Serjoscha Evers

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth–death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution Molecular dating often struggles to align with fossil records when divergence times are estimated in deep evolutionary history, particularly during th…

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth-death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Since you’re British, I image it’s a deeply felt love for queueing.

Submitted an exciting (invited) review today (🐢 systematics). Two papers in press (🐢 extinction, Permian 🦎), one back from review (🐢🦎 stapes), one waiting to find a journal that will send it out for review (🐢-🌳) & another ready for submission in a week or two. This will be a good research year!

Well I do hope you get a permanent job! Good luck 🤞

Send an email regardless! Getting a job means having a bit/massive amounts of luck anyway. Try your luck. Best wishes!

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Skull of Scyllacerta, reconstructed based on scans of four nearly complete skulls.

Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae

With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂

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Three papers with different journals at the moment: a Permian reptile neuroanatomy paper, a broad-scale reptilian comparative work on a lesser researched anatomical structure, and a paper on K/Pg extinction selectivity in turtles 🐢 I’m diversifying topics 😊

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

On paper, I had an unproductive year (3 papers, 1st authored). But: child number two arrived, international move to start a permanent position, habilitation submitted, my student secured their first own postdoc grant & is on fire with manuscript submissions, so the year was a massive success 👍

Surprise, there's a fourth paper! Just out today, we segmented the skull of the Permian stem reptile Protorothyris, so you don't have to! Work done with Adam Behlke and @hanssues.bsky.social

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All meshes also available on Morphosource.

YouTube video by Palaeoverse Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Dr. Juan Cantalapiedra - Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory

Last Thursday @palaeoverse.bsky.social I shared some of our recent projects, exploring the application of phylogenetic methods and the exciting new wave of Bayesian diversification models.

#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution

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Excited to announce our latest article on open science in non-clinical CT data! Open science is transforming image-based research by making data and processes more accessible.
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Echinoderms are likely the structurally most-complex critters here with the relatively best fossil record: more evolutionary studies should be centered on them (as you’d maybe agree).

A new, Early Cretaceous carettochelyid turtle from South Korea provides insights into softshell evolution and aquatic ecology - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Here, we present a new Cretaceous carettochelyid turtle, Byeoljubuchelys yeosuensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Hasandong Formation of Yeosu, Korea. A nearly complete shell and select ...

And the second to last paper to be published in the Turtle Evolution Symposium is by Kim and colleagues, on a new early carettochelyid turtle from the Early Cretaceous of South Korea.

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One way to make them less lame ;)

'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out

Can you make a turtle one?

It’s so hard to place 🐢 in high-impact journals. My student had another „place this in a field specific journal“ reply to a presubmission inquiry for EXACTLY the type of study that makes PNAS/CurrBiol/NatEE all the time for birds/mammals/squamates. Evolutionary insights also come fr small clades…

One of my highlights, too. Fantastic fossils, plus scenery. Also, never thought someone could say „look at these past four Nature papers of ours, and these are the next eight“ without sounding cocky about it.

Pterosaur fossil with soft tissues

Eichstätt Archaeopteryx

#FossilFriday: admittedly, I saw this Tuesday and not today, but look at this AWESOME pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus muensteri) at display in Eichstätt. Made the Archaeopteryx next exhibit appear almost bleak 😜

A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids Notosuchian systematics have been highly debated in recent decades, particularly the placement of sebecids and closely related species. As the only notosuchian lineage to have survived the Cretaceo...

New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.

Brandon Peecook & Serjoscha Evers standing next to one another wearing blue trousers, floral textured shirts with same colours, and winered jackets. My mimicry is incomplete - I have less hair and more belly, but the resemblance is uncanny

#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all

#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!

#2025SVP - we could have had this in Germany straight away, folks - would have saved me a flight.

I'm at the airport (Munich) – #2025SVP it getting real! I am super excited b/c this is my 1st major conference in 5 yrs due to COVID & then taking it slower since I have kids. Kids are w/ grandparents, so I can talk about how much I care about turtles Few 🐢-talks... don't miss out & come by Fri AM!

Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Even though many early stem turtles are known from relatively well-preserved skulls, their neuroanatomy remains poorly understood, limiting insights into key cranial and ecological transitions. Here w...

Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢

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