Phil Mannion

Lepidaspis by Nobu Tomura

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨⚠️Last week to submit!!
#AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #Postdoc #UK #Ecology #PostdocJobs @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

A real pleasure to give a talk on my research focused on the conservation palaeobiology of Cuban crocodiles @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich last week. So many inspiring speakers using data from the past to protect species' futures. Especially honoured to have won 2nd prize for my efforts! 🐊

For #FossilFriday have a look at the Late Cretaceous vertebrate remains of a Transylvanian Titanosaur and an anatomical record of the remains described by Diaz et al. (2025) in JSP.
Read the full study here: buff.ly/0eDwNJI

#PaleoSky #NHM #Dinosaur #Fossils #NaturalHistory #Giant #JSP #MindBlown

The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Researchers from UCL’s Vertebrate Palaeobiology Research Group presenting in their recent findings.

Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social 🐊🦕 (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising!

@macroecoevoale.bsky.social
@devinhoffman.bsky.social
@pdmannion.bsky.social

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:

"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales | Royal Society Open Science Borings of the extant bone-eating worm Osedax have previously been found in Cenozoic cetaceans and Cretaceous marine reptiles. The stratigraphically youngest Cretaceous example is from the Maastrichti...

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on the earliest fossil whale preserved with evidence of the bone-eating worm, Osedax, with implications for the latter's survival across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ‪in which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!

If you're interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral (or any other) fellowship to come work with me @es-ucl.bsky.social on sauropods, crocodiles, fossil birds, past biodiversity patterns and/or conservation palaeobiology for vertebrates, please get in touch

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out!

We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social!

📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June!

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

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...

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Revealing patterns of homoplasy in discrete phylogenetic datasets with a cross-comparable index Abstract. Investigating patterns of homoplasy can improve our understanding of macroevolutionary processes by revealing evolutionary constraints on morphol

It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n)

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

211-0238/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator of Paleontology Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Paleontology Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural History Muse

Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Paleobiology Database Summer 2025 Workshop Application Dates: June 2-5, 2025 (4 days) Location: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚

Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop!

More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

Tewkensuchus salamanquensis skull elements

Palaeontologists retrieving the fossil from the ground

Our new paper out today describes a sebecoidean crocodylomorph from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia, and provides support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg.

@pdmannion.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our new paper @royalsociety.org describing a new notosuchian crocodyliform from the early Paleocene of Argentina that we interpret as evidence for survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K–Pg mass extinction (w/@piginatutu.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @es-ucl.bsky.social

species are on the move in many places due to climate change

we wrote a paper arguing that we need to focus more on the *types* of movements we are seeing, as true range shifts have really different consequences from say range expansions

led by Jed Brodie; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great opportunity to work on a very famous dinosaur: careers.amnh.org/postings/4384

New paper @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social in which we consider how species' ranges shift, expand, and contract in the present day, past, and future, along with the effects on local and global biodiversity, with Jed Brodie, Ben Freeman & Anna Hargreaves: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Two new dinosaur species discovered in Romania A team including UCL researchers has identified two new dinosaur species found in present-day Romania that lived shortly before dinosaurs went extinct.

The discovery of two new sauropod dinosaur species in Romania, including a 12 metre-long giant, challenges a theory that dinosaurs in what was then Hateg Island adapted to their limited habitat by becoming smaller. Researchers included Profs @pdmannion.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch @es-ucl.bsky.social

⚠️The registration for ProgPal is #open 🥳✨
For full details regarding registration and abstract submission deadlines, event themes and scheduling, please check out the ProgPal 2025 website:
www.palass.org/meetings-eve...

#conference #student #uk

Size comparison of Uriash kadici and Magyarosaurus dacus (both shown as skeletal drawings) alongside Homo sapiens for scale

Size comparison of fossil bones of European titanosaurs, including Uriash kadici and Magyarosaurus dacus

New sauropod species from #Romania rewrite Europe's dinosaur history! Led by @daniajinn.bsky.social, the discovery of 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 and 𝘜𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪 challenges "island dwarfism" and reveals links to Africa, Asia and South America. 🦕

🔗 Learn more:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...