New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️ @universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/19786

NEWS: 4 years PhD studentship at the University of Malaga (Spain). Evolution of the backbone and limbs of crocodylomorphs, supervised by Professor Borja Figueirido @bortxaf.bsky.social and myself. More information here👇 #paleobiology #biomechanics

Fully funded PhD position available at @univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨

Brand new paper about meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social offering both practical guidance and structured comparison of meshing techniques in #CFD ➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70146

✨ Key improvements: – Works with modern Blender versions – 2 “lofting” methods for complex muscle shapes – Mesh resolution control – More accurate parameter calculations – Automatic muscle texture – Fewer bugs, better stability 🔗 Available here: github.com/MiguelDLM/my...

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Abstract accepted for a talk at #SVP2025 - #2025SVP in Birmingham 🇬🇧 See y'all there if you wanna learn about fun stuffs we did to learn more about teeth form-function 🦷🥩🌿 Can you spot the Black Sabbath ref in the title? 😎🤘🎸 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY 🐈 A paleontological look at our favorite felines ! Did you know the very first known feline lived in France nearly 30 million years ago? Learn more 👇 Special thanks to @valentinfischer.bsky.social @narimanechatar.bsky.social and team ! www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_204630...

(finally) back in in Liège for a few days after two conference in a row. Had an amazing time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #EAVP2025 and @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBCONFERENCE 🤩

Hey @sebiology.bsky.social attendees! Don't forget the A2 - Experimental palaeo session in Nightingale 1&2 tomorrow morning 🤩🦖🦾 #SEBCONFERENCE #SEB2025

So proud of Nicolas who just won the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social best poster award this year in Kraków 🇵🇱🤩🥟 I had the chance to co-supervise Nicolas for his BSc thesis last semester at @maastrichtu.bsky.social We looked into the functional anatomy of proboscideans long bones using FEA 🦴🐘🦣

🚨🚨🚨!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!

The Invertebrate Paleontology department at the AMNH is seeking a full-time Museum Specialist. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Has anyone been able to upload anything on MorphoSource recently?

Finally got it right this year 😍 #2026MMM Long live the king of the artic 👑🐻‍❄️

A bit late but... for this #FossilFriday I'm proud to announce that I was awarded a #MSCA Global Fellowship scoring +98%🥳Starting Dec 1st I will spend 2 more years at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social with @tsengzj.bsky.social followed by 1 year at @univmalaga.bsky.social with @bortxaf.bsky.social🐺🐯🐻🦝

For this #FossilFriday meet Sarkastodon mongoliensis from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia from @natural-history.bsky.social we scanned with PhD student Melvin Vankeslt. First described in 1938 by W. Granger this oxyaenid was absolutely MASSIVE 😱

A bit too late for #FossilFriday but I haven't post anything in a while soooo... In the @natural-history.bsky.social for 2 weeks to scan carnivorous mammals with PhD student Melvin Vankelst and we found some BIG BOIIIS 🐯🐺

BFEX: Blender Finite Elements eXporter is a Blender extension (a.k.a. add-on) for building Finite Elements Models to be used on Fossils. From Blender you can easily build, visualize, export and run your FEA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Abstract deadline is THIS FRIDAY!! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your abstract for the session "A2: Experimental Palaeobiology - Bringing Fossils Back to Life" 🦖🦴

Do you work on experimental #biology to understand past organisms and ecosystems? Could your work be applicable to organisms in the #fossil record? Perhaps the @sebiology.bsky.social Annual Meeting special session "Experimental Palaeontology" #SEB_ExPalaeo is something for you?! (1/n)

Time is flying, don't forget to submit your abstract by March 7! 🚨 Submit your abstract here: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Innovative new technique for segmentation of cortical bone, trabecular bone, and medullary pores from micro-CT images using 2D and 3D deep learning models. Andrew Lee et al.: https://buff.ly/3EAbFT2

Interested in the latest advances developed to bring fossils back to life? 🦴 Join us for the A2 - Experimental Palaeobiology session at the #SEBconference in Antwerp, 8-11 July 2025 🦾 🚨 Registration is OPEN 📅 Abstract deadline: March 7 [1/2] 🧵

