Interested in studying exceptional #Palaeozoic #fossils from incredible places like this? We are still accepting applications: ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ joemoysiuk.weebly.com/student-opport… #FossilFriday

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT-data in perspective. tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

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

“So Rod, what did you do at work today?” (an ongoing series) Ferrofluid is an oil that contains tiny magnetic particles, so it reacts to magnets, allowing us to see - at least in part - what magnetic fields look like. They’re normally invisible, so this is cool stuff. 🤓

Excited to share my latest thoughts in nature: From the discovery of fossilized #dinosaur cells to the application of time-integrated #biosignatures! 🦕🧬🚀 Explore the fate of biomolecules through time - here: rdcu.be/edUZR #astrobiology #paleontology Johns Hopkins University

Check out our latest paper on fossil feather preservation - really weird preservation in zeolites, in a pyroclastic flow! The research was led by UCC palaeontology postdoc Dr Valentina Rossi tinyurl.com/a6xhkm98

Interesting As Fuck The difference between 15 years of erosion and 50 years of erosion

Billions of people have never seen the beauty of the Plankton. Share to show them and to also reveal that among it now, drifts our microplastic pollution. ZEISS Microscopy

#paleobotany #Stellula meridionalis gen. et sp. nov., the oldest fossil flower from the Early #Cretaceous of #Argentina doi.org/10.1016/j.revp…

A fossil treasure trove from Germany reveals the untold story of how life bounced back after Earth’s worst extinction. Predators, proto-dinosaurs, and climate clues await—what did they leave behind in stone? dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/252-mi… #fossils #paleontology

Article: Periods with enhanced iron and sulfide availability that promoted recycling of bioavailable phosphorus from sediments contributed to the episodic development of oxygen oases in the Archean ocean nature.com/articles/s4156…

Article: Deep marine shelf environments experienced fluctuating levels of seawater oxygenation prior to the Great Oxygenation Event UAlberta Research & Innovation Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews nature.com/articles/s4156…

Ol-Gabbro はんれい岩もなかなかですな。

Plag+Cpx poikilitic glomerophyre in lava from Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Very intriguing “xenolith” (or could it be cognate?).

Whether you're a student, a geologist, or just passionate about rocks in thin section, this is the book you’ve been waiting for! my NEW book is now available: cambridge.org/core/books/atl…

Stone cutting process

The most-cited article for #GSABulletin this month is "Tectonic discrimination of granitoids" by Papu D. Maniar and Philip M. Piccoli. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulleti… #Geology #GSAPubs Image: Fig. 1

A colleague asked for my help in polishing a thin section on short notice. I am quite busy, but who could say no to such a beautiful sample? 🤩 #ThinsectionThursday

A book promo from our CMS family member Stephan Kaufhold! Happy reading! Book (edited): Bentonites Link: schweizerbart.de/publications/d…

Thin Section Thursday! 2-pyroxene granulite from the Ivrea-Verbano zone, with lozenges of high relief orthopyroxene (pink) and clinopyroxene, (green), and low relief, slightly altered plagioclase. In XP, the plagioclase has curved (deformed) twin boundaries. From Matt Kohn.