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🚨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...

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

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...

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....

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....

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/...

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...

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

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! 🐊

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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/...

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/...

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...

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

🚨🚨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 😉

🚨🚨🚨!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!

If you're interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral (or any other) fellowship to come work with me @es-ucl.bsky.social on sauropods, crocodiles, fossil birds, past biodiversity patterns and/or conservation palaeobiology for vertebrates, please get in touch

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out! We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social! 📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩 I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚 Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop! More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

Our new paper out today describes a sebecoidean crocodylomorph from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia, and provides support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg. @pdmannion.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our new paper @royalsociety.org describing a new notosuchian crocodyliform from the early Paleocene of Argentina that we interpret as evidence for survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K–Pg mass extinction (w/@piginatutu.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @es-ucl.bsky.social

species are on the move in many places due to climate change we wrote a paper arguing that we need to focus more on the *types* of movements we are seeing, as true range shifts have really different consequences from say range expansions led by Jed Brodie; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great opportunity to work on a very famous dinosaur: careers.amnh.org/postings/4384

New paper @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social in which we consider how species' ranges shift, expand, and contract in the present day, past, and future, along with the effects on local and global biodiversity, with Jed Brodie, Ben Freeman & Anna Hargreaves: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @es-ucl.bsky.social

The discovery of two new sauropod dinosaur species in Romania, including a 12 metre-long giant, challenges a theory that dinosaurs in what was then Hateg Island adapted to their limited habitat by becoming smaller. Researchers included Profs @pdmannion.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch @es-ucl.bsky.social

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨ For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website: www.palass.org/meetings-eve... #conference #student #uk

New sauropod species from #Romania rewrite Europe's dinosaur history! Led by @daniajinn.bsky.social, the discovery of 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 and 𝘜𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪 challenges "island dwarfism" and reveals links to Africa, Asia and South America. 🦕 🔗 Learn more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

📢I am very happy to finally share one of the most colossal works I have contributed to: the review of the classical and new titanosaur material from Romania, in which we also present the key sites, phylogenetic, diversity and biogeographical hypotheses 🦕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper led by @daniajinn.bsky.social (+Zoltan Csiki & Paul Upchurch) in which we revise the latest Cretaceous Romanian titanosaur sauropods, including the largest phylogeny of the group, and revised view of their palaeobiogeography: doi.org/10.1080/1477... (@es-ucl.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org)

Interested in the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinctions - then sign up here: cassyni.com/events/Pp9Mi... (Real World Challenges Seminar Series by Cambridge Prisms) 🦣🐘🌍🏹❄️

Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social ([email protected], @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social & Eryka Goldsmith) on the histology of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon indicates that growth strategy in alligators and caimans evolved early in the group: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Applications are now open for a MRes with me to study locomotion in extant/extinct archosaurs, using 3D modelling and simulation! Following up on the #DAWNDINOS project. www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr... (UK citizens are easiest funding-wise)