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🌟⏰ Register for our 68th Annual Meeting in Erlangen! Abstract submission deadline 3rd October To submit your abstract, first register online then click on the link at the bottom of your registration confirmation e-mail #PalAss24 #FossilFriday
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Happens to us all... Happy New Year!
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Three-dimensional anatomy of the Tully monster casts doubt on its presumed vertebrate affinities @mikamin_yrfw @Hynobius36 @MorphoSource
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First Triassic record of pterosaurs from the southern hemisphere @MorphoBank #PapersinPalaeontology
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Unusual fossilization: mammal skeletons in gastric pellets from dinosaur nesting site @montanastate @MorphoSource @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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The Collins' monster: a prickly suspension feeding lobopodian from the Burgess Shale throws light on phylogenetic relationships of luolishaniids @MaryamATweets @datadryad @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
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A giant among phytosaurs - Colossosuchus techniensis - new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism & extinction from the Upper Triassic of India @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
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A new vampyromorph from the Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte #PapersinPalaeontology @wileyearthspace
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Understanding the heads of early arthropods: microCT & 3D rendering of Jianfengia multisegmentalis from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota @InvertebratePal @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace
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Elemgasem nubilus: a new abelisaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia #PapersinPalaeontology @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
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The origin of the turtle body plan: evidence from fossils and embryos @wileyearthspace
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We're very sorry to hear that esteemed palaeontologist Dr Angela Milner passed away this morning following a short illness. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time
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Evolution of extremely twisted heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan @datadryad
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🏳️‍🌈 This #PrideMonth video shows the contribution of #LGBTQIA people to #palaeontology . A big thanks to all those who sent a contribution to the project. For many LGBTQIA people it is not safe to be themselves. This video is also for you, you're not alone. Enjoy and share 👇
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Not a vertebrate after all? The debate about the identity of the 'tully monster' goes on #Fossil
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🏳️‍🌈Are you a palaeontologist and part of the #LGBTQ + community? We need you! This #PrideMonth we’d love to show how important is the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in #palaeontology . Find out how to be part of this project in the first comment. Share and retweet! #PrideMonth
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Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas @Simon_D_Wills @NHMDinolab @NHM_London @datadryad @wileyearthspace @MorphoSource
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An early Cambrian mackenziid #fossil reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro-organisms @nwnuzy @wileyearthspace
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The locomotor ecomorphology of Mesozoic marine reptiles @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience @moononthebones @DrTLStubbs @NHM_Science
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At the PalAss we are striving for change and to increase inclusion and equity in our science. Everyone should feel safe in the field and in all public spaces #BlackLivesMatter #BlackInNature #BlackAFinSTEM #BlackandSTEM #antiracism #fossilsareforeveryone
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Unique dentition of rhynchosaurs and their two-phase success as herbivores in the Triassic @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
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A new arthropod from the Burgess Shale - a case of convergent evolution @eebtoronto @ROMtoronto @MesozoicMuse @trichodes #PapersinPalaeontology @datadryad
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The most abundant fossil in the Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois: an anenome not a jellyfish @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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Now it truly is the end of the Annual Meeting #PalAss19 Thank you all for participating!
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Species of Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran of South Australia: from 5 to 2 @datadryad
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Early Cambrian polyp reveals potential anemone-like ancestor for medusozoan cnidarians @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
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A network-based approach to link & optimize unique communities of fossil species living before, during & after the Permo-Triassic extinction @FieldMuseum @Piazoic @NetPaleo @m_rosvall @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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#HappyHalloween fossil fans! How about this for a spooky #Halloween #fossil ?!
