New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy

Thrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

Hi Bluesky, I need your help. Please share broadly: We have an EXCELLENT job opening. We are looking for a non-Brazilian visiting scholar who specializes in Genomics applied to animal evolution, biogeography, and/or biodiversity. This is a one-year contract that can be extended for up to 4 years.

Last week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

In a new study from #BiologyLetters, a team of palaeontologists have revealed how bone growth was maintained in the earliest chondrichthyans, a group now represented by sharks, skates and ratfish that lack the capacity to ossify their tissues. buff.ly/LzT9xZY | #DevelopmentalBiology #Palaeontology

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

Hello, microanatomy &/or salamander enthusiasts! If you’re a first-year master’s student, I might have an exciting internship for you on the microanatomy of two salamanders sp., with already great results on the humerus. What: Zeugopod microanatomy Where: SMNS Contact: [email protected]

For centuries, anatomists debated true origin of levator veli palatini—vital for speech & swallowing. Researchers found it arises from cartilaginous Eustachian tube not petrous bone, reshaping understanding of vocal tract evolution Pagano et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Early career researcher in systematics? Make sure to apply for early career travel funds to attend #ssb2026 👇 www.systbio.org/early-career...

MyoGeneratorRemix is a reimplementation of MyoGenerator (Herbst et al., 2022), a tool for muscle reconstruction and parameter estimation—essential for downstream analyses like FEA. Our version brings major upgrades, including full compatibility with Blender 4.5.2.

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Researchers in Brazil — Estamos procurando por você! The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowships support top researchers from Brazil with a fully funded research stay in Germany. Learn more at our upcoming Info Session: 🗓 26 Aug, 10am – 11:30am (Brasília time) www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i...

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni 🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

Last day to apply! 📣 Come and join my lab in Liverpool @livevobiomech.bsky.social for a PhD on the skulls of giant mammals! Full funding for 4 years (UK Home rates) 🐘🦌🦘🐂🐪🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our September issue is now live! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... The cover article by Sven Sachs et al. describes the early-diverging plesiosauroid Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Interested in inferring biodiversity in deep time? 📈📉 Check out our new R package DeepDiveR, led by @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social and now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, helping you to prepare datasets for machine learning inference with DeepDive 🤿 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

We are hiring a lab manager for our lab family at Naos Island in Panama. More information and position description here: odealab.com/opportunities/. Deadline is today, but if you need more time please just let me know

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...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

POST-DOC #JOB ADVERT – DEADLINE 20th Aug 2025 @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @moazenlab.bsky.social To work on a #HFSP funded project that aims to understand the musculoskeletal system of head-first burrowers; leading computer simulation aspects of the project see moazenlab.com/vacancies/

Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper: journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda... Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

New 🐢 paper alert 🚨🚨 and this is a special one! We describe a stereogenyini turtle (a nearshore pleurodiran lineage) from Syria, Syriemys lelunensis. This is the first vertebrate species named after a fossil discovered in the country, so very cool stuff! You can check the paper here: t.co/LdWpNlHzz0

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

Kunming Institute of Zoology, China, seeks Senior and Junior PIs and postdoctoral fellows in evolution, genetics, ecology, and conservation. Applications assessed from 12 Aug 2025. Info: www.kiz.ac.cn #job

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...

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Oh, bugger. This is serious. Funding cuts are hitting bad. Like many colleagues, I wouldn't be able to get my hands on a lot of necessary literature, if not for BHL.

Fossil brain 🧠🧟 of a 45-million-year-old cetacean! We are proud to publish‪ @journal-evo.bsky.social l the result of Elena Berger’s Bachelor’s thesis @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Thread 👇 ‬

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!! You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We describe a Plateosaurus skeleton 🦕 from Frick, northern Switzerland, suffering from a VERY diseased forearm! Open Access: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... (1/n)

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

Always and in all ways ❤️

Adiamos o prazo para se candidatar até o dia 22 de junho, então temos quase duas semanas até o fim do prazo!

We postponed the deadline to June 22, so there is still a bit less than two weeks to apply!

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

Excited to share our new research in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬🧪 @lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🚨🚨Alerta de bolsa de doutorado!🚨🚨 Você gosta de 🐢? Ou de evolução e paleontologia? Ofereço bolsa (3 anos) de doutorado em neuroanatomia de 🐢 em Tübingen, Alemanha, dá uma olhadinha: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Compartilhe para chegar em mais pessoas e se tiver perguntas, mande uma msg 😉

🚨🚨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!

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

A cool funded PhD studentship in the UK that overseas applicants are also eligible for: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exploring the evolutionary adaptations of the unique seahorse tail’s muscle architecture through in silico modelling and robotic prototyping: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @dadriaens.bsky.social #JRSocInterface #biomechanics #evolution

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...

Final pdf of our paper on the 3D body plan of the early tetrapod Ichthyostega and comparative morphology with other extant and extinct taxa, showing how "front-dominated" appendages are ancient, and much more: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...