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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 24d

It’s never too late to squeeze in a pelycosaur talk

Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 24d

Really looking forward to it! Is technical session 6 supposed to be non-dinosaur archosauromorphs or reptiles more widely?

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 26d

Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 29d

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’d love a copy of the aulacephalodon paper

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 22

High up in the mountains of Lebanon this #FossilFriday looking for exceptionally well preserved fossil fishes. I’ve managed to come across this little guy, first time someone’s seen him in 100 million years

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 9

My book review of the Secret History of Sharks by John Long is out now on palaeocast 🦈🦈🦈https://www.palaeocast.com/a-palaeontologists-book-review-of-a-secret-history-of-sharks/

It's a brilliant read, I highly recommened it. Check out my review to see why (and also to see a video of a whale shark!)

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · Aug 9

1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Aug 8

New paper where we applied FEA on marine reptiles teeth, with Joshua White & Matthew McCurry @australianmuseum.bsky.social. @universitedeliege.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Measuring the load-bearing capacity of Mesozoic marine reptile teeth using Finite Element Analysis

Paleontologists have long inferred the dietary preferences of Mesozoic marine reptiles based on skull and tooth morphologies. Previous researchers have hypothesized that different marine reptile to...

www.tandfonline.com

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 7

Genuinely so exciting to see this memoir out, and really nice to see your paper in it! Can’t wait to give it all a read, congrats!

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · Aug 7

As of this morning, SVP Memoir 23 - Vertebrate Evolution in the Permian Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia - has been published!!! What's inside? Let's dig in:

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 1

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

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Bill Ryerson @billryerson.bsky.social · Jul 30

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Jul 31

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 26

Really sad that we’ve lost Ziad Rahbani. One of the biggest names in Arab music, almost unmatched in the influence he had. I imagine many of my mutuals have no idea who he was, you should totally give his work a listen

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 23

Lots of unloveable oddballs there too (looking at you, Tetragonias)

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · Jul 23

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🪶🦎

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Our new study: Tiny teeth, big story.

During the last few 100,000s of years of the Cretaceous, before the asteroid hit, a great diversity of theropods was living near what is now Barcelona.

Dinosaurs were strong, up until their tragic end! Our paper:

doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Redirecting

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

Worth mentioning the WIS is substantially younger than the Lebanese sites. Animals like giant mosasaurs wouldn’t have evolved when the Lebanese material was originally deposited

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ah sorry, yea the differences in preservation between all 3 makes it difficult to see similarities in fauna, but they all would have been dominated by ammonites and teleosts typical of the Late Cretaceous, and as for larger creatures, we’d have to mainly look towards what we find in the WIS

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

It’s totally different, this Lebanese material is more similar in preservation to what you see in Solnhofen

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yup www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

The famous fish beds of Lebanon: the Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten of Haqel, Hjoula, Nammoura and Sahel Aalma | Journal of the Geological Society

The fossils of the Lebanese Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten, especially the articulated fish, are world renowned. Famous for their soft tissue preservation and highly sought after by fossil collectors, ...

www.lyellcollection.org

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

Tagging the awesome @taphonomist.bsky.social who co-led this project with me

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 18

Almost a year ago today, our paper describing the exceptionally well preserved Upper Cretaceous fossils of Lebanon was published. Today we found out it was one of the most read papers in the Journal of the Geological Society in June 2025. Great motivation to do more science!

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