Mario Coiro

A statue of a Carnotaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur, stands in front of the building of the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew, Argentina

First day in one of my favourite places!

Loving the reconstruction of Sagaria, an underappreciated angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of Campania, Italy!

Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!

Owens Valley Station — White Mountain Research Center Geolocation: 37°21’38”N / 118°19’36”W Elevation: 1252m (4108’) The Owens Valley Station is our headquarters and is open year round. We are located 6 km (4 miles) east of Bishop in Owens Valley at…

Join a summer workshop on phylogenetic comparative methods for biomechanists at UC Riverside from June 21-27. Apply by March 15, 2026. For more info and details, visit: https://www.wmrc.edu/owens-valley-station/ #workshop

Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales) AbstractBackground and Aims. The medullosans are ancient spermatophytes (order Medullosales) with an unusual stem anatomy and have been studied extensively

A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads!

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Screaming flower character, blushing smiling flower character left to right

Academic Societies when a young woman dares to be slightly outspoken (left) the same Societies when a misogynistic controversial geriatric is openly affiliated with a high-profile peadophile sex trafficker (right)

It drives me crazy that US journalists and commentators say stuff like "he was a white supremacist but his name was non-European: García". García is a Spanish name, brought to the Americas by Spain, a country in Europe. A fact the supremacist knows and embraces.

Learnt racism preventing learning

🌿 Open seminar at IBB!

🗓 16 Feb | 12 h
🎤 Francesco Dal Grande – From Heritage to Innovation: Research at the Botanical Garden of Padua
🎤 Garima Singh – Treasure hunting in nature for metabolic gems

Open to all, no registration needed.
www.ibb.csic.es/en/2026/02/d...

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ)
Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling.
🔗 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

This is truly baffling. A seed does not become an angiosperm fruit only because there are some vague lines on it. It is the equivalent of having a full diapsid skull and saying you found Permian dinosaurs...

The biggest privilege afforded to men in positions of power is that of being dumb.

There are people willing to accept the excuse that a world-class researcher neglected to do a 10-minute Google search on a sponsor, in the 2010s, as part of the process for accepting research funding.

They wrote their emails thinking they were never going to be caught.

They write their excuses because they are sorry they got caught.

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social!
#paleobotany #botany

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Hello from Stuttgart! Never been to the SMNS before but it's a lovely museum with amazing collections. Right now they have a temporary exhibit on Triassic life, featuring Mirasaura. @stephanspiekman.bsky.social showed me round.. Amazing fossils!

An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
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Job opportunity!

Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology

Fixed term

Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs

A mini display focusing on Archaefructus

Big fan of how the palaeo-flora was displayed

Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection AbstractBackground and Aims. Vascular patterning is intimately related to plant form and function. Here, using barley (Hordeum vulgare) as a model, we stud

♻️🆓: Anatomical insights into the vascular layout of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection
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#PlantScience

Photo from our summer lab lunch! 12 people sitting at brightly painted picnic tables with yellow umbrellas outside Cali n' Titos.

I'm hiring postdoc in my lab to work on temporal dynamics of sorghum root microbiome assembly! This position is funded by the Moore Foundation through UGA, and would be perfect for someone finishing up their PhD this spring. Details here: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/join-lab

This is an incredibly useful read! How I’m learning to navigate academia as someone with ADHD www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Writers in Residence: Expressions of Interest | Botanic Gardens of Sydney We're offering two Australian writers the chance to work with the Gardens for three months. Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday 27 January 2026.

Writers in Residence scheme with Botanic Gardens of Sydney - $15000 for 3 months for Australian writers. Sydney, Mount Tomah or Mount Annan.

A brown stripey Apatosaurus walks through a glade of lush tree ferns, cycads, and conifers. Small theropods run past in the foreground.

An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison.

#sciart #paleoart

The USA can withdraw from @ipbes.net but, IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social observes, “unfortunately, we cannot withdraw from the fact that more than 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 😞😠

After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

Still time to apply for this PhD studentship on evolution and environmental changes in Polystira!
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CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

A piece of rock with fossil fern foliage on it (Pecopteris). Fingertips for scale.

For the very first #FossilFriday & #FernFriday of 2026, the leaf of a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France at the end of the Carboniferous, ~300 million year ago 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany #botany

Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience