22.07.2025 21:26 β π 39 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Registering for #2025SVP #SVP2025? Why not get your hands on some of the merchandise featuring our amazing logos designed by @markwitton.bsky.social
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15.07.2025 19:26 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Researchers from UCLβs Vertebrate Palaeobiology Research Group presenting in their recent findings.
Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in KrakΓ³w last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social ππ¦ (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising!
@macroecoevoale.bsky.social
@devinhoffman.bsky.social
@pdmannion.bsky.social
08.07.2025 10:57 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Darren and Toni with giant picture of Prehistoric Planet swimming T. rex behind.
Darren holding books like a smug bastard.
Pile of Dinopedia copies.
Chiarenza, Formoso and Naish outside Lightroom.
Can't share pictures of the show itself yet -- as it's not even open! But me, Tone and Em went to LightRoom London today for a #DiscoveringDinosaurs event. Great to bump into @formorphology.bsky.social and @macroecoevoale.bsky.social :) Great selections of books and more in the shop.
06.07.2025 22:18 β π 43 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2
After a great icebreaker kicking off the annual @eavpalaeo.bsky.social meeting in KrakΓ³w, I'm finally digging into a fantastic first session. If you're interested in sauropod macroevolution and new relevant insights on Opisthocoelicaudia, donβt miss my talk on Wednesday at 12:15 π¦π₯ #EAVP2025!
01.07.2025 07:52 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
This is figure 2, which shows palaeobiogeograpic analyses of MiddleβLate Triasssic pterosauromorphs.
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution combines fossil occurrence data, phylogenies and climatic niche modelling to explore the palaeobiogeography of early pterosaurs and their non-flying close relatives, the lagerpetids. go.nature.com/44mbnJY #Paleosky π§ͺ
21.06.2025 19:16 β π 26 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Congrats to Sofia and all co-authors from the MAPAS Lab! Sara Varela @paleobicha.bsky.social Adriana Oliver and Filippo Rotatori
19.06.2025 13:17 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The short answer? Even after removing up to 98% of species and distorting the data, the LBG signal remained detectable. Thatβs good news for using fossils to study deep-time biodiversity!
19.06.2025 13:17 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Sofia simulated how various fossil biases, from geology and biology to anthropogenic sampling, might affect the detection of macroecological patterns like the Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient (higher species richness at the equator, decreasing toward the poles) in modern mammals
19.06.2025 13:17 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
New day, new paper! π¦£π Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student SofΓa GalvΓ‘n and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:
"Could future palaeontologists detect todayβs biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
π onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
19.06.2025 13:17 β π 59 π 31 π¬ 1 π 4
Congrats to Sofia and all co-authors from the MAPAS Lab! Sara Varela @paleobicha.bsky.social Adriana Oliver and Filippo Rotatori
19.06.2025 13:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The short answer? Even after removing up to 98% of species and distorting the data, the LBG signal remained detectable. Thatβs good news for using fossils to study deep-time biodiversity!
19.06.2025 13:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Sofia simulated how various fossil biases, from geology and biology to anthropogenic sampling, might affect the detection of macroecological patterns like the Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient (higher species richness at the equator, decreasing toward the poles) in modern mammals
19.06.2025 13:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto
βͺ[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.socialβ¬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.socialβ¬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
18.06.2025 09:55 β π 96 π 52 π¬ 1 π 2
Wonderful!
16.06.2025 14:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social βͺin which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social
09.06.2025 15:14 β π 41 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1
Abstract Submission Information β Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Donβt forget that the abstract deadline for #2025SVP #SVP2025 is tomorrow!
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02.06.2025 07:06 β π 15 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0
Really happy to see this out! Also super grateful for Jeff bringing me on board; what started as a casual conversation over lunch in the NHM staff room has turned into some really interesting work and a great friendship. What more can you ask for?!
Read on for stuff on fossil record preservation! ‡οΈ
30.05.2025 12:04 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know theyβve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Canβt believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in βͺ@science.org (and on the cover)! π§΅
Art: Gabriel Ugueto βͺ@serpenillus.bsky.social
29.05.2025 18:19 β π 480 π 125 π¬ 10 π 13
π¨π¨π¨!Post doc opportunity! π¨π¨π¨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!
