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Harriet E. Nuttall
@whosyourmammal.bsky.social
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Registered veterinary surgeon and Post Graduate Researcher into the biomechanics of Paleocene and Eocene mammals, at the University of Birmingham.

#Yourpalaeolife survey: https://forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrTZNHL7

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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
Our next Lapworth Lecture is on Mon 1st Dec with Prof. Antony Morris, exploring seafloor spreading through grain-scale observations of oceanic crustal rocks.

Open to everyone, free to attend.

📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom

More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lapwo...
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
Join us on Mon 24 Nov for Alice Whittle's @acwhittle.bsky.social Lapworth Lecture.

How does peatland restoration affect microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs?

Open to all, free entry.

📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom

For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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thefosterlab.bsky.social
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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aylwyn-scally.bsky.social
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
Join Alice Whittle (University of Derby) @acwhittle.bsky.social as she explores the effect of peatland restoration on microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs in our Lapworth Lecture on Monday 24 Nov.

Available in-person on campus and on Zoom.

For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
BE PART OF THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF THINKING VERY HARD ABOUT FIELDWORK. Thank you so much to everyone who has filled in the #yourpalaeolife survey so far, you are all extraordinary people – but we need more!

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#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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October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
How does peatland restoration affect microbes and carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs?

Delve into the world of mighty microbes with Alice Whittle @acwhittle.bsky.social at our next Lapworth Lecture on Mon 24 Nov, available on campus and on Zoom.

More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lapwo...
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
Very exciting to be presenting a lightning view of the #Yourpalaeolife results for @thepalass.bsky.social #PalAss2025 in December. The survey still has a few more weeks to run though! Follow the link to complete it:

forms.gle/cLLkEjdLjPrT...
October 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
For anybody not in the UK, Dan’s talk will be live on Zoom and then later on the Museum’s YouTube channel 🦜 less than a fortnight to wait!
lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · Oct 14
Dr Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will speak about the importance of #fieldwork for macroecology & macroevolution at our next #LapworthLecture.

Free to attend, open to everyone.

📅 Mon 27 Oct, 17:30
📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham / Zoom

For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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palaeostephan.bsky.social
Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:
Digital skull models of the sabre-tooth species Smilodon (in the back and on the left) and Barbourofelis (in the front and on the right)
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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science.org
"… I carry the lesson with me that good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4q6ea31
An iIllustration of man looking in mirror with his reflection and students' reflections looking back, with text: I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach.
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
Dr Daniel Villar (Durham University) @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will speak about the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution at our next Lapworth Lecture, open to everyone and free to attend both on campus and remotely.

🕠 Mon 27 Oct, 5:30pm

More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
September 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
Dr Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social will be giving a Lapworth Lecture @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 27th October at 17:30 GMT, title: The Importance of Fieldwork for Macroecology and Macroevolution. Tea and biscuits in @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social afterwards (then pub).
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Lapworth Lecture - The Importance of Fieldwork for Macroecology and Macroevolution - University of Birmingham
Join us for Dr Daniel Villar's Lapworth Lecture on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.
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September 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
Hi palaeofriends! All PhD candidates and palaeontology early career researchers: please tell me about your field work hopes and dreams and how all that panned out for you. Vent your frustrations, gush your successes, shrug your ambivalence into the #yourpalaeolife survey 🦣🦕
forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...
#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...
forms.gle
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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financialtimes.com
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
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September 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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science.org
A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0
Map showing locations where high-quality mtDNA samples have been recovered from mammoths. The dot size corresponds to the approximate number of samples recovered. Columbian mammoths recently discovered in Mexico are the first from a tropical area to yield mtDNA; the Basin of Mexico location is the largest dot on the map and the furthest south. Columbian mammoths in North America descend from a 1-million-year-old steppe mammoth discovered in Krestovka, Russia, with additional ancestry from woolly mammoths.
September 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
What even a palaeontologist's relationship to field work? Where does it figure in our research lives? What, if any, are the growing pains we suffer to become our fully-fledged palaeo selves? We all need to know this, to understand it, in order hopefully make it better.
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#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...
forms.gle
September 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
My first poster at #SVP2025 😁 looking forward to ranting about marsupial biogeography. I will also be running the last few days of the #Yourpalaeolife survey at that time - so much excitement all at once!

forms.gle/th65AipuGP6r...
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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...
forms.gle
August 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
whosyourmammal.bsky.social
‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’
- Elizabeth Vrba
August 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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anatrecord.bsky.social
New study reveals surprising jaw diversity in early ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)!
Using XCT, researchers analyzed mandibles of 19 Devonian species—showing considerable variation in size, structure, and teeth.
Research by Ben Igielman et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
July 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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davfoff.bsky.social
‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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joeflansan.bsky.social
Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Using a newly developed spatiotemporal phylogeographic path analysis method combined with phylogenetic niche modelling, the authors estimate clade-wide dispersal maps spanning the early Permian to end...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM