*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

Dans les collections suisses en un clic : www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zlx... Vous pouvez désormais chercher des spécimens des différentes institutions suisses sur un seul portail : swissnatcoll.ch 🌿🦕🦟🦦🇨🇭

If you missed my first poster Yesterday at the #SVP2025 come and see the 2nd one this afternoon! It’s about Notoungulates and enamel histology 🦷

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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

A really outstanding museum display in Shanghai, bringing fossils to "life" 🦎 youtu.be/8vj5AfHYuk0?...

Congrats @spichergael.bsky.social for publishing your Master’s thesis! 👏

2 offres d’emploi au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève www.museum-geneve.ch 🇨🇭 : - Chargé ou chargée de projets d’exposition à 100% www.geneve.ch/administrati... - Médiateur ou médiatrice scientifique à 80% www.geneve.ch/administrati... Deadline 12.09.2025

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 In Kiel (Germany) - German speaking required www.myscience.org/jobs/id31339...

🚨Paleojobs alert🚨 - Professorship in Paleobotany in Bonn (Germany) 🍃: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31196... - PhD in Palaeoecology / Palaeolimnology in Basel (Switzerland) 🦟: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31201...

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After about 7 years, we eventually managed to finish our lophiodons side project! The release is just on time for #fossilfriday 🥳 I was very happy for the opportunity to work with friends and on a different group! Full text available here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Et on trouve 5 milliards à couper en 2025

When I CT scanned this diamondback rattlesnake specimen, I found a surprise rodent inside 🐍🐁 The #oVertTCN CT data is available for download on MorphoSource here: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

"suite au dysfonctionnement de la plateforme Odyssée" "report de la clôture des candidatures dans le cadre de la campagne synchronisée du recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs au dimanche dimanche 6 avril à 22h" c'est franchement pénible de jouer ainsi avec l'avenir des gens

🚨Job alert - Archeology 🚨 www.jurassica.ch/fr/Infos-pra...

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

It's once again #fossilfriday so let me introduce you to the brand new palaeontological journal Open Palaeontology: www.openpalaeo.org/index @openpalaeo.bsky.social It's a Diamond Open Access journal (free to authors and readers) welcoming articles on any topic related to palaeontological research

🚨Job offers🚨 Two tenure-track positions for researchers at the Senckenberg in Weimar (Germany) on: - Quaternary Megafaunas 🦣 - Palaeobiology of Quaternary Small Mammals 🐁 www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

An amazing article on scientific publishing and malpractices of some publishers (fast turnaround times, low rejection rates, only special issues) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Merci au @lemonde.fr de publier ce soir ma tribune, écrite après ma relaxe par le tribunal de Créteil, qui faisait suite au procès en diffamation intenté par la chaîne RT France contre mon éditeur, l'INA, et moi-même. 1/3 #StandUpForScience

"I study animals from the past, and they should stay in the past," as I said in this interview, and "the idea that they can fix that [the extinction crisis] with gene editing is missing the big picture.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...

Je partage ici le message d'un collègue argentin a qui je demandais des news. Glaçant 😱! La Méthode Milei (bel euphémisme gerbant) démantèle éducation&recherche, cible les savoirs qui comme aux US, gênent politiquement: climat&écologie, justice env. Le fascisme s'installe. Sommes-ns a l'abri en 🇪🇺?

[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours. sciences.re/postes/

PhD thesis proposal in our lab: "Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees" Supervision: Pierre Faux and I Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France More infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_... (thanks in advance for your RT and for sharing with your students 😉)

👇Ce que l’extrême-droite fait aux Sciences : une revue de presse. Ce nouvel obscurantisme, cette purge anti-science : c’est une dystopie.

🚨 Nouvel article sur les rhinocéros éponymes de Gannat ! @manonhullot.bsky.social, membre de l’association, nous présente la paléoécologie des rhinocéros européens lors de la transition Oligocène-Miocène 🦏 (petit🧵) :

The arm of the organisation that includes Elsevier had "revenue of £3.05bn, giving it an adjusted operating [profit] margin of 38.4 per cent." To put that in context: - Google's operating margin is 33.03% - Apple's is 29.7% - Exxon Mobil's is 14.61% - Toyota's is 11.98% - Amazon's is 6.53% 👀

Welcome Baminornis! Only the second undoubted bird from the Jurassic. Joining the iconic Archaeopteryx. But Baminornis could fly better! My thoughts in this commentary for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Paleojob alert🚨 Offre d’ATER en paléontologie à Montpellier pour 2025/2026 ☀️ umontpellier.nous-recrutons.fr/poste/epqkwy...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

On appelle ça comment un gouvernement qui censure, réécrit, manipule ou supprime des faits ? insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... Un gouvernement qui bloque les fonds de recherche pour vérifier que le sujet va dans leur sens ? www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

Glad to announce that I will soon (March) start a new SNF post doc at the Jurassica Museum! I will be working on the impact of the Grande Coupure on perissodactyls 🦏🐎

JOB OFFER 💥 The EPHE recruits a senior lecturer in Tropical Palaeoecology. Call ends on March the 11th. The candidate will be recruited at @isemevol.bsky.social (Montpellier, France) and start in October. More info in the attached documents. Do not hesitate to share !

#Job #PhD position (m/f/d) in vertebrate #Paleontology E 13 TV-L, 65%, 3 years in the project “Bone Microanatomy, Ichnology and Paleoenvironment” of Dr Eudald Mujal Grané and @eliamson.bsky.social at State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart All information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen

Si vous ne savez pas ce que sont les notongulés, je fais un live Youtube jeudi à 20h30 sur la chaîne de Simplex Paleo. Je répondrai à toutes les questions que vous ne vous êtes jamais posés sur les notongulés ;) www.youtube.com/live/JRbBr63...

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out! tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

Reconstituer le cerveau des humains fossiles ? 🧠 C'est possible et c'est le projet de chercheurs du @museedelhomme.fr #fossilfriday

What if, instead of writing and reviewing grants, we were actually... doing research? What a lost of time and money.

A useful new year's reminder 🫡 ⚒️🧪

🔥Une action forte également en France Revues MDPI et Frontiers ont été déclassées par la conférence des doyens : elles ne sont même plus ds liste des revues légitimes Publier dans ces revues joue en notre défaveur pour une demande de poste universitaire ! www.redactionmedicale.fr/2023/06/la-c...

Where did our lost rhinos roam? Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene. These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart

It's #FossilFriday, let's dive into some amazing fossil lobsters from France! A recent article from some colleagues at the @cr2p.bsky.social studied beautifully preserved lobsters from La-Voulte-sur-Rhône (162 Mya). X-ray synchrotron tomography revealed internal soft organs and even allowed sexing!

#concoursCNRS #ESR L'arrêté est sorti ! + petit décalage des dates "La date d'ouverture des inscriptions est fixée au 11 décembre 2024 à 13 heures, heure de Paris. La date de clôture des inscriptions est fixée au 10 janvier 2025 à 13 heures, heure de Paris."

It's fossil Friday so let's dive into the fascinating world of South American fossils! The Notoungulata were the most succesful, diverse and abundant order of the South American Native Ungulates during the Cenozoic, along other singular taxa such as Astrapotheria or Litopterna