Have you completed or commissioned a piece of palaeoart in the last year? Nominations are now open for The Marsh Palaeoart Award! 🎨🦕🌿🐌🐟🎨
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

🚨Our next Marsh Palaeoart Award launches next week! 🚨Recognising talent in the depiction of fossil fauna, this award is judged by a panel of artists and scientists, and has a cash prize of £500 💰 Check our website for more info: palaeosoc.org/grants.../th...

Our second Highly Commended winner was @nataliajagielska.bsky.social, for 'Ancient, smiling Dorset'. This series of works, produced as stickers for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, maintain accuracy while creating something fun, making them perfect for engaging with a wide audience. Super work!

Our Highly Commended winner was @palaeojules.bsky.social with 'Alderblattina simmsi walking across Selaginellites sp. and cf. Takakia’. This piece is filled with delicacy and fine detail, and the judges were delighted to see plants given as much consideration as an animal. Well done Julianne!

Our Overall Winner was @matt-humpage.bsky.social, with 'The Rhynie chert: a palaeoenvironment reconstruction'. This image, sculpted in Blender, is so realistic one judge commented “I want to sniff the peaty soil and feel the moist air on my skin.” Congratulations Matt!

Our council has had some changes: we said farewell to @palaeobarbie.bsky.social, @echinerd.bsky.social and @Michela-Johnson@bsky.social. Thanks for everything you've done! We welcomed three new council members, @neilgostling.bsky.social Gostling, @marcehjones.bsky.social and Dr Simon Harris.

We had a short talk from previous Richard Owen Award winner, Dr Georgios Georgalis, on 'The lizards and snakes from Hordle and other Eocene localities of the UK'. Amazing to see how much snake research our fund has supported!

We recognised two artists as Highly Commended for our Marsh Palaeoart Award as well: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social (in absentia), for 'Ancient, smiling Dorset', and @palaeojules.bsky.social (pictured), for 'Alderblattina simmsi walking across Selaginellites sp. and cf. Takakia'.

The second Marsh Palaeoart Award was presented to our Overall Winner, Matt Humpage, for his beautiful and complex figure, 'The Rhynie chert: a palaeoenvironment reconstruction'. Matt also delivered a fascinating short talk on his work and how his piece was created.

We awarded two Richard Owen Research Grants this year, to @christinesd.bsky.social (left) for the project, 'Investigating mycorrhizas in the Rhynie chert plants', and to Edward Bartlett (right), for 'Description of the osteology and taphonomy of Pliosaurus'. Looking forward to seeing the results!

Thanks to everyone who helped make our AGM last week in the NHM London such a success! Special thanks to @gilespalaeo.bsky.social and @imranrahman.bsky.social for their superb lectures on ray-finned fishes and echinoderms 🐟 ⭐

DEADLINE EXTENDED📢 Are you an Early Career Researcher in palaeo who has published in the last year? Nominate yourself for our Prize! You have until 17th March. Great for your CV, and a cash prize too... full details on our website www.palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

Our Edward Forbes Prize recognises outstanding contributions by early career researchers in taxonomic & systematic palaeontology in all fields. The prize is £250 & Society membership. Closing date 28th Feb 2025. Full details: www.palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

Our funding and awards are now open for submissions!
The Richard Owen Research Fund provides awards of up to £1000 for research on UK and Irish fossil flora and fauna. Closing date 28th Feb 2025. Full details on our website: www.palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

The 2024 PalSoc Medal was awarded to Dr Paul Taylor, an internationally-recognised researcher of fossil and modern bryozoans. Paul has acted as a mentor to generations of palaeontologists and invertebrate zoologists. Read more about his achievements: www.palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

We are delighted to sponsor a project by the Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust, providing educational boxes of responsibly sourced fossils to schools in England and Wales. They've just delivered their 100th box - well done! Hopefully inspiring palaeo researchers of the future 💪

📢There's still time to nominate for the Marsh #Palaeoart Award! It recognises talent in depicting the extinct fossil faunas of the British Isles. This year's guest judge is the amazing @bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Closing date 25th Nov. Full details: palaeosoc.org/grants-prize... #paleoart