Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lots of meaty papers from Tim Smithson's festschrift. In addition, we contributed a little paper on a lungfish otoccipital from the early Mississippian of Nova Scotia. Nothing fancy but it shows affinities with groups previously known only from the Devonian. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes the description of the back of two ray finned fish skulls. These show that in the earliest Carboniferous aged rocks at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, there was a mix of ancient forms and more advanced fish known from younger rocks. #vertpaleo #paleontology

Congrats to Nathan Cochran for passing his MSc exam on sexual dimorphism in Dimetrodon!

New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes a new predatory fish from the earliest Carboniferous deposits of Blue Beach, Nova Scotia. This is the first fish in the fossil record to have its largest teeth in the rear of its jaws. #paleontology #vertpaleo #paleosky

RIP Taz, our goofy little mutt with short front legs that brought so much joy to everyone she met, and has left a huge hole in our home. #dogs #DogsOfBluesky #RescueDog

The closing date for our positions in Veterinary Anatomy is May 15th, not the April date in the header of the Science Careers posting. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs #anatomy #VetMed #YYC

Join our team teaching Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Calgary! We are hiring two positions to start in the Fall teaching in our new integrated curriculum.

A detailed thread on a new study of recumbirostran Hapsidopareion. Well done @semifossorial.bsky.social !

Important new paper: Rogers et al 2025, Updating the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation of Montana: Lithostratigraphic revisions, new CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb ages, and a calibrated framework for dinosaur occurrences. 35 pages, worth reading! pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/...

My dog is kinda odd #DogSky #pets #DogsOfBluesky

Our 15-year-old pup Taz just loves to go bounding through fresh snow, even though she has very short legs #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky #pets #dogs www.youtube.com/shorts/UvZ4_...

It seems like many of us here could use a reset. So for the next week, I’ll post serene videos from Hawaii. 🌺 #3 Gold dust day gecko eating a papaya in Hana, Maui. 🦎

There are now more than 80 #indiebookstores in the starter pack. Can we get it to 100 by Monday? Don't forget to use the list when buying books for the holidays! Support small businesses rather than billionaires whenever you can. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

Canada Post's main carrier union is now officially on strike www.cupw.ca/en/strike-fr...

Starter pack of vertebrate paleontologists! There are a fair few slots left so if you’d like to be added or nominate someone to be added, drop a comment or shoot me a DM! go.bsky.app/VLmSB1B

*Logs onto Chessable for the first time in months* Oh hey, a new badge for having over 1000 variations to review! (Number of actual variations: 3500)

I've been here a while but there are tips here that were new to me!

We have 2 spots in the Biological Imaging Apprenticeship. 15 credits. Strong financial aid available. Learn CT, SEM, and other applicable imaging techniques. Now with the correct QR code!! 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs. Cutting edge tools at the water's edge. Please retweet.

The Beaverton Is Dying. Unless You Save It

Tonight's sunset #Maui #vacation

Watching the World Series at a tiki bar. (South Shore Tiki Lounge) #GoDodgers #LADodgers

I am on vacation so not very active here for the next 2 weeks - posting a few sunsets to make up for it. This was today #Maui #Kihei

And this was yesterday's sunset. Overall, better, but not as pink. #Maui

Earlier this year, @arvalis.bsky.social commissioned me to build a muscle model of a Komodo Dragon. Lizard anatomy is well studied, but many resources are hidden in literature often unknown/inaccessible to artists. The mission was to make an idealised, artist-friendly reference for lizard muscles.

Hello all and welcome to Bluesky! I will eventually get through all of the follows for follow backs but there are a lot of you! Stay tuned for upcoming new fossil fishes, amphibians, and reptiles! But first, off to commune with living fish and reptiles...

New paper day! This is the second in our series of revisions of early amniotes. This was started using old latex peels until the original fossils thought lost were relocated.

Nice to see so many more paleontologists on Bluesky!

Took a mountain day today; met a juvenile black bear! Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Rocky Mountains (Sorry they are blurry; car was moving)

Spent yesterday in Kootenay National Park for our wedding anniversary, and caught some blurry photos of a not-fully-grown grizzly bear by the side of the road. @jsanderso.bsky.social #RockyMountains #BritishColumbia

Aurora over Calgary, as taken just south of downtown, looking south Can't believe I saw them this well! (apologies for my shaky hands) #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights

Editorial in Science highlights the forgotten victims in academic misconduct investigations: the trainees

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology's annual Speaker Series schedule is now up! If you have been thinking of visiting the best bone museum I know of but weren't sure of when to go, perhaps one of these dates might inspire you to finally do it! #paleontology #paleosky

I wrote an encyclopedia article now out! No, you still can't cite it as a primary reference...

Hey Squarespace users! Did you know Squarespace opted you into being crawled by AI bots without telling you? I didn't... #AI #scrapers #bots

Always wanted to be a fossil preparator but couldn't find a job? The Canadian Museum of Nature in Gatineau/Ottawa is hiring!

New paper day! This projected started when Jenny Clack passed latex peels of this specimen to me and Taran 10+ years ago. Jozef later found the originals, presumed lost, in Prague. Wonderful to see out! Another on this topic is forthcoming journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Thanks for the invite @jsanderso.bsky.social! Since I’m out practice, here’s a walrus femur for my first Bluesky post.

It seems silly to feel such a sense of accomplishment over this but I have managed to overcome our accounting software and submit an expense report despite only having outdated instructions! Lunch is well deserved.

Reminder, the deadline for applying for this assistant curator/professor position at the University of Michigan is Sept 1 https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/236445/asst-professorasst-curator