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Overview of how multibody dynamics analysis can be applied to palaeontological studies #FossilFriday @PalaeoStephan @wileyearthspace
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Fossilization processes have little impact on tip-calibrated divergence time analyses @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience @glpcjd @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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At #PalAss19 in Valencia an informal 'Diversity in Palaeontology' meet-up will be held during the Thursday lunch break and any delegates are welcome to attend. We're delighted to have some fabulous new @palaeoiris pridelobite badges specially for the occasion! #TrilobiteTuesday
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⛏️This is the last palaeontologist for this #WomenHistoryMonth 🦖Angela Milner (1947 - 2021) did her PhD on tetrapods but became famous for the discovery, in 1983, of the #dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri, with Alan Charing 🏛️She was researcher and manager at @NHM_London
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❓Who are the women in #palaeontology history, other than Mary Anning? 🔎Let's find it out during this #womenhistorymonth . 4 Tuesdays for 4 women who made the history of our discipline. Help us find more #women in the history of palaeontology, list their name below 👇
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A new moradisaurine captorhinid eureptile from the Permian of Mallorca - and correlation with trackway @MUCBOsoller @museubcnMUCBO @ICP_MCrusafont @MuseuConcaDella @MuseuICP @Comp_PaleoBio @SMNStuttgart @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
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A massive thank you to Carlos and his amazing team for all the hard work putting on a wonderful Annual Meeting in Valencia. Fabulous hosting, brilliant science and great social events. Muchas gracias a todos! 👏👏👏 #FossilFriday #PalAss19 (photo © @Sherri_D2 )
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The 6th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC) will take place in Thailand in November 2022
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Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog-legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado #FossilFriday @krell_frank @denvermuseumns @naturmusee @wileyearthspace
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For #BlackHistoryMonth22 we will celebrate the contribution of Black scientists to #Palaeontology ! If you are a Black palaeontologist (at any level) you can contribute to this visibility campaign by sending a picture of yourself, your name, and your research field.
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#PalAss20 is going online! As per a recent letter to our members, this year's Annual Meeting will be virtual. We are a volunteer-led organisation and are seeking volunteers from within our membership to help make this happen. If you want to be involved see
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Registration is open for #PalAss23 ! Join us at the University of Cambridge this September for two days of talks and posters, plus additional days featuring workshops, museum tours, a symposium and a field-trip. See full details and sign up via our website:
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📅 Save the date! 📅 #PalAss21 is over, but we're delighted to say that #PalAss22 will take place in Cork, Ireland 19-24 *JULY* 2022
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Reinterpretation of the #fossil bird Dryornis pampeanus from the Pliocene of Argentina #FossilFriday @MorphoBank
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Fossil bird pellet from Cenozoic of Patagonia preserves new species of frog #FossilFriday @fundacionazara @MacnVp @Agustin74930575 @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace
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New phylogeny of Stegosauria #Palaeontology @Tweetisaurus
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Registration is now OPEN for #PalAss20 ! See the website for details about the meeting, registration and how to submit your abstract: #FossilFriday
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Subadult placodont specimen implies turtle‐like fusion pattern of the carapace @wileyearthspace New in #PapersinPalaeontology
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The PalAss offices are now closed until the New Year! 🥳 Wishing you all a peaceful and relaxing (and fossil-filled?) festive season 🎊🎄🎅🎁 (For image credit please contact us!)
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Bristle-bearing appendages of a 512 million year old marine snail, found in Pennsylvania, link the early evolution of molluscs & worms @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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Fossil queues form evidence of migrating trilobites?
