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Mathilde Le Pallec
@mathildelp.bsky.social
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Palaeontology PhD student at the Paläontologisches Institute (UZH🇨🇭) working on the Carnian Pluvial Episode 🌲🌿⛰️
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aldpaleo.bsky.social
We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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paleobyliam.bsky.social
This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane.
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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narimanechatar.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD position available at
@univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social
Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨
September 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
For #FossilFriday, a spectacular fossil palm frond from the Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous), North Dakota, in the process of being prepared at the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social last week: juvenile tyrannosaur skull for scale. (cc: @susieoftraken.bsky.social, @arctomet.bsky.social) 🧪🌴🦖
Large block (about 2X 1 meters area) of brown sandstone surrounded by a plaster jacket in a preparatory lab of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; block contains a large fossil palm frond, with long leaves making a "fan" pattern at one end and converging at the other end. And oh yeah, some dinosaur's skull next to it.
August 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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whosyourmammal.bsky.social
Calling all Palaeontology PhD candidates and post-docs everywhere! No matter what your particular field of research or country of institution, please follow forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT... and fill in my ANONYMOUS RESEARCH SURVEY – #Yourpalaeolife : investigating fieldwork by early career palaeontologists
#Yourpalaeolife: the experience of early career palaeontologists and fieldwork
Hello everybody! Welcome to my anonymous survey about fieldwork in palaeontology. I want to know about your experiences: what is the place of fieldwork in our research lives, how to we view it, and h...
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August 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection

Carlos Jaramillo, Surangi W. Punyasena, Daurys de Alba, Roxana Alveo, Angelica Arcila, Jorge Bermudez, Jonatan Bustos et al

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Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection
Large palynological collections have been built over decades and contain vital information. However, they are often difficult to access and use effectively. What is the point of having such collectio....
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August 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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ecologybasel.bsky.social
*Job alert*
Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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PhD Assisted Migration
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July 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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cr2p.bsky.social
Les membres d’Agora Paleobotanica organisent régulièrement des congrès qui permettent aux paléobotanistes et palynologues de se rencontrer, d’échanger et de présenter leurs travaux. Le congrès est organisé cette année par le CR2P du 2 au 5 juillet :
paleo.mnhn.fr/fr/agenda/9t...
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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acsharp.bsky.social
Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool
From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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thepalass.bsky.social
A new species of Karkenia (Ginkgoales) from the Lower Jurassic of East Siberia (Russia): palaeobiogeographical and evolutionary implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersInPalaeontology
An artistic reconstruction of a short branch and leaves of Sphenobaiera spectabilis with the pendulous seed cone Karkenia bracteata connected and hanging below. To the lower right is a photograph of the fossil holotype specimen (IEC.SM-22-20/13) with two bracts (Br) labelled.
June 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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grumpydrfabre.bsky.social
Apply! 👇👇🐍🪱🥒
marionsegall.bsky.social Marion Segall @marionsegall.bsky.social · Mar 21
I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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lepidodendron.bsky.social
Only one week left to apply to join our new lab at @sgn.one in Frankfurt am Main! Are you interested in #fossil #plants, traits, and the #Mesozoic?
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
www.senckenberg.de
May 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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sciencecqfd.bsky.social
Reportage de @celineloozen.bsky.social > Itw d’Anne Bourra, maître de conférences au MNHN et Léa De Brito, ATER au MNHN au cœur des fossiles de plantes de la collection paléobotanique témoins de la terrestrialisation tinyurl.com/2ax2sn7p #ScienceCQFD
Comment les fossiles racontent la colonisation des plantes sur les continents ?
L'étude et la conservation de la végétation forestière à partir de bois et de feuilles fossiles aide à la reconstruction des paléoenvironnements et paléoclimats : c'est une des mission de la collectio...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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☀️ Le #mimosa, un brin de soleil en hiver, mais...

Cette espèce originaire d'Australie est envahissante en France. ⚠️ En raison de sa multiplication rapide, elle entre en compétition avec la flore indigène et modifie le milieu.

Les espèces invasives en 5 questions 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/les-espec... #EEE
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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aldpaleo.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday 💚
This heart-shaped seed was produced a little over 300 million year ago by a plant that was growing in what is now southern France 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany 1/2
Heart-shaped fossil seed of a Carboniferous pteridosperm about 4 x 3 cm
February 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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thekentacorn.bsky.social
A sprinkling of leaves dropped from the host tree and gently landed on the wet ground below it. 260 million years later they find themselves encased in a block of stone in my study

Glossopteris were the dominant trees of the Permian Period
Glossopteris leaf fossil Close up of a Glossopteris leaf fossil
February 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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ezequielvera.bsky.social
Palynofloras of the Maaatrichtian Chorrillo Formation (with comments on other fossils of the unit).

Final version. Free to download for some days.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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cnrs.fr
#CNRSnews 📰 While dinosaurs were previously perceived as dumb, clumsy creatures, the Jurassic Park saga shows them in a new light, all while questioning the role of science in society and its impact on the world 🦕
news.cnrs.fr/articles/how...
How Jurassic Park changed the image of dinosaurs
Are the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” realistic? How does the film franchise explore the impact and applications of science? These are some of the topics addressed in a book published last autumn, as e...
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January 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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aldpaleo.bsky.social
For the 1st #FossilFriday of 2025, some pieces of fossil plants from our fieldwork in Ireland last September 🌿⛏️ They belong to extinct lycopsids ("clubmosses") that were growing in the region during the end of the Devonian, about 360 million years ago.
#paleobotany #botany
Small dark grey rock held in someone's hand, with a piece of fossil lycopsid a little under 1 cm wide and 2 cm long on it. The fossil stem is covered by tiny needle-like leaves Dark grey rock with several different fossil lycopsid stems on it. A finger is pointing for scale on the left side of the largest stem, which is 6-7 cm wide and has many scars corresponding to places where leaves were attached.
January 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM