Graeme T. Lloyd

I’d always suspected as much.

A photograph of a fossil insect in a rock. The rock is beige fossil black, and kinda patchy in colour. It has a head towaerds the top, and the majority of the fossil is two easy to spot wing cases, which is how we know this little dude(tte) is a beetle.

Beetles are the most speciose animal order: 25% of described animal species are beetles. Everything has to start somewhere, though, and for #FossilFriday, here is the earliest known 'beetle' - the 297 million year old Coleopsis, found in Freisen (Saarland, Germany).

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Annoyingly ethical is going on my bio

Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Delighted to announce that the incredible Amanda Abbington is the narrator of the Flipping Patriarchy audiobook! Her authoritative tone is the perfect match for the content. Published on 4th September 2025. Pre-order today!

https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Hello! If you have a position at a UK university please sign this thanks

📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry.

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Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Well the idea of wielding genetic power to make big bucks from a zoo never made much sense in the first place. I mean keeping animals like that alive would be preposterously expensive and who ever heard of billionaires making their money off of zoos? But willing to suspend my disbelief there.

When it was open JW had a petting zoo too although not sure if they were just babies or not.

But yes. The stupid hybrids make no sense.

I feel like this is in the canon somewhere. I know Hammond had a mini elephant he would take to investor meetings in the book. Dolores is definitely at least a movie marketing dream.

InGen should have stuck to making rafts.

Same. Possibly two or three in the Jurassic movie ranking for me.

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Paleocene #5 (Comic Book) Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out most life on Earth. How did our ancestors survive?

We are into the final 24 hours for this comic about our prehistoric peimate ancestor who survived the asteroid impact that ended the “Age of Dinosaurs”. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee...

#paleoart #sciart #comics

The New Taxonomy: A Science Reimagined Today molecular data is part of many biological studies, including taxonomic works. Such data is embraced by taxonomists for good reasons. When combined with comparative morphology, palaeontology, and...

We have a new volume out! www.routledge.com/The-New-Taxo...

This collates contributions from a symposia in last year's Biennial Meeting. If you care for taxonomy and are curious about its future, check it out!

(Psst, Routledge is running its mid-year sale right now!)

Day78 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) back in a void but with an Aegocrioceras raricostatum ammonite(PRI 70596)

#SavePRI #MolluscMonday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #science 🦑

Just as I predicted.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Staff scientist position (computational):

I am looking for a computational scientist to join my genomics lab at Stanford. They should have an outstanding skillset in ML/statistical methods for genomic applications, postdoc experience and a strong publication record.
#sciencejobs

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

That makes more sense. PB&J behind the ears?

Local…to…Straya!?

Ever wanted to infer a morphological or total-evidence phylogeny in BEAST2?
It’s long overdue, but we now have a tutorial on Taming the BEAST to talk you through the process 💻🌳⚙️
Thanks to Joëlle Barido-Sottani for helping me pull this together!
taming-the-beast.org/tutorials/To...