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 🥳🥳🤩🤩🐬🐬🧪

The one habitat for which we had around 30% protected areas… #Norway #KM-GBF #naturecrisis

Something to look forward to is the 7th International Palaeontological Congress in Cape Town in 2026! We just learned that a symposium on ichthyosaurs led by Judith Pardo-Perez and myself is accepted🥳🐬 Welcome! 🧪 ipc7.site/programme.html

Thank you @gohar.bsky.social for a very nice invited talk on whale evolution for our group in Oslo yesterday!🐳🐋🐬

Introduction to fossil preparation lab for ECHO project master students with expert Aubrey Roberts🤩 The specimen is a partial Late Jurassic ichthyosaur from Svalbard.

Nice newspaper story on our recent paper about the Ellesmere Island plesiosaur! And the importance of museum collections. In Norwegian @forskning.bsky.social www.forskning.no/dinosaurer-p...

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

The postdoc in my project just published an impressive review and analysis of thermometabolism in crocodiles and their extinct relatives 🥳 🧪 Mathieu Gabriel Faure-Brac: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper🥳 An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut! A cool specimen found 70 years ago that has been hiding in Copenhagen. It shows the presence of top predators in the ecosystem. Thanks to coauthors Simon Schneider, Adam Smith & Stephen Ingrams!🧪 www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Hi 👋 I study marine tetrapods, mainly ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and whales at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. In my current project ECHO we use histology and other skeletal data to understand physiology, locomotion and reproduction. I like museum collections and outreach a lot.

Abstract submission and early bird registration deadline October 1st!

Last week my group was in Paris for the II Meeting in Vertebrate Paleophysiology and it was such a great experience. Thank you for wonderful organisation and for having me as a key note speaker. Not to forget the amazing museum🤩

Thank you everyone for a great vertebrate palaeontology conference #EAVP2024 at Svalbard!

Registration now open for the ICAM-X International conference on Arctic Margins in Bremen 16-21 March 2025🥳 I feel very honoured to be the invited speaker for the Arctic education and outreach session. 🧪 www.icam-x.org

How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...

I have spent ten days in the collections at Smithsonian's NMNH in Washington DC, and it has been so great to be back! No onwards to #SECAD2024 conference in Liège, Belgium.🧪

I just published my work on whales in Nordic museum collections🥳 How did whales enter these collections, and what is in them now? Read in @peerj.bsky.social here: peerj.com/articles/167... Part of the wonderful trans-disciplinary project Collecting Norden led by Ulrike Spring and Janicke Kaasa 🐳🐋🐬🏛

Norway has, as the only country in the world, decided to permit commercial sea bed mining. How will it impact marine biodiversity and why do so many scientists protest? My piece for the Young Academy of Norway in newspaper Morgenbladet 🐙 www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/komm...