Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠）
@lhliow.bsky.social
Macroevolution, paleobiology, Singapore-grown, US-developed scientist in Norway. Marine inverts, bryozoans. Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo.
[Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]
[Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]
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#FossilFriday From the black ‘marble’ floor of the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, a horizontally sectioned productid brachiopod and a solitary rugose coral enveloped by a syringoporid coral. The stone looks to be European Carboniferous but I would welcome any feedback.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#FossilFriday From the black ‘marble’ floor of the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, a horizontally sectioned productid brachiopod and a solitary rugose coral enveloped by a syringoporid coral. The stone looks to be European Carboniferous but I would welcome any feedback.
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We need new collections but - most importantly - the future generations of scientists will need new collections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We need new collections but - most importantly - the future generations of scientists will need new collections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Meet Harmeria scutulata!
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Meet Harmeria scutulata!
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
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Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
7) ASN will have its stand-alone meeting Jan 8-10 2027, so save the date. To vary things up from our (wonderful, but repetitive) Asilomar venue, this meeting will be on the east coast...
7) ASN will have its stand-alone meeting Jan 8-10 2027, so save the date. To vary things up from our (wonderful, but repetitive) Asilomar venue, this meeting will be on the east coast...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
7) ASN will have its stand-alone meeting Jan 8-10 2027, so save the date. To vary things up from our (wonderful, but repetitive) Asilomar venue, this meeting will be on the east coast...
7) ASN will have its stand-alone meeting Jan 8-10 2027, so save the date. To vary things up from our (wonderful, but repetitive) Asilomar venue, this meeting will be on the east coast...
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
Dennis Gordon got the prestigious Hutton Award! I'm so happy for the recognition of his amazing work on taxonomy, systematics & natural history! So lucky to have worked with, & been in the field with Dennis — one of the best humans I've ever met! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/m... #bryozoa #NZ
2025 Hutton Medal: An inventory of all life in Aotearoa – past and present
Dr Dennis Gordon, an Emeritus Researcher at Earth Sciences New Zealand, has been awarded the Hutton Medal for extraordinary contributions to global taxonomy, as the world’s leading authority on Bryozo...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dennis Gordon got the prestigious Hutton Award! I'm so happy for the recognition of his amazing work on taxonomy, systematics & natural history! So lucky to have worked with, & been in the field with Dennis — one of the best humans I've ever met! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/m... #bryozoa #NZ
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Another fossil from the streets of Singapore, a large nerineoid gastropod in the stone cladding of a jewellery shop in Little India. Presumably a European Cretaceous limestone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Another fossil from the streets of Singapore, a large nerineoid gastropod in the stone cladding of a jewellery shop in Little India. Presumably a European Cretaceous limestone.
I sorta knew, but it's a disturbing read, also thinking about parallels in science. I recently had a reviewer for my proposal say that they recognise my (male) invited collaborators & their work but not me, just as a small personal example. My gender, name or both? edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/s...
‘The art market blows all the gender wage gap numbers out of the water:’ Why we pay less for art made by women | CNN
A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction this week, with experts valuing it between $40 and $60 million. While these are hefty price tags, they are dwarf...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I sorta knew, but it's a disturbing read, also thinking about parallels in science. I recently had a reviewer for my proposal say that they recognise my (male) invited collaborators & their work but not me, just as a small personal example. My gender, name or both? edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/s...
How do #bryozoans and ginger cookies go together up North? Read here!
Wrote a blog post about our workshop at the Espegrend Marine Station last week! #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo @bryozoology.bsky.social @hardbunnsfauna.bsky.social
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
Espegrend, bryozoans and gingerbread cookies - Natural History Museum
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.nhm.uio.no
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How do #bryozoans and ginger cookies go together up North? Read here!
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Glad to see our phoronid genome study featured on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social! It shows how genome structure can be used to test competing hypotheses of nested topology and how derived structural changes provide evidence for monophyly.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Glad to see our phoronid genome study featured on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social! It shows how genome structure can be used to test competing hypotheses of nested topology and how derived structural changes provide evidence for monophyly.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
go.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
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I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️
Focussing on the positive from this issue’s Science, work by our museum colleagues in Oslo led by the wonderful
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Focussing on the positive from this issue’s Science, work by our museum colleagues in Oslo led by the wonderful
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
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#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
Cool paper on rate-time scaling: it’s not just an artifact! We need to re-think underlying evolutionary processes generating (fossil) phenotypic changes! By @vildebruhn.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Cool paper on rate-time scaling: it’s not just an artifact! We need to re-think underlying evolutionary processes generating (fossil) phenotypic changes! By @vildebruhn.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social
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Team #NorDigBryo is currently having a workshop, and gingerbread baking has been a fun activity in the evenings. We definitely had to make some bryozoans!
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Team #NorDigBryo is currently having a workshop, and gingerbread baking has been a fun activity in the evenings. We definitely had to make some bryozoans!
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Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.
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Hi bryozoologists (and other people interested/working with bryozoans)! We have opened a pre-registration form for the Oslo Larwood Symposium 2026, and it would be very helpful if you could fill it out (it helps our planning a lot!).
Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
#Bryozoa #bryozoology
Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
#Bryozoa #bryozoology
19th Larwood Symposium Oslo 2026
- Natural History Museum
We welcome all scientists interested in bryozoans to the 2026 Larwood Symposium in Oslo! Students and reserachers new to bryozoans are especially welcome!
www.nhm.uio.no
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hi bryozoologists (and other people interested/working with bryozoans)! We have opened a pre-registration form for the Oslo Larwood Symposium 2026, and it would be very helpful if you could fill it out (it helps our planning a lot!).
Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
#Bryozoa #bryozoology
Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
#Bryozoa #bryozoology
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New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections:
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science
Abstract. India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense
academic.oup.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections:
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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The Royal Ontario Museum is hiring a Curator of Birds to promote awareness and research on bird biodiversity. Apply by Nov 15, 2025. More info: https://royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2YcQAfM/Curator-Of-Birds. #job
Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Royal Ontario Museum is hiring a Curator of Birds to promote awareness and research on bird biodiversity. Apply by Nov 15, 2025. More info: https://royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2YcQAfM/Curator-Of-Birds. #job
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
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#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#MolluscMonday Spirals from the Cretaceous: sections of fossil snail shells in the pavements of Libourne and Bordeaux, SW France.
#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social
Chromosomal fusions shaped the genome of the greater hornwrack bryozoan (Flustra foliacea) (Linnaeus, 1758)
The phylum Bryozoa is an understudied, yet commonly-occurring, globally distributed bilaterian metazoan organismal group. They have a colonial lifestyle and an evolutionary history that spans at least...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social
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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/...