Lectureship in Invertebrate Palaeontology. Please let potential candidates know. And Please RT! Thanks very much. EarthSciences UCL CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Biosciences

The PalAss #PalGes2024 is offering 7 free #workshops on a variety of topics for registered users!

Our committee will soon circulate a registration form so you can choose your preferred workshop(s), so click this link to find out what we have on offer!

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Seeking support for conference travel? The PS recognizes the significance of promoting diversity and inclusion within educational and research endeavors!

$1200 - in-person attendees
$250 - online participants

Deadline: June 1! More info: paleosoc.org/ps-conference-…

#Geoscience

🚨Job Alert🚨 The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History is hiring up to THREE fossil preparators! More information in the announcement here: (usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet… and usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…). Closing date: June 7, 2024.

Our new paper is out today!

Palaeoscolecids from the Ludlow Series of Leintwardine, Herefordshire (UK): the latest occurrence of palaeoscolecids in the fossil record - Howard - 2024 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

Move over Dune, there is another deadly worm in town!

A new species of ancient burrowing predatory worm may have dragged itself along the sea floor, engulfing unsuspecting prey that crossed its path. 😮

Find out more about this impressive carnivore 👇
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Calling academics thinking of doing a sabbatical in 2025–2026...

All Souls College Visiting Fellowships now open for applications. Deadline 2 Sept. Come visit us University of Oxford!

For more information see: asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fello…

No spatial structure to Dickinsonia distribution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

‼️ Fossil Calibration Database will soon cease to function!

It is currently hosted on the old PalAss server, which is going to die and will not be replaced.

Please, be sure to get anything you need for it before the end of July 2024: tinyurl.com/4tywmzpd

Found this mystery vertebra on the beach in the Outer Banks NC, any suggestions for ID?

Two open positions at my faculty! Feel free to contact me if interested!

Our new Natural Environment Research Council-funded paper in Current Biology, led by Susana Gutarra with Emily G Mitchell, Frankie Dunn, Brandt, Rachel Racicot
& Simon Darroch, on the hydrodynamics of Mistaken Point Ediacaran communities and their role in mixing the water column: cell.com/current-biolog…

🚨Paper alert🚨New description of early representatives of the class Pterobranchia found in the mid-Cambrian Marjum Formation in Utah. Co-authored with J. Maletz and the Marjum crew, incl. @InvertebratePaland Lucas Del Mouro and published by the The PalAss

I don't know if anyone uses this site anymore, but posting just in case - I'm hiring! Please share widely with excellent candidates.

Marine Conservation Scientist - Nature Positive

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🚨 Postdoc position 🚨

Excited to be recruiting a postdoc to use sedimentary #ancientDNA 🧬 to better understand climate-associated impacts on an Arctic coastal ecosystem

Deadline: 15th June 2024
Based at Centre for Palaeogenetics & Stockholm University

Come join us! 😀

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Very scary for all marine life! 🪸🐚🦐🦞🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙🦑 🌡️

MSc/ PhD position in coral biology between Montreal & Mexico. Svp RT Québec-Océan CSBQ-QCBS Student Réseau Québec maritime Ouranos_CC @gril_quebec GRIL Biologistes-chercheur.es de l'UdeM Philippe Archambault

Meet Setapedites abundantis, a 485 million years old arthropod described by Lorenzo Lustri, Pierre Gueriau and Allison Daley. This tiny animal is abundant (hence it's name) in some levels of the Fezouata Shale and is a distant relative of today's 🕷️🦂
📄👉nature.com/articles/s4146…

‼️New article alert.🦀Collaborative project with Petsios Lab Paleobiology on the preservation potential of fossil parasitic traces in crustaceans published in PLOS ONE. Read summary story here: tinyurl.com/bdhja6yb
Specimens: Florida Museum NaturalHistoryDK. #FossilFriday Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums.

🚨 #Job alert

SENCKENBERG is looking for a Collection Scientist and Curator of Marine Invertebrates

An expert in sponge and/or Cnidaria (corals) taxonomy. Excellent young scientists are encouraged to apply!

⏳ Deadline May 30th
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