Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)

Our mascot Geno enjoyed a little pumpkin treat for #Halloween today 🎃

Happy #Halloween! The perfect day to feed my #flesh eating #dermestids their first fresh meat.... 🍖 #taphonomy

Happy #Halloween from all of us here at IBE - where we like to celebrate spooky #skeletons all year round! 💀🦴

Warm congratulations to Ks Dr Marcin Uhlik on successfully defending his PhD! Marcin's hard work and resilience have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder 🎉🥳

Wishing Dr Andrej Čerňanský a fond farewell today, as he completes his research visit and returns to Comenius University Bratislava - come back soon! 👋

Dr Aleksandra Skawina took advantage of the beautiful Autumn weather to conduct excavations in southern #Poland this month, digging for #Triassic #fossils! 🦴

Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina and Dr Debora Baumann Di Lábio on being awarded their IDUB microgrant to conduct actualistic #taphonomy studies on freshwater #bivalves 🥳

My research with Dr Dom Suraprasit of Chulalongkorn University on ' #Taphonomic Insights into #Fossil Preservation and Accumulation in Tham Khao Phak Kut #cave, Peninsular #Thailand ', has been accepted for a Standard talk at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳

Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski

Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski

I've been awarded a @ncn.gov.pl Miniatura 9 Grant to conduct #taphonomy research, 'Investigating skeletal #disarticulation patterns in the #fossil record using controlled simulated mass #burial experiments'

My #Dermestid #beetle colony has had a huge population explosion! Lots of new crawlies to strip carcasses for my @thepalass.bsky.social #taphonomy grant! #palaeontology

Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...

Come work with me! (Or Gabrielle or James) stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hello and welcome to our new mascot, Genowefa! Geno (for short) is a Hermann's #tortoise, found abandoned near the University's field station in northern Poland some weeks ago. We hope she will be with us for many years to come 🐢😊

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

Position right next door for vert paleo! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today? dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042 Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

New paper out in JVP, in which we describe two new species of the basal paromomyid primate Paromomys from the Paleocene of Alberta 🇨🇦 By Craig Scott, myself, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & Lisa Bohach. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Scientists from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC united in the group CSIC X Palestine meet every week in front of their respective institutes to support Gaza and Lebanon against Israel's attacks and denounce Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing. CMIMA (ICM, IBE, UTM) September 23, 2025

Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt scouting: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the 🧵

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Despite global challenges for women in STEM, there are local wins to celebrate. Across the EU, women made up 42.5% of STEM graduates in 2021, with even higher representation in countries like Romania and Poland. 🇪🇺 Let's keep empowering #WomenInScience! 👩‍💻 📊 Eurostat

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology: apply.interfolio.com/172502 apply.interfolio.com/172517

Qilin tungurensis (formally Palaeotragus tungurensis) have a new genus name now! Mainly based on the holotype and paratype AMNH 26582/26583, the part of horn core based on the refered IVPP V33851.

The best part of teaching Intro to Biological Anthropology is getting to teach primate diversity. I mean look at this thing

We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen). It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou. Congrats to all involved!🎉 Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht

#fieldwork bonfire sausages taste best 💯

Our students and volunteers are settling into #palaeontology #fieldwork in sunny Miedary in #Poland, hunting for #Triassic #fossils 🦴

🚨Publication alert🚨 Andrej Čerňanský coauthors 'A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the #paleontology and #paleoecology of a transitional sequence' doi.org/10.26879/1536

#Triassic #palaeontology #fieldwork in Miedary #Poland has begun! Our students and volunteers have already made some amazing discoveries.... 🦴

Homotherium hadarensis ambushing unfortunate Australopithecus afarensis #Sciart

After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded! Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒 Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó

The Koala Lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. This adorably goofy squatty body was by far the largest lemur to ever exist. They were likely driven to extinction a mere 500 years ago on a rapidly changing Madagascar. On display at the Paris Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy. #FossilFriday

More than 46 million years ago, when lush and humid forests covered much of North America, lemur-like primates lived among the trees. This form is called Smilodectes, part of an extinct primate group known as adapiforms. Smilodectes ate leaves and moved like lemurs do today, clinging and leaping. 🧪

We are looking for a #PhD Student in our group on "Environmental versus host controls on #parasite diversity in #Permian-#Triassic #vertebrate #coprolites" in the NCN project "The impact of mass #extinctions on parasite #diversity and #evolution". www.biol.uw.edu.pl/staze-stypen...

#Palaeontologist outing to see #JurassicWorldRebirth! @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social @djbirddanerd.bsky.social Dr Ola Skawina and I 😊

🚨New paper! 🚨 Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina as coauthor on 'A curated dataset on the distribution of West #Palaearctic freshwater #bivalves' rdcu.be/euHsM

Dr Aleksandra Skawina is on 🔥 this week with her *second* paper, '#Fossilized gill soft tissues in Mesozoic freshwater unionoid #bivalves: reinvestigation and new evidence of the #evolution of adaptation to the freshwater environment' www.app.pan.pl/.../publishe...

Congratulations Dr Małgorzata Orłowska on your new Assistant Professor position at our institute! We are so happy to have you as a member of our team, and we wish you every success 🥳🎉

Congratulations @lgasiorowski.bsky.social on your new Assistant Professor position at our institute! We are so happy to have you as a member of our team, and we wish you every success 🥳🎉

Another successful @eavpalaeo.bsky.social meeting in #Kraków 🇵🇱! Great discussions and always a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues! 🐒🐊🦖

End of this year’s Miocene field trip in southern Poland! Just in time for @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków next week, where we’ll look a bit more cleaned up 💫 Our team found some very interesting fossils 👀 More to come! 🙌🏼