29.05.2025 00:06 β π 66 π 62 π¬ 0 π 2
Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence
Leprosy, primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is considered a disease introduced into the Americas during European colonization. However, the recent discovery of a second pathogen causing leprosy...
Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
29.05.2025 21:08 β π 51 π 21 π¬ 4 π 3
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.
Interested in applying for a Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out!
We've got microπ¬, invert πͺΈ, and vert palaeoπ¦ @es-ucl.bsky.social!
π We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June!
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
27.05.2025 15:49 β π 13 π 13 π¬ 1 π 2
I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology on the neat new paper by @princessquatris.bsky.social et al., highlighting why occupancy modelling is an exciting tool for understanding sampling bias in palaeontology π¦
You can access it for free using this link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HM3QW8S...
21.05.2025 11:06 β π 39 π 17 π¬ 2 π 3
The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Read the #BiologyLetters review: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @macroecoevoale.bsky.social⬠Artwork by Davide Bonadonna #palaeontology #evolution
15.05.2025 10:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A lego minifigure of Dorothy Bishop with a laptop, which is a 'Doscar' award for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize, held in an open hand, in front of a laptop screen with visible text "Welcome to the Paleoverse"
Lewis Jones, a smiling brown haired man, holding the lego minifigure of Dorothy Bishop (the 'Doscar' award for UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize) out in front of him.
Great to see Lewis Jones received his Doscar as one of the winners of the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for his work on the Paleoverse (palaeoverse.org) a community space improving reproducibility in palaeobiological research.
#Palaeobiology #Reproducibility #OpenResearch #Research
10.04.2025 14:59 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
A comic representation of the author's paper published in Current Biology. It features the last days of the dinosaurs, as well as an graphic interpretation of the process of occupancy modelling and the results of the study.
π¦π In case anyone missed it, our new paper on using occupancy modelling to resolve the structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record came out yesterday! πͺ¨β°οΈ
You can find it here β¬οΈ
www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's also accompanied by this incredible illustration by @tim-bird.bsky.social!
09.04.2025 10:55 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Conservation biologist and behavioural ecologist. Treasurer of Scientists for Labour. Postdoc at @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, DPhil from @biology.ox.ac.uk
Sediment, climate change, and impostor syndrome | Science and SFF for the win | Writing for a living and fun | Opinions are my own (or the characters' in my head).
Academic stuff: https://obialik.weebly.com
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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
Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at LMU Munich. In a love-hate relationship with phylogenies :D
Senior lecturer (Assoc Prof) at University of Liverpool, Evolutionary Morphology & Biomechanics (EMB) research group πMostly cranial form & function in mammals πππ¦ππ¦ππ¦π¦¬π¦
PhD student
Palaeontology π¦π¦¬π¦
Martin Luther UniversitΓ€t Halle Wittenberg
Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin
Vertebrate Palaeontologist, science communicator, and ethics advocate.
Woke ideals such as wanting happiness, peace, and healthy living conditions for everyone.
#Paleontology #MomInScience #Firstgenscientist. BLM π³οΈβπAllyπ³οΈββ§οΈ. Dutch/English
PhD student π©βπ¬ in paleontology π𦴠studying fossil crocs π at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at UML | Vertebrate evolution | Form and function | he/ him
Entomology, paleontology, evolutionary ecology, science communication | currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Evolutionary Biologist/Palaeontologist. Prev. NHM London. Researcher at Monash University. Reseaching auditory evolution in seals! π¦ (he/him)
geologist, paleontologist, malacologist
Professor @ Universidad Austral de Chile
Studying deep-time geographic diversification dynamics with an unprecedented time-frame.
@ERC_Research Starting Grant.
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she/her | PhD | paleontology | birds | color evolution π¦π¦π¦©
Collection Manager of Vertebrate Paleontology @ Carnegie MNH
Paleofeathers on everything
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PaleoStu. Self-employed creative specialising in scientific visualisation, illustration, motion graphics, graphic design, 3D. Aspiring palaeontologist working on armoured dinosaurs. Scientific Associate at The Natural History Museum, London π¦
Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft beer imbiber, childless cat dude. https://ajmartinauthor.com
PhD student interested in the functional morphology and biomechanics of extinct tetrapods.
Vertebrate palaeontologist π¦΄| Researching Spinosaurus locomotion π| Team T. rex studying Trinity π¦| Part-time pterosaurologist πͺ½| Mente et malleo β
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