Dr Orla Bath Enright

I'm excited to see @taphonomist.bsky.social's newest paper out @royalsociety.org. Our analytical investigations reveal an important cautionary tale about decay: what was believed to be the worlds oldest octopus remains (Pohlsepia) - is in fact, a highly decomposed nautiloid! Congrats again, Thomas!

#PalAss25 kicked of yesterday with our #ERC workshop! Three absolutely fantastic talks and panel discussion with expert speakers on academic publishing, grants and funding applications along with applying for jobs.

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship! Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @thepalass.bsky.social

Join us in just over an hours time (1730 GMT) to hear from our panellists about their exciting career journeys! #PalAss Register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST! Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding. Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨Check out our new paper! 🦠 Led by @taphonomist.bsky.social our experiments show the influence of endogenous bacteria in the early stages of decay.

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at @uniofreading.bsky.social in the new year. Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the @colezoology.bsky.social as part of my new role.

Really interesting and excellently executed taphonomic study alert! The authours designed neat insect disarticualtion experiments to better understand preservational patterns of insect found in the Crato Formation, Brazil. 🪰🪳🦟 Very very cool work by Storari et al. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution rdcu.be/eAmRU www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out my little sisters work published in Nature Communications today! 👩‍🔬📃

Out today, our Nature cover debut! @stephanspiekman.bsky.social @she-paleo.bsky.social @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

A paper in Nature describes a Triassic reptile with a crest of appendages on its back, which are neither feathers nor skin. The findings demonstrate that feathers or hair-like protrusions are not unique to birds and mammals. go.nature.com/4nZCySR #Paleosky 🧪

Although large, elongated protrusions on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil have some similarities to feathers, they are not feathers go.nature.com/3J0pOLt

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

My sister Orla and team just changed our understanding of the fossil record! 😍

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Check out our video for a wonderful illustration of #Mirasaura @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

✨Tonight✨ we are kick starting our new and fully booked #ECR #PeerReview Training Programme with the wonderful help from our editorial officer and journal editors as review mentors! ✨Tomorrow✨ we have our panel discussion on "Careers in Palaeontology" Join @thepalass.bsky.social to get involved!

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....

A great opportunity to join online and learn more about ichnology ⬇️ #ichnology #online #webinar

☎️Calling PalAss members! We have an exclusive webinar this Wednesday on our #EngagementGrant with expert panellists to answer all your questions. 💫Register using the link below

🌟Members Exclusive!🌟 Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers. 🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST) Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

On 18th March I'm doing a free, hybrid, public lecture at the GeolSoc on stegosaurs. Come along or join online: www.geolsoc.org.uk/03-PL-stegos...

Check out this new paper by Chiarella et al. in #Sedimentologika, exploring the impact of #plastic sediments in natural environments. If you were inspired by Prof. Gabbott's "Future Fossils" talk at the 2024 #PalAss Annual Meeting. Get stuck into this! #OpenAccess #Palaeontology #Sedimentology

Calling all creative minds in science communication! 🧠💡🎨 Join us at SMNS as a Content Creator and help bring biodiversity research to a wider audience! 🌿🧬📱 📅 Apply by 16.03.2025 🔗 Details: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta... #JobAlert #Hiring #ScienceComm #SocialMedia

Hello, BlueSky! 🦋 Excited to reconnect, exchange ideas, and build a collaborative space driven by curiosity and innovation. We’re launching the Dept. of Biodiversity Monitoring at SMNS!🚀 Using museum & monitoring collections, we study genomic diversity 🧬 and species persistence in a changing world.

Just read a great paper by McMahon et al. 2025, "Remarkable fossils on unremarkable bedding planes? The role of true substrates in the fossil record of the Ediacaran macrobiota" @philvixseboxse.bsky.social #Ediacaran #Palaeontology Check it out: www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1...

TODAY! Join us to discuss the PalAss Research Grants: Wednesday 19th February at 17:30 UTC Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you to Christian Klug for inviting me to speak with the Paläontologie Institut and #UniversitätZürich #UZH last week about early biases in fossil preservation. It was great to be back in Switzerland for a few days 🇨🇭

Revisiting the black shales depositional enigma! This one has taken a while, but delighted to see this out at last. With a stellar cast, and me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Be the weird kid with the rock and shell collection...you're going places! 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #Geoscience

Our new paper.... "Coming to light: How effective are sediment gravity flows in removing fine suspended carbonate from reefs?" led by @makingripples.bsky.social along with William Hewitt & James Hendry is out now as #OpenAccess in The Depositional Record. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1002/dep2...

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out! tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

Oh look a wild @orlabe.bsky.social appeared on Bluesky. Drop her a follow, there is some very exciting rotten fossil research coming soon!