Emma Dunne
@emmadnn.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist @tcddublin.bsky.social | deep-time biodiversity & macroevolution 🦕 🌍 | equity & ethics ⚖️ | 🇮🇪☘️ (she/sí) | All views my own.
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Emma Dunne
@emmadnn.bsky.social
· Apr 23
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in #palaeobiology as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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The fossil hall in Dublin, demolished 1962
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The fossil hall in Dublin, demolished 1962
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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I am running for the outreach officer position for the @thepalass.bsky.social this year (manifesto in image).
If you are a member, please check your mail and consider voting in the AGM. Several important roles are up for election with great candidates looking to work for our community.
If you are a member, please check your mail and consider voting in the AGM. Several important roles are up for election with great candidates looking to work for our community.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am running for the outreach officer position for the @thepalass.bsky.social this year (manifesto in image).
If you are a member, please check your mail and consider voting in the AGM. Several important roles are up for election with great candidates looking to work for our community.
If you are a member, please check your mail and consider voting in the AGM. Several important roles are up for election with great candidates looking to work for our community.
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ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
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Blast from the past at the #2025SVP dinner with some old research group members: @emmadnn.bsky.social Juan Benito, Dan Cashmore & Martin Ezcurra.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Blast from the past at the #2025SVP dinner with some old research group members: @emmadnn.bsky.social Juan Benito, Dan Cashmore & Martin Ezcurra.
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I had the amazing opportunity to present my master’s thesis at #SVP2025 today! If you saw my poster and have any questions, please reach out or find me at SVP tomorrow!
I’m excited to further develop my research and resources to help create international trade law transparency! 🦕👩⚖️
I’m excited to further develop my research and resources to help create international trade law transparency! 🦕👩⚖️
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I had the amazing opportunity to present my master’s thesis at #SVP2025 today! If you saw my poster and have any questions, please reach out or find me at SVP tomorrow!
I’m excited to further develop my research and resources to help create international trade law transparency! 🦕👩⚖️
I’m excited to further develop my research and resources to help create international trade law transparency! 🦕👩⚖️
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Hello #2025SVP!
This is the first of monthly announcements that, in January 2027, Historical Biology will be transitioning to Online-Only!
Feel free to come to the Taylor & Francis booth (Booth 1, Hall 3) and meet our editor in chief Mark Young on Friday at 1630-1700 for any queries.
This is the first of monthly announcements that, in January 2027, Historical Biology will be transitioning to Online-Only!
Feel free to come to the Taylor & Francis booth (Booth 1, Hall 3) and meet our editor in chief Mark Young on Friday at 1630-1700 for any queries.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hello #2025SVP!
This is the first of monthly announcements that, in January 2027, Historical Biology will be transitioning to Online-Only!
Feel free to come to the Taylor & Francis booth (Booth 1, Hall 3) and meet our editor in chief Mark Young on Friday at 1630-1700 for any queries.
This is the first of monthly announcements that, in January 2027, Historical Biology will be transitioning to Online-Only!
Feel free to come to the Taylor & Francis booth (Booth 1, Hall 3) and meet our editor in chief Mark Young on Friday at 1630-1700 for any queries.
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PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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"Nationally, data shows the percentage of undergraduates in part-time work has surged from 48 per cent in 2020 to 68 per cent."
www.bristol247.com/student/feat...
www.bristol247.com/student/feat...
Bristol students skipping class for cash
"I don't have a choice. Without working long hours I can't live here."
www.bristol247.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"Nationally, data shows the percentage of undergraduates in part-time work has surged from 48 per cent in 2020 to 68 per cent."
www.bristol247.com/student/feat...
www.bristol247.com/student/feat...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
The best advice I received back when I gave my first presentation was, "This is your study and you know this subject better than anyone else who might be listening. Relax." It helped. #2025SVP
Many of our student attendees will be giving their first talk or poster this meeting! What advice you give them to help make it the best experience possible?
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is excellent advice for all first time presenters … also, the quality of your talk will not impact your future career - that comes down to your CV & skills overall, not your ability to perform on the platform. So, if you slip up a bit don’t sweat it - most of the audience won’t realise anyway 🤷🏻♂️
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Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
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Attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in Palaeozoic fish and temnospondyls, dinosaurs old and new, sabre-tooth cats, biomechanics, biogeography, museum ethics, etc? Don't look any further, the Lautenschlager Lab got you covered - thanks to a lot of hard work by students, post-docs and colleagues!
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Truly iconic. Read to filth. Recommended pairing: a glass of red wine.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Truly iconic. Read to filth. Recommended pairing: a glass of red wine.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Britain may be 0, but Ireland is barely a shade better as one of the 10 countries with the lowest connection to nature. It's about time we get together and sort this out. Great paper by Myles Richardson @findingnature.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Britain may be 0, but Ireland is barely a shade better as one of the 10 countries with the lowest connection to nature. It's about time we get together and sort this out. Great paper by Myles Richardson @findingnature.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
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Fossils are cultural objects - and this is not some woke b*llshit that people come up nowadays to spoil the fun in #palaeontology; this classification actually has a long history.
If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...
If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...
A classification unearthed: the history of palaeontological objects as cultural property in international law
Abstract. Fossils are an overlooked yet threatened category of cultural property. This article traces how they became protected by international law under
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fossils are cultural objects - and this is not some woke b*llshit that people come up nowadays to spoil the fun in #palaeontology; this classification actually has a long history.
If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...
If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...
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#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
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Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Volume 115 - Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson | Cambr...
Cambridge Core - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 115 - Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R...
www.cambridge.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study
Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Can't get enough of Pal(a)eoscience? Pal(a)eoPERCS is looking for new committee members! If you are interested in joining our For-Early-Career, By-Early-Career Pal(a)eo-Community, please find any details in, and apply through the following link until November 10, 2025: forms.gle/xVdiNnSFma8z...
forms.gle
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Can't get enough of Pal(a)eoscience? Pal(a)eoPERCS is looking for new committee members! If you are interested in joining our For-Early-Career, By-Early-Career Pal(a)eo-Community, please find any details in, and apply through the following link until November 10, 2025: forms.gle/xVdiNnSFma8z...
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A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!
Donate to Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology, organized by Lindsay Zanno
Renowned Mongolian paleontologist Dr. Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar is fig… Lindsay Zanno needs your support for Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology
www.gofundme.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!
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Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The relationship between microbial community succession, decay, and anatomical character loss in non‐biomineralized animals
A fundamental assumption of hypothesis-driven decay experiments is that, during decay, the loss of anatomy follows a sequence broadly controlled by the intrinsic compositional properties of tissues. ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...