Emily Mitchell
@egmitchell.bsky.social
Palaeo and Marine Ecologist, Palaeontologist. Asst. Prof @camzoology.bsky.social & @zoologymuseum.bsky.social at the University of Cambridge. PI @deeptimeecology.bsky.social She/Her
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I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Hey paleo-friends: Did I do this right?
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey paleo-friends: Did I do this right?
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“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany
Housing The Homeless Saves Money--Here's The Research That Proves It
The best way to stop homelessness is mindbogglingly simple: Give them homes.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany
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🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
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These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
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🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! #shorts
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
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November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
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Here's a shot from #Okeanos in 2019 off MIami, tropical Atlantic showing a carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia being devoured by Henricia antillarum! Same kind of sponge recently discovered by @oceancensus.bsky.social recent expedition! In the #deepsea there's always someone eating someone!
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here's a shot from #Okeanos in 2019 off MIami, tropical Atlantic showing a carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia being devoured by Henricia antillarum! Same kind of sponge recently discovered by @oceancensus.bsky.social recent expedition! In the #deepsea there's always someone eating someone!
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Rough draft, obviously, but I think I like this approach to bivariate legends.
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Rough draft, obviously, but I think I like this approach to bivariate legends.
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You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:
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Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle?
bit.ly/meps_771_71
Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle?
bit.ly/meps_771_71
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle?
bit.ly/meps_771_71
Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle?
bit.ly/meps_771_71
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A sponge
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #fish #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #reef #sponge
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #fish #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #reef #sponge
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Supercharged seafloor spotting! 🐚
Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds.
This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty...
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Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds.
This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Supercharged seafloor spotting! 🐚
Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds.
This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty...
🧵 1/4
Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds.
This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty...
🧵 1/4
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How animals first started to move? Some insights by @egmitchell.bsky.social (@camzoology.bsky.social) using fossil records.
valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
The Dawn of animal life: quantifying the origination animal mobility
In this contribution, Emily Mitchell considers how animals first started to move.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
How animals first started to move? Some insights by @egmitchell.bsky.social (@camzoology.bsky.social) using fossil records.
valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
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We're #hiring! Passionate about natural history and historical collections? Here at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history, we're looking for an Assistant Archivist to support our Collections team.
Closing date: 9 Nov 2025
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Closing date: 9 Nov 2025
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Vacancies
Explore the wealth of content available within The Linnean Society of London's website.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We're #hiring! Passionate about natural history and historical collections? Here at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history, we're looking for an Assistant Archivist to support our Collections team.
Closing date: 9 Nov 2025
Find out more:
Closing date: 9 Nov 2025
Find out more:
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The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’ @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @egmitchell.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #iceage #science #fossils
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October 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’ @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @egmitchell.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #iceage #science #fossils
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We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
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October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
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Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders!
So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿
Available below ⬇️
So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿
Available below ⬇️
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders!
So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿
Available below ⬇️
So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿
Available below ⬇️
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Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
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Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot
Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
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Who's got unfused parietals and probably wasn't a stem snake? This guy.
Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate, from the Jurassic of Scotland www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate - Nature
Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov., an early squamate identified from a newly discovered Middle Jurassic skeleton on the Isle of Skye, provides new evidence on the origins of snakes.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Who's got unfused parietals and probably wasn't a stem snake? This guy.
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Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...
September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...
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✨NEW INTERVIEW✨
EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils
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EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils
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September 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
✨NEW INTERVIEW✨
EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils
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EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils
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This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point
September 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point
Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩
September 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩
This #FossilFriday we are wrapping up a fantastic week of fieldwork @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social imaging their #Ediacaran fossils and thinking about what shapes early animal evolution. Thanks so much to Edith at the Coaker Foundation for looking after us so well
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This #FossilFriday we are wrapping up a fantastic week of fieldwork @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social imaging their #Ediacaran fossils and thinking about what shapes early animal evolution. Thanks so much to Edith at the Coaker Foundation for looking after us so well
Beautiful day out @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social admiring the tiny Fractofusus on the Johnson surface 😍
September 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Beautiful day out @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social admiring the tiny Fractofusus on the Johnson surface 😍