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Liam Herringshaw
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Palaeontologist for hire, based in York, UK. One half of York's Hidden History (https://yorkshiddenhistory.co.uk/) and co-founder of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival.
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stevebrusatte.bsky.social
For generations the Univ of Leicester has been a global leader in geology, Earth science & climate research

Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block

Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs

Sign this to stop this madness:

www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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geologyjohnson.bsky.social
A 1.4 Ga organic rich mudstone from Australia that has low-grade contact metamorphism. Black blobs with crystal cores are thucolites, brown square is a fragment of microfossil that has been partially mineralised. More deets in alt text. #ThinSectionThursday #Geology #paleontology ⚒️🧪🔬
Microscope photo of a slice of rock with white light shining through it. The rock is composed of a polygonal mosaic of mostly white crystal grains, light brown crystal grains, black crystal grains with a white crystal in the centre, and dark brown organic matter. A red scale bar shows the image is about 0.5 mm across our 500 microns. Microscope photo of a slice of rock with cross polarised light shining through it. The rock is composed of a polygonal mosaic of mostly grey crystal grains, light brown-grey crystal grains, black crystal grains with a bright blue crystal in the centre, long thin orange grading to pink crystal grains, and dark brown organic matter. A red scale bar shows the image is about 0.5 mm across our 500 microns. The image has been rotated approx 45 degrees anti clockwise.
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
#FossilFriday One extra fossil from Singapore, in the black limestone cladding of the same Prada shop as the rugose coral posted earlier, a brachiopod preserving internally the calcite supports of the two arms of the lophophore visible as rings of dots on the left and right side of the fossil.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it

We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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geodiversityday.bsky.social
🎨 To help promote the benefits of geodiversity, a team from the Open University have worked with artscientist Dr Vicky Bowskill to produce this amazing new image!

🌍 Read more, and download the image on our website: www.geodiversityday.org/post/visuali...
Visualising the Benefits of Geodiversity
International Geodiversity Day 2025 is approaching, and many people worldwide have organised events based on their professional or personal connections with geodiversity; whether these be around under...
www.geodiversityday.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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geodiversityday.bsky.social
🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!

⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:

🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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andersonmineral.bsky.social
It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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geodiversityday.bsky.social
🌟 The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland have celebrated #GeodiversityDay with the launch of a new Geodiversity Charter!

🌐 www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/Geodive...
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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geolsurveybelgium.bsky.social
Happy Geodiversity Day! Today we celebrate the beauty and importance of our planet’s geological diversity. The Durbuy anticline, first described in 1807 by Jean-Baptiste Julien d’Omalius d’Halloy, is a perfect example of an IUGS Geological Heritage Site inside the UNESCO Geopark Famenne-Ardennes
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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historyofgeology.bsky.social
October 6 was declared International #GeodiversityDay by the UNESCO in 2021. On this day we celebrate the abiotic beauty and diversity of Earth - including rocks, soils, landscapes, rivers, lakes, minerals & fossils ⛰️🪨🐚💎
October 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
fossiliam.bsky.social
Seeing as today is #InternationalGeodiversityDay and as I'm leading a geology walk there later this month, as part of a Charity Day Fossil Hunt, I thought I'd write a blogpost about the geodiversity of Runswick Bay: fossilhub.org/runswick-geo...
Geology of Runswick Bay – FossilHub
A post for International Geodiversity Day 2025 Runswick Bay is one of the most popular, picturesque places on the Yorkshire Coast, and its appreciation seems to have increased since Covid. It is espec...
fossilhub.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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mark-walters.bsky.social
There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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saralilplants.bsky.social
Regular reminder to authors to please acknowledge and cite people who have contributed to your work. Yet again I find a paper that I collected data for and I’m not acknowledged. 🧪

Also see our recent paper that provides a toolkit for more just and equitable citation practices👇🏽

