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For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection:

FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.

🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - FLMNH Collections Manager II / FLMNH Collections Manager III
explore.jobs.ufl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
whimsicallambda.bsky.social
3/3⚒️🧪 Links to the episode and the paper below.
#Paleontology #Pterosaur #HaliskiaPeterseni #SciencePodcast #WhimsicalWavelengths

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
geologyjohnson.bsky.social
@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social saw these Fenestrate #bryozoa (?) In #Devonian limestone from Belgium. They have these feathery extensions, like in the 2nd pic. Have you seen anything like this previously? #geology #paleontology ⚒️ 🧪
Photo of a human finger tip on grey limestone pointing at a bryozoan fossil that looks like lacy cloth. Human finger on grey limestone pointing at a fossil bryozoan that looks a bit like a lacy feather. To the right of the bryozoan fossil is the fossil of the rear third of a trilobite arthropod that looks a bit like a woodlouse. This is a trilobite butt.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
geologyjohnson.bsky.social
Late #FossilFriday this tiny bebe frond on a siltstone bedding plane from an undisclosed UK location of suspected #Ediacaran age. Lots of interesting frond-like structures on these samples. #Geology #Paleontology ⚒️ 🧪
Two fingers (human) holding a piece of gray siltstone about 5 cm long. A red circle has been draw on the image where the impression of a feather or frond like form can be seen illuminated by low angled lighting.
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day185 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

"John Oliver (H. sapiens) prevents disaster for US paleontology" could be this month's nonsense headline. Shake a poor ichthyosaur's hand #savePRI 🧪⚒️ #science
John Oliver shaking hands with the flipper of an Icthyosaur in front of PRI's Hyde Park Mastodon
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
ichnologist.bsky.social
Grateful to @amayor.bsky.social for sending me a copy of her new book "Mythopedia," a fascinating A-to-Z explainer of multicultural lore inspired by geology, paleontology & other facets of natural history. A fun & mind-expanding read! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 🧪📚🪨⚒️🦣🦖
Book on wood desktop titled "Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore, Adrienne Mayor"; cover has a blue background and line drawing of a sea serpent filled with orange-brown, as is the main title.
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Thank you, @danclarkreports.bsky.social for helping spread the word about PRI🦣

2 months left to save this important research and teaching center somehow!

🧪⚒️🐌 #science #earthscience #Antarctica #NewYork #Paleontology #fossilfriday #Cornell
danclarkreports.bsky.social Dan Clark @danclarkreports.bsky.social · 12d
In Ithaca, there's a museum that has the largest collections of fossils from New York AND Antarctica AND Venezuela.

It's grown from a small collection purchased by Ezra Cornell himself nearly two centuries ago.

It will now close in January without help: www.timesunion.com/state/articl...
Largest New York fossil collection, home of Hyde Park mastodon, faces extinction
The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, which is home to the Hyde Park mastodon and the largest number of fossils from New York and Antarctica, faces a funding cliff.
www.timesunion.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
alinemghilardi.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️🧪
Our team just published a comprehensive study on fossil macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil), one of the world’s most iconic Cretaceous fossil sites.
Macroinvertebrates from the Santana Group, Brazil: Legal and ethical challenges and neocolonial legacies in paleontology
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
doktrock.bsky.social
"Two new Edmontosaurus mummies—a late juvenile and an early adult—with large continuous areas of preserved external skin surface" from #Wyoming #paleontology
"#Dinosaur 'mummies' unlock secrets of their real-life appearance" ⚒️🧪

phys.org/news/2025-10...
Dinosaur 'mummies' unlock secrets of their real-life appearance
In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to transform the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur, Edmontosaurus annectens...
phys.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day 159 of photoshopping John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) relaxing with a tooth of Otodus megalodon (PRI111611)
#savePRI #fossilfriday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #paleontology #geology ⚒️🧪 #sharks
John Oliver with his feet up on his desk pointing to a large fossil shark tooth in a small amount of matrix rock on his desk
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
geophotographer.org
A new Jurassic fossil from Scotland, Breugnathair elgolensis, shows a combination of snake-like jaws and teeth with a lizard-like body and limbs, providing direct evidence of diverse squamate traits early in their history.
#Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils
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Paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws
A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, python-s...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day151 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John Oliver(H. sapiens) is so horny for horses, maybe this Equus simplcidens fossil will get him to do exactly what we want! #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #fossils #paleontology
John Oliver with a fossil horse skeleton in the video box on his show. Beneath him is the caption text "I know how to get John to do exactly what you want"
October 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
🧪⚒️ #paleobiology #paleontology #fossils #vertebratepaleontology
sirjoscha.bsky.social Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · Sep 30
Christian Foth @mfnberlin.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PhD position in the DfG project "Postnatal Ontogenetic Patterns within Avialae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", and he asked me to circulate this announcement 👇 Please share widely!

