Ancient ‘Dune’-like Sandworm Existed Far Longer Than Thought - read about a newly described species that was found in our collections by MCZ/Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology invertebrate paleontologists Karma Nanglu and Javier Ortega Hernández nytimes.com/2024/03/26/sci…

For a perfect #WormWednesday , Javier Ortega Hernández and I can introduce our newest species Selkirkia tsering! This worm is from the ~475 million year old Fezouata fauna, and has important implications for how we understand early animal diversification! tinyurl.com/3p3m5yh2

A big lesson of COVID was that we all need to slow down, and that our expectations around work were not sustainable, especially without support. So why does it feel like, four years in, there are even higher expectations and greater demands for instant availability?

¿Te interesan los nuevos descubrimientos paleontológicos? Entonces, acompáñanos este miércoles 20 de Marzo a las 4pm en el Museo Geológico Nacional del Servicio Geológico Colombiano en la charla: ' #FÓSILES FANTASTICOS Y DONDE ENCONTRARLOS: Nuevos hallazgos del Periodo Cretácico de #Colombia ' 🏔️🔬🦀⭐️

The 7th International Palaeontological Congress is happening in Cape Town, from 30 of November to 3 of December 2026!
Save the Date!
Looking forward to see all of you!
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Students of OEB 56: The History and Evolution of Life on Earth, taught by MCZ Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Prof. Javier Ortega-Hernández and Prof. Nadja Drabon, are spending spring break in southern Utah, visiting Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossil localities.

🚨Conference alert 🚨R. Gaines, S. Pruss, Javier Ortega Hernández, and I will chair a session dedicated to the biotic, geobiological, stratigraphic, and geochemical contexts of the evolution of life in the Cambrian at geosociety #GSAConnects2024 . We hope to see you all in Anaheim!

🚨New paper Science Magazine led by my PhD student Cooper Malanoski on extinction selectivity. We find taxa will go extinct regardless of their traits if climate change is great enough: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
University of Oxford Dan Lunt Alex Farnsworth🌻 Graphic by: Maija Karala

Paleo Job!
Milwaukee Public Museum is looking for a Curator.
Pays well, has a strong research component, both invert and vert.
Milwaukee is a great town - come join us in continuing to build the paleo community of the Central US!

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Delighted to report that the first paper of my PhD is out in Lethaia! 🥳
In it, we describe a new protocol for stabilization of taphonomic experiments via solvent replacement, using some Ediacaran-style decay experiments as a case study.

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

Tenure track professorship in arthropod functional morphology available in our department! See here, spread the word, apply 👇👇👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Tra…

Now preparing a talk as a Guest speaker in a seminar series at the Lab for Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Javier Ortega Hernández to discuss the 'Digging Deeper...' paper. Thank you for the invite!

Hot off the press! 📰Sara Losso uses historic thin sections to understand how trilobite enrollment is similar to modern arthropod movements e.g. isopods. #MCZInvertPaleo #FossilFriday news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

A friendly reminder for the paleontological students looking for funds 💵💴💶💷, this awesome list of grants from the Palaeontological Association exists! Check it out if you're looking to fund your research!
Thanks The PalAss !
'List of External Grants' go.palass.org/5tx

Want to learn how to do in situ HCR in your non-traditional arthropod? Join my virtual presentation followed by Q&A on Jan 25th, 5-6pm ET!

Eerily accurate 😂

Rule Zero: Do not follow this type of “advice”

Supervisors are (or at least should be) there to elevate students and help them grow into their potential. To be worried about being outshined by a mentee is mediocre at best and toxic at worst.

Maybe the 🧵 is an unfunny joke?

#ProcB Convergent #evolution of ventral adaptations for enrolment in trilobites and extant #euarthropods ow.ly/Veqt50QkwCV #Behaviour Javier Ortega Hernández #Palaeobiology

Excellent🧵on the lab's latest study The Royal Society where Sarah Losso & pals reveal how trilobites, millipedes & isopods share the same basic ventral adaptations for protective enrolment based on Museum of Comparative Zoology historic collections - some serious trilobite eye candy right here! 🤩