📣 We're hiring!

We're looking for a Visitor Team Coordinator who will ensure our incredible Visitor Team Assistants are supported and our visitors continue to feel welcome and that they belong at Manchester Museum.

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He’s finally here (and straight into μCT scanning a juvenile #Gogo #lungfish !) Big welcome to new Flinders Palaeontology PhD candidate M. Ramon Fritzen & partner Carol who arrived from Brazil just last week…

📢reminder: Jurassica's Rémi Lefebvre, Rémi Lefebvre, explores gigantism in sauropods🦕 & more at Colmar Museum, this *Friday 3 May*. 'Diplodocus, brachiosaurus... Comment les sauropodes ont-ils pu devenir aussi grands?'👇 & visit: museumcolmar.org #FossilFriday

The longest sauropods foot traces in the world 🗺 🦕 (147 m length trail) 👣 #jurassic #JurassicWorld #dinosaur #world #footprint #traces #paleontology #palaeontology #science #film #trip #sauropods #portugal #atlanticocean #geology

We're back from the very first fieldwork of the MacroPaleo Lab! The rocks of the Bauru Group weren't very generous this time, but it was great to spend the last few days prospecting with members of the PaleoLab USP-RP!

A few months ago, I got to chat to Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 about two topics very dear to my heart: Africa and palaeontology. 🌍🦕

Thank you Josh and Nizar Ibrahim, PhD for highlighting some of the work from South Africa, and the rest of the continent. 💚⛏️🇿🇦

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Exciting news! Dr. Fredrick Manthi from Kenya has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, the only African representative on the list! His achievement highlights African scientific excellence and marks a historic moment for Kenya. Congrats, Dr. Manthi!

Did you know that we have a postdoc tab on our jobs spreadsheet?!

As those grants file in, don't forget to advertise your new postdoc openings!

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🚨 Don't miss our SPECIAL GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY MEETING, INCLUDING DINNER AND FIELD TRIP🚨

Registration closes TODAY!!!

17th-18th May, University of Leicester

See: geocurator.org/events/167-gcg…

#Geology #Conference #Rock #Mineral #Fossil

We will be there with our geological timescales, this one is 1cm = 1 million years #toiletrolloftime #BGSOpenDay National Environmental Isotope Facility will be there talking about most of Earth’s ~4560 million year history, and how we date rocks and minerals, and why

We are pleased to offer free registration for the virtual portion of #Evol2024 (June 27-28) to SSE members from 152 countries and territories around the world. First-come, first-served, apply here: bit.ly/SSEGlobalMeeti…

Two views of a Toxochasmops head from north Wales, showing off the large, tall eyes with their many lenses #TrilobiteTuesday 👀

🌊Where to find #Jurassic rocks in #England ?

During the Jurassic shallow waters covered England from Wessex, through the Midlands, all the way to Yorkshire 👇

There’s still spaces on the 15th May Glasgow Geol Soc trip to the National Museums Scotland collections centre, to tour the palaeobiology & earth systems collections! Afterwards you can head to Granton beach, where me & Dr Neil Clark will be talking about the awesome geology

We had the pleasure of sharing the palaeontology of the MarieSkłodowskaCurie' #JurRad project🦖⛏️ (@LMU_Muenchen MuseoEgidioFeruglio) to the next generation at #ScienceIsWonderful in 🇧🇪! Thanks for this amazing oportunity! and thanks for the help to Staatl. Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns and CICTERRA (CONICET-UNC) colleagues🇦🇷🇩🇪

Want to learn more about planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy, taxonomy, and paleoecology? There's a workshop for that!

To learn more and apply by May 1, visit usoceandiscovery.org/workshop-pfora…

UoA Palaeos are hosting a DOUBLE TALK on Thursday, May 9th, 2024, 5:30 PM!

Zoom attendees will receive a link on the day <3

See you there!!

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Here are a few images from this weekend's trip to Deepgrove Wyke, on the Yorkshire Coast. Thanks to Richard Maddra for leading the trip!

For the final talk in our 2024 Speaker Series, Tammo Reichgelt will present “Global Greening in a Warmer World: What We Can Learn from Plant Fossils.” Join us Thursday, May 2, at 11 a.m. in the Museum Auditorium.

Learn more: tyrrellmuseum.com/whats_on/speci…