Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠）

CT scan of Menardella limbata specimen (Left) and a 3D reconstruction of a cross-section of the same specimen with individual chambers highlighted in different colors (Right). The scale bar represents 100 µm. Visualized in Dragonfly version 2021.3 (Object Research Systems, Canada).

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I wrote a short post about some characters to use when identifying and differentiating between the cyclostome genera Hornera and Stigmatoechos!

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Another fish gig!

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@malihr.bsky.social found a ctenostome bryozoan growing on a crustacean in one of our museum jars .. super cool!
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It was truly a pleasure to be part of this group. NIGPAS was amazing to visit, and the conveners were generous in opening their long-term work to a broad collaboration. I can't wait to see what comes of it.

I also learned a lot about fossils and some deep cuts of Nanjing history and cuisine.

Feng Yan (a young lady) standing beside huge crinoid fossils

5 happy persons standing outside the geology museum of CUG Chinese university of Geosciences in Wuhan

Four persons standing around museum collection cabinets

Yellow Crane tower (黄鹤楼） in Wuhan （武汉）

I followed my visit to Nanjing’s NIGPAS with a very short visit to The Chinese University of Geosciences (CUG) in Wuhan. Thank you Dr Song Haijun and Feng Yan for being wonderful hosts. Chatted with many brilliant young paleobiologists and geologists there.

Many small boxes of fossils in a collection drawer from NIGPAS

The museum part of NIGPAS Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology.

Description of the history of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology NIGPAS in Chinese and English.

International group of scientists walking side by side at JIMING temple. Nanjing.

A scientifically productive but also socially fabulous week at the Nanjing’s NIGPAS where they house c 150 paleontologists!! Excited to continue work we started with Li Qijian, Na Lin @davenquinn.com Ye Shan Adam Kocsis @kiessl.bsky.social & many other fantastic scientists!

When chanchitos fly, it happens 2,340 meters deep in the Ocean! This is a sea pig, or chanchito, if you’re a member of the #Uruguaysub200 science team. Scotoplanes sp. is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

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#FossilFriday The ‘face’ of the brachiopod Ancistrocrania from the Late Cretaceous Chalk of Belgium. One of the unused images taken for ‘Fossils, The Essential Guide’ which I wish was available at all good booksellers.

Please let us know if we can make it easier for u to attend ! Welcome to Oslo!!

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

watch this space! congrats @mluerig.bsky.social ! this will be fun!

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#MolluscMonday Miocene (Burdigalian) oyster bed at Sainte-Croix-du-Mont in SW France. Remarkably, this site is a tourist attraction and even has its own bar.

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Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

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And I got to visit the public museum quickly and entomology collection!

Evolutionary success of the turtle ants through extreme trait evolution and symbiosis - Natural History Museum Dr. Corrie Moreau, Cornell University

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

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What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual @paleosynth.bsky.social summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @dralexdunhill.bsky.social @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social & others for sending ur grad students over!

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New paper out in Geology! Cheilostome bryozoans evolved aragonite skeletons dozens of times during the transition from calcite to aragonite seas, in contrast to other marine calcifiers. Fossil occurrence data corroborate the story and help nail down the timeline. doi.org/10.1130/G537...

Cheilostome #bryozoans highly evolvable, at least when it comes to their skeleton. Switched to araonite many times! Phylogeny and fossil record agree on that! Read it in Geology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... led by @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social

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This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

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