A new Science Advances study led by Sanaa El-Sayed reveals that many modern fish groups were already diversifying in Egypt less than 4Ma after the extinction of the dinosaurs, providing a rare glimpse into the recovery of ancient marine ecosystems. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec8978

Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.

CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

RVC needs a Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover) to join our department for 12 months (very well could include joining Structure & Motion Lab)! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Deadline 22 June

Recent University of Birmingham graduate Lucy chooses the fossil fish of Wyoming as her Object of the Month. Produced by Ran Gao. youtu.be/MSCw2eQRqHw #LapworthRocks #geology #geologyrocks #fossils #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeo #paleo #museum

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

Spent the last couple of days in the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social , so is only right to share some Old Red Sandstone fishes for #fossilfriday

Exporting Moroccan fossils without a licence has been illegal since 2020, but the law has been a little unclear for those outside Morocco. In our new paper, my colleague and friend Kawtar Ech-charay clearly explains the law, using our field area as a case study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 IPC7 Travel Grants – Call for Applications The IPC7 organizers are pleased to announce the availability of Travel Grants to support delegates from any part of Africa, as well as from any developing country (worldwide) wishing to attend the IPC7. Don’t miss this opportunity!!

The editorial board of Geobios aims to support 2 early career researchers (PhD or postdoc) in #palaeontology, #palaeobiology, #palaeoecology, #palaeobiogeography, (bio) #stratigraphy or #biogeochemistry. Each award is 500€. Deadline May 31. All the information: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geob...

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

We’re hiring a herpetology curator @nhm-london.bsky.social - come join us! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Strange guitarfish-esque Mesozoic holocephalan Squaloraja for #Fossilfriday to celebrate the end of my first week @unibirmingham.bsky.social as a NERC Independent Research Fellow! Lots of weird fossil cartilaginous fishes to come over the next few years I hope! 🦈

Huge thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social & @palaeo-olly.bsky.social at Emanya Fossil Prep for setting up the new UoB fossil preparation lab today! Looking forward to running our first student training soon! Thanks also to Kate & Mihai at Zoic for all the support & UoB Alumni Fund for funding.

Very well-timed publication of my most recent work at @royalsociety.org Proc B showcasing the backbone of my future research at @stonybrooku.bsky.social! There is still much to learn about ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution and the diversity of ways brain and endocasts interact in this lineage!

Ray-finned fishes are famously diverse, but we know little about their brains or cranial endocasts. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social opens this black box with a dice-CT survey of 86 species across the actinopt tree of life. #OA in @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐟🧠 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Here is my take on the giant ancient octopus Nanaimoteuthis story for the @uk.theconversation.com - while its size will be questioned, the fact this fossil exists has sparked exciting conversations about giant cephalopods which, in my book, is a good thing! 🐙❤️ theconversation.com/were-enormou...

3-D Ontogenetic Staging Atlas of the Epaulette Shark Hemiscyllium ocellatum, a Laboratory Model for Shark Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721166v1

⚠️ Upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetic 🤓 🕒 Open for applications until May 24 ⬇️ www.lorentzcenter.nl/site/index.p... #workshop #registration #open

Happy #fossilfriday! @hadeelsaad.bsky.social , Emily Hillan, and I spent the past week in the Appalachian Basin collecting in the Carboniferous. We found a lot of great stuff but the best thing we got was a fossil xiphosuran, Euproops! Very uncommon here. Time to organize it all!

In a new editorial in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (free to read, link below), the journal’s editors lay out critical findings on the computational reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th April 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland @joeflansan.bsky.social from University of Birmingham, on “Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package” 💻 bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Heading home after another excellent week of Skye fieldwork. Rain, sunshine, otters, a dolphin, lots of fossils and great company. Looking forward to finding out exactly what we’ve collected once we start to CT scan the fossils, and to returning again in 2027!

Flinders Uni 3rd year #palaeontology students have had a great time working at the original #Canowindra Age of Fishes #fossil site this week! Huge thanks to David and Aleysha for having us out there! 🦴 🐟 @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

Calling all fossilologists! Can anyone help identify this? It was found loose in a drawer, no data or providence. What on earth could our little weird friend be? Please RT for reach because it's flummoxing us!

🐟 Are you an ichthyologist driven by collection-based research? 🧑‍🔬 Apply by May 17 ⏰ At SMNS, we extend our collections integrating genomes 🧬, distributions 🗺️, and species interactions 🕸️ to understand and conserve biodiversity 🌱🐞🦎🦅 Join us! Please share 🔁 www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs/deta...

Science outreach day at the UM Museum of Natural History! Come by and learn about fish jaws.

The world’s oldest octopus isn’t actually an octopus at all! 🐙 New research reveals that Pohlsepia mazonensis is actually a relative of the nautilus, revealing more about what these animals were like. Dive into the history of this mysterious fossil 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daniajinn.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday

🚨MUSEUM JOB KLAXON🚨 Join us to work with one of the country's best natural history collections at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social! We're recruiting for a new **Assistant Conservator** to help us with a major moves project. IS IT YOU? www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista... #MuseumJob #MuseumJobs

I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Our latest: Dermoskeletal histology of Moythomasia and the evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton, led by Xianren Shan and Edine Pape, with a little help from Martin Rucklin @evopalaeo.bsky.social and Davide Pisani @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

📖Trilobites, dicynodonts, 19th century frigates: you'll find something for everyone in upcoming PalAss Newsletter 121, heading to members now. 📬 Turn to the back for a puzzle-based giveaway of the new book Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs🧩🦕#newsletter #PalAss #palaeontology

Awesome to see my correspondent’s piece on new discoveries of the late Permian of Zambia and Tanzania out!

Really delighted to see this brilliant new paper on the biostratigraphy and ecosystems of several Lebanese Lagerstatten. A wealth of new knowledge and hypotheses for future research to work with! sjp.pensoft.net/article/1818...

Our new #exhibition GROUNDTRUTH The Art of Science has been open for a week now, showcasing #artworks by Dr Rick Greswell around the #Museum. Have you seen it yet? What do you think is the biggest anthropogenic impact on the #environment? For more information: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

PDRA positions at Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (York, UK) These include four that I am involved with: beta diversity change ecosystem metrics ecological monitoring & Indigenous and local knowledge food system dynamics & biodiversity sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you 📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues. 🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾 For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Are you an evolutionary biologist who thinks about the evolution of protein sequences/structure/function across scales? Do you want to implement your skills in industry? We’ve opened a full-time role on our platform team (think computational research group)! lnkd.in/gVE2NGaV

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029. Please spread the word! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

ANOTHER JOB!! Research Leader in Economic Geology - come work on our minerals collection! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Interested in hearing more about dinosaur research at Birmingham, including the "Dinosaur Highway" and the "punk rock dinosaur"? Join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social me & @kirstymedgar.bsky.social online on Thursday 7 May, 6pm. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/bring... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K88...

Applications are open for the LinnéSys Systematics Research Fund: we offer up to £1,500 for research in taxonomy & systematics - from fieldwork to equipment, specimen prep, and more. Open to researchers at any stage (UG+). Deadline: 27 March 2026, 23:59 Apply now: buff.ly/8eryOMN

JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Our new exhibition GROUNDTRUTH The Art of Science opens on Fri 27th March. Explore anthropogenic impacts on the environment through a series of thought-provoking artworks by Dr Rick Greswell around the Museum. 🌞 Free entry For more information: www.birmingham.ac.uk... #LapworthRocks #Exhibition

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