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MacFadden, B. J. et al. (2026). AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification. Paleobiology, 1–17. doi: 10.1017/pab.2025.10084

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Taking a moment of silence for the fallen legacy of the fifa peace prize

Figure 2.1 the variety of organisms with very different habits and habitats which may accumulate as fossils in one layer of sediment on the sea floor. Drawn by Miss Mary E. Pugh.

I don’t know what I like better: the bloat-and-float kangaroo(?) or the expression on the whale as it is taken down by a giant squid #FossilFriday

From: Ager 1963 Principles of Paleoecology

HIRING: CMS Manager

You will provide systems management and user support for the Collections Management System (EMu) used by the Museum of Natural History and the History of Science Museum.

Learn more: https://oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/cms-manager-0

what.

that's really cool!

Had an ultrasound done on my aching shoulder injury today

It is VERY cool to see how your shoulder bones and muscles move internally in real time. (in my case, jankily is the answer!)

📖 Published!

Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses

This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment 🌍 🌳

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well that's a whole new rabbit hole to dive down!

My research has taken me to some unexpected places.

Today's new word is "Formicarium", which is the fancy name for an ant farm.

I'm not researching ants.

i feel this in my soul

I’m just so fucking tired of the boys club. It’s everywhere and it’s exhausting.

Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in family groups Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other orcas, and researchers think that may explain their different social dynamics

Two fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest orca-on-orca cannibalism. Scientists think that's why some orcas travel in big groups—for safety in numbers.

My latest for @newscientist.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fossils reveals cryptic 👁️ & 🦴 of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous 🇭🇺 find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!

Not to flex to hard but I got a guest spot on @thefossilfiles.bsky.social chatting about our new Proc B paper (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...)

(And I got to enjoy a front row listening to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social chat about dinosaurs which was a treat!)

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast 23. Squishy fishies and horned Hungarian dinosaurs: Fossils hidden in plain sight

This week we cover Fossil Files' own papers,
1st by @fossilyarns.bsky.social & @fossilrob.bsky.social,
2nd by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and others, out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriR...

When you have a deep, penetrative track, it turns out that sediment properties don't really affect the sub-surface morphology very much (for a given foot motion). This is good news for reconstructing #dinosaur foot motions from penetrative tracks: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

An ichnologically themed Far Side, documenting a terrifying morphological change of human to aquatic avian theropod based on trackway evidence! 🐾🦆

Everyone who chairs a meeting poorly should have to type up their own minutes verbatim and then read them aloud so they can see how awful they are

An old crooked line and wood building now housing a hat shop and a pret

A passageway with a very impressive gnarly huge tree supporting a huge bracket fungus

Corner of a street. The name “museum road” is attached to black metal railing, in the back ground an impressive sandstone building (the museum)

Just a really cool big old spread out tree

In Oxford for the day!

First major takeaways from the walk to the museum: pretty buildings, excellent trees, and perhaps more gift shops than Edinburgh.

📢 New Special Issue in Global and Planetary Change:
Paleozoic–Mesozoic Oceanic Anoxic Events & Biotic Crises

As modern oceans lose oxygen due to global warming, we look to the deep past... bringing together new research on ancient oceanic anoxic events & the biological crises that followed

A phylogenetic framework of the lower vertebrates.

"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Ahh Canada were unlucky. They probably deserved to win but OT is a hard period.

art of two jawless, flat-headed fish called zihaiaspis wuningensis with what can only be described as 0: expressions

pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction

It Happened to Me: Someone I consider a dear friend asked me how my manuscript is coming along

Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.

#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

I kept one of these cuties for a souvenir when I was in Canada, they’re so lovely!

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award.

Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026.

Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.