
Meghan Jenkinson
@palaeo_meghan
Jurassic palaeontologist 🐊PhD student @PanoramaDTP @SEELeeds 🐚MEarthSci graduate @UOM_EES 🦑Events assistant @OriginalGCG 🐋 ADHD 🦖 she/her 🦕Views my own🦞
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‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama as part of a collaborative U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums UA Arts & Sciences


📢Submission are now OPEN 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 Bob Nicholls Art. Closing date 25th November. Full details: palaeosoc.org/grants-prizes/… #paleoart








The Natural History Museum of L.A. County (National History Museum of Los Angeles County) is looking for a full-time Curator (associate or full) to lead the growth and development of an innovative Community Science program ... #scicomm



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


🚨New paper alert!🚨 Our paper describing a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, 𝐴𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑠𝑖, has just been published (The PalAss)! A. simmsi possesses the earliest likely occurrence of aposematic (protective) colouration in cockroaches!🪳


I'm incredibly happy to finally be able to talk about this! A Jurassic cockroach I illustrated for Dr Emily Swaby and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has finally been published! Meet Alderblattina simmsi! #paleoart #paleontology #InsectThursday #fossils




