Judith Pardo-Pérez and I are organizing a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social 🤩 Hope to see very many interesting abstracts! Get in touch if there are questions.

Very interesting study by @feikosaur.bsky.social and Erin Maxwell about ichthyosaur fetuses!

Digesting an ancient ecosystem: #coprolites from the Grippia #bonebed, Lower #Triassic, Svalbard peerj.com/articles/207... @peerj.bsky.social #paleobiology #paleontology #fossils doi.org/10.7717/peer...

Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪

Arctic plants, ichthyosaurs and more! We received funding from Nordforsk for a Nordic network for convergent evolution #NCEN! It is led by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and me, hosted at the Natural History Museum @uio.no and include researchers with amazing work🥳 www.nordforsk.org/projects/nor...

🎓 IPC7 Travel Grants – Call for Applications The IPC7 organisers offers five Travel Grants to support delegates wishing to attend the IPC7. Each grant covers: ✈️ Return economy airfare 🏨 Accommodation (University residence) 🎟️ Registration fee 🍽️ Conference dinner

I årboka 2025 for @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social 200 år har jeg skrevet om museumssamlinger og forskning i fortid og framtid, sammen med Anders Goksøyr og Rein Aasland. // Text in yearbook for the museum in Bergen about collections and research 🐋🏛🧪 (In Norwegian) um.uib.no/3001UMB2025F...

New paper from the ECHO project 🥳 Does the upper arm bone tell us the same things as the thigh bone if we look inside?💪🏼🦵🦴 Lead by Mathieu G. Faure-Brac, we investigated how we can expand the available input data to be used in paleophysiological models. www.scup.com/eprint/P8MS2...

Thank you for a great conference in Birmingham #2025SVP with the Natural History Museum @uio.no team🤩 @aubronectes.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @meghalithic.bsky.social Petter Nordenhaug and Mathieu Faure-Brac

Look what my amazing colleagues did! Early Triassic bonebed at Svalbard shows recovery after mass extinction🥳 @aubronectes.bsky.social

Article out in @journal-evo.bsky.social with @klvoje.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

We are at #2025SVP and having a great first day! From the ECHO and EXPLAC projects in our group postdocs Mathieu Faure-Brac and @feikosaur.bsky.social. Our marine tetrapod presentation times below 👇

Veldig fin tekst om evolusjon av vinger og flyving av vår student Aylin Gjøringbø i siste nummer av Biolog🤩 @feikosaur.bsky.social / Talented student Aylin Gjøringbø in our group just published a great essay about the evolution of fight (in Norwegian).

Jeg fikk diskutere Jurassic World Rebirth i siste utgave av @forskerforum.bsky.social. Det er bra for all biologisk forskning at folk liker dinosaurer, og så lenge man husker at det ikke er en dokumentar kan man slippe å bli surmaga. Men: marine reptiler er ikke dinosaurer, såpass forventer jeg 🐬🦖🦕

Interesting new study about scale loss evolution in turtles, with the oldest soft tissue preserved in a sea turtle 🐢 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are so proud of all the talented MSc students, PhDs and postdocs at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Just finished two days of impressive talks about their projects. 🧪 www.nhm.uio.no/om/aktuelle-...

Again Norway tops a not so nice list, of nature and farmland consumption per capita for construction and "development". But all countries in Europe are on a slippery slope to piece by piece nature destruction. There is an urgent need to stop this nature crisis. Full story www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542... Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.

Very nice news story (in Norwegian) about our recent paper on Early Triassic ichthyosaurs in Scientific Reports. @forskning.bsky.social www.forskning.no/paleontologi...

New people in our group at the Natural History Museum @uio.no this autumn! I am so lucky to be working with postdoc @feikosaur.bsky.social and master student Zoe Kinzella 🥳

Next year in Cape Town! At @ipc7.bsky.social my colleague Judith Pardo-Pérez and I organize a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium. Based on responses so far, it will feature many interesting topics and speakers. Get in touch if you want to contribute!

"Growth series", with foetus, of two very distinct ichthyosaurs from the Triassic! Very glad to have participated to this cool study! Thanks again Lene!

Here is our newest paper just published in Scientific Reports TODAY about the biology of Early Triassic ichthyosaurs from Spitsbergen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ichthyosaurs were fully pelagic five million years after the End Permian Mass Extinction - and we have fetal vertebrae from two Early Triassic taxa. That is the main findings in our @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports paper published just now🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we had the MSc exam of Jørgen Krøglid on microstructure of ribs in ichthyosaurs and odontocetes 🥳 Thanks to Johan Lindgren and @siribirkeland.bsky.social as examiners and Mathieu Faure-Brac for co-supervision.🧪🐬🐬

So happy to see news coverage on our new #plesiosaur fossils, including the juvenile, from Bornholm @videnskab.dk! Paper led by Zoe Kinzella with @lauraminifera.bsky.social. 🧪🥳 videnskab.dk/naturvidensk...

