Christina Belanger, Ph.D
Paleoecologist using the past to understand the future. Forams are the best! Associate professor at Texas A&M in College Station teaching about fossils and Earth’s deep past.
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D⚡Applications for Paleontological Society Student Representative (2026-2028) are open! ⚡ @paleosoc.bsky.social It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1. forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DI've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DResearchers from Europe are visiting this week, conducting experimental observations of foraminifera. Seeing healthy specimens extend their long pseudopodia is reassuring.
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- “The university later identified canceled courses as Introduction to Race and Ethnicity; Religions of the World; Ethics in Public Policy; Diversity in Sport Organizations; Cultural Leadership and Exploration for Society; and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Youth Development Organizations.”
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D🎬 “The Story of Stress” is out now! A 27 minute documentary on #IODP Expedition 405 (JTRACK), filmed aboard D/V Chikyu during 4 months at sea off Japan’s Tohoku region. Watch it now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoBN...
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DThe NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
- “No state or federal law prohibits discussion of race, gender or sexuality in college classrooms. State law does require public universities to post course syllabi online, but…professors have been required to submit them for administrative review before certain courses can proceed.”
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- “…an intro. sociology course on race and ethnicity was canceled, a comm. course on religion and the arts was renumbered and stripped of core curriculum credit, and a philosophy prof. was told to remove Plato readings and other material related to race and gender from a core course or be reassigned.”
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DHappy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DHoly shit I'm so relieved I could cry. A very happy new year to PRI!!! www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DSomething very different for the last #MolluscMonday of 2025 – a montage of record album covers featuring ammonites. I’m sure there must be more.
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DApplications open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program. Are you fascinated by transdisciplinary questions that transcend or combine disciplines? UCR is a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience for undergraduates curious about complexity science. Apply by Jan 14, 2026 santafe.edu/ucr
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D#DYK? Trilobites ruled the Earth longer than the dinosaurs! It took three major mass extinctions to end trilobites’ more than 250-milion year evolutionary lifespan. Join Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins to explore these arthropods through the Museum’s extensive collection of trilobite specimens.
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- Beautiful deep sea #foraminifera
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- “Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%.” Each box in the figure below “represents 1% of global wild mammal biomass on land.”
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.Dppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
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- A geology class from 1900
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DScientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms. “It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan. www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DHeads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
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- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DAgglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
- Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.DForams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
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- Excited to share our new paper out today in Science led by Patrizia Ziveri and the BIOCAL Working Group! With @willerstorfi.bsky.social, @nanophyto.bsky.social, @tdegaridel.bsky.social and many colleagues! @climatecerege.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social 🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq8520
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