New, NSF-supported research: Emergent network properties link phenotypic modules to ecomorphological divergence in carnivoran mammals doi.org/10.1016/j.is... Also, check out the beautiful original artwork made by one of the co-authors for this study:

Something is coming (back) this summer... in Antwerp... in July... 🇧🇪🦣🦕🌿🦠 More details to follow soon! @narimanechatar.bsky.social @peterfalkingham.com @sesamoidstreet.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

Something is coming to Antwerp this summer 👀 Stay tuned!

New paper out in @commsbio.bsky.social lead by Marina Melchionna showing that rapid cortical expansion in the prefrontal region took place early on during the evolution of primates 🐵🧠 nature.com/articles/s42...

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out! tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

Well for my first official post here I'm excited to say that the first chapter of my dissertation on Glyptotherium migration during GABI is out today in Ecography. Huge thanks to @mirantakouvari.bsky.social at @graphicssci.bsky.social who helped with this figure! doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

New paper with @tsengzj.bsky.social and @hlusko.bsky.social! We investigated the adaptive landscape of skeletal form & function in carnivorans and tested how trade-offs among skeletal regions contribute to adaptations & landscape topology. @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf001

Cool functional morphology paper by Pollock et al. from @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social finds functional optimality of puncture & stress resistance performance drove convergent #evolution of sabre-teeth in mammalian carnivores. #Science #Paleontology #EvolutionaryBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

New sabertooth paper! Dr Tahlia Pollock & her team of #evobio wizards look at how optimality landscapes may have driven the evolution of saber teeth. Also, they underscore that there aren't just 1 or 2 saber-shapes; nature is varied! #paleobio #paleontology #Mammals www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper led by Tahlia Pollock about the functioning of elongated upper canines 🦁🔪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 in Antwerp is officially OPEN 🦾 Submit your abstract now for the session A2: "Experimental Palaeobiology - Bringing Fossils Back to Life" 🦖🦕abstract submissions are open until Friday 7th March #SEB2025 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

After years of stubbornness, Mendeley has finally driven me crazy enough that I'm switching to Zotero. Sad to see what used to be such a great tool become so mediocre. Academic folks out there used to Zotero: any advice for a newbie like me?

Here is the my second thesis paper. "First #fossil woods and palm stems from the mid-Paleocene of Myanmar and implications for #biogeography and #wood anatomy" in open access ✅️⤵️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... Co-🖊 @alexislicht.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social #paleobotany #fossilwood #palms

We have two new PhD students in the lab: Melvin Vankelst, who will be working on the biomechanical performances of Eocene-Oligocene carnivorous mammals and @alexisrastier.bsky.social who will be investigating the latest Devonian turnovers in plant communities! www.frs-fnrs.be/docs/Resulta...

Also, learn more about saber-tooth canine morphology from @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social’s @tsengzj.bsky.social (anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) and @narimanechatar.bsky.social (www.cell.com/current-biol... in their recent publications! PC Wikimedia (2/2)

One of my student just gave me a personalized card and I'm crying this is way too cute 🥹

A year or so ago, @zieglertn.bsky.social notified me that they've come across a fossil #thylacine from one of the caves in eastern Victoria - a BIG one. After hours of delicate prep work, I got to take a look at the beast (though apparently not take great photos... ).

New lab paper lead by Dr. @lea-db.bsky.social and with Dr. Cyrille Prestianni, this time revising Cretaceous pine cone 🎄species that is important for tree calibrations, Pinus belgica. popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/in...

How do we study jaw muscles in rare or extinct carnivorans? 🦁 Using CT scans to link masticatory muscle attachment areas to muscle force (PCSA), allows researchers to infer muscle data from osteological museum specimens & gives insights into masticatory evolution Ito et al: https://buff.ly/497QyTw

Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...

MASSIVE new paper led by my former lab mates @iscavezzoni.bsky.social about the pectoral griddle of crocodylomorpha 🐊🤯 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w