This week we're diving into the La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte in France. This Jurassic site is notable for its preservation of deep sea creatures like arthropods, cephalopods, and echinoderms. #LaVoulteWeek #Paleontology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Getting ready for Pint of Science at the Barley Mow for a night full of Lasers, Fossils and Soils! 🍺🔬🦀⛰️🔨🔭 #Pint23 Pint of Science UK SEGG, University of Portsmouth Palaeo Scene

Finished giving my lightning talk today at Progressive Palaeontology 2023 on my PhD project: Experimental effects of wave processes on Arthropod taphonomy! 🌊🦐 Thank you again to everyone who organised the conference and for inviting me to speak! 🦕🦖

As the main event comes to a close, we want to thank our amazing ProgPal attendees. The quality of the presentations this year was exceptional, and we've been thrilled to host you over the these last few days. The weather is looking pretty good for tomorrow's field day, too! ☀️

Huge congratulations to the winners of this year's PeerJ Publishing supported prize winners! From left to right: Best talk: Dr Jake Atterby Best poster: Megan Jones Best lightning talk: Laura Devine

📢Postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Exeter (UK): Exposing The Nature Of Model Error In Weather And Climate Models project. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Thulaspis tholops: A new genus and species of Cambrian arthropod from the North Greenland Lagerstätte Sirius Passet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… #PapersinPalaeontology (1/6)

PeerJ Congratulates Laura Kate Devine - Best Lightning Talk Award Winner at ProgPal 2023 Progressive Palaeontology 2023 Laura is a PhD candidate University of Portsmouth Learn about Laura’s research bit.ly/3JDdYo3 Laura Devine

Laura Devine starts our "taphonomy talks" with the current results of her PhD looking at taphonomic degradation of marine #arthropods using experimental means on modern analogues of #trilobites! #SEBExPalaeo #SEBconference

Wonderful BBC series Earth 🌍 with Chris Packham has an episode on Snowball Earth & how it may have influenced the origins of animals in the #Ediacaran with a lovely overview of our Deep Time Ecology work on the fossils @DiscoveryGEONL Mistaken Point tinyurl.com/4838dvfn

📢 #PalAss23 67th annual meeting will take place in #Cambridge on September 12- 14 🗓️There will be an #ECR event on the 11th evening and a post- conference #fieldtrip on the 15th 👉Registration closes on August 22: tinyurl.com/yw9cfkwp

IT IS OUT! As long as we have started studying animals, the simple question “what’s the heaviest animal that ever lived?” had a simple answer: the blue whale…well, not any more E. Celebratory thread for our paper just out nature dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

First session of #PalAss23 annual conference!! Dr Orla Bath Enright🌱🦞🐅 The PalAss Can't wait for all of the great talks!

Closing out the session was PARTY SHRIMP 🎉🦐🎉! Laura Devine showed us some fun videos of crustaceans vibing in a wave transport tank with serious taphonomic implications

The experimental effects of  wave processes on arthropod taphonomy: implications for Lagerstätten and small carbonaceous fossils - Laura Devine  Comic by Dr. Ellis Jones #PalAss23

Finished my first talk at #Palass23 Cambridge Earth Sciences investigating the effects of wave action on arthropod taphonomy!Thank you to all who attended and The PalAss for inviting me to talk! In case you missed it, here's a video of what animal we're looking at next! 🥳🦐

Delighted to join the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology this week as a PhD student at King's College London 🎉 in a cross-disciplinary approach to the evolution of suckling behaviour in mammals 🔬

Subtle signs graduate students are getting a hang of this doing research business...

The oldest fossil cockroach with clear evidence for a colouration pattern to deter predators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… Dr Emily Swaby The Open University OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences Bristol Museum & Art Gallery CENTA #PapersinPalaeontology