Will Crabbe

@CENTA_NERC PhD researcher @GeologyLeics researching growth and function of Cambrian paraconodonts | Lover of guitars and Newcastle United ⚽️🎸 | Views my own.

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

The supposedly 'unfossilizable' Eolorica deadwoodensis from the Upper Cambrian Deadwood Formation in Canada alongside a modern representative of the Loricifera Phylum (Harvey & Butterfield, 2017). #FossilFriday

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@marcreichow @GeologyLeics @LeicesterGeog Thank you Marc! 😊

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@hannahjsellers @GeologyLeics @LeicesterGeog Thank you! 😊

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

Thank you to my examiners for the engaging discussions over my thesis and my supervisors Tom Harvey, Mark Purnell and Duncan Murdock.

I've had a great experience at Leicester over the last 9(!) years and I'm looking forward to the next chapter in my life!

[Geology at Leicester @GeologyLeics]

Many congratulations 🥳Will Crabbe successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Growth, form and function in problematic Cambrian paraconodonts'. Many thanks to examiners Paul Smith, Oxford University Museum of Natural History & David Unwin UoL. @LeicesterGeog

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

Hey everyone 👋 I've been off the twitter grid for a long time so thought I'd pop my head back in and give an update - I submitted my PhD thesis back in September and now have my provisional viva date sorted for January! Thanks everyone for their support throughout

[Mark Williams @MarkPalaeo]

On Thursday February 17th I will be speaking with my good friend Jan Zalasiewicz on the #Anthropocene as part of the session 'Global Commons Beyond Sovereign Domains: Oceans, Atmosphere, Biodiversity and Our Heritage' @teriin https://t.co/lVPScEr5kE #wsds2022 #act4earth

[Dr Elsa Panciroli @gsciencelady]

We've got some great PAID 6 week projects (+ accomm!) for undergrads at @morethanadodo! Seeking applications from groups under-represented in #museums & #sciences. Incl. two projects with me on biomechanics & body mass in early #mammals🐁 https://t.co/2W5157Ktd6

[Dan Bell @DanBell__]

I'm celebrating 3,000 sales on @Etsy today! I'd therefore like to give away a map print to one of my followers. If you'd like to enter, please RT and follow (if you're not already) and I'll pick a winner at 9pm (GMT) tomorrow evening.

The collection: https://t.co/ckZSPF8QhX

[Anna McGairy @palaeo_anna]

🚨New paper! Thrilled to share my first peer-reviewed paper🥳If you’re interested in #ostracods, #terrestrialization and all things #palaeontology then check it out here: https://t.co/bFAljQo1c3 #openaccess

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@AmyJShore @XiaoShuhai @SteveBrusatte Congrats Amy!

[Geology at Leicester @GeologyLeics]

Our Palaeobiology labgroup @uniofleicester went on a “field trip” to Shropshire. Organised by Chris Stocker including guidance on the day by Mark Williams, Tom Harvey and Sarah Gabbott. Fossil hunting at Ludlow revealed – trilobites, brachiopods and more .. even a cake🤔

[The PalAss @ThePalAss]

Soft tissues of a primitive #fossil conodont from Wisconsin reveal a macrophagous vertebrate predator https://t.co/Hiacps0AjY #FossilFriday @djemurdock @museumsmithery @morethanadodo @datadryad @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@The_Volcano_Guy I nearly stood on one of these when doing mapping in Scotland. They can camoflauge really well in some settings!

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@CupGeomon Didn't like it when I first saw it, but when I used one on my team it quickly became one of my new favourites!

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

It's one of those days today

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@Jake_Atterby Did you go to QE as well??

I never would be doing what I'm doing now if I hadn't had the option of geology at A level - didn't even know what it was before then

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@BeTheMagpie Belvoir in Leicestershire (pronounced 'beaver')

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@The_Volcano_Guy Wouldn't have expected the shinx family to live in a volcano tbh

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

'So much taxonomy' and 'we put this old fossil in a scanner and this is what we found' pretty much sums up my PhD 😂

[Rob Sansom🐟 @Sansom_Rob]

Types of papers in Palaeontology

[Will Crabbe @ThatPalaeoGuy]

@The_Volcano_Guy Why are zapdos, articuno and moltres coming?

[Leicester Palaeo @LeicesterPalaeo]

Leicester’s research into exceptionally preserved #fossils underpinned the establishment of the #UNESCO #worldheritage Site - The Chengjiang Fossil Site in Yunnan Province in 2012, containing fossils of soft-bodied sea-life dating from 530 million years like this Xandarellid