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New paper is officially out! Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM

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The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Drosera whittakeri at Belair National Park (Photo by Vhon Garcia)

The @albomp.bsky.social gov is very aware of the massive marine heatwave & its impacts on marine ecosystems—they just don't care Labor refuses funds to fight SA toxic bloom "the call for funding was rejected, as was a request for a meeting with the minister" 📰 via @quentindempster.bsky.social 🙏

Now for something completely different...scanning subterranean beetle brains at the Australian Synchrotron 🪲🧠🚦

🚨🚨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 😉

ABC news online piece about how our snake-handling course and education efforts are debunking persistent snake myths and combating snake misinformation. #SnakesOfOz #VenomousSnakes #Snakes #SnakeEducation #HumanSnakeConflict www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Hakea laurina at Wittunga Botanic Gardens 🤩

Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky

New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mossy leaf-tailed gecko, Uroplatus sikorae, Madagascar. These lizards have some of the most amazing camouflage in nature. I especially love the fractal fringing on the bottom jaw, feet, and body, which helps break up the lizard's outline. 🦎🌿 #herps

Big day for weird art girls who are not afraid of bugs and snakes.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Two steps forward, one step back. For #LongCOVID awareness day today I had the honor of joining thousands of other New Yorkers in a peaceful protest to stand against many of the current administration’s recent damaging and thoughtless policies and executive orders. Let there 1/

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

Come work with us on squamate brain evolution! 🐍🧠🦎 @draliceclement.bsky.social @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

Postdoc position at the University of Adelaide for research on reptilian brain evolution in changing environments. Applications due by March 25, 2025. Learn more: https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/515720/arc-grantfunded-researcher-a. #postdoc

Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Come work with me on reptile brain evolution! 🦎🧠🐍

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

#DarwinDay What is evolution and how does it work? A project of the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Evolution 101 provides the nuts-and-bolts on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution. Understanding Evolution 🧪 evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

This! Ever had a snake removed & assumed it was good for the snake? As in, a conservation tool? Prof Gavin Smith et al’s tracking research shows the snakes ⬇️ weight, become disoriented, move more, & sometimes die. An important service, but perhaps just use sparingly. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Australia’s university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world. Australia’s PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system. Read more from @jack-thrower.bsky.social:

I study sharks, including restraining them for data collection. People often think my job must be a scary adrenaline-fueled thrill ride (it’s not). But without question, the most heartstoppingly, gut-clenchingly terrifying day of my professional life was the day my sample freezer almost thawed. 1/3

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Me reading this as a PhD candidate trying to find a postdoc in the current political climate

I don't always have access to a specimen when I need to illustrate something, so I was pretty happy to find an excellent specimen of a Western diamondback at the UMich Museum of Zoology's herpetology collection in 2006. This gouache painting shows the rattle, sectioned. #sciart #snake #Crotalus

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

In a recent Q&A with @Nature magazine, Dr. Lauren Esposito (she/they) opens up about their career, the importance of intersectional justice, and the need to challenge the systemic barriers faced by underrepresented scientists. Read more at bit.ly/4jCGl6q #LGBTQSTEM #entomology 🧪

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

If we totally fix the threat to coral reefs from sunscreen chemicals, but do not address climate change, we are going to lose coral reefs. If we totally fix climate change but do not address sunscreen, coral reefs will thrive. Sunscreen is simply not that big of a threat to coral reefs.

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Squid courtship was the order of the day 🦑💗🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #courtship #chromatophores #tentacles #braincoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

Dear researchers in decolonisation and museum studies, I am working on a syllabus on decolonial museology. Do you have any recommendations? Any references, especially relating to Asian-Pacific context or digital fields, are super welcomed!!!

A blind snake (Rhinotyphlops lalandei), W. Free State, South Africa. The enlarged rostral scale enables the snake to burrow thru soil in search of termite / ant larvae. The eyes are vestigial, simple light detectors for a snake that lives mostly underground. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

Like palaeontology? Like art? Then consider submitting a submission for CAVEPS 2025 logo competition! * $500 AUD prize * must feature South Australian vertebrate fossils  * no use of generative AI permitted * include text "CAVEPS 2025" Email to [email protected] by 31/01/25!

Look at this moocat playing!