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27.10.2025 14:47 β π 6300 π 2746 π¬ 125 π 451
Found the end of the rainbow. Its on the M5 just north of Exeter.
23.10.2025 14:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
PalAss abstract accepted!
Here's a cheeky spoiler...
20.10.2025 15:30 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Reconstruction of an early shark relative, a fish with a blunt head and with fins supported by spines. Image by Plamen Andreev.
Images of growth of the bony plate of an early shark relative.
Living sharks have innumerable tiny scales, but their earliest relatives somehow grew larger bony plates. In our new Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org, we work try and out how, arguing they grew by fusing and remodelling spines and scales.
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
25.09.2025 09:21 β π 20 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
Rest in Peace Pierre. I will miss your insights, humour and unwavering positivity.
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Donate Now Β« Royal Saskatchewan Museum
World's largest T. rex lives here.
Two locations Regina, Saskatchewan and Eastend, Saskatchewan.
To donate, please visit: www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/donate/donate-now and indicate the "Pierre Cockx fund" in the notes field above the payment details. Your donations will be managed by the Friends of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, a non-profit group supporting student research.
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Pierreβs family has established a memorial fund to support young researchers pursuing graduate studies in palaeontology. If you are able, we invite you to contribute to this fund. Every donation will go directly toward helping graduate students following an academic path similar to Pierre's.
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
He was an exceptionally determined and hardworking scientist, with a bright and promising future ahead. Beyond his scientific brilliance, Pierre was always smiling, full of optimism, and good-humoured (even after our third Sys Bio rejection and resubmission!)
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Despite this, Pierre stuck with it, and by the end of his time at Bristol, Pierre was a master of Markov models. Following his time at Bristol, Pierre secured a postdoc at IVPP in Beijing, where he continued his research on the evolution of feathers.
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Pierre came to @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social for his Marie Currie Fellowship to work with Mike Benton on feathered dinosaurs. I managed to persuade him to look at the nitty gritty of ancestral state estimation, which was well outside his comfort zone!
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
16.09.2025 10:57 β π 21 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
Decay experiments on shrimps provide insight into the fossilisation potential of arthropod appendages
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦ Out now in @openpalaeo.bsky.social
05.09.2025 13:27 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Jealous
17.07.2025 10:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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24.06.2025 17:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!
14.06.2025 08:50 β π 30 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0
Just added some new functions to treesurgeon
github.com/evo-palaeo/t...
10.06.2025 19:38 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
.@openpalaeo.bsky.social has published its first research paper!
Publish your research here too! Its totally completely FREE! There are NO publication costs and NO access costs.
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
06.06.2025 17:18 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Foxy enjoying the evening βοΈin Bristol
29.05.2025 17:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Super interesting paper outlining the damaging impact of the 'Gollum effect': researchers who restrict access to resources.
Very relevant to palaeo work regarding the gatekeeping of collection material and the harm this causes to science. Worth a read!
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
23.05.2025 08:20 β π 65 π 27 π¬ 6 π 4
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term βopen-air recreationβ included camping
Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a reliefβ but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the publicβs access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
21.05.2025 10:04 β π 627 π 157 π¬ 13 π 15
I've 'entertained' them as stem verts... Although probably they are stem cyclostomes.
21.05.2025 16:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Now we must entertain that crown-vertebrates might Ordovician in age...
21.05.2025 15:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The evolutionary origin of sensitive dental structures
Fossil data shed light on a debate about when vertebrate dental tissues arose by assigning an early sensory structure to arthropods rather than to vertebrates.
Congrats to Yara and team! They reveal that Anatolepis - previously interpreted as the oldest vertebrate with a mineralised skeleton - is not a vertebrate at all!
Paper here: tinyurl.com/59sdw7x9
and a nice write up by @guillaumehouee.bsky.social & Philippe Janvier here: tinyurl.com/2u6haac8
21.05.2025 15:37 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.
21.05.2025 05:28 β π 9 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
Unravelling the function and evolution of many-eyed visual systems. Led by @laurensr.bsky.social and based @MfNBerlin.bsky.social.
CNRS Researcher at the Institut de Biologie de lβΓcole Normale SupΓ©rieure, Paris.
Studying evolutionary processes using stochastic phylogenetic models.
Failed reincarnation of Montaigne.
Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at LMU Munich. In a love-hate relationship with phylogenies :D
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PhD student at Ludwig Maximilians UniversitΓ€t MΓΌnchen.
Phylogenetics | Bayesian statistics | Morphology | https://basantakhakurel.github.io/
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Palaeontology podcast from two professional palaeontologists aimed for all to enjoy
https://linktr.ee/fossilfiles.pod
Mammalian paleontologist @unihalle.bsky.social & @mfnberlin.bsky.social | islands π, paleoecology β³, conservation paleobiology, bovids πππ | Also πΆ
Computational Biologist. Tenure Track Fellow in Health at the University of Liverpool. π§π·π―π΅πͺπΈπ¬π§π¨π
Phylogenomics and Chemometrics. Prog Rock and Post-Punk. C and Python.
@leomrtns@mstdn.science
Evolutionary Biologist/Palaeontologist. Prev. NHM London. Researcher at Monash University. Reseaching auditory evolution in seals! π¦ (he/him)
Driving innovation in teaching, learning and assessment at the University of Bristol. Posting about funding, staff and student opportunities, our latest research and upcoming T+L events.
PhD student in molecular evolution / phylogenetics / palaeobiology @ University of Bristol. Interested in providing a timescale for the tree of life to elucidate major evolutionary innovations in Earth history. π§¬
Curator of mammals, NMBE Assistant Professor, University of Bern, Evolutionary Biology, Shape diversity, Functional Morphology, Salamanders lover!!!
Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology @BristolUni
Evolution of early branching animals
Evolutionary biologist (invertebrates, vision, brains), Junior Group Leader @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @MfNBerlin.bsky.social. Gradual learner of π©πͺ She/her. Views mine, all mine!
PhD Student in Diapsid Skull Evolution at the University of Lincoln.
Birds π¦ Passerines π¦ Fossils 𦴠Macroevolution
Post-doc at Girton College and Cambridge University (Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Earth Science)
Macroevolutionary Palaeobiology Postdoc | Fritz Lab (BinA), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | Fossil Mammals β€
Computational evolutionary biologist - phylogenetics, molecular and microbial evolution
PhD student in the Bristol Palaeobiology Group, working on the evolution of jaw function across the fish-tetrapod transition, broadly interested in the evolution of vertebrate forms and function, he/him, π±π§π΅πΈ
Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Manchester Met. Biomechanics, comparative anatomy, 3D imaging, palaeontology.
