Matt McKeown
@mattmckeown.bsky.social
He/him. Paleontology PhD Candidate in Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. Interested in the functional anatomy of metriorhynchoid thalattosuchians and other mesozoic marine reptiles
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Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.
www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490
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December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.
www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
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I have a funded PhD studentship on offer on the phylogenetics and evolution of living and fossil felids. Deadline is 19 Jan 2026.
#paleontology #PhD
#paleontology #PhD
Bayesian and Machine Learning Approaches to Reveal the Evolutionary Synamics of the Early Diversification, Dispersal, and Adaptive Evolution of Living and Fossil Felidae at University of Reading on Fi...
PhD Project - Bayesian and Machine Learning Approaches to Reveal the Evolutionary Synamics of the Early Diversification, Dispersal, and Adaptive Evolution of Living and Fossil Felidae at University of...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I have a funded PhD studentship on offer on the phylogenetics and evolution of living and fossil felids. Deadline is 19 Jan 2026.
#paleontology #PhD
#paleontology #PhD
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'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
Link to website for info regarding the opportunity, requirements, and how to apply
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
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Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:
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An exquisite fossil of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile reveals it had partially webbed fingers and toes.
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
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New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
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New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
An ancient reptile’s fossilized skin reveals how it swam like a seal
A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.
www.sciencenews.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
An exquisite fossil of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile reveals it had partially webbed fingers and toes.
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal.
#Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio
🧪🏺
New for @sciencenews.bsky.social
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Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now:
'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ
'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R...
Deadlines early Jan '26
'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ
'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R...
Deadlines early Jan '26
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now:
'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ
'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R...
Deadlines early Jan '26
'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ
'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R...
Deadlines early Jan '26
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Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
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New seasonal paleontology positions available for Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park and Fossil Butte National Monument. Apply soon, they close after they receive a certain number of apps! #NPSpaleo #PaleoJobs
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816000
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816700
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816000
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816700
USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government
These positions may be filled for a six month seasonal period, but can vary due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: <strong>April 2026</strong>
<p>For more par...
www.usajobs.gov
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New seasonal paleontology positions available for Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park and Fossil Butte National Monument. Apply soon, they close after they receive a certain number of apps! #NPSpaleo #PaleoJobs
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816000
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816700
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816000
www.usajobs.gov/job/850816700
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If you qualify as Home UK and BAME student, then we have an opportunity for a PhD position at the University of Reading to be considered under the CROCUS-DLA
BAME Home Scholarships – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you qualify as Home UK and BAME student, then we have an opportunity for a PhD position at the University of Reading to be considered under the CROCUS-DLA
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Our paper re-evaluating the notosuchian Eremosuchus elkoholicus is out now! This work formed a chapter of my PhD thesis, and sheds some light on the complex evolutionary history of sebecid crocodyliforms 🐊🌎
@es-ucl.bsky.social
@es-ucl.bsky.social
New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids
Notosuchian systematics have been highly debated in recent decades, particularly the placement of sebecids and closely related species. As the only notosuchian lineage to have survived the Cretaceo...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Our paper re-evaluating the notosuchian Eremosuchus elkoholicus is out now! This work formed a chapter of my PhD thesis, and sheds some light on the complex evolutionary history of sebecid crocodyliforms 🐊🌎
@es-ucl.bsky.social
@es-ucl.bsky.social
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A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information
This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
careers-nyit.icims.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
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What's the secret to being a 'good' and 'productive' scientist? Having a lab with the brightest, most enthusiastic students!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What's the secret to being a 'good' and 'productive' scientist? Having a lab with the brightest, most enthusiastic students!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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An Edinburgh family photo at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting.
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
An Edinburgh family photo at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting.
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
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🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines
Alongside large madtsoiid snakes, the largest known lizards, thylacoleonid marsupials and a range of other terrestrial carnivores, the now extinct mekosuchine crocodylians were significant predator...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Eye think you should drop by poster 321 at today's poster session to see some cool research 👀🐊
#fossilfriday #2025svp
#fossilfriday #2025svp
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Eye think you should drop by poster 321 at today's poster session to see some cool research 👀🐊
#fossilfriday #2025svp
#fossilfriday #2025svp
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
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In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
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Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand