Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can? CWRU is recruiting, and it would be great to recruit someone from @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Foot in door! NPS paleontology seasonal positions! www.usajobs.gov/job/85081670... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

This #FossilFriday marvel at an early Dyrosauridae from the middle Campanian Quseir Formation of Egypt! Displaying transitional cranial features, Wadisuchus is confirmed as the early-diverging dyrosauridae! Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/zool... @linneansociety.bsky.social

Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word! openpalaeo.org @openpalaeo.bsky.social

To celebrate the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next, #FossilFish 🐟 Osteology of 𝘌𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 (Pictet & Humbert, 1866) and some other ichthyodectiformes (Teleostei) by Cavin 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2012) buff.ly/FudDOqF #2025SVP #PaleoSky

Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done

Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If you're in the Ann Arbor area today stop by the UM Museum of Natural History for today's Scientist Spotlight. I'll be demonstrating how cool fish jaws are! #SciComm

Science communication accomplished

Now that SVP is over, I can finally post the commission that I did for @mosasaurologist.bsky.social 's poster on a certain very cool taxon! #paleoart #sciart

I finally finished my Opah for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Wheels up! Congrats & thanks to the B'ham organizing committee for an outstanding meeting. Looking forward to seeing folks in my hometown next year when SVP meets in Cleveland. #2025SVP

To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian

Laville et al. - Synchrotron X-ray tomography sheds light on the phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic thylacocephalans within Pancrustacea doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.

Congrats to Michigan paleo awardees at #2025SVP: Evan Unruh-Friesen (Lindsay Award) and Zach Lyons-Weiler (Jackson School of Geosciences Travel Award).

Michigan paleontology family portrait, Birmingham edition #2025SVP

On my way to #2025SVP #SVP2025. I'll be presenting a poster on behalf of Indian and U.S. colleagues on Friday afternoon — focused on a wonderful new turtle skull and on Indian Plate biotic endemism during the K-Pg. Stop by! (The paper describing this new turtle is in review at JVP...)

I spoke to David Fair on Issues of the Environment about the impact of federal cuts and shutdown on the #GreatLakes www.wemu.org/show/issues-...

For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection: FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History. 🧪⚒️🦑 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.

I'll be presenting a poster at #2025SVP #SVP2025 about my recently published work on how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny. Come by at the poster session this Thursday if you want to chat about it! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

My advice for #2025SVP would be aimed not to students, who are excellent in our society and I am sure will do great but on senior academics. During Q&A, please resist the urge to grandstand or grill. Be polite, constructive, and supportive. That’s how we build a stronger, kinder community. #SVP2025

Some Met fishes.

Oh my. Remember mailing the physical submission (3 loooong MS copies) back in the heady days of steam. 20 years on, I'm still pretty happy about how this one turned out. Thanks for the highlight, @journalsystpal.bsky.social!

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44... Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

Also struck by this on my visit yesterday.

No secret that there's a lot of amazing stuff at AMNH. Some of my favorites are these massive chimneys recovered from hydrothermal vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, more than a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream! Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!

Most unexpected discovery at AMNH? My missing copy of "Gaining Ground" . . . in Roger Benson's office 😂

New paper in JSP: Gonçalves & Luccisano reassess the taxonomy and phylogeny of Aeduellidae, Carboniferous ray-finned fish from Decazeville Basin, France 🐟 Results hint at a North American origin… or convergent traits that muddy the family waters. Read the study: buff.ly/huDEsiU #paleosky #fossilfish

Secret Smilodon at the Met. Make a point to find it whenever I go.

#FossilFriday 🤝 #GarWeek

I dream of being a long snouted predator in the backwaters of Laurentian rivers, but for now I crush shells with my round teeth and am sad #garweek #scheenstiaposting #totalgroupginglymodi

Here's another one you won't have seen: a waiting-to-be-prepared specimen from the Green River Fm. Probably Cuneatus. Maybe they'll be ready for #GarWeek next year!

Local news story on why MotE/ PRI is special: $̳1̳ ̳m̳i̳l̳l̳i̳o̳n̳ left to raise before the end of 2025 to save the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY. #SavePRI 🧪⚒️ #museums #dinosaurs #Mastodon #Ithaca #fingerlakes www.wbng.com/2025/10/27/m...

Capitol pressroom interview with the Paleontological Research Institution's director Warren Allmon about PRIs connections to science education throughout NY and the fundraising campaign for the next 60 days to make sure the end of the year isnt the end of PRI capitolpressroom.org/2025/10/31/u...

@friedmanlab.bsky.social @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @fishfetisher.bsky.social I’m finding your GARS at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History! Hope you’ll share some for #GarWeek next week!

Spooky note left on my door yesterday.

Emily gave a great talk for this week's departmental seminar. Got a new lab photo to mark the occasion . . .

Nobody makes good fossil fish masks so this year I knocked out a Protosphyraena for myself! A little cardboard and superglue goes a long way when paired with obsession

A spooky fossil for Halloween! The Carboniferous swamps of the north of England were full of creepy crawlies... This is one of them, a spider-like creature called Mesotarbus. 📍 Westhoughton 🏛️ Manchester Museum 📷 GB3D Fossils #FossilFriday

Holosteans are weird. Try to guess what this cursed bone is. From a modern fish, if that helps

I love working at a museum because that means I get to create fantabulous SciComm activities 🐟🐡 Visitors will have the chance to match 3D printed living and extinct fish jaws to what they think the fish eats, based on jaw and tooth shape.

My first book chapter should be out soon and I’m really looking forward to sharing it with everyone!

@behrenskristen.bsky.social told me about the theme today being Opah!!!! It's one of my favorite marine fish cause theyre kinda weird. Drawing I did for FAO a few years ago. #SundayFishSketch