First juvenile plesiosaur from Denmark! Congratulations to Zoe Kinzella who just published her bachelor🥳 I am impressed and a very proud co-author with @lauraminifera.bsky.social 🥳🧪 Early Jurassic plesiosaurs from Bornholm in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark doi.org/10.37570/bgs...

Palaeontology or plant genomics and looking for a PhD position? At the Natural History Museum in Oslo @uio.no we offer one paid position in each 🧪🪸🐚🌸💐 Come work with us! www.nhm.uio.no/english/abou...

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

Interesting new study on soft tissue forefin fossils of Jurassic ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus, suggested to be used for stealth swimming www.sciencenews.org/article/mari... 🧪

On my way home from a visiting scholar stay in Chicago on a grant from the Field Museum. Thank you so much for having me, and very special thanks to host and collaborator Arjan Mann! So many reptile fossils in an amazing #museum #collection🤩🤩🧪

I am a very proud supervisor! Our MSc student Jørgen Krøglid won the Best poster award at the ProgPal @thepalass.bsky.social conference for his work on rib histology and microanatomy 🥳

Congratulations to Petter Nordenhaug who just defended his MSc on mixosaurs here at NHM @uio.no 🥳🥳 I am very very impressed🤩 Now on his way to #ProgPal with the other paleo students.

Today was the Young Academy of Norway board meeting, and it was so nice to host it at the Natural History Museum @uio.no on such a nice day in the botanical garden! @erikknudsen.bsky.social @haleydk.bsky.social

Day 1 of the The Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries ( #WGHIST )  side event of United Nations Ocean Conference (#UNOC3) #Nice #france. Talking about our work on #fishweirs, #IndigenousPeoples #maritimeheritage #oceanaction46159 #UNOceanDecade #oceandecadeheritage

Great first day at the annual meeting of the Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries #WGHIST @icesmarine.bsky.social yesterday 🤩🐬🐟 Thanks for inviting me to speak about marine tetrapods and very long time series!

We just listened to Nadia Ditta who presented her recently finished master thesis in mechanical engineering on ichthyosaur hyoids and it was so interesting! Congratulations! Thank you so much for this first part of our collaboration, with Parvez Alam at the University of Edinburgh 🤩

New paper out! You wouldnt want to be at the wrong end of a Temnodontosaurus! He would either swollow you hole, or rip you to pieces! Many congrats to Giovanni Serafini for leading this project! Very happy it's out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Latest article from our lab...... Osteohistology of the Maastrichtian, small‐bodied elasmosaurid Kawanectes lafquenianum (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) - Pereyra - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

Tomorrow I am giving a talk about how data from modern animals can inform our knowledge about the past, and the other way around, at 1130 at the Naturmuseum in Kristiansand/University of Agder🐍🐬🧪 www.uia.no/naturmuseum/...

Congratulations to Vandith Sukhavasi for an excellent talk on his recently submitted bachelor thesis at the University of Edinburgh! Mechanical engineering and marine tetrapods are a great match. Such a great project with Parvez Alam and @palaeo-prof.bsky.social. I look forward to the next part🥳🤩🧪

Looking forward to IPC7 in 2026! Come join us in the ichthyosaur symposium 🤩🤩

ECHO project postdoc Mathieu is back from a successful visit to Holly Woolward Ballard's lab at Oklahoma State University for thin section histology data and good food. 🧪

A few weeks ago I was part of the adjudication commitee as the third opponent together with @anaritagsimoes.bsky.social and Stephen Boatwright. It was a great experience. Congratulations to Jesus Adrian!

New publication led by Nicolas Séon out in Paleobiology🥳 Thermoregulation in ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and metriorhynchids from oxygen isotopes. Interestingly there seems to be differences between them🧪🐬🌡 So happy to be part of this! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On my way to the ICAM-X conference and looking so much forward! Will talk about outreach, marine tetrapods, the past and the future 🧪 🐬🐳Train Oslo-Bremen-Oslo🤩

Position as an Associate Professor in Zoology at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology has issued an official statement regarding recent executive orders from the current administration & the effects of these attacks on vertebrate paleontology and the scientific community in general, w/ a request for input from affected scientists. 🧪

The BEST thing that has happened in 2025 is learning that @feikosaur.bsky.social got a MSCA postdoc grant for working in my group for the next two years! I am so much looking forward to this project 🥳🥳🤩🤩🐬🐬🧪