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Evolutionary morphologist and curator of fossil mammals at
@mnhn.fr
&
@cr2p.bsky.social
Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here:
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Dr John Clarke
15 days ago
Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to
[email protected]
+ 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF
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Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Offene Stellen
https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/detailansicht/postdoc-m-f-d-do-single-traits-synergize-to-boost-macroevolution-why-are-there-so-many-orchid-species
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Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social
on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team:
@toriherridge.bsky.social
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=17769&nPostingTargetId=43064&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext
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Frederic Delsuc
about 2 months ago
Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published
@molbioevol.bsky.social
🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009
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Nicolas Galtier
4 months ago
Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Thanks
@jevbio.bsky.social
for supporting responsible publishing!
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Prof Susie Maidment
4 months ago
JOB KLAXON! The
@nhm-london.bsky.social
is recruiting a micro-CT specialist!
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
https://jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=689
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Severine L.D. Toussaint
4 months ago
Looking for a master student to work on the microstructure of metapodials and phalanges in arboreal mammals!! Fully funded by the MNHN. Cool collab with
@houssayecnrs.bsky.social
! Contact me for more info 😁
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
5 months ago
In honour of the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters by Guillaume Billet (2011)
buff.ly/ZORpqsx
@guillbi.bsky.social
#PaleoSky
#2025SVP
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Alessio Capobianco
7 months ago
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (
@heckeberg.bsky.social
,
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social
, Gustavo Darlim, and
@hoehna.bsky.social
)!
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Rob Noble
7 months ago
Mindblowing research out of the wonderful
@isemevol.bsky.social
(where I'm delighed to be based for the next three months). Opening line: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring [1,2]. Here, we report a shift from this norm". 1. Darwin (1859) 2. Mayr (1942).
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Mike Moore
9 months ago
Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude: Current Biology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude
Graham et al. report that high-altitude mammalian species have a greatly reduced number of olfactory receptor genes, and their brains have a smaller olfactory bulb, consistent with a deteriorated sens...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2900677-3
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Phil Barden
9 months ago
Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!
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Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
https://news.njit.edu/mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-12-times-dinosaur-age-study-finds
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CNRS Écologie & Environnement
9 months ago
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
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Benoit Nabholz
9 months ago
Junior Professor Chair at MNHN Paris : Integrative Taxonomy for Describing Biological Diversity
odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/r...
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Odyssée
https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/recrutement-ec/offres-poste/fiche-offre-poste/253142
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April Wright
10 months ago
And here it is:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Such a
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social
thing to promise something “in the coming weeks” and then turn around and have it done like the next day
#evol2025
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Nicolas Galtier
10 months ago
New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing
#ecoevo
#archaeology
#EthicalPublishing
#SocietyJournals
#DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.
https://doi.org/10.32942/X24933
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Martin Bulla
11 months ago
We’re hiring a postdoc (2+ years) in macroecology and macroevolution in my new lab at CZU Prague:
www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_...
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POSTDOCTORAL DATA SCIENTIST IN MACROECOLOGY AND MACROEVOLUTION (2+ YEARS IN PRAGUE) at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in Prague, CZECHIA
May 12, 2025 | We invite applications for a full-time, two-year data scientist postdoctoralposition (with potential for an extension) spanning large-scale... | NEW JOB
https://www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_Postdoctoral_data_scientist_in_macroecology_and_macroevolution_2_years_in_Prague
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Antoine Logghe
11 months ago
Really glad to share with you what would be the oldest evidence of the epidermal skin of early synapsids, with the description of sphenacodont body impressions, likeky belonging to Dimetrodon teutonis, from the early Permian of BROMACKER! Behold Bromackerichnus!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior
Marchetti et al. describe Bromackerichnus, the first definite body impression of early synapsids and, more specifically, sphenacodontids. Bromackerichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epide...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00574-3
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Kjetil Lysne Voje
11 months ago
Are you seeking a postdoc opportunity? The Natural History Museum in Oslo is on the lookout for candidates who want to create their own projects. If you're interested in brainstorming project ideas, feel free to reach out! More information here:👇
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/280531/postdoctoral-fellow-self-developed-project"
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Kjetil Lysne Voje
11 months ago
Here is our attempt at summarizing the state of the evidence for the punctuated equilibrium hypothesis. The paper is part of a special issue of Paleobiology celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PE Hypothesis. Work led by Gene Hunt.
