Manon Hullot, PhD

🚨Paleojobs alert🚨

- Professorship in Paleobotany in Bonn (Germany) 🍃: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31196...

- PhD in Palaeoecology / Palaeolimnology in Basel (Switzerland) 🦟: www.myscience.org/jobs/id31201...

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If you want to know what happened to these newcomers, a.k.a. palaeotheres, stay tuned, as this is the topic of my current post doc in Switzerland 🇨🇭

And don’t worry, rhinos have also a role to play in this work! 🦏

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Indeed, the giant-sized and most recent species, Lophiodon lautricense, consumed more abrasive and harder items. 🌳

Lastly, the changes in dietary strategies are also related to climate cooling and new competitors. ❄️🐎

We studied lophiodontid dietary evolution over their entire stratigraphical range and found out that early lophiodontids were browsers, not frugivores as traditionally thought. 🌿

We noted a diet shift in lophiodontids associated with body mass and progressive molarisation. 🦷

After about 7 years, we eventually managed to finish our lophiodons side project! The release is just on time for #fossilfriday 🥳

I was very happy for the opportunity to work with friends and on a different group!

Full text available here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Et on trouve 5 milliards à couper en 2025

3D renderings of a CT scan of a small rattlesnake. Top: rendering of snake skeleton in brown with rodent skeleton inside rendered in pink and orange, overlayed on the same image with the snake's skeleton rendered transparent and the rodent in pink and orange. Bottom: Closer up view of the rodent viewed from the other side, showing the front of the skull with teeth.

Image of a preserved rattlesnake specimen, coiled up with mouth open and fangs bared.

When I CT scanned this diamondback rattlesnake specimen, I found a surprise rodent inside 🐍🐁

The #oVertTCN CT data is available for download on MorphoSource here: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

"suite au dysfonctionnement de la plateforme Odyssée" "report de la clôture des candidatures dans le cadre de la campagne synchronisée du recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs au dimanche dimanche 6 avril à 22h"

c'est franchement pénible de jouer ainsi avec l'avenir des gens

🚨Job alert - Archeology 🚨

www.jurassica.ch/fr/Infos-pra...

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

It's once again #fossilfriday so let me introduce you to the brand new palaeontological journal Open Palaeontology: www.openpalaeo.org/index @openpalaeo.bsky.social

It's a Diamond Open Access journal (free to authors and readers) welcoming articles on any topic related to palaeontological research

Quaternary Megafaunas and Palaeobiology of Quaternary Small Mammals | Deutscher Museumsbund e.V. Job announcement Ref. #03-25001 The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) was founded in 1817 and is one of the most important research institutions in the field of biodiversity. At its t...

🚨Job offers🚨
Two tenure-track positions for researchers at the Senckenberg in Weimar (Germany) on:
- Quaternary Megafaunas 🦣
- Palaeobiology of Quaternary Small Mammals 🐁

www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

The strain on scientific publishing Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

An amazing article on scientific publishing and malpractices of some publishers (fast turnaround times, low rejection rates, only special issues) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Merci au @lemonde.fr de publier ce soir ma tribune, écrite après ma relaxe par le tribunal de Créteil, qui faisait suite au procès en diffamation intenté par la chaîne RT France contre mon éditeur, l'INA, et moi-même. 1/3

#StandUpForScience

Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse' On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

"I study animals from the past, and they should stay in the past," as I said in this interview, and "the idea that they can fix that [the extinction crisis] with gene editing is missing the big picture.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...

Je partage ici le message d'un collègue argentin a qui je demandais des news. Glaçant 😱!
La Méthode Milei (bel euphémisme gerbant) démantèle éducation&recherche, cible les savoirs qui comme aux US, gênent politiquement: climat&écologie, justice env.
Le fascisme s'installe. Sommes-ns a l'abri en 🇪🇺?

[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours.

sciences.re/postes/

PhD thesis proposal in our lab:
"Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees"

Supervision: Pierre Faux and I
Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France
More infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_...

(thanks in advance for your RT and for sharing with your students 😉)

👇Ce que l’extrême-droite fait aux Sciences : une revue de presse.
Ce nouvel obscurantisme, cette purge anti-science : c’est une dystopie.

🚨 Nouvel article sur les rhinocéros éponymes de Gannat ! @manonhullot.bsky.social, membre de l’association, nous présente la paléoécologie des rhinocéros européens lors de la transition Oligocène-Miocène 🦏 (petit🧵) :

Laetoli website has a complete skeleton of a rhino but it's Diceros bicornis. Maybe that can still be of help?
laetoli-production.fr/fr/works/12

Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk *back to the cows.* #academicpublishing

The arm of the organisation that includes Elsevier had "revenue of £3.05bn, giving it an adjusted operating [profit] margin of 38.4 per cent."

To put that in context:

- Google's operating margin is 33.03%
- Apple's is 29.7%
- Exxon Mobil's is 14.61%
- Toyota's is 11.98%
- Amazon's is 6.53%

👀

The lost long tail of early bird evolution Fossil find reveals the earliest known short-tailed bird.

Welcome Baminornis! Only the second undoubted bird from the Jurassic. Joining the iconic Archaeopteryx.
But Baminornis could fly better!
My thoughts in this commentary for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Paleojob alert🚨

Offre d’ATER en paléontologie à Montpellier pour 2025/2026 ☀️

umontpellier.nous-recrutons.fr/poste/epqkwy...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.

On appelle ça comment un gouvernement qui censure, réécrit, manipule ou supprime des faits ?

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Un gouvernement qui bloque les fonds de recherche pour vérifier que le sujet va dans leur sens ?

www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

Glad to announce that I will soon (March) start a new SNF post doc at the Jurassica Museum! I will be working on the impact of the Grande Coupure on perissodactyls 🦏🐎

JOB OFFER 💥 The EPHE recruits a senior lecturer in Tropical Palaeoecology. Call ends on March the 11th. The candidate will be recruited at @isemevol.bsky.social (Montpellier, France) and start in October. More info in the attached documents.

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#PhD position (m/f/d) in vertebrate #Paleontology

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in the project “Bone Microanatomy, Ichnology and Paleoenvironment” of Dr Eudald Mujal Grané and @eliamson.bsky.social at State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart

All information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen