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I am delighted to offer a NERC-funded PhD project in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh for admission in 2020. This project will be supervised by me and co-supervised by Cambridge's Dr Alex Liu. Follow this link to find out more about the project. Application deadline: 9th January 2020 Summary: The fossil … Continue reading PhD project: Ediacaran matground communities

I am delighted to offer a NERC-funded PhD project in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh for admission in 2020. This project will be supervised by me and co-supervised by Dr Geoff Bromiley. Follow this link to find out more about the project. Application deadline: 9th January 2020 Summary: Micro-organisms like bacteria … Continue reading PhD project: the afterlife of a microbe

Some naturally occurring iron-mineral filaments. Fossil microbes? (c) The author. For billions of years, microbes like bacteria have quietly transformed the Earth. They have re-routed the flow of nutrients around our planet, infused the atmosphere with oxygen, and built the biosphere from the bottom up. It is hard to overstate the palaeontological importance of “simple” … Continue reading New paper: The trouble with tubules