and put my OOO on and just CURATE and it's my favourite. This year my audit plan is to work on the "minor classes" ("minor" but mighty!! Just ask any polyplacophorologist 🥰)
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's museum audit week!! We do this twice a year and it means I get to decline meetings and put my OOO on and just CURATE and it's my favourite. This year my audit plan is to work on the "minor classes" ("minor" but mighty!! Just ask any polyplacophorologist 🥰)
Some snails from work: Cross-sectioned pleurotomarioid, cross-sectioned Campanile, truly behemoth cowry, and ( just casually) the type of Ecphora quadricostata (Say)
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Some snails from work: Cross-sectioned pleurotomarioid, cross-sectioned Campanile, truly behemoth cowry, and ( just casually) the type of Ecphora quadricostata (Say)
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the rock record giveth, and the rock record taketh away, but fossils remain the only source of direct physical evidence for ancient extinct species in the history of life
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
the rock record giveth, and the rock record taketh away, but fossils remain the only source of direct physical evidence for ancient extinct species in the history of life
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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If you would like to attend the upcoming edition of the Young Systematists' Forum (Friday, Nov 14th), registration will remain open until Nov 12th, 13:00 GMT+0.
Register: tinyurl.com/5n8mu5z9
Register: tinyurl.com/5n8mu5z9
YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form.
This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If you would like to attend the upcoming edition of the Young Systematists' Forum (Friday, Nov 14th), registration will remain open until Nov 12th, 13:00 GMT+0.
Register: tinyurl.com/5n8mu5z9
Register: tinyurl.com/5n8mu5z9
Generating a molecular tree =/= doing systematics, and definitely =/= doing taxonomy
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Generating a molecular tree =/= doing systematics, and definitely =/= doing taxonomy
I'll be joining my ChaSE buddies today to talk chalk at the Festival! Come hang out!
If you're in #London today then come along to the @geolassoc.bsky.social FREE 'Festival of Geology' @geolsoc.bsky.social on Piccadilly. We'll be there showcasing some #chalk fossils and talking about our work on #Cretaceous ecosystems and environmental change. Come and say hello!
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'll be joining my ChaSE buddies today to talk chalk at the Festival! Come hang out!
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If you're in #London today then come along to the @geolassoc.bsky.social FREE 'Festival of Geology' @geolsoc.bsky.social on Piccadilly. We'll be there showcasing some #chalk fossils and talking about our work on #Cretaceous ecosystems and environmental change. Come and say hello!
November 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you're in #London today then come along to the @geolassoc.bsky.social FREE 'Festival of Geology' @geolsoc.bsky.social on Piccadilly. We'll be there showcasing some #chalk fossils and talking about our work on #Cretaceous ecosystems and environmental change. Come and say hello!
I'm a palaeobiologist, of course I have a favourite average
(It's the mode. Love me a modal value)
(It's the mode. Love me a modal value)
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm a palaeobiologist, of course I have a favourite average
(It's the mode. Love me a modal value)
(It's the mode. Love me a modal value)
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🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️🧪
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️🧪
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.
Running "beep()" after little bits of code that take juuuuust long enough to tempt me to look away and get something else done has massively helped me to stay on task today
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Running "beep()" after little bits of code that take juuuuust long enough to tempt me to look away and get something else done has massively helped me to stay on task today
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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
For the first time ever I'm looking forward to Halloween and it's entirely bc I get to wear my big cosy homemade Jorunna parva costume (white hoodie I drew spots on with a brown sharpie) at work again
October 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For the first time ever I'm looking forward to Halloween and it's entirely bc I get to wear my big cosy homemade Jorunna parva costume (white hoodie I drew spots on with a brown sharpie) at work again
If i had any coding skill at all I'd try and make a version of Metazooa that pulled animal names from somewhere more comprehensive bc why on earth does it not have "okapi" ffs
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If i had any coding skill at all I'd try and make a version of Metazooa that pulled animal names from somewhere more comprehensive bc why on earth does it not have "okapi" ffs
Sexy Lima aspera Thiele 1918?
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sexy Lima aspera Thiele 1918?
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A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-B19 Marine biodiversity and its future under environmental changes and exploitation – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
I do understand why the "we've made you an acccount" email comes before the "please will you review the paper" email but honestly? It feels so bloody rude to have someone create an account for you in a system you haven't yet agreed to, that I'm that much less likely to agree to do the review >:(
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I do understand why the "we've made you an acccount" email comes before the "please will you review the paper" email but honestly? It feels so bloody rude to have someone create an account for you in a system you haven't yet agreed to, that I'm that much less likely to agree to do the review >:(
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📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form.
This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
tinyurl.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
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Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
Saving the Museum
After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to
www.ithaca.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑
@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social
www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...
God I hate bloody fireworks
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
God I hate bloody fireworks