Marissa J Betts

I’m giving an online talk next week for @WorldOceansDay.

AAP Student Travel Award - Meet the winners Stephanie Richter Stretton - UNE Abstract title: Carbonate microfacies, depositional environments and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Second Plain Creek Member, Wilkawillina Limestone, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Job alert!! A museum curator position is vacant at the University of Western Australia. If you are interested in working in a museum, with rocks and fossils, here is your chance! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/514055/… #AusPalaeo #fossils #palaeontology

“After good rains in linyji country, Mulyamiji would be born in water lying on the linyji. My mother, my two fathers, my uncle told me this long ago." Warnman - Manjilyjarra man, Purungu Desmond Taylor theguardian.com/australia-news…

@PeterBetts8 @SolBuckman @SarahKachovich Oh my gosh 100%!!!

@SolBuckman @SarahKachovich Another picture of a mine with the word geology next to it. It’s killing us. When did the farmers federation last show a picture of the Abattoir? The answer is never!

Geology departments becoming smaller or closing abc.net.au/radionational/…

Huge congrats to LLUNE's Dr Luke Milan for his recent #ARCLinkage success! Luke is part of a team from @UQ_News @QUT and QLD & NSW geological surveys who aim to unravel the tectonic history of contorted #ultramafic and high pressure #metamorphic rocks in eastern Australia. 👏👏👏

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and a couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to chat with some remarkable women in palaeo from Australia and around the world. The following thread shares links to several of those conversations. 🧵 #WomenInScience

Want to work with the 'famous' #SHRIMP mass spectrometer? RSES is offering a 5 year Postdoc term! Check out more about this career-defining opportunity here 👉bit.ly/40qyVcH Closing 2 March. @ShrimpAnu

@watch4rx @UniNewEngland Love this idea!

@200micron @UniNewEngland My intro students are doing a mineral project which includes making a poster and writing a haiku for their mineral. I hope their haikus are as clever as your students’ paleo titles.

A couple of yrs ago I switched up our second-year palaeo essay. I made each student pick a DIFFERENT topic, and they had to come up with a clever title. The class votes on their fave and the winner gets a "palaeo prize pack". There are some awesome titles this year (thread):

Congrats to all the GEOL202 students @UniNewEngland for their awesome engagement with the essay this trimester. May the catchiest, punniest and most excellent title win!

"A reef history of time: The evolution of reefs from the Precambrian to the Recent" 👀My god. I am stealing this one.