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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · 13h

A really outstanding museum display in Shanghai, bringing fossils to "life" 🦎
youtu.be/8vj5AfHYuk0?...

Amazing naked-3D dinosaur installation at the Shanghai Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Shanghai Let's Meet

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats @spichergael.bsky.social for publishing your Master’s thesis! 👏

Gaël Spicher @spichergael.bsky.social · 14d

‼️ PAPER ALERT ‼️
We describe a new German ichthyosaur species: Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Upper Toarcian layers of Mistelgau (Bavaria). 🇩🇪
👉 Published in Fossil Record with @feikosaur.bsky.social , Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein. Check the full article here: fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · 26d

Quel cadre !

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Sep 1

2 offres d’emploi au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève www.museum-geneve.ch 🇨🇭 :

- Chargé ou chargée de projets d’exposition à 100%
www.geneve.ch/administrati...

- Médiateur ou médiatrice scientifique à 80%
www.geneve.ch/administrati...

Deadline 12.09.2025

www.museum-geneve.ch

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
In Kiel (Germany) - German speaking required
www.myscience.org/jobs/id31339...

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in mit Zielrichtung Habilitation am Zoologischen Institut in der Arbeitsgruppe Zoologie und Funktionsmorphologie der Vertebraten - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Ki...

www.myscience.org

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨Paleojobs alert🚨

- Professorship in Paleobotany in Bonn (Germany) 🍃: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31196...

- PhD in Palaeoecology / Palaeolimnology in Basel (Switzerland) 🦟: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31201...

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jun 13

1ère sur liste complémentaire, ressenti :

a woman in a red leotard is doing a trick on a bar with a sign that says brenna dowell in the background

Alt: a woman in a red leotard is doing a trick on a bar with a sign that says brenna dowell in the background

media.tenor.com

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you want to know what happened to these newcomers, a.k.a. palaeotheres, stay tuned, as this is the topic of my current post doc in Switzerland 🇨🇭

And don’t worry, rhinos have also a role to play in this work! 🦏

data.snf.ch/grants/grant...

Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jun 6

Indeed, the giant-sized and most recent species, Lophiodon lautricense, consumed more abrasive and harder items. 🌳

Lastly, the changes in dietary strategies are also related to climate cooling and new competitors. ❄️🐎

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jun 6

We studied lophiodontid dietary evolution over their entire stratigraphical range and found out that early lophiodontids were browsers, not frugivores as traditionally thought. 🌿

We noted a diet shift in lophiodontids associated with body mass and progressive molarisation. 🦷

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Jun 6

After about 7 years, we eventually managed to finish our lophiodons side project! The release is just on time for #fossilfriday 🥳

I was very happy for the opportunity to work with friends and on a different group!

Full text available here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · May 6

Et on trouve 5 milliards à couper en 2025

Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · May 5

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · Apr 14

When I CT scanned this diamondback rattlesnake specimen, I found a surprise rodent inside 🐍🐁

The #oVertTCN CT data is available for download on MorphoSource here: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

3D renderings of a CT scan of a small rattlesnake. Top: rendering of snake skeleton in brown with rodent skeleton inside rendered in pink and orange, overlayed on the same image with the snake's skeleton rendered transparent and the rodent in pink and orange. Bottom: Closer up view of the rodent viewed from the other side, showing the front of the skull with teeth.

Image of a preserved rattlesnake specimen, coiled up with mouth open and fangs bared.

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Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social · Apr 4

"suite au dysfonctionnement de la plateforme Odyssée" "report de la clôture des candidatures dans le cadre de la campagne synchronisée du recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs au dimanche dimanche 6 avril à 22h"

c'est franchement pénible de jouer ainsi avec l'avenir des gens

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨Job alert - Archeology 🚨

www.jurassica.ch/fr/Infos-pra...

Offre Chercheur(se)-enseignant(e) en archéologie préhistorique (80%) | Jurassica Museum

Le dossier de candidature doit être soumis en ligne via le lien ci-dessous avant le 16 mai 2025 et contenir les éléments suivants :

www.jurassica.ch

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Marion Segall @marionsegall.bsky.social · Mar 21

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

adum.fr

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's once again #fossilfriday so let me introduce you to the brand new palaeontological journal Open Palaeontology: www.openpalaeo.org/index @openpalaeo.bsky.social

It's a Diamond Open Access journal (free to authors and readers) welcoming articles on any topic related to palaeontological research

Open Palaeontology

www.openpalaeo.org

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨Job offers🚨
Two tenure-track positions for researchers at the Senckenberg in Weimar (Germany) on:
- Quaternary Megafaunas 🦣
- Palaeobiology of Quaternary Small Mammals 🐁

www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

Quaternary Megafaunas and Palaeobiology of Quaternary Small Mammals | Deutscher Museumsbund e.V.

Job announcement Ref. #03-25001 The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) was founded in 1817 and is one of the most important research institutions in the field of biodiversity. At its t...

www.museumsbund.de

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Manon Hullot, PhD @manonhullot.bsky.social · Mar 12

An amazing article on scientific publishing and malpractices of some publishers (fast turnaround times, low rejection rates, only special issues) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

direct.mit.edu

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Maxime Audinet @maudinet.bsky.social · Mar 11

Merci au @lemonde.fr de publier ce soir ma tribune, écrite après ma relaxe par le tribunal de Créteil, qui faisait suite au procès en diffamation intenté par la chaîne RT France contre mon éditeur, l'INA, et moi-même. 1/3

#StandUpForScience

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Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social · Mar 4

"I study animals from the past, and they should stay in the past," as I said in this interview, and "the idea that they can fix that [the extinction crisis] with gene editing is missing the big picture.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...

Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse'

On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

www.scientificamerican.com

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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · Feb 27

Je partage ici le message d'un collègue argentin a qui je demandais des news. Glaçant 😱!
La Méthode Milei (bel euphémisme gerbant) démantèle éducation&recherche, cible les savoirs qui comme aux US, gênent politiquement: climat&écologie, justice env.
Le fascisme s'installe. Sommes-ns a l'abri en 🇪🇺?

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · Feb 27

[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours.

sciences.re/postes/

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · Feb 25

PhD thesis proposal in our lab:
"Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees"

Supervision: Pierre Faux and I
Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France
More infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_...

(thanks in advance for your RT and for sharing with your students 😉)

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Natacha Triou @natachatriou.bsky.social · Feb 24

👇Ce que l’extrême-droite fait aux Sciences : une revue de presse.
Ce nouvel obscurantisme, cette purge anti-science : c’est une dystopie.

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