Jane Reeves

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Where did Pterosaurs come from?

Exciting news! Fossil files is now available on YouTube!
So, if like me, you like to listen to podcasts while you work you have another opinion.

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YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Where did Pterosaurs come from?

Where Pterosaurs came from has always been a bit of a mystery: they just sort of turn up in the Triassic. In this week's @thefossilfiles.bsky.social Susie and I cover a cool new study on ecology & origins of pterosaurs & weird relatives in Triassic climates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCU2...

The Fossil Files In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

A brand new Fossil Files podcast (@thefossilfiles.bsky.social) on pterosaurs, lagerpetids and climate modelling is out now here: fossils.libsyn.com and on all your favourite podcast platforms. In it, we spend a lot of time discussing how it is easy to say 'lager' but hard to say 'lagerpetid'.

Screenshots from The Man from Uncle, which ran from 1964-1968. Napoleon Solo talks into a speaker and asks his partner, Ilya Kuryakin: Ilya? We're in need of your special talents. Are you free? Through the speaker, Ilya responds: No man is free who has to work for a living, but I'm available.

The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:

Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Ontogeny and patterns of growth provide crucial insights into the evolution of dinosaurs and their biology, however, ontogenetic changes of the postcranial skeleton are generally poorly known and rest...

Mooney, E.D., Maho, T., Rowe, D.C.T. et al. Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny. Swiss J Palaeontol 144, 44 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s133...

What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, & December over the last 7 days of the month. Going out? 1. Find invertebrates 2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest 3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event NOT Going out? - Post your squid painting - Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife - Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins - Write wikipedia pages Questions? ask franzanth / maureenbug / saimihanma More info and ideas on: invertefest.com

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.

tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.

Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

Screenshot of the class showing me helping to work up a hammerhead shark

I am teaching an online shark biology and ecology class, which you can take for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just for fun!

It includes an optional 3-day field research experience in Miami (November 20-22).

The class won't fill up but the field experience is half full- join ASAP!

cool!

Love a "we're experiencing unusual amount of traffic from your network?" message from a Journal Website when I'm on eduroam.

Like, who else is visiting your webpage outside of academics? Surely I'm the most expected traffic you could get?

Painting of a skeleton lying on a bed with an angry black cat screaming beside it.

Where's my Breakfast? - Daniel Arthur
Oil on Panel

Where did Pterosaurs come from? The Fossil Files · Episode

Our new is episode out today!

In it Susie and Rob discuss the origins of pterosaurs and how environmental changes influenced their evolution.

Available now from Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

open.spotify.com/episode/32rP...

1. Suddenly find thirty million dollars on the sidewalk

I won’t stop being angry at all the actors who are happily advertising Corporate AI systems.

So it’s cool for office workers to lose their jobs? Do the actors realise or care it’s the same beast that is replacing writers and them?

Hope the cash was worth it ✌️

This. Ask me what it was like being in high school when size 8 was considered fat and my friends all had eating disorders. Or how being the only girl walking into a gaming store felt like a chum tossed into a shark tank. Or how men in public started asking me out or catcalling me around at age 13.

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

The Manitoba Museum is seeking a new Director of Research, Collections, and Exhibitions and Chief Curator:
manitobamuseum.ca/director-of-...

Approximately 1.5m statue of a garden gnome saluting

Selection of small round concretions split to show a fern fossil inside.

Only Bristol gives you Mazon Creek fossils and a lovely Norbot statue on the same walk 🥰

A photograph of a fossil insect in a rock. The rock is beige fossil black, and kinda patchy in colour. It has a head towaerds the top, and the majority of the fossil is two easy to spot wing cases, which is how we know this little dude(tte) is a beetle.

Beetles are the most speciose animal order: 25% of described animal species are beetles. Everything has to start somewhere, though, and for #FossilFriday, here is the earliest known 'beetle' - the 297 million year old Coleopsis, found in Freisen (Saarland, Germany).

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification Flight may affect the dispersal and evolution of birds. Using a new evolutionary tree, Claramunt et al. find that efficient fliers have broader geographic ranges, and speciation reduces range size, bu...

🚨 The New Age of global bird phylogenies continues!

Hot on the heels of the fantastic updated tree created by @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others, we use a different approach to generate a near-comprehensive timetree of >9000 bird species. 1/3

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Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Top: Photograph of a fossil specimen of Kerygmachela kierkegaardi (MGUH 34837) with an ingested specimen of Isoxys volucris highlighted in pink with a white box outline in the annotated image on the right. Scale bar at lower right of annotated image is 10 mm. Bottom: Plot showing the relationship between carapace length and spine/carapace ratio in Isoxys volucris (N = 85). Possible instar populations are indicated with numbers I–VII.

Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @bobnichollsart.bsky.social

Doing some unsupervised learning about unsupervised machine learning.

I haven't found the answer to my question yet, and I think that's because people seem to choose make it sound extra sexy and complex.

Babes, I just want to use a pre-computed distance matrix, is that ok, Y/N?

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

IUCN Red List Client IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!!

- wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️
- wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍
- filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏

Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind...

#rstats #iucn #redlist #api

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Killer final penalty!

Back-to-back champions has a great ring to it!

Tried out a different pub in Manchester.

It’s got a THEME, fortunately it’s the right theme for my partner because it’s actually pretty chill

Man Utd all the way down

Call me unhinged, but I just ordered six books on minimalism.