@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social

Reminder that @historicalbiology.bsky.social is changing data policy in Jan 2026. The journal will move to 'Publicly Available', meaning that data & code must be publicly available in a repository that mints a DOI. Our Data Editor (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social ) & I are on-hand to answer questions

Happy Theropod Appreciation Day 🦃, aka Thanksgiving! We're thankful for ALL of YOU - our listeners, who make this podcast so much fun to make. THANK YOU!!! Listen to the newest episode with paleontologist and cat-lover 🐈‍⬛️🐾, Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues! 🔊 Listen now: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

Day 2 of #2025SVP announcements! We are delighted to be promoting 6 of our editorial board members: Arnau Bolet, Diego Castaneda, Masaya Iijima, Beniamino Mecozzi, Jorgo Ristevski, & Mohd Shafi Bhat, to associate editors!

#2025SVP News about @historicalbiology.bsky.social (Historical Biology): we’re moving to online-only publication come January 2027! Reminder that I’ll be at the T&F booth Friday 16:30-17:00. (Also there at the moment)

@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.

Please take note - Historical Biology is moving to ‘Publicly Available’ data policy in Jan 2026. If data/code is used in a paper, they will be required to be in an online repository.

I'll be at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Birmingham (UK) next week. 🦖 We have an exciting itinerary planned including several Meet the Editor sessions. Come say hi and bring your questions to any of our editors at our booth! 🤝 #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleontology

In a new Editorial, Historical Biology promotes preregistration, Registered Reports, @pci-regreports.bsky.social and PCI-Paleonotology, and a three year plan to move to open and FAIR data standards. A forward-looking approach by @drmarkyoung.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Interested in preregistration and registered reports? Historical Biology supports both! My new editorial on these developments: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Publication day for My Grandparents Were Dinosaurs! The story of how birds evolved from dinosaurs, for kids, from the creative mind of @annebrusatte.bsky.social ! And some fact-checking from me. Thrilled to unbox our copies. And you can get yours in the link below!

MorphoBank Connects kicks off Sept. 18 with featured speaker presentations on research applications, integrations & innovative uses of MorphoBank. Speakers include 🧵 READ MORE: bit.ly/MorphoConnectsBlog REGISTER: bit.ly/morphobankconnect #evolutionarybiology #paleontology #phylogenetics #biology

@historicalbiology.bsky.social now has online Collections. One where I highlight papers that are thought-provoking or advance a field. The other is edited by our Science Communication Editor (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social) - which brings together his SciComm series. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ghb...

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor John Whitlock. This Diplodocus specimen is Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM) 11161. It is essentially complete, largely undeformed, and has been studied so extensively; making it an exceptionally important fossil for understanding feeding 🦕

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a fascinating new paper detailing the collection of Sir John Murray on board the HMS Challenger at @nhm-london.bsky.social Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper by Miller & Jouet-Sarkany: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Historical Biology now has a Phylogenetics Editor (Dr Rodrigo Müller). Please read Rodrigo’s editorial where he goes over that this means for the Journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evidence of osteophagia in Mesozoic mammals: multituberculate tooth marks on a hadrosaurid maxilla from the Late Cretaceous of the Russian Far East: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're delighted to welcome Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social as our latest (and 36th) PCI RR-friendly journal! Full journal entry: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr... Complete list of PCI RR-friendly journals: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...

Some exciting Historical Biology updates! 1. We've changed data policy, to 'share upon reasonable request'. This is our first step to becoming an Open & FAIR journal. Now data availability statements are mandatory: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/.../data.../

We will soon be changing our minimum Data Sharing Policy to ‘Share Upon Reasonable Request’ where authors agree to make data available provided this does not violate ethical concerns. Data Availability Statements will also be mandatory. Guidance: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing....

Let that sink in: track depth as a driving factor in the formation of dinosaur tail traces: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm excited to serve as the Data Editor for Historical Biology! 🎉

Our first #ScienceCommunication editorial is published! Here, we highlight one of our recently published studies on a classic "dinosaur trackway" from the 1940s 🦕 🦖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The study being highlighted can be read #OpenAccess 🔓 here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please read Brooke’s (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) editorial! She is the Data Editor for Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) and is forming the guidelines for our transition to be an Open and FAIR journal. Watch out for further updates from her! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Morphology, development and ecological implications of the dentition of Bajadasaurus pronuspinax: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a new special issue in the works at Historical Biology: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Human Behavior and Paleoecological Dynamics in Early and Middle Pleistocene Europe! We will be taking submissions until March 31st. You can read more at: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu....

