Advise by Simon Conway Morris is a hilarious one

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

🚨‼️ Two graduate student positions available to work on Precambrian fossils. #PhDposition Come work with us on the Ediacaran Avalon Assemblage. The oldest complex animal (?) remains on Earth! We are a very versatile paleobiology group based in St. John’s, NL 🇨🇦.

Phd position announced! Come work with us on Ediacaran paleobiology. Unique material, good environment, and a prolific research team!

Was going through some old books in the office today and spotted this gem. #goals

Delighted that Nile's first paper is now out NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s4155… which investigates the driving forces behind the evolution of early metazoans from the Ediacaran time period ~565 million years ago.

This #FossilFriday: Charnia cf. gracilis (left) and Arborea spinosus, from the recently discovered #Ediacaran Inner Meadow surface in #Newfoundland. This incredible site will be rewarding us with new discoveries for decades to come! Photo: shorturl.at/4W2Ed

Beyond the scope

Say hello to the oldest animals in the fossil record - #Haootia quadriformis and INTRODUCING #Mamsetia manunis These crown-group cnidarians were found within the @DiscoveryGEONL and are vital to the story of life on Earth Read about them in our new paper mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9…

👉Featured Paper: The Palaeobiology of Two Crown Group Cnidarians: Haootia quadriformis and Mamsetia manunis gen. et sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada 🧑‍🔬By D. McIlroy et al., from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 🔗mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9…

I’m pumped to share my latest paper out today in Current Biology with Scott Evans and mary droser describing the first Ediacaran ecdysozoan body fossil! (free via this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7J73QW8S6G…)

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience