FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
05.03.2026 07:15
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
I just heard that Carlos Moreno passed away today. Carlos was a pioneer in Chilean marine biology. I never worked with him but knew him as an esteemed colleague and person.
That sounds bad, but hopefully turns out good: cheers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking...
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
A big THANK YOU to the Field Museum for ensuring BHL continuity
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In 2025 the normally predictable upwelling in the Gulf of Panama failed to appear - the first time since our records began 40 years ago (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512056122I).
We are studying the gulf carefully to see what will happen in 2026. Will it also fail or was 2025 a one-off?
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
Unfortunately, I do not know Tartu. The other three are all very beautiful and different 😍
The Paleontological Society statement on recent events.
Hay un trabajo de Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta (1990) con muy malas imágenes. Lo tengo en la oficina y lo puedo revisar en unas dos semanas. No recuerdo a que grupo atribuye el material argentino
Buena! Están trabajando la morfología también? Reencontré mi material fósil, que puede pertenecer al grupo.
I'd love to see you in it! It would mean A) to see you, B) be at WCM and C) get to see the shirt as a bonus 😁
Cimomia haltomi, a beautiful Paleocene nautiloid. Gotta love nautiloids.
Very nice and useful review about Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSP) 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thank you AGU for the courage to report on this.
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
"Publishers have an economic incentive to accept even
subpar papers authored by guest editors, the researchers write, because guest editors work for free and recruit other authors to contribute to special issues."
Happy #MolluscMonday 🐚 and careful of some special issues 🙂
The call for nominations for the WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species 2025 is now closed.
The #toptenmarinespecies of 2025 will be announced on #taxonomistappreciationday (March 19th).
😮 Help name a new species!
Found 5,506m deep in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, this #deep-sea #chiton needs a #scientific name.
🙌We’re teaming up with @zefrank.bsky.social and @oceanspecies.bsky.social (SOSA) to let YOU decide!
👉Comment your name idea + 1 sentence explaining why.
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Temporal trends in coastline geometry and extinction risk across the Phanerozoic.
Interesting article exploring the role of the shapes of paleogeographies of coastlines as determinants of the extinction risk:
"Taxa...that occur along east-west– oriented coastlines, islands, or inland seaways—consistently exhibit higher extinction risk"
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧪⚒️ #Paleobio
I love the naglfari suggestion
Thanks for posting this. Cool idea :)
More mollusks: chitons belong in the class Polyplacophora. Modern ones always have 8 plates when adult, but there are fossil multiplacophorans with many more 🧪
More mollusks. Belemnites, apart from the chemical standards, are also used for biostratigraphy. They are cephalopods, squiddies with an internal shell 🧪
Indeed. I also thought first: what? about 8m?
Just saw the notice that abstracts are now open for the 7th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC7) on 30 November – 3 December 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. I'm really hoping to attend this year. Looks like it'll be a fantastic meeting!
Very cool paper on shark and ray diversity since Cretaceous times 🧪