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A new fossil species of pygmy sperm whale from Peru - oldest member of extant genus Kogia #FossilFriday @PeruvianWhale @VelezJuarbeJ @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of  the oceans - Imran A. Rahman Comic by Dr. Ellis Jones #PalAss23
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Sir David Attenborough to open new #palaeontology exhibition at Yorkshire Museum this Spring: . #JurassicYork
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The dentary of hadrosauroid dinosaurs: evolution through heterochrony @PaleoFredrik @GRICA_UDC @PaleoNic @PalaeoScience @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
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If you're looking for palaeo inspiration this #NationalBiscuitDay check out these excellent triloBITES on @VictoriaArbour 's blog
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Cranial description of the early crocodylomorph Terrestrisuchus gracilis from the Upper Triassic Pant-y-Ffynnon Quarry, South Wales @StephanSpiekman @Tweetisaurus @ButlerLabBham @vinfernand @katpalaeo @nhm_london @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace
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Join us for the PalAss Annual Address, a free online lecture by Prof. Rachel Wood @GeosciencesEd . This public lecture is hosted by @morethanadodo and open to all, beginners and experts are welcome. Please share widely this #FossilFriday ! Sign up here 👇
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Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats @ARCHE_Griffith @TheFatWombat @Mat_Duv64 @marsupialtapir @robinmdbeck @marsupialtapir @MorphoSource @MorphoBank @datadryad
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Morphological adaptation to environmental change: Devonian trilobites from N Africa @Evo_Eco_Paleo @wileyearthspace #TrilobiteTuesday
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"One of the most magnificent beetle fossils ever found", Pulchritudo attenboroughi, described by @krell_frank @DenverMuseumNS and Francesco Vitali @naturmusee and named for Sir David Attenborough #FossilFriday
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@anjgoswami has been awarded the President's Medal, a mid-career prize for those who have made an outstanding contribution and we expect will continue to do so. Prof. Goswami is a world-leading vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary morphologist @NHM_London
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Enigmatic structure in the tail of vetulicolians from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China - implications for the physiology of primitive deuterostomes @wileyearthspace #PapersinPalaeontology
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PalAss HQ is now closed for the Christmas holiday. 🎄🎁 We wish you all a relaxing break and a good start to 2021. See you next year!
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A sabertooth cat with arthritis? A large, pathological sabertooth from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa @palaeo_prof @CaitlinRabe @paleo_alberto @Iziko_Museums @GenusPalaeo @NRF_News @IUCAunizar @UccUnizar @wileyearthspace
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New Cambrian fossil from Utah suggests swimming flaps evolved independently in several lineages of worm-like arthropod ancestors - an adaptation to a swimming predatory lifestyle? @PlLife2 @InvertebratePal @NHMU @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
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Simulations show that timescaling of phylogenies is not severely hampered by inaccuracies in placement of fossils on the tree of life @phyloprog @RussellGarwood @Cambriannelids @wileyearthspace @PaleoDB
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Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family @balsedie @Evo_Eco_Paleo @BeaWaisfeld @wileyearthspace
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An ichthyosaur with a belly full of fish #FossilFriday @etchescollect #Kimmeridge
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The Hodson Award was made to @ErinSaupe of @OxUniEarthSci for her notable contribution to palaeontology
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Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data? @djemurdock @djbirddanerd @rachelwarnock
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We are proud supporters of @LGBTSTEMDay , the International Day of LGBTQ+ People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths. Today we are celebrating the diversity of the palaeontological community, and working to make it more inclusive. #LGBTSTEMDay #FossilFriday
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Fossil fans! It's time to assemble in Bristol City for #PalAss18 ! Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow @BristolUni @UOBEarthScience @BristolPalaeo
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Our Executive Officer @JoHellawell is on the PalAss stand in the WRCH foyer until Thursday. She has Field Guides for sale and lots of freebies. Stop by to say hello, or to claim your Student Travel Grant #PalAss23
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New study of Jurassic #fossil octopod reveals clues to ancestry #Palaeontology
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Habitat shift: evidence of large terrestrial seymouriamorphs in the lowermost Permian of the Czech Republic - previously only known from aquatic larvae and juveniles @danielmadzia @IPaleoPAN @wileyearthspace
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We're excited to announce this year's Symposium speakers, joining us live from around the world at our Annual Meeting! You can read their abstracts in the latest PalAss Newsletter, currently being delivered to members and available online #PalAss20
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Regrettably, we have taken the difficult decision to switch #PalAss21 to a virtual meeting only. Our Council have been monitoring the emerging situation regarding the Omicron variant closely over the past two weeks and have decided it is the best course of action #FossilFriday
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Dental microwear texture analysis reveals likely dietary shift in Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs @mugino_kubo @muginolab_gsfs #FossilFriday @wileyearthspace
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A new extinct insect group with unusual wing venation and antennal structures from Early Cretaceous of NE China #FossilFriday @wileyearthspace
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The Lapworth Medal was awarded to Angela Milner @NHM_London to recognise her highly significant contribution to our science and community. Sadly, Angela passed away earlier this year. We are grateful to @NHMdinolab for saying a few words today
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Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany #FossilFriday @michela_johnson @AmsonEli @SMNStuttgart @AvHStiftung @datadryad @wileyearthspace
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Anatomical and ontogenetic reassessment of the Ediacaran frond Arborea arborea and its placement within total group Eumetazoa @frankie_dunn_ @the_palaeoninja @UoBEarthScience @EarthSciCam @wileyearthspace
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Are you into #origami ? What best possible day than #TrilobiteTuesday to challenge yourself with this paper creation?
