‪Really appreciate this thoughtful review of #Macroevolution -aries, my and @nilese.bsky.social 's @columbiaup.bsky.social 📕, by Reese Fulgenzi (reesefulgenzi.com) commissioned by @farsouthhistory.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show... #paleontology #palaeontology

I am super excited to announce that after a tumultuous period of uncertainty, KU MARC marc.ku.edu has been awarded another five years of funding! news.ku.edu/news/article....

KU awarded $2.2 million NIH research career training grant renewal

For almost 30 years, the Office for Advancing Success in Science at KU has provided opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research through grant support from the National Institutes of Health....

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Happy to share our paper in @peerj.bsky.social led by D Rojas with L Strotz on factors impacting #extinctions in #marine #mollusks. #paleontology #palaeontology peerj.com/articles/207...

Now available! Interdisciplinary and nuanced, OUR VIRAL FUTURES poses a provocative challenge: Instead of continuing to assert that we can control and master microbes, we must learn to coexist with them. buff.ly/UXQQOHl #AMR #Phages #PublicHealth #PoliticalEcology @charlottebrives.bsky.social

Help needed! I'm looking for a 3D model of bryozoans to showcase at a science fair (3D printable). I want to bring these 'moss animals' to life for the general public! If you have a file or a recommendation, please let me know.

Really appreciate this thoughtful review of #Macroevolution -aries, my and @nilese.bsky.social 's @columbiaup.bsky.social 📕 by @adrian-currie.bsky.social in @qrb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/738777 #paleobiology #palaeobiology #paleontology #palaeontology

Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould. By Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge. New York: Columbia University Press. $27.95. ix + 214 p.; ill.; inde...

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Another new paper out now: led by Amy Betz from the @bruceslieberman.bsky.social lab on how a variety functional traits did or didn't impact extinction risk in the Plio-Pleistocene-Recent western Atlantic regional mass extinction Of the 16 traits considered, none was correlated with increased risk

Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to share paper in #Palaeontology led by my former @ku-eeb.bsky.social grad student Amy Betz w/ @jonhendricks.bsky.social @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social and Portell & Strotz on factors impacting #extinctions in #marine #mollusks. #paleontology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Happy to share paper in #Palaeontology led by my former @ku-eeb.bsky.social grad student Amy Betz w/ @jonhendricks.bsky.social @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social and Portell & Strotz on factors impacting #extinctions in #marine #mollusks. #paleontology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Finished my first book of 2026, Macroevolutionaries by @bruceslieberman.bsky.social and @nilese.bsky.social. It’s a wonderful tribute to Gould, every essay is enlightening, but the one on Kestrels is my favorite.

Big 🙏 to Tricia Kelley of UNCW for her review of my & @nilese.bsky.social 's @columbiaup.bsky.social 📕 book "Macroevolutionaries" in @ncse.bsky.social reports: ncse.ngo/review-macro... #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology #punctuatedequilibria #stephenjaygould

[Review] Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould | National Center for Science Education

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Wow—thanks @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for posting the entire issue of Paleobiology vol 51/4 2025 “Punctuated Equilibria at 50”—open access papers from the GSA 2022 50th anniversary symposium! A great community celebration!!

Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Really excited to have the new issue of Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social out celebrating the 50th anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria #macroevolution #paleobiology #palaeontology #paleontology @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here is our introductory paper to the Paleobiology special volume @paleosoc.bsky.social celebrating the 50th anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria #macroevolution #paleobiology #palaeontology #paleontology @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really excited to have the new issue of Paleobiology @paleosoc.bsky.social out celebrating the 50th anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria #macroevolution #paleobiology #palaeontology #paleontology @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to @nilese.bsky.social for the publication by the @paleosoc.bsky.social's journal Paleobiology of the 50th anniversary punctuated equilibrium symposium organized by Don Prothero & held at the 2022 GSA meeting. @bruceslieberman.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social

Glad to share our new article which is dedicated to the stratigraphy and paleoenvironments (facies)of the Ludfordian (late Silurian) in relation to the largest carbon isotopic excursion of the Phanerozoic — Lau Extinction Event 1/5 www.geology.cz/bulletin/ful... 🧪 #Geology #Macroecology #Paleobio

Practical applications of #entomology #zoology @nytimes.com

If you're a #teacher interested in a great #openaccess write up on reading #phylogenetic trees, check out www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/system... created by @jonhendricks.bsky.social and Elizabeth Hermsen.

2.1 Reading Trees

Chapter contents: Systematics — 1. Taxonomy — 2. Phylogenetics —— 2.1 Reading trees ← —— 2.2 Building trees —— 2.3 Character mapping —— 2.4 Phylogenetic trees and classificationParts of a tree A phylo...

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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

Excellent write up by @geosociety.bsky.social describing grant funded research by former post-doc Claudia Nunez-Penichet now @vt-invasivespecies.bsky.social on impending #marine #extinction threat www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/... @kubiology.bsky.social @researchatku.bsky.social @kunhm.bsky.social

Excited to share work by former PD Claudia Nunez-Penichet @vt-invasivespecies.bsky.social on #marine #extinction threats: A warming climate could decimate mollusk populations in the West Atlantic www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @geosociety.bsky.social @kubiology.bsky.social @kunhm.bsky.social

Actually Sphenoceramus; Utah's Platyceramus cycloides in the Blue Gat Shale might get nearly this big. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Jean-François Cudennec@limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 10mo ago

For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe. This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍 #PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️

Hendricks and @bruceslieberman.bsky.social discussed the vital importance of museum collections for studying macroevolution in an article for the Paleobiology special issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of Punctuated Equilibria www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interesting a lot of recent theory-focused papers I've been reading about fossils don't acknowledge the vast amount of paleobiological literature on the subject(s) they're discussing. I'm happy folks are excited about fossils but also confused why folks seemingly aren't reading papers about fossils

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

First, first-author paper alert! “Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below! 🦑🧪

Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris

Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn

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Excited to announce another #groundbreaking paper by @andrejpaleo.bsky.social and colleagues is just out - should be required reading for all those interested in #paleontology #palaeontology #geology

Andrej Spiridonov@andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Glad to share our latest article on the statistical structure of geological time scales. doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... time scales are defined by the most extreme epoch defining events, while we've found that the distribution of the boundaries is itself extreme multifractal! 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Andrés a PhD candidate in @ku-eeb.bsky.social and @kunhm.bsky.social studying the diversity and ecology of neotropical bees! Check out his recent project on outreach opportunities with bee collections in Columbia! nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...

Outreach drawer collections and visual science communication enhance public engagement with native bee diversity in Colombia

Scientific research is often confined to academic circles, limiting public awareness of critical discoveries. This document highlights the transformative impact of science communication through an ent...

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And here is the popular synopsis (with some of my comments) of our recent paper on the scaling geological time scales: 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology www.vu.lt/en/news-even...

Hidden Patterns in Geological Time Revealed: Earth's Variability Saturates at Half a Billion Years

Vilnius University is a prestigious institution of science and studies in Lithuania, which develops world-class science and develops science-based international studies.

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Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors! Dr Katie Collins is a molluscan palaeobiologist 🐚 specializing in bivalve macroevolution and the morphometrics of conchiferan molluscs.. and is a general measurement nerd! Read more about her research: buff.ly/GDH0Obv @spissatella.bsky.social #NHM

From traits to collaboration networks, cultural systems provide testbeds for evolutionary theory that biology can rarely match in resolution. Arcade games are just the beginning: "The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse" 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....