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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 8d

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council

View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...

www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 8d

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)!

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · 12d

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 16d

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

jobs.open.ac.uk

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International Fossil Coral and Reef Society @ifcrs.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Registration open!🚨

Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸

📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 20d

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology:
apply.interfolio.com/172502
apply.interfolio.com/172517

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 23d

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology.

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research

Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪

Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social
and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ....

doi.org

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Jack Hatfield @jackhhatfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our new article just out we examine the current extinction event in the context of the longer fossil record. We conclude it is likely the greatest event in the last 66 million years

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ...

doi.org

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · Sep 4

New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨⚠️Last week to submit!!
#AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #Postdoc #UK #Ecology #PostdocJobs @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · Jul 4

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Sachin Bhardwaj Lock @sachinbhardwajlock.bsky.social · Aug 4

A real pleasure to give a talk on my research focused on the conservation palaeobiology of Cuban crocodiles @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich last week. So many inspiring speakers using data from the past to protect species' futures. Especially honoured to have won 2nd prize for my efforts! 🐊

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Aug 1

For #FossilFriday have a look at the Late Cretaceous vertebrate remains of a Transylvanian Titanosaur and an anatomical record of the remains described by Diaz et al. (2025) in JSP.
Read the full study here: buff.ly/0eDwNJI

#PaleoSky #NHM #Dinosaur #Fossils #NaturalHistory #Giant #JSP #MindBlown

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jul 17

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society

The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

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Cecily Nicholl @piginatutu.bsky.social · Jul 8

Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social 🐊🦕 (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising!

@macroecoevoale.bsky.social
@devinhoffman.bsky.social
@pdmannion.bsky.social

Researchers from UCL’s Vertebrate Palaeobiology Research Group presenting in their recent findings.

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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 3

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool

From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · Jul 4

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · Jun 19

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:

"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"

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

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 11

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales | Royal Society Open Science

Borings of the extant bone-eating worm Osedax have previously been found in Cenozoic cetaceans and Cretaceous marine reptiles. The stratigraphically youngest Cretaceous example is from the Maastrichti...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · Jun 11

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on the earliest fossil whale preserved with evidence of the bone-eating worm, Osedax, with implications for the latter's survival across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · Jun 9

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ‪in which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

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Erin E. Saupe @eesaupe.bsky.social · May 29

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!

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