Anne Kort | The Virtual Paleontologist

@fishfetisher.bsky.social

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Congratulations to UMMP Associate Research Scientist Miriam Zelditch on the release of the third edition of the indispensable "Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists" (a.k.a. the green book)! #FossilFriday

I always look for paleo books at used books stores. There’s an awesome one in Ann Arbor (Dawn Trader) that has had some great finds!

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New seasonal paleontology positions available for Dinosaur National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park and Fossil Butte National Monument. Apply soon, they close after they receive a certain number of apps! #NPSpaleo #PaleoJobs

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Indiana University has Agisoft Metashape set up on their HPCC but the licenses cost money. Meshroom is a free option that could be worth playing with but I’ve found its output to be pete pretty subpar - been awhile since I tested it though.

Flow diagram illustrating the workflow for the ppgm R package. It starts with an extant envelope, fossil data is added, the evolution of climate niche is modelled, and finally climate niche & palaeoclimate are matched to show potential range.

ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social

Hi #2025SVP! I’ll be presenting on the crania of the enigmatic Cretaceous marine turtle from Japan, Mesodermochelys, at B302 in tomorrow’s poster session! Looking forward to seeing you there🐢

ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.co...

Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at #2025SVP, email or find me or @tguillerme.bsky.social for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme:
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are

YouTube video by Gray's Vertebrate Anatomy Quick guide to exploring CT scans on MorphoSource

youtu.be/Q3OePjtZgsI

Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...

Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink

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Mammals 🥰 Loved the first two seasons even more excited for this one!

If you haven’t already, go follow @svp_vertpaleo on instagram!

Interesting paper

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Monitor displaying information for the Smith Lecture presented by me on October 31. Talk is entitled: Shedding light on the unseen: Evolutionary insights from the fish fossil record.

Nothing better than spooky fish fossils for a Halloween talk! If you're in the Ann Arbor area next week come check out my talk! 🎃👻🦴🐠

Collections Study Grants Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the University of Washington Burke Museum (UWBM).

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia) - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Taeniolabis taoensis, the largest known multituberculate, is craniodentally one of the most well-known mammals from the early Paleocene of the Western Interior of the United States of America. Althoug...

S. Hoffmann & D.W. Krause (2025)
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸

First edition copy of the Theory of Biogeography by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson.

Incredible find at the used bookstore today

Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und

Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.

#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential

I’ll be presenting at my first ever American Society of Mammalogists meeting in June! Let me know if you’ll be there and want to meet up.

Fossil Preparator - Santa Barbara, CA 93105 - Indeed.com Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center

New permanent Fossil Preparator position with the Dibblee Geology Center at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, responsible for the preparation, conservation, and stabilization of fossils in the Earth Science Collection.

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This #FossilFriday, one of the chapters from my PhD dissertation has been published! it is on the relationship of form and function in the Carnivora mandible using functional morphology, biomechanics, and geometric morphometrics on 3D data
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YV5A83...

Paleobotony Research Assistant - Dallas, TX 75201 - Indeed.com Perot Museum Of Nature And Science

Perot Museum of Nature and Science seeks a full-time, 1 year Research Assistant to enter plant fossil data into the new Integrative Paleobotany Portal, a database & research workbench that makes paleobotanical data widely available.

Multiple hirings possible.

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Research Laboratory Technician Senior / Friedman Lab - Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - Indeed.com University of Michigan

The Friedman Lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan seeks a technician to generate, curate, segment, and archive micro-CT data for extinct and extant cichlid fishes.

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Fossil prep job at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social in Southern California! Full time + benefits!

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New paper from Sierra Lopezalles of the Polly Lab group: Lopezalles SM. Leveraging functional morphology to increase accuracy of body-mass estimation: a study using canids. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-13. doi:10.1017/pab.2025.1
doi.org/10.1017/pab....

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Collections Manager- Vertebrate Paleontology
Regular Full-Time
The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC)
Los Angeles, CA, US

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...