It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. (John Murray Press) The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor.

THEN vs NOW: Radcliffe Square looking towards All Souls 📷 | Doreen Brock #ThrowbackThursday

Congrats to Mati Carbon — and Yale’s Noah Planavsky — on winning the $50 million grand prize in the four-year XPrize Carbon Removal competition. Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture bit.ly/4cJHPsk #sustainability #climatesolutions

A fantastic new update on the UK's involvement in Horizon Europe! Check out the update below to find out how UK scientists, researchers and businesses now have increased access to Horizon Europe quantum and space funding.👇

A pleasure to walk around Iona and to meet some of the young families who call this special island home.

Eight distinguished academics from Oxford University have been elected Fellows of the The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to science. Congratulations to: - Prof Kevin Foster FRS - Prof Mike Giles FRS - Prof Jim

Thrilled to celebrate MPLSOxford colleagues election to The Royal Society - David Pyle Oxford Earth Sciences, Rhizosphere Lab Oxford Biology Mike Giles Oxford Mathematics, Shivaji Sondhi Department of Physics at University of Oxford, Philip Kukura Oxford Chemistry. Congrats to Jim Hall OxfordSocialSciences & Kevin Foster Medical Sciences

Exciting news at Cambridge! We are launching the Darwin-Hamied Centre to promote research at the intersection of biodiversity and economics christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-ha…. We are advertising two 5-year Senior Research Fellowships—application deadline 22nd June! christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-chri…

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Please get in touch with questions!

Feeling astronomically grateful for the opportunity to lead the organisation of and attend #Geobiology2025 🦠🗻in Banff! I had lots of amazing conversations with fellow researchers from all over the field, and presented on my ongoing PhD work⚡️See you in 2027 🤩

New paper out in geosociety Bulletin led by Alexie Millikin with implications for exceptional fossilisation in the Tonian Svanbergfjellet Formation. The Royal Society University of Oxford Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford Earth Sciences pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulleti…

Wonderfully kind and fulsome review of my book 'The Tree of Life' in the TLS by Charles Foster. "breezy, scholarly, whimsical, rigorous and companionable…" "extraordinary, adventurous book." I am absolutely THRILLED. John Murray Press UCL Biosciences the-tls.co.uk/science-techno…

Archway view at All Souls 📷 Instagram | Judy.Martin46

In Monaco to mark World Oceans Day at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum yesterday. The Forum, organised by the Prince Albert II of Monaco, served as a powerful reminder that the ocean holds the key to a healthier planet 🌍 It brings together business leaders, government

New paper out today led by Kelly Tingle Vanderbilt University on shifts in acritarch morphology across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Read in Royal Society Publishing. The Royal Society Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford Earth Sciences University of Oxford Senckenberg Research royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Happy #SummerSolstice! ☀️ Today marks the longest day of the year – and the start of astronomical summer.

In case you missed it: The Bodleian Libraries announced the endowment of its most senior position thanks to a £4 million gift from the Helen Hamlyn Trust. This support secures the future of Bodley’s Librarian and enables new opportunities for global collaboration. Read more ⬇️

407-million-year-old fungal sporophore (?) observed today

Grateful to The Royal Society for the wonderful opportunity to give a talk and for my lab group to host an activity on early life and fossilisation at the #summerscience exhibition yesterday. Wonderful day! University of Oxford Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford Earth Sciences youtube.com/watch?v=bRTKg4…

Our beautiful city 😍 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford