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Palaeo-ichthyologist geoscientist, lecturer at University of Edinburgh, mountaineer and outdoor instructor, husband and dad. Views are my own

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International Symposium on Palaeo-Bioinspiration 2025 - Sciencesconf.org

Registration is now open for the Second International Symposium on Palaeo-bioinspiration to be held here in Edinburgh this June.

Evolution, form, function, architecture, engineering, art and more.

Please forward to all those who might be interested.

palbins2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

21.01.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image A shocked reconstruction of a fish

A shocked reconstruction of a fish

Did you know, that the famous reconstruction of Sacabambaspis, which became a meme sensation in Japan, was created by Estonian palaeontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik (1928-2016)

Sometimes the world is beautiful.

19.12.2024 12:46 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Beautiful day out on Beinn an Dothaidh today. Looking SW towards Ben Cruachan.

10.12.2024 19:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.

The new paper from our lab has dropped! πŸ§ͺ
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

27.11.2024 16:40 πŸ‘ 172 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8

Homies, this looks like a fantastic oppurtunitiy πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

25.11.2024 22:44 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us!
Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens!
Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me.
DetailsπŸ‘‡
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

25.11.2024 15:32 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
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Ready for the chop! A series of rocks from last summer's and this year's holidays ready to be made up into thin sections in my workshop #scottishgeology #alpinegeology

23.11.2024 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Natalia Jagielska, former PhD student from the University of Edinburgh Palaeo group (now at the Lyme Regis museum) giving a great talk today at UoE Geosciences about the history of Mary Anning, women in palaeontology and social class in Victorian science.

22.11.2024 15:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0