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⚠️ We are delighted to announce that registration for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association is now open!
🔹Join us at the University of Portsmouth from 11th to 15th December 2025.
🔸 Deadline for early-bird registration and abstract submission is 19th September 2025 [1/2]
Thomas Farrell
‪@thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social‬
Very happy to have the chance to waffle about a brace of new exceptional fossils (not pictured) from Sirius Passet yesterday! Thanks to @thepalass.bsky.social and the organisers at Portsmouth for another excellent meeting 🪱⛵ #palass25
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Absolutely delighted to be a recipient of the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting Poster Prize at #Palass25! It was a pleasure to discuss our new taphonomic approaches with so many of you all.
December 15, 2025 at 2:41 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 2:41 PM
A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🥳🌟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 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Really enjoyed my first @thepalass.bsky.social annual meeting! Thank you to all the lovely people that I met for making it a great time. I'm delighted to have been awarded a poster prize for my work on annelid locomotion. Congratulations to the other prize winners, including @lej-palaeo.bsky.social!
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Thank you @thepalass.bsky.social for a great conference and awarding me a prize for my poster on the results of the first chapter of my PhD! And congrats to @harrysavage.bsky.social and the other three recipients of poster prizes for their amazing work #PalAss25
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Presenting my latest work on the evolution of sea urchin feeding morphology and my use of deep learning at #PalAss2026 @thepalass.bsky.social - come have a chat during the poster session!
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Brilliant talk from Emily on constraining the lifespan of early animals of the Ediacaran!
#PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🌟🥳Our today's plan (14th December) ⬇️
#PalAss25 🙌
December 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🎉 Saturday 13th December 🎉

📝 Registration: 08:30 – 17:00
📍 Location: Portland Building

Join us for an exciting day of:
📢 Conference | 🏛️ AGM | 🎤 Annual Address | 🍽️ Annual Dinner

✨ Don’t miss out on networking, insights, and celebration!

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A new otophysan from the Tlayúa Quarry, Mexico: a North American clue to the early diversification of this group of freshwater fishes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🌟Continuing our Friday (afternoon) 🌟
Registration
🕐 13:00 – 18:00
📍 Portland Building

Symposium: Experimental Palaeontology
🕒 13:30 – 17:15
📍 Portland Building, PO 1.74

Icebreaker Reception
🕠 17:30 – 19:30
📍 Portland Building Atrium & Richmond Building Atrium

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌟Friday 12th December (morning)🌟
🧬 🔬 Our four workshops ⬇️
#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology #science
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🎉 Friday morning is off to a great start!
📍 Portland Building
🕣 Registration: 08:30–10:00
📝 Pre-conference workshops for pre-booked attendees.

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology #science
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🌟 Today — Thursday 11th December 🌟
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Palaeontological Association (PalAss) 2025 Annual Meeting – Early-Career Researcher Workshop & Social
📍 University of Portsmouth, UK

📌 Schedule
🕐 13:00 – 14:00 — Registration (Portland Building)
🧑‍🔬 14:00 – 17:00 — Workshop: “Learning from experience: [1/2]
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
⏳ Just 2 days left until our 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Portsmouth!
🎉 We’re excited to see you there!
🔗 palass.org/annual-meeti...

#PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth #palaeontology
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
⏳ Only 3 days left until the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association kicks off in Portsmouth, UK! 🇬🇧🦕
We can’t wait to see everyone there!
🔗  palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #palaeontology #PalAss2025
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Rob snuck out a @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast on Tues and I missed it! Herein, we discuss AI and whether it is about to replace us, and I express 'scepticism' about some previous AI studies... fossils.libsyn.com You can find us here or wherever you get your podcasts 👇
The Fossil Files
In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...
fossils.libsyn.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🌍🔬 Calling all aspiring palaeontologists!
Here are 10 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 #PalAss #Opportunity
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🚨 Apply to host the PalAss Exceptional Lecturer! Dr Yara Haridy from the University of Chicago, USA can give a talk entitled "Deep time origins of your skeleton and the evolution of bone disease" either at your institution or online. [1/2]
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New fossils of Acrochordus (Serpentes, Caenophidia) from the Middle Miocene of Kutch, western India: quantitative taxonomic evaluation & palaeoclimatic insights onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️

palass.org/annual-meeti...
#conference #PalAss25 #uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM