Our 5-6 week Bursary Scheme projects cover natural sciences research, museum collections management, and public engagement with science.
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👋 Today we welcome the first nine members of our Expert Advisory Panel.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 As we work towards UNESCO Global Geopark status, the Panel will help support our projects, ensuring that everything we do - from education to interpretation - is guided by the best scientific advice.

PhD project looking at some of the weirdest animals, Cambrian echinoderms! Deadline: 25th February, get in touch if you're interested.

Delighted to be taking over stewardship of the Lagerstatten series. If you have any ideas for future articles or lagerstatten that you would love to see a review of, please get in touch!

DTP project on the limits of morphology and genomics of meiofauna with Christopher Laumer and Saupe Lab Oxford. These organisms are in major peril from habitat disturbance and climate change but are a major gap in our knowledge of life on Earth. Details here: earth.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

JOB: We're hiring a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology (permanent) UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences University of Bristol. Researchers of any branch of the tree of life and interval of Earth History welcome. Application deadline Dec 20. Please RT

England! with all thy faults I love thee still...
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For #FossilFriday , here are details of three echinoderm-flavoured PhD projects I'm co-supervising with colleagues at Oxford and Southampton starting in September 2024.

Another DTP PhD! This time led by Frankie Dunn on the origin of the iconic deuterostome (or perhaps bilaterian🤔) gill slits and figuring out which extinct echinoderms might have them. Collab with Imran Rahman and Seb Shimeld.

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🚨🚨PhD Opportunity! 🚨🚨

OxfordEnvRes DTP project with a crack team on evolution of early skeletons with me, @JCosmidis, Phil Donoghue, Duncan Murdock and Imran Rahman.

'Using machine learning tools to understand the Cambrian Explosion of animal skeletons'

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Just back from holiday before heading off to Cambridge for #PalAss23 and pleased to see our latest paper - a review on the nature of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition - ably led by Giovanni out in Biological Reviews & open access:

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Nice to see this in the cafe at The Outwoods in Charnwood Forest recently. Almost as nice as the ice cream Frankie Dunn Charnwood Forest Geopark

Very happy to have hosted Lucy Jackson for the past two days Natural History Museum Science. Lucy is looking at the weird boot-shaped fossil echinoderm Cothurnocystis as part of her The PalAss Undergraduate Research Bursary together with Frankie Dunn and Ross Anderson

Introducing kids to the weird wonders of the Cambrian by getting them to create their own!! Ably led by Penny Boxall and Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Excited to announce a new 3yr post-doc opportunity, funded by The Royal Society at Oxford Earth Sciences, conducting experiments to understand clay-organic interactions and their role in the preservation of early life: tinyurl.com/experimentsgeo…

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Really happy to see this work out!! My first official foray into the world of deuterostomes 😊