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The Palaeontological Association supports early career palaeontologists. See our latest infographic on the benefits of membership for postgraduate students! 🧑‍🎓 New members can sign up via our website at any time:
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Thanks to all delegates that attended #PalAss23 , and to the wonderful #Cambridge team! 🌲 See you all in Erlangen on December 10-13th 2024 for #PalAss24 !
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Happy #InternationalFossilDay ! 🥳🥳🥳 #D íaInternacionalDelFósil (logo by @forams )
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📚Curious about the everyday work of real-life paleontologists? ⛏️There is more in modern palaeontology than hammers and cowboy hats
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Just published – Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life a highly informative book that shows the many faces of modern #palaeontology @ColumbiaUP #fossilfriday #paleontology @ThePalAss @PaleoSoc
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TOMORROW! 18.00 GMT, @SteveBrusatte 's talk on 'The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs' hosted by the @MiningInstitute and part of the @geolsoc #YearofLife . Join us online!
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Uprooting Colonialism From the Fossil-Finding Field (feat. @emmadnn , @mauritiantales and @Yara_Haridy )
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The impact of fossil tips on reconstructing trait evolution using phylogenetic comparative methods - Bethany J. Allen Comic by Dr. Ellis Jones #PalAss23
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Cranial endocast of Palaeogene Anagale gobiensis and its implications for brain evolution in primitive mammals @S_LopezTorres @OrnellaBertrand @MadlenLang @Mary_T_Silcox @datadryad @MorphoSource @AMNH
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Did you miss the Annual Address at #PalAss20 ? Prof. Rachel Wood @GeosciencesEd told us some 'Tales from the Cambrian Explosion'. You can catch it (or watch again!) on the Association YouTube channel here: #FossilFriday
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Congratulations to the palaeontologists recognised by the @geolsoc medals and awards announced today!🦖The Bigsby Medal is awarded to @jemilyr , the Lyell Fund to @GilesPalaeoLab and @CharmouthHCC win the R H Worth Award🎖️🎖️🎖️
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We're delighted to announce the recipients of our 2019 Awards and Funds! This year's Wollaston Medal is awarded to Professor Edward Stolper @Caltech . You can hear talks from some of our medallists at President's Day on 6 June - all are welcome! #GSLAwards
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Our public engagement award is named for Gertrude Elles, a pioneering palaeontologist #FossilFriday
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October 8, 1872, birthday of British field geologist/paleontologist Gertrude Lilian Elles. In 1919 she won the Murchison Medal for her work on graptolites stratigraphy, and became one of the first female Fellows of the Geological Society 💎🔨 #FossilFriday
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Today is #NationalFossilDay in the USA, but it's #InternationalFossilDay on Saturday! What activities are you planning? #D íaInternacionalDelFósil (logo by @forams )
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