Slyss (she/they) . Account no longer active! Find me on blsky . Monash Pal(a)eo PhD candidate. Cambrian arthropods and inverts. PFP by @liveinjusttoday
Melbourne, Victoria
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It is once again time for #SciCommSeptember! This year, let’s talk about how paleontologists do field work. Since my speciality is marine invertebrate paleo, I’ll be discussing that; other paleo folks please feel free to talk about your own methods!
ALT A photo of me (Slyssa) in the field, a place I kinda always like to be!
Hey Melbournians! If you missed my comedy routine about boneless fossils earlier this year, never fear, a repeat performance is here!
Please join me and some other immensely talented (and funny) scientists, 15 October, at 7:30!
#scicomm #fringefest #womeninstem
ALT A photo from last time, featuring “woman who does not know what to do with her many gangly limbs”
Thank you to all who supported me in the recent #3MT finals round at @MonashUni ! It was great competing with so many talented researchers (and justifying my theater kid background 🙃). Hope you enjoyed hearing about old bug bodies 🦀🦐🐜! #SciComm #paleontology #FossilFriday
Congrats to @shannonwkaiser on his recent authorship on this fabulous froggy Nature paper!!
It was such an honor to do a degree alongside this talented fellow ☺️.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
I just won the Faculty of Science round of Monash Uni’s #3MT ! Wow!! Can’t believe that I had this opportunity, and such good competition as well. Thanks @Monash_Science and to all who helped make this possible!! See y’all at the next round 💪😤
ALT A small human presents a large screen full of bugs, old and new.
Forgot art credit!!
Trilobites from Holmes et al. 2021
Other Cambrian Creatures: @ni075 (your art is amazing!!)
Random bug spread: some image aggregator website no credit given (😢)
Congrats and well earned, Josie! Always inspired by your artistry
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Stoked to be turning my silly little bugs into comedy at this year’s #MelbourneInternationalComedyFestival!!! 🤠🦀🪲🦐
Thanks to @ScienceTalksAU for all the training; hopefully it helps bring a bit more funny to the fossils 🔥
@micomfestival @MonashBiol @Monash_Science
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Thrilled to announce that I am giving a SciComedy talk at the #MelbourneInternationalComedyFestival!!! 😱
Training in the @ScienceTalksAU SciComedy program to make my science funny and engaging 🔥
Join me: eventbrite.com.au/e/future-s…
@micomfestival @MonashBiol @Monash_Science
Looking forward to this! Come see me on Friday night at 8pm, if you want to learn about weird bugs, the science/religion of the Long Lobster, and more!
Can't wait to see these awesome scientists doing #ScienceComedy at the Melbourne Comedy Festival 🧬🤩🔥
Tickets and more info: comedyfestival.com.au/2024/s…
@adamjbatten @DrAlexDav @AlexLWallace @slyssabits @CatrionaNR @chloesgordon @biologychris @Goncalves_CC @DrDanWoodman
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hold up, lemme cook, Lyrarapax unguispinus girl
(very much inspired by Jun and TheAmazingSpino's anthropomorphisation techniques)
I’m happy to announce that my guest appearance on Pals in Paleo is now live! Get it wherever you cast your pods!
linktr.ee/palsinpalaeo?fbcli…
A little more field work done in scenic Strahan, TAS! We were mapping outcrop, collecting samples of plants and ambers, and generally enjoying some lovely sedimentary structures. Hoping the amber we collected yields lots of pollen and bug bits!
ALT The beach in Strahan, a pebbly beach opening onto quiet inlet waters
ALT A baggy full of amber collected from a new exposure around town.
ALT Planty material from a roadcut, including coals and (hopefully!) distinct leaf shapes
ALT Two geologist ladies golding up rocks like men hold up fish in a dating profile
On my first ever dinosaur dig with the wonderful Dinosaur Dreaming team here on Bass Coast, Victoria and I found 🫢 my first bit of dinosaur bone buried in situ! It’s a bit of ornithopod vertebrae. Slightly regretting my bashing of #bonefossil science, as the hype is real!
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🚨 NEW PUB ALERT! 🚨
Devonian sea surface temperature and paleoecology changes constrained by in situ oxygen isotopes of fish fossils
🖼️: D.W. Miller
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One last paper for the year, and shockingly, it's on arthropods. Led by @SarahLosso1, new data from the Walcott Rust demonstrates how trilobites were able to enroll their bodies. @InvertebratePal @MCZHarvard @MCZpaleo: tinyurl.com/yc4aahfp
Hey y’all! I’ve just done my very first podcast interview with @FossilsFiction about my work with weird bugs, science communication, and all my wonderful Cambrian creatures 😃! Have a listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/101…
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This #TrilobiteTuesday: A recently described Bohemolichas incola, an #Ordovician #trilobite from the Czech Republic. Scans of a 3D specimen show its gut was full of shell fragments, suggesting it was an opportunistic scavenger. Superb science!
Image: t.ly/7kwbl
