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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 12d

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...

careers.amnh.org

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 12d

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

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Sergi López-Torres @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social · 13d

New paper out in JVP, in which we describe two new species of the basal paromomyid primate Paromomys from the Paleocene of Alberta 🇨🇦 By Craig Scott, myself, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & Lisa Bohach.

doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Mandibles and isolated molars of the new species Paromomys borealis

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CSIC x Palestine @csicxpalestine.bsky.social · 14d

Scientists from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC united in the group CSIC X Palestine meet every week in front of their respective institutes to support Gaza and Lebanon against Israel's attacks and denounce Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing. CMIMA (ICM, IBE, UTM) September 23, 2025

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15d

Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt scouting: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the 🧵

My linocut portrait of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 15d

Despite global challenges for women in STEM, there are local wins to celebrate.

Across the EU, women made up 42.5% of STEM graduates in 2021, with even higher representation in countries like Romania and Poland. 🇪🇺

Let's keep empowering #WomenInScience! 👩‍💻

📊 Eurostat

Bar chart showing percentage of women graduating in STEM fields across EU countries in 2021. Romania leads at 42%, while Belgium has lowest at 27%. EU average shown in teal at 32%. Small illustration of woman with laptop in top right. Eurostat source and International Women's Day hashtag at bottom.

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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:
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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · Aug 6

Qilin tungurensis (formally Palaeotragus tungurensis) have a new genus name now!
Mainly based on the holotype and paratype AMNH 26582/26583, the part of horn core based on the refered IVPP V33851.

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · Aug 9

The best part of teaching Intro to Biological Anthropology is getting to teach primate diversity. I mean look at this thing

A golden angwantibo, a loris from central Africa

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · Aug 4

We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen).
It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou.
Congrats to all involved!🎉
Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · Jul 30

#fieldwork bonfire sausages taste best 💯

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our students and volunteers are settling into #palaeontology #fieldwork in sunny Miedary in #Poland, hunting for #Triassic #fossils 🦴

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨Publication alert🚨 Andrej Čerňanský coauthors 'A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the #paleontology and #paleoecology of a transitional sequence'

doi.org/10.26879/1536

Bozeș Formation Campanian Biota

A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · Jul 30

#Triassic #palaeontology #fieldwork in Miedary #Poland has begun! Our students and volunteers have already made some amazing discoveries.... 🦴

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Homotherium hadarensis ambushing unfortunate Australopithecus afarensis #Sciart

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Chris Law @chrislaw.bsky.social · Jul 28

After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded!

Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social

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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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Oriol Monclús Gonzalo @euarchont.bsky.social · Jul 19

New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó

Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape

The locomotor behavior of the earliest euprimates is key to our understanding of the origin and early diversification of the group. Postcranial traits…

www.sciencedirect.com

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The Grim Raptor @thegrimraptor.bsky.social · Feb 21

The Koala Lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. This adorably goofy squatty body was by far the largest lemur to ever exist. They were likely driven to extinction a mere 500 years ago on a rapidly changing Madagascar. On display at the Paris Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy. #FossilFriday

A skeletal mount of Megaladapis, climbing a tree limb in an upright posture

A human male standing next to a mounted Megaladapis for scale. The Megaladapis stands about 3 feet tall.

A Megaladapis skull in frontal view, showing the side facing orbits and long upper canine teeth.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Jul 19

More than 46 million years ago, when lush and humid forests covered much of North America, lemur-like primates lived among the trees. This form is called Smilodectes, part of an extinct primate group known as adapiforms. Smilodectes ate leaves and moved like lemurs do today, clinging and leaping. 🧪

The skeleton of a lemur-like fossil primate called Smilodectes

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are looking for a #PhD Student in our group on "Environmental versus host controls on #parasite diversity in #Permian-#Triassic #vertebrate #coprolites" in the NCN project "The impact of mass #extinctions on parasite #diversity and #evolution".

www.biol.uw.edu.pl/staze-stypen...

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Holly Anderson @palaeophd.bsky.social · Jul 10

#Palaeontologist outing to see #JurassicWorldRebirth!

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Dr Ola Skawina and I 😊

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨New paper! 🚨 Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina as coauthor on 'A curated dataset on the distribution of West #Palaearctic freshwater #bivalves' rdcu.be/euHsM

A curated dataset on the distribution of West Palaearctic freshwater bivalves

Scientific Data - A curated dataset on the distribution of West Palaearctic freshwater bivalves

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dr Aleksandra Skawina is on 🔥 this week with her *second* paper, '#Fossilized gill soft tissues in Mesozoic freshwater unionoid #bivalves: reinvestigation and new evidence of the #evolution of adaptation to the freshwater environment' www.app.pan.pl/.../publishe...

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