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...
42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)
jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
andrejpaleo.bsky.social
Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci
Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice
September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ferwen.bsky.social
Florentino Ameghino, the father of Argentinian paleontology, was born #OTD 1854. He became a national icon for his role in creating national science and culture. 🧪⚒️

wp.me/p3ihHu-Af #histsci
Florentino Ameghino, the father of Argentinian paleontology.
Florentino Ameghino was born on September 18, 1854. He came from a family of Italian immigrants who settled in 1854 in the town of Lujan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the extraction and exportati…
wp.me
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
whimsicallambda.bsky.social
🧪researcher with interesting results to share reach out!
To start the pod goes into #volcanology⚒️ and plinian eruptions, then into food science about ice cream, then Black holes accretionary disks🔭 and then plastic. Geophysics and paleontology episodes are planned as well!
Pahoehoe Lava flow in hawaii showing nice ropy textures
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
kiwigeolog.bsky.social
Elizabeth Philpot was an important participant in the late 18th and 19th C development of paleontology and geology, a collaborator with Mary Anning, Louis Agassiz, Henry De la Beche, William Buckland, and others. The fish was one of her discoveries ⚒️🧪🌊
www.geological-digressions.com/elizabeth-ph...
Elizabeth Philpot was an important participant in the late 18th and 19th C development of paleontology and geology, a collaborator with Mary Anning, Louis Agassiz, Henry De la Beche, William Buckland, and others. The fish was one of her discoveries
September 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
andrejpaleo.bsky.social
"…Paleontology, a science seemingly immersed in the depths of the planet, serves as a window to the cosmos, through which we will learn to see the patterns of the history of life and the emergence of thinking beings."
—Ivan A. Efremov

🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio
Painting of a sauropod in a primitive Jurassic landscape. From the book "In the footsteps of the past" by Irina Yakovleva and Vladimir Yakovlev
August 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
alinemghilardi.bsky.social
📢 Hey, paleopeople! ⚒️🧪

The International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Paleontology (IMERP) is coming to Santana do Cariri, Brazil, this December! 🦖🪨
Get ready for talks, workshops, field trips, and networking in one of the most fossil-rich regions in the world.
August 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
kristalerista.bsky.social
Do you want to go to grad school in #paleontology 🦖, #geology ⚒️, or #biology🧪?

Join the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Graduate School Application Prep Group! We’ll walk you through the application process in weekly workshops.

Sign up with this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you want to be a paleontologist? Join the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's Application Preparation Group! This series of free Zoom workshops will: Tell you how the field of paleontology works, guide you through the graduate school application process, connect you with other applicants, and give you feedback on your application. Anyone is welcome!
August 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
titoaureliano.bsky.social
🧪🚨We’ve just published a new paper!🚨⚒️

In it, we explore the origin and evolution of air sacs in pterosaurs and their precursors. (+)
#Paleontology #Evolution #Biodiversity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The origin and evolution of air sacs in pterosaurs and their forerunners
Pneumatized pterosauromorph vertebrae and their phylogenetic context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day 101 of @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution:

Which image in the 🧵is your favorite so far? Comment if your favorite wasn't included in the poll. 🧪⚒️ #fossils #paleontology #JohnOliver

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August 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
In time for #FossilFriday, my new paper with Warren Allmon out in Paleobiology:

Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion 🧵

#Paleontology ⚒️🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion
www.cambridge.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
It is not just me advocating for Paleontological Research Institution, Carlton E. Brett, a prominent paleontologist at the University of Cincinnati, shared a letter on our behalf to the scientific community, reproduced below 1/ 18
#SavePRI ⚒️🧪🦑 #fossils #paleontology #palaeontology
July 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ferwen.bsky.social
#FossilFriday Maria Vasillievna Pavlova, nee Gortynskaia, was the first Russian woman to achieve significant national and international success in vertebrate paleontology. wp.me/p3ihHu-4sN #WomenInSTEM #histsci #feministfriday 🧪⚒️
July 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM