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How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Pleased to see the BBC’s latest #NaturalHistory documentary series, #Earth finally air! Was thrilled to be invited to take part in the show - always up to talk Permo-Triassic & early dinosaur #evolution 🦖 Catch the series on #BBC2 or stream on BBC iPlayer.

🚨🚨 Paper alert! I am happy to share my new paper with Pierre Gueriau and Allison Daley 🥳. The paper talks about the suspension-feeding radiodonts from the Fezouata Shale 🇲🇦. Spoiler: Aegirocassis was not alone. Check out the link if you want more details bit.ly/47B1W9k

1/2 The situation in Lebanon is alarming. The political class is using hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community to divert citizens' attention, while daily armed clashes and assassinations intensify societal divisions in a complex regional geopolitical context.

Help me unlock this achievement, I only need to review one more paper! My expertise is Early Palaeozoic Lagerstätten and their fossil assemblages (palaeoecology/biostratinomy) and taphonomy (esp. phosphatization), and early arthropod palaeobiology.

Let’s talk about death and decay at this mornings #PalAss23 session in Cambridge! Thread:

🚨📄 Paper Alert 📄🚨 Our new paper about the early developmental stages of a 480 million years old arthropod from Morocco is out! We used synchrotron X-ray microtomography to see details of these ~ 2 mm long babies. Details in 🧵👇 1/7

JOB: We're hiring a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology (permanent) UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences University of Bristol. Researchers of any branch of the tree of life and interval of Earth History welcome. Application deadline Dec 20. Please RT

Unfortunately my postdoc mobility proposal got rejected by the Swiss National Science Foundation The project is too good not to pursue especially with the huge dataset I have at my disposal and the great collaborations established to undertake it. Does anyone have suggestions for where to get it funded?

For #FossilFriday, Kerygmachela’s holotype. When it was first described, small bumps on the sides of the trunk were thought to represent walking legs, but with the discovery of Mobulavermis, its more likely these represent muscles that controlled the flaps. 📸 by Morten Lunde Nielsen

Great walkthrough of Sirius Passet and our newly published giant stem-chaetognath, Timorebestia koprii by Junseok Choi (Tupan) 👇💫

Here is a new painting from me... Meet Timorebestia koprii, a giant (~30 cm long) chaetognath from the early Cambrian (approx. 520 mya) Sirius Passet biota, North Greenland: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt

Bristol is an amazing city - come and join us on a BBSRC Post-Doc Fellowship ukri.org/opportunity/20…

Whoop whoop! Great study just out by my postdoc Valentina Rossi, using high-tech analyses that show the soft tissues in this fossil reptile are not original. Great work Valentina! @thepalass iCRAG Centre Ireland's Fossil Heritage Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC UCC Research

1/3 Bullies exist in academia, often targeting ECRs & marginalized communities (from peer review to public attacks, even insulting emails). Diverging scientific opinions are fine, but let's not blur the line between criticizing science & the scientist.

Another enjoyable walkthrough of their new worm-paper by Karma Nanglu!

A guide to the Palaeoscolecida and my thoughts on collections-based research as a curator, in anticipation of our new paper 🪱😁

Very nice! As a sidenote for the interested, chordates are also known (but not yet described) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, another early Cambrian deposit from Laurentia. It was mentioned briefly in our latest giant chaetognath paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📢 2 #Jobs position as collections manager at the Natural History Museum of Denmark ⌛️Application deadline: 31st of August

Peer reviewing bullying is definitely prevalent in palaeontology where the subcommunities can be very small. I've seen several reviewers weaponize their peer reviews to gatekeep or protect their own hypotheses. Such a shame for the community! I hope this paper can help.