We are looking for volunteers to join our team! Are you proficient in #graphicdesign and illustration tools? Or do you have an eye for creating engaging short form #videocontent? Apply for new #volunteer roles now: ow.ly/veuF50Thlc1 Positions will remain open until filled.

This #FossilFriday I'm celebrating the newly described #Ediacaran organism #Mamsetia manunis. Finding this specimen was easily the most exciting discovery I've ever made in the field: you don't often find the oldest muscular organism known to science! 😃 (1/4)

The Fermor Seed Corn Fund is still open for submissions. This fund provides seed funding to those unable to apply for traditional research funding. For more information, please visit: geolsoc.org.uk/fermor

Excited to share our latest work on the South American Ediacaran fossil record! It’s freely available for the next 50 days. Check it out using the links below! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jkua2weQwxjt sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What a fantastic discovery by a fantastic scientist! Read all about it (and see some of the footage of these stunning soft corals) here - gazette.mun.ca/research/a-rar…

📰 Check out our new article in Nature Geoscience, outlining the 'Geodiversity Challenges' facing society and efforts in nature recovery:

This #FossilFriday: Kimberella, a 555 million year old (#Ediacaran) organism from Russia and Australia. Recent work suggests it was an early #mollusc, so could be a relative of modern snails. They are sometimes found near scratch marks, thought to be made by their feeding.

Yes, I've shared this image before - and I'll share it again! Easily the most majestic #trilobite I've ever held in my own hands, this remarkable 34 cm long Paradoxides davidis comes from Middle #Cambrian rocks at Manuels River, #Newfoundland, #Canada. #TrilobiteTuesday

Seems it’s #nationalfossilday! Here are two important fossils I’ve studied in recent years: #Mamsetia (the world’s oldest known muscular organism) and #Fractofusus (the most common #Ediacaran fossil in #Newfoundland). I can’t describe the joy this work has given me. ❤️‍🔥

PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, Natural England & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by Mark Witton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through CENTA - more info here centa.ac.uk/studentship/20…

I had to report an abandoned car yesterday, just got a phone call and I finally got to say the thing! "Is this Mr McKean?" "Actually, it's Dr McKean" "Sir, this is the police about the report you made" "Ohhh"

Officially Dr McKean... got the paperwork and everything 😁 It was great heading back to Newfoundland to attend my PhD graduation Memorial University, even better that my family and @DMcEdiacaran could attend! Thank you to everyone I met during my PhD, couldn't have done it without you!

It's times like these I'm REALLY jealous I'm not still out in Canada with the @munpaleobiology team!

This #FossilFriday, let's go to the #Cambrian aged Burgess Shale in #Canada for one of my favorite #arthropods, #Waptia fieldensis. They're rarely more than 6 cm long, but they show remarkable preservation: guts, eyes, antennae, even - very rarely- eggs! (shorturl.at/HGk1e)

Hiya The PalAss meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.

Please share around: I'm very pleased to announce a fully funded MSc position opening with Ricardo L. Silva and I at UMRiddellFaculty & Manitoba Museum. More details here: joemoysiuk.weebly.com/student-opport… #FossilFriday #Ordovician

Just in time for the year's end: an updated geochronology chart from the ICS:

A new Micropalaeontology Research Technician post has opened up EarthSciences UCL ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…