Deep-time Ecologist and Palaeontologist. Asst. Prof @CamZoology & Invertebrate Curator @ZoologyMuseum PI: @DeepTimeEcology She/Her
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
27 Jan 2025
Research of zoantharians from northwestern Pacific seamounts found a new species - read all about it at doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1221…
#taxonomy #zoantharian #Newspecies @HirokiKISE
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
22 Jan 2025
There have been lots of advances in palaeornithology over the last few years. In this invited review (thanks @Tweetisaurus and @NHMdinolab) we discuss recent discoveries bearing on the origin of the bird brain, shoulder, palate, and air-filled skeleton. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
21 Jan 2025
Our Exceptional Lecturer @AlexDunhill will be giving a talk this evening at 17:00 UTC at Oxford PalaeoClub @UniofOxford. Find details here: palaeobiology.web.ox.ac.uk/e… or watch online here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
#SundayMood 💫
🤔Did you know? The stunning Jorunna rubescens gets its reddish-pink hue from sponges it eats! These sponges also help it camouflage & deter predators.
🎥 withgraham
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17 Jan 2025
Just finished some fantastic fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito at Reef Explorer Fiji. We have started out a long-term project looking at soft corals on the reef flats mapping out multiple plots from four different sites to see how their ecological dynamics change through time.
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
13 Jan 2025
New paper out today led by @SMughal315!
We revisit the famous 790-million-year-old Svanbergfjellet Formation for @GeolSoc's Lagerstätten Series.
Open access at:
lyellcollection.org/doi/full…
@royalsociety | @UniofOxford | @morethanadodo | @OxUniEarthSci
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
🦐Instantaneous burial capturing animals alive may not be prerequisite for exceptional marine animal preservation and fossilization.
@tapho_zoan @AnomLab
Read more here:
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
2 Jan 2025
NEW: In a stunning find, researchers from Oxford University and @unibirmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways.
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
1 Jan 2025
今年の干支にちなんでクモヒトデの組画像を投稿します。特徴である細長い腕をヘビの尾に見立てて、クモヒトデのなかまを蛇尾（だび）綱と呼んでいます。
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
31 Dec 2024
A phylogenetic menorah using #phytools, & the structure of the "phylo" object in R: blog.phytools.org/2024/12/le…. Happy Hanukkah, folks.
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
28 Dec 2024
Starfish, brittle stars&other echinoderms scour the seafloor~Led by a team of National Geographic Explorers in collaboration @SchmidtOcean “Into the Southern Ocean” is a National Geographic Society Perpetual Planet Ocean Expedition supported by Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
24 Dec 2024
NEWS🚨: NASA's Peservence rover just sent this image back from Mars
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24 Dec 2024
RT @PlanktonPundit: It's a Plankton Christmas 🎄- some of the microscopic life in the Plymouth plankton.
In order of appearance:
Tomopteris…
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
23 Dec 2024
Proud to see our findings on reverse development in Mnemiopsis leidyi echoed by @NatGeo @NatGeoEsp @NatGeoEspana: nationalgeographic.com.es/mu…. More on our @PNASNews article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… #Ctenophores @MSarsCentre @UiB_museet @UiB @Pawel_Burkhardt
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
20 Dec 2024
Our lab has PhD MSc positions available in 2025 on the molecular or evolutionary ecology of fishes. Projects are part of long-term research programs and can combine molecular, field and/or common garden experiments. Come join a great team!
#brooktrout #walleye #laketrout
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21 Dec 2024
RT @PlanktonPundit: My Season's Greetings from the Plymouth plankton🎄
Cast, in order of appearance:
Tomopteris helgolandica (polychaete: x…
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
20 Dec 2024
#OceanTwilightZone animals like these #jellyfish have adapted to produce their own light to camouflage, scare off predators, and even attract prey.
💡How does light help you survive? What adaptations do you go through with the changes of the seasons?
📸 by Larry Madin ©️ #WHOI
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
16 Dec 2024
📢ASSISTANT CONSERVATOR VACANCY📢Apply by 5 Jan 2025! This role offers a unique opportunity to work as part of a friendly, fast-paced team working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections 🙂 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46400/ @CamUnivMuseums #MuseumJobs
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
15 Dec 2024
Tonight’s moon (December 15, 2024) as seen from Trepassey!
📸 Clifford Doran
#NLwx
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Emily G Mitchell retweeted
11 Dec 2024
フィリピンのマクタン島で夜に潜っていたら数百匹のヒカリキンメダイの群れに遭遇しました！！
目の下が発光して仲間同士のコミュニケーションや求愛などに使われる特殊な深海魚です。詳しくはここで紹介しています。
youtube.com/live/DaA4A8vQS7Y…
#ヒカリキンメダイ
#深海魚
#発光バクテリア
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