Paul Z. Barrett PhD

Mammothssss

A Homotherium latidens leaping in a snowy landscape

A short break from the Mesozoic… here’s a European Homotherium latidens trying its hunting skills during the latest ice age some 12,000 years ago. #paleoart #sciart #prehistoricmammal

New study! 🐾 The enigmatic ailurid 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨 (Mammalia: Carnivora) unveiled: a systematic approach to the early Ailuridae

Morales 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describe an extinct ailurid species & propose a systematic revision of Holartic musteloids. Read here: buff.ly/5IHhpz3

#PaleoSky #RedPanda

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Tex. Boards Abolish Faculty Senates, Create Toothless Councils Two Houston professors have responded to Texas lawmakers’ assault on independent faculty governance by creating their own faux faculty senate.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This comes at a time as my first postdoc with Stony Brook University is about to finish. I love African paleontology, and will continue working with all the amazing collaborators I’ve met for years to come. Keep your eyes peeled on this space for big things coming down the pipe.

Well, it’s been in the works for a bit now, but I should probably share my research proposal with the JSPS was funded. I’ll be moving to Japan this September to work with the National Museum of Nature and Science on Pleistocene through modern food webs. Excited for the next big adventure!

American cheetah, Miracinonyx

Paleo folks in the western US: The Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology conference will be held Feb 14-16, 2025 in Mesa AZ with the Arizona Museum of Natural History: www.wavp.us/wavp-2025/
WAVP is always a fun, low-key conference, great for early career researchers. Hope to see you there!

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Pressed plant (originally collected by Bessey) preserved on a paper background.

We're hiring a curator of Botany!
The University of Nebraska State Museum is looking for a botanist (broadly concieved) to head the Bessey Herbarium. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share:

The UNL application site link is: employment.unl.edu/postings/93856

Mosaic evolution underlies feliform morphological disparity | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Constraint is a fundamental concept in evolutionary theory. Morphology and ecology both are limited by functional, historical and developmental factors to a subset of the theoretical range species cou...

Excited to share the latest in feliform🐅 carnivore research. Mosaic #evolution underlies feliform morphological disparity: ow.ly/hSze50SXutQ

Very excited to share a huge project that's been a long time in the making. Interested in squamate macroevolution? Curious about how snakes fit into the broader ecological context of squamates? Looking for a new squamate phylogeny? Check out our new work: doi.org/10.1126/scie...