Katie Collins

I'll be joining my ChaSE buddies today to talk chalk at the Festival! Come hang out!

The library of the Geological Society of London with tables set out for the Festival of Geology.

A series of chalk fossils and information about life in the chalk seas.

If you're in #London today then come along to the @geolassoc.bsky.social FREE 'Festival of Geology' @geolsoc.bsky.social on Piccadilly. We'll be there showcasing some #chalk fossils and talking about our work on #Cretaceous ecosystems and environmental change. Come and say hello!

The geometric mean is my constant companion but the mode is a comforting friend whomst I am always delighted to work with

I'm a palaeobiologist, of course I have a favourite average

(It's the mode. Love me a modal value)

I'm thinking "Nanotyrannoconcha" has a nice ring to it for my next new bivalve 🤔

Macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group, Brazil: Legal and ethical challenges and neocolonial legacies in paleontology

🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️🧪
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.

It's incredible how much of a difference it makes!

Running "beep()" after little bits of code that take juuuuust long enough to tempt me to look away and get something else done has massively helped me to stay on task today

A cartoon showing six different types of traces made by invertebrates on a clam shell, including a snail bore hole, sea urchin scrapes, barnacle attachment scars, octopus boreholes, boring clam drill holes, and a network of eroded burrows from boring sponges

Finally finished this #fossilexplainer comic I started back in June. No. 62 - marine invertebrate borings/traces

For the first time ever I'm looking forward to Halloween and it's entirely bc I get to wear my big cosy homemade Jorunna parva costume (white hoodie I drew spots on with a brown sharpie) at work again

Metazooa but it uses all of WoRMS as its list ....

If i had any coding skill at all I'd try and make a version of Metazooa that pulled animal names from somewhere more comprehensive bc why on earth does it not have "okapi" ffs

Sexy Lima aspera Thiele 1918?

A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

We do, we need to make it happen

An often overlooked aspect of late stage capitalism is needing to crowdfund artisanal sacabambaspis memes

Oh good the review request came through and it isn't even remotely in my wheelhouse 🙄

Particularly since there's never an option for "opt out of this" or "remove me from your system". I don't want an account on your system!

I do understand why the "we've made you an acccount" email comes before the "please will you review the paper" email but honestly? It feels so bloody rude to have someone create an account for you in a system you haven't yet agreed to, that I'm that much less likely to agree to do the review >:(

YSF2025 Registration Form Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢

If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

Saving the Museum After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑

@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social

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God I hate bloody fireworks

😍😍😍😍

Sorry specsavers but every annoying scolding message you send me makes me less likely to book an eye test with you

Humans & Mollusks — Museum of the Earth

Learn more about some of the ways bivalves and other mollusks have been and remain important to humans here: www.museumoftheearth.org/marvelous-mo...

Hey @theonion.com if you go see the folks at PRI they could tell you there is SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN from all molluscs, but they could really use a boost so they can stay afloat and keep working!

For they today that shed their haemolymph with me, shall ever be my sibling, be they ne'er so univalve! This day shall gentle their condition. And other invertebrates now a-bed shall think they were accurs'd they were not here!

Medieval manuscript marginalia if a knight cowering in fear of a mighty snail stretching out its foot over him.

The clams call, and the gastropods will answer in support of the old molluscan alliance.

The day may come when the courage of mollusks fails, but it will not be this day!

I feel like me and @dantheclamman.blog vs The Onion is the plucky underdog story that the world needs

I don't know but at least now I finally know who my fated nemesis is 😂 the Onion can fight me 😂