so happy to see this finally out! Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids nature.com/articles/s4139…

The ARC in S.A. has it all when it comes to Neoprot type sections, including glacials from the Sturtian and Marinoan and even a golden spike at the Cryogenian-Ediacaran transition! Love this work Dr Jarred C Lloyd 👌

Devonian fish skins from the base of the mud plug in the Worange Point formation. Exploring point bar deposits with sedimentologist and all round legend Brad Opdyke!

Classic examples of flaser and lenticular bedding from the Bellbird Creek formation. Changing energies in a tidal system along with rapid subsidence and sediment supply create these beautiful textures! #DEVONIANSEDS #TIDALFLATDEPOSITS #AUSTRALIANSEDS #USINGALEAFASSCALE

Some great work coming out of the Brocks group today. DEATH TO SPONGES!!

My first contribution to On_Circulation. Take a step back in time to Earth's ancient microbial beginnings, the story of complex life 🔬🧫. Part 1 - Reminiscences of a soupy beginning

Part 2 of my 2 part series on the early evolution of complex life. See what cataclysms drove life to all new heights. From Soup the Slime - Evolution and Revolution 🦠🧪

Exciting stuff coming from down the hall this week. Fantastic work Clinton Foster!

Brilliant talk from Caleb Bishop at ANU on geological evidence for the Snowball Earth episode. #virtualgesss Geogical Society Australia

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of what being a geologist is like

Which came first? The #oxygen or the #eukaryotes? Caleb Bishop gives us some clues at #VGESSS2022 Geogical Society Australia

One of my greatest pleasures is to teach about the wonders of rocks!! About how the seemingly ordinary is totally extraordinary!! 🪨 Ft. Lachlan Fold Belt seds 🤘

Fantastic work from Brocks et al. published in Nature yesterday. Discovering a lost world of complex life. It has been awesome seeing this work come to fruition. doi.org/10.1038/d41586… The paper can be found here. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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A rise in Alphaproteobacteria seemingly occurred alongside the rise of eukaryotes. See our new paper to find out why! 🦠 Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago nature.com/articles/s4155…