Rob Sansom🐟

Palaeobiologist in Manchester | Fossils, Parenting, Animal Evolution, Fish, Phylogeny, Existential Despair, Taphonomy, and occasionally Eurovision

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OK, so the world of early vertebrate palaeontology is EXPLODING, with 4 papers in this week's @Nature. Short* thread of why fossil fish-botherers are excited and why you should be too 🐟🦈
Spoiler alert: your evolutionary origins have just stretched further back in time.

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The Fossil Files is a new podcast where two palaeontologists explain and dissect exciting new finds. Episode 1: How does your plesiosaur swim? 2/n

[Ryan Felice @rfelice]

Another job opening! I am hiring a postdoc in my lab at University College London to work on developing new phylogenetic comparative methods for modeling the evolution of complex phenotypes! Details here: https://t.co/QLFC1MDbaO

[The Palaeoverse Community @ThePalaeoverse]

Our next event in the Palaeoverse #lecture series will be held Thurs, 25 April at 14:00 UTC! @lauramulvey479 will present a talk entitled "Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology"

Sign up: https://t.co/vuif2ujV2y

#computational #palaeoecology

[The PalAss @ThePalAss]

📢 Calling all palaeo PhD students!! Registration is now open for #ProgPal2024, our conference run by students for students. Sign up to present to your peers in a supportive student-only environment 👇

[Palaeontographical Society @Palaeonto_Soc]

This is a really superb opportunity for Early Career Researchers! Why not nominate yourself, you could receive £250 and membership of PalSoc - but better still, it looks brilliant on your CV! #ECR #WomeninSTEM #Palaeontology #Paleontology #blackinpalaeo #womeninpalaeo

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JOB! JOB! JOB! Lectureship in biology and zoology (teaching focused) here at University of Manchester, in the School of Biological Sciences 🧑‍🎓🪲🦋🐸🫏🧬

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@JamesBSumner Thanks JAmes, I will email

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@nfchilton I tried that: Apparently I will need to provide a cost code for it to be charged to the school. I asked how much- I would need to get a quotation from a private contractor 🙃

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Someone has locked their bike to my bike and it’s been stuck since yesterday. What is the protocol or etiquette is here?

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(Yes it is marking season, how can you tell?)

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I'm about 300 years late to the party, but Vivaldi's Four Seasons is pure 🔥🔥🔥https://t.co/NZFNstmier

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New week layout:
Monday
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GLADIATORDAY
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[Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab]

I'm hiring a postdoc for a collaborative @NSF & @NERCscience-supported project! Our US/UK team examines phenotypic and functional diversification in early ray-finned fishes. Work draws on 3D models of mandibles from μCT and synchrotron tomography. Ad: https://t.co/1MGuJlAV9A

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@MicrobiaLoop Mentimeter is a tool to create simple quizzes and interaction in real time, for example, students can ask and answer questions anonymously on their phones during a lecture.
I found it quite useful for teaching @mentimeter https://t.co/vRzJufNZ86

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The danger of inviting students to ask you anything during live lectures via Mentimeter is that they ask you stuff like this:

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But I shall take this as a positive, because to formulate this question means that they have understood about three different specific learning objectives from the unit

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@PascualAnaya @glpcjd MY EYES!

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Here is Champi's longer and better thread and also a link to the paper https://t.co/pSOlqP2UU5
https://t.co/Xjo8W5KeWd

[Champi @PascualAnaya]

📌After a long time publicly available in @ensembl for everyone to use, I'm glad to share our #biorxiv preprint introducing the first genome reference of a #hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) one of the only major vertebrate groups w/o a published assembly 🧵1/n
https://t.co/o219X2evHE

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What the HELL is going on with hagfish? These weird slime producing aberrations are unlike any other vertebrate and have always proved an evolutionary conundrum, but now we have GENOOOOME 🧬
Let's take a look at how today's @NatureEcoEvo paper changes things... 1/9

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ENJOY HAGFISH. end.