🔗 osf.io/qjecy_v3
Conceptualization of the citational justice toolkit, organized around the research cycle. In the top right quadrant of the cycle, we start with Planning, which includes the Ideas and Funding stages of research. This section contains two practices: citational politics training module and the Academic Wheel of Privilege, and one tool: the citational transparency browser extension. In the bottom right quadrant of the cycle, we have the Project, which includes Research and Journal Selection stages of research. This section contains one practice: diversify your reading. In the bottom left quadrant of the cycle, we have the Paper, which includes Paper writing and Submission stages of research. This section contains three practices: citing R packages and other tools, annotated citations lists and the citational diversity statement, and nine tools: Genderize, the Gray test, the citation audit survey, Mirya Holman’s pre-submission checklist, GBAT, the citational diversity codebook, a template for citing Indigenous peoples, the inwardness metric and GCBI-alyzer. In the top left quadrant of the cycle, we have Publication, which includes the Peer Review and Publication stages of research. This section contains one practice, the Academic Wheel of Privilege.
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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emmadnn.bsky.social
Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦

But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1]

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...
I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN
It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.
edition.cnn.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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jamiesmart.bsky.social
Here’s a comic I drew when I was 19.
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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sjblakemore.bsky.social
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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taphonomist.bsky.social
One of my favourite #MaryAnning facts™️ is that she would discover fossil cephalopod 🐙 fossils with preserved ink sacks, concoct a dangerous chemical slime to turn them back into gloopy ink, and then use her Jurassic ink to draw exquisite illustrations of the vertebrate fossils she found.

Meta.
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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markopalaeo.bsky.social
For #FossilFriday, a cobble from the streets of York with corals, not sure of the precise taxon. Maybe Carboniferous?
July 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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anniechave.bsky.social
It’s my book launch on Monday 28th April (5 days) and so I’ll be posting a bit about it for the next week or so!
Nervous, excited, overwhelmed- I’m all of these things plus a few more.
@FairfieldBooks_

thenightwatchman.net/buy/cricket-ch…
April 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I enjoy the way that in this photo my cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.
Our cats Jim and Roscoe looking very serious, in our kitchen.
April 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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mckeedi.bsky.social
Little egrets fighting. Taken at Spurn Head in East Yorkshire, UK #birds #nature #egrets #littleegrets #sprunhead #eastyorkshire #wildlife
April 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
Saw some dinoturbation in the Jurassic Sandstones, South Cliff, Scarborough today.

First time spotting these here, was very exciting!
Photo of some rocks layers - interbedded mudstone and sandstone. Under one sandstone layer, three prongs of sandstone push down into the mud later. This is a dinosaur footprint from a three-toed dinosaur. There's is some green text on the image that reads "three-toed dino footprint" and a dinosaur emoji. Photo of a rock face of layers of sandstone. In the middle is a large depression filled with sand that has squashed the laminated sediments underneath. Text reads "sauropod footprint" with a sauropod emoji. Photo of layers of sandstone and mudstone. In one later of laminated sediments is a depression structure filled with sand. Text on image reads "here. Sauropod stomp". Photo of a rock face, at the base is a rucksack placed as scale. The exposure is layers of sandstone and mudstone. About the quarters up is a depression filled with sand. The laminated layers underneath have been squashed.
April 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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drloessismore.bsky.social
I left the hellhole site a while ago and took a break from all this. But hey, I'm back.

Hi everyone—hit me up if you're into anything dusty, chronology, and Quaternary. And here's an image of some lovely sand wedges preserved in loess as a little welcome gift.
March 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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livlumlab.bsky.social
I'm Dr Rachel Smedley, Reader in Physical Geography & Director of the LivLumLab for the last 7 years! I love to push the luminescence dating technique to its limits to answer innovative environmental research questions, including dating our hominin ancestors, underneath Antarctica and much more!
March 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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pavementgeology.bsky.social
You maybe interested to read the information board in the Church on the lifestyle of the Chirotherium, undoubtedly from a little read chapter in the Book of Revelations
March 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM