Interesting. To be extinct as a language is a different thing as to be extinct as a species -- in the case of the former, it is much more gradational. Some languages which are deemed to be extinct, have preserved scripts and known grammar, but no living native speakers. CC: @svalver.bsky.social

Cool study showing how the physical forcing of the background geochemistry of oceans, drives multiple convergences in the mineralogy of bryozoans! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me. The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Great to see this issue of the disempowerment of the local scientists by non-collaboration -- aka "Parachute Science" -- to be discussed as an issue of the philosophy of science and paleontology in particular 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #philsci

Erosion and the inselbergs at the micro- scale

"The Forest of Mud"

Most people don't get it -- but this study nature.com/articles/s43... is co cool! Usually we think about the sequence stratigraphy as uniformitarian discipline/process/structure. But what if the evolutionary events, such as dinosaur extinction changed how stata look!? 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology 1/2

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

Interesting interview by Obaa Borga -- Ghanian living in Lithuania with Noura Al Mawed -- Lebanese born Palestinian without citizenship also living in Lithuania. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg4Q...

Nice to see a fundamental study on the biotic structure of Mesozoic oceans, which also used Lithuanian material. Congratulation for my former doctoral student (now Dr.) Simona Rinkevičiūtė! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

If your work involves Big Palaeo Data, you should be *begging* people to publish little local studies of new observational data, jfc. Without that you have absolutely bupkiss. I say this as someone with a foot in both camps:

Looks like an exciting series of seminars on the paleobotany — the green component of the continental biotas. A way to reduced the Metazoan-centric bias of the way evolution and Earth-system dynamics proceeds 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

My review of the evidence (morphological, embryological and molecular) for the deuterostomes clade is now available. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This Sawaki et al paper shared by @andrejpaleo.bsky.social 👇 makes a nice corroboration of the paper by Wang et al on oxygenation (www.nature.com/articles/s41...): "...globally elevated rates of continental weathering were closely linked to ocean oxygenation events during the Ediacaran" ⚒️

You know, that your study had a global reach and impact, when even American Christian fundamentalists (Creationists) dwell not only in the popular synopsis of your article, but also CITE paragraphs from your work! 😅 crev.info/2025/08/how-... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

"...continental weathering influx was elevated following the Marinoan Snowball Earth event. A compilation of existing data indicates that high 87Sr/86Sr ratios around the Shuram excursion were a common feature of carbonate rocks..." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

Hitting the bookshops one week from today... But if you're not the waiting type, you can preorder! w/ @annebrusatte.bsky.social www.magiccatpublishing.co.uk/products/my-...

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

Glad to share our latest article on the "co-coordinated stasis of large mammal diversity with the environments". Long in reviews it is finally out--a work done during the post-doc of Simona Bekeraitė app.pan.pl/article/item... 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

A very rapid interview with Daniel Glenn youtube.com/shorts/4Wop4...

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor. Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

The team welcomes a new member, Bram Vaes, who will be working on modeling overwater dispersal using new paleogeographies and climate modeling tools! To learn more about the past work of Bram, a short video of him here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uncL...

Classical vs non-clasical modeling and the law discovery (insight-first vs data first) is a continuum. Where to draw the optimal line for a given science? arxiv.org/abs/2509.06735 🧪

Provocative idea and an interesting discussion in the responses 👇 🧪 #Macroecology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.

Very elegant approach, thanks for sharing, Andrej! Kudos to the authors for avoiding arbitrarily complex and obscure AI-based pipelines to support their argument. Science should always be centered around fostering understanding.

Creative use of autocorrelation in analyzing trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian explosion: "..lack of temporal correlation in the studied Ediacaran trajectories and its presence in...Cambrian trajectories, indicating time-tuned behaviours.." arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02940 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

Check this amazing "father of all clam threads" 👇

Carnivorous bivalves often live in places where tasty phytoplankton is in short supply. They've evolved to eat larger prey like copepods by feeling them out with their tentacles and engulfing them with their siphon, like some sort of sci-fi predator! (235)

Interesting study showing the mechanisms of the breakthrough of the scale constraints. Reminds me the evolution of the body size, when transitioning from 1 kg mammal to a 1 ton and 5 m high giraffe you need to reinvent your blood vessels and other "communication systems". 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

A weak ago I was fortunate enough to participate in an exciting meeting MAIQS25 "Measurement, AI, Quality, and Sustainability" at the Brunel university in the tipping points session" sponsored by sites.google.com/view/mathssx/ [with excursion to the NHM London, with James Witts].

And here is the #first_fossils of my son Konstantinas who celebrated his birthday two weeks age 🥰 Probably Silurian Rugosa corral in a form of erratic glacial pebble.

The most detailed study so far of the coordinated stasis (the extension of the punctuated equilibria and "Turnover pulse") — episodes of coordinated morphological and ecological stability of the whole faunas: doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

What an unusual crossover. Lex Friedman and dinosaur paleontologist Dave Home 😃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm1... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

From the last week's meeting in London with a colleague prof. Shaun Lovejoy. Discussing fundamental issues of earths sciences, and also the future ideas. Celebrating the issue of our newest article on the processual nature of geological time scales: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is the McGill news report on our new study which revealed the multifractal structure of geological time scales while giving insights into process which created this hierarchy of boundaries: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...

New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The drift in tectonics, climate, and distribution of niches can significantly alter our view on the evolution if only use neontological data. That's why this study of primate origins is so awesome: the modern distribution gives little in understanding doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

A very interesting article on the completely weird reproductive symbiosis of two ant species, where one female can give birth to individuals of two species: "Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #EvoBio 1/2

Cool case of [probably] pliosaur biting nautiloid! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

When the macroevolution is profoundly mutable: "..profound inversion of patterns in modern taxa highlights the significance of paleontological data in understanding drivers of evolutionary diversification and the limitations of approaches using only living species." 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio

Great work led by @jeremy-andreoletti.bsky.social, on the Occurrence Birth-Death with lineage-specific speciation and extinction rates!

"Elisabeth S. Vrba, the “Three Musketeers,” and the Expansion of Macroevolutionary Theory"

"…Paleontology, a science seemingly immersed in the depths of the planet, serves as a window to the cosmos, through which we will learn to see the patterns of the history of life and the emergence of thinking beings." —Ivan A. Efremov 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio

It was a pleasure being part of this collaboration led by Barry Brook with @johnalroy.bsky.social @willgearty.bsky.social et al! Watch this space for more 🐅🐆🐈🦝

Geological time is punctuated by events. Scaling changes our understanding of life and the planet. From eons to epochs: Multifractal geological time and the compound multifractal - Poisson process 🧪 Shaun Lovejoy, @andrejpaleo.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...