New editorial: Darren (@tetzoo.bsky.social) is the new Book Review Editor at Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social). If anyone has ideas for book (online or hard copy) that they’d like to either review, or see reviewed, please contact Darren!

For all submitting authors: our journal has funding agreements with various institutions that may allow you the option of publishing your work #OpenAccess 🔓for free! You can check on our website to see if this is an option for your work: www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/m...

I can officially announce that I have been elected as an ICZN Commissioner. I’m deeply honoured that the international zoological community voted me to be one of the eight new commissioners. My fellow new commissioners are listed on the ICZN website: www.iczn.org

Our work with Zsófia Román (my former MSc student) is now published in @historicalbiology.bsky.social , Volume 37, Issue 3. In this paper, we have analyzed a particularly rich coprolite material using different methods to explore its paleoecological significance. 💩 🐟 🦭

The start of Science Communication at Historical Biology! @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social will be leading our socials and will be publishing a new monthly SciComm editorial series. He is also on hand to help authors promote their papers published in the journal. Please read his SciComm Editorial too.

Jack is the new Science Communication Editor for Historical Biology. In his editorial he outlines the exciting changes he’s driving. From Friday he will be running our social media presence, and he has a new monthly SciComm editorial series starting soon!

The future of Historical Biology. (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) My first editorial as editor-in-chief. I outline the changes made so far and those to come. Watch out for the editorials from the 4 specialist editors! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NM79E...

An update on the revamp of Historical Biology: we are well-underway! Over half of the Associate Editor positions filled, and 3 of the 4 dedicated editorships are filled: Book Review Editor, Science Communication Editor, and Data Editor. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Historical Biology has a Special Issue lead by Dr Antonio Pineda of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris. It is on the interplay between human behaviour and palaeoecology during the Pleistocene in Europe. The submission deadline is 31 March think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

A taxonomic case I co-authored, led by @drmarkyoung.bsky.social with @dinosven.bsky.social, Yanina Herrera, Eric Wilberg, and Marco Brandalise de Andrade. The name for a subfamily of extinct sea crocs has been already occupied by extant night lizards. #paleobio #taxonomy 🧪 doi.org/10.21805/bzn...

Happy New Year! Our final paper from 2024 was published on Hogmanay. An application to the ICZN asking to fix a nomenclatural issue. bioone.org/journals/the...

Our nomenclatural addendum to our big Dodo systematics and nomenclature paper is now out! Fixes a few nominal authority issues and unavailable family-group names in the pigeon and dove family (Columbidae). academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Reminder that the editorial board of Historical Biology is undergoing a revamp (as part of the refocusing). Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members are open for applications. I’m also looking to appoint a Data Editor and an Ethics Editor (more below) think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Find out more about the Dodo in our Linnean article... @drmarkyoung.bsky.social @linneansociety.bsky.social @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Interested in the Dodo? We have a new lay-article out in The Linnean! @linneansociety.bsky.social @neilgostling.bsky.social edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

I’ve taken over as the editor-in-chief of Historical Biology earlier than expected! Anyone interested in joining the journal (currently going through a refocusing) please apply! We cover all palaeo topics so forward this on to anyone how’d be interested think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Reminder that we’re looking for Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members for Historical Biology! The journal has a broad scope - verts, invertebrates, palaeobotany, taphonomy & more! #FossilFriday

One of the most fruitful projects that I've been involved with has been the Leverhulme-funded project led by @stevebrusatte.bsky.social & @drmarkyoung.bsky.social on marine thalattosuchian crocs. Always a great team! Here's the latest #OA article on Thalattosuchus itself—https://bit.ly/4f0RWZd

🚨New paper alert: how the brains and ears of extinct ocean-living croc relatives helped shape them to life in the water. CT-based study led by our former Edinburgh Palaeontology & Geobiology Masters students Thomas Cowgill & Robert Higgins! Open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Old pal @drmarkyoung.bsky.social is taking over the chief editor role at Historical Biology. It's a great place to publish a range of paleo content & Mark has grand plans to freshen it up. They're looking for new editorial board members, so if interested: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

I can officially announce that I am taking over as the editor-in-chief of Historical Biology in January 2025! I’m excited to take over the running of the journal, and refining its scope. One of the first steps is an overhaul of the editorial board. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Happy #Croctober! Glad to be a part of this #OA article led by @drmarkyoung.bsky.social, Julia Schwab, and Steve Brusatte on evolution of one my favorite anatomical systems—air sinuses—in extinct marine thalattosuchian crocs! 🐊 Funding: @LeverhulmeTrust, @NSF, & others. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...