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My extremely talented colleague, Samaneh Pazoki, drew this portrait of R. Fisher as a reitrement gift @uio.no #naturalhistorymuseum #evolution #oslo

Deadline is this Sunday!

Judith Pardo-Pérez and I are organizing a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social 🤩 Hope to see very many interesting abstracts! Get in touch if there are questions.

It is finally out! In this paper we show an easy way to stage ichthyosaur fetuses based on the relative size of their notochordal canal on their vertebrae (NCI). Important findings: NCI clearly separates fetal stage together with cranium

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Great news! We’ve extended the deadline! The TDWG 2026 Call for Sessions extended deadline is 2 March 2026, 23:59 UTC-10. Image: Nasjonal turistveg Aurlandsfjellet by Håvard Nesbø. Visitnorway.com

👏 Great news! We’ve extended the deadline!

Extended deadline for session proposals: 🗓️ 2 March 2026, 23:59 UTC-10!

Submit an organized session for #TDWG2026 in #Oslo.

Theme: 🔬& 🤖 Research & robot‑ready biodiversity data standards.

More info: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...

a musk ox in an open field in a mountainous landscape

📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026 closing soon!

You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.

Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards

⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1

🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...

@tdwg.org

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends.

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an eagle soaring over a lake

📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026

You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.

Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards

⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1

Learn more: 🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...

@tdwg.org

Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada

This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

A cream coloured background with a biological drawing of a shell and text reading ebbe nielsen challenge 2026 with the GBIF logo at the bottom

🚀 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is now OPEN!

Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸

⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026

🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026

TDWG 2026, Oslo, Call for Sessions, Deadline: 26 Feb 2026, 09:59 UTC

📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...

Happy Saturday @malihr.bsky.social made a lovely gallery with some beautiful #Norwegian #byrozoans specimens
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... #NorDigBryo

All videos from our #LivingData2025 conference with @geobon.org, @gbif.org, and @obis.org are now public! It was an amazing conference in Bogota, Colombia, thanks to our hosts at Instituto Humboldt. www.youtube.com/@LivingData2...

Professor Erin Saupe awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

Prof Erin Saupe (@eesaupe.bsky.social) has been awarded funding from the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants! The EXTINCT project will develop new ways of determining what causes marine invertebrates to die out.

www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

We are delighted to share the latest In Conversation interview, featuring Prof Erin Saupe (@eesaupe.bsky.social)! In this feature, we discuss everything from the role of palaeontology in responding to climate change to the scientific inaccuracies of Jurassic Park...

Read more: buff.ly/agbV4vg

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

2025 Hutton Medal: An inventory of all life in Aotearoa – past and present Dr Dennis Gordon, an Emeritus Researcher at Earth Sciences New Zealand, has been awarded the Hutton Medal for extraordinary contributions to global taxonomy, as the world’s leading authority on Bryozo...

Dennis Gordon got the prestigious Hutton Award! I'm so happy for the recognition of his amazing work on taxonomy, systematics & natural history! So lucky to have worked with, & been in the field with Dennis — one of the best humans I've ever met! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/m... #bryozoa #NZ

I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️

Thank you for a great conference in Birmingham #2025SVP with the Natural History Museum @uio.no team🤩 @aubronectes.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @meghalithic.bsky.social Petter Nordenhaug and Mathieu Faure-Brac

Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory Historical nonequilibrium processes are often considered the main drivers of global biodiversity patterns. We argue that while biodiversity is often o…

Cool new work by Storch, Ridder, and Okie - Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory #macroecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐

Stylistic viking ship with bryozoan structures riding on the wave of Oslo 2026. Designed by Carolann Schack and Lee Hsiang Liow

Pre-registration for the Oslo Larwood #bryozoan is open. Welcome to Oslo 1-3 June 2026. @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social @tschwaha.bsky.social Link to registration in comment under.

Jeg fikk diskutere Jurassic World Rebirth i siste utgave av @forskerforum.bsky.social. Det er bra for all biologisk forskning at folk liker dinosaurer, og så lenge man husker at det ikke er en dokumentar kan man slippe å bli surmaga. Men: marine reptiler er ikke dinosaurer, såpass forventer jeg 🐬🦖🦕

Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality It has long been debated whether non-avian dinosaurs went extinct abruptly or gradually at the end-Cretaceous (66 million years ago), because their fossil record at this time is mostly limited to nort...

Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Unge forskere i fokus under MSc, PhD and Postdoc Days 2025 - Naturhistorisk museum To dager med unge forskere, ny kunnskap og inspirasjon! Naturhistorisk museum arrangerte denne uken sin fjerde MSc, PhD and Postdoc Days, der masterstudenter, doktorgradskandidater og postdoktorer del...

We are so proud of all the talented MSc students, PhDs and postdocs at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Just finished two days of impressive talks about their projects. 🧪

www.nhm.uio.no/om/aktuelle-...

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Why Sharks Matter: The science and law of saving threatened sharks from extinction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t... Sharks are some of the most ecologically important, most threatened, and most misunderstood animals on Earth. Learn all about them with a presentation from marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shif...

I’m giving a (rescheduled until Thursday) free public talk about marine biology, ocean conservation, and sharks!

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hi #eseb2025 folks. Last night my laptopbag was taken /picked pocketed from me at outdoor seating at a restaurant. Close to the conference centre. Please keep your belongings close even in not crowded places. I was with 7 other people and no one saw it happening. cCTV did.