@lhliow.bsky.social
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Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/punctuated-equilibrium-state-of-the-evidence/253FF4A0AC3D137D83F0E4453A972D4F
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Lene Liebe Delsett
11 months ago
Great
#postdoc
opportunity at the Natural History Museum
@uio.no
! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩 I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/280531/postdoctoral-fellow-self-developed-project
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Richard Butler
12 months ago
Abstract submission is now open for
#2025SVP
in Birmingham! Deadline is June 3rd & all key information is here:
vertpaleo.org/abstract-sub...
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
about 1 year ago
The Natural History Museum Denmark is hiring a new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Curator of (Vertebrate) Palaeontology! Could it be you or someone you know‽ spread the word! Really excited to have a new colleague to work on our amazing collections! 🧪🏛️
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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211-0238/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator of Paleontology
Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Paleontology Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural History Muse
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18971&ProjectId=163917&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false
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Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
12 months ago
🟢 Une nouvelle espèce de tatou découverte en
#Guyane
! L'emblématique
#tatou
à neuf bandes d'Amérique du Sud s'est révélé être un groupe de 4 espèces distinctes, dont fait partie le tatou à long museau guyanais, jamais encore décrit. Retour sur cette découverte 👉
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Carl Zimmer
about 1 year ago
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
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Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris
about 1 year ago
Une nouvelle espèce de tatou découverte en Guyane grâce à l'étude de l’ADN et l'analyse de la morphologie de crânes. Les résultats de cette étude menée par plusieurs membres de
@isemevol.bsky.social
et
@guillbi.bsky.social
du CR2P viennent d'être publiés dans Systematic Biology.
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Frederic Delsuc
about 1 year ago
Notre article sur la délimitation des espèces de tatous du genre Dasypus est désormais publié dans Systematic Biology (
doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027
) officialisant ainsi le tatou à long museau de Guyane (Dasypus guianensis) comme une nouvelle espèce endémique du plateau des Guyanes
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Une nouvelle espèce de tatou découverte en Guyane
On connait actuellement une vingtaine d'espèces de tatous, ces mammifères emblématiques de l’Amérique du Sud. La plus répandue aurait été le tatou à neuf bandes, qui s'est révélée être en réalité un g...
https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualites/une-nouvelle-espece-de-tatou-decouverte-en-guyane
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about 1 year ago
🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing.
shorturl.at/ohH44
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Open PhD position on Biomechanics and Anatomy of the Ape and Hominin Organ of Hearing
https://shorturl.at/ohH44
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Marion Segall
about 1 year ago
PhD alert: Je cherche un candidat pour travailler sur l'évolution morphologique et fonctionnelle de la tête des squamates apodes. Le projet implique de la biologie évolutive, des expériences et simulations mécaniques et des bestioles à écailles!
@mnhn.fr
@mecadev.bsky.social
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Professor John R. Hutchinson
about 1 year ago
A new "homepage" for this August's (7-10th) International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology online conference, full of details and links:
www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/program...
26 May abstract submission deadline, BTW.
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ICVM 2025
https://www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/program/3JC8EDv/index.cfm
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Richard Butler
about 1 year ago
Postdoc on stegosaurs with Roger Benson at the AMNH
careers.amnh.org/postings/4384
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Kenneth C. Griffin Postdoctoral Fellow for Paleontology
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
https://careers.amnh.org/postings/4384
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Frederic Delsuc
about 1 year ago
New
@erc.europa.eu
funded
#ConvergeAnt
preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at
@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Frederic Delsuc
about 1 year ago
New
@erc.europa.eu
funded
#ConvergeAnt
paper on phylogenetics and transcriptomics of chitinase gene repertoires in convergent ant-eating mammals finally published in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Benoit Nabholz
about 1 year ago
Soutien aux agents de l'OFFICE FRANCAIS DE LA BIODIVERSITE
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Manon Hullot, PhD
about 1 year ago
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...
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Conférence : Les notongulés, mammifères disparus...
YouTube video by Simplex Paléo
https://www.youtube.com/live/JRbBr63-VwY
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Eli Amson
about 1 year ago
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
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Peer Community In
over 1 year ago
Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!
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