My review of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants is now up at Palaeontologica Electronica. Approaching it wanting to know more about Mesozoic plants for my #paleoart, the reconstruction-heavy format is welcome, but many aspects could be improved. palaeo-electronica.org/content/?vie...

Review: The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

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New study out in JSP! Andy Gale reports the taxonomy and phylogeny of stalked crinoids (Comatulida: Bourgueticrinina) from the Upper Cretaceous of France, southern England, UK and northern Germany. Read the full study here: buff.ly/TOLKdXk #PaleoSky #cretaceous #stalkedcrinoids #phylogeny

Nouveau livre de Rémi Lefebvre à sortir sur les militants LREM cette semaine. #NoSpine

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Rémi Lefebvre explores biomechanical trends in the thoracolumbar vertebrae of the Nile #crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus🐊), revealing how the spine adapts through early development. #EAVP2026 #Palaeontology #Biomechanics

⚠️ The 23rd EAVP Conference ended less than one week ago✨ 💚 Thank you as well to all our speakers, sponsors, and everyone who joined us—both in person and online. It was a pleasure to welcome more than 150 participants from nearly 25 countries 🌍🤝 #conference #eavp2026 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social

A few moments from the #EAVP conference in Vilnius 🇱🇹 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social Inspiring science, great conversations, familiar faces, new connections and plenty of laughs. ✨ Grateful to be part of such a wonderful community. Thank you to the organizers and here's to the next one! 🦴🐒🦣🦕🐐🐍

Deadline reminder ⏰ Just a few weeks left to submit your ERC Advanced Grant application! 📅 Application deadline: 27 August 2026 Find all the details and apply 👉 buff.ly/zvQYMhg

Securing the annual heatwave 🌞

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We have an #update on the timing of #EAVP2027! Due to an unexpected issue, the EAVP 2027 has to be postponed to 12-16 July 2027 (and not the dates commented below).

Registration is now open for Visual Skills for #Communicating Your Science by @tscourses.bsky.social Our members receive a 20% discount on this and all Transmitting Science courses. Info & registration: www.transmittingscience.com/courses/scie...

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Apply for a few waiver with @tscourses.bsky.social before 10 July. So much to learn, so little time! #science #learning #academia

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We have an #update on the timing of #EAVP2027! Due to an unexpected issue, the EAVP 2027 has to be postponed to 12-16 July 2027 (and not the dates commented below).

@eavpalaeo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exciting news coming out of the AGM: We are delighted to announce that the 2027 European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) Annual Meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria! www.evomorg.org

Short courses with @tscourses.bsky.social are OPEN!

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Our upcoming short courses are now open for registration!

Thank you to all who came to my talk at #EAVP2026 to find out more about our latest research on #Pleistocene #hyena denning & #cannibalism in #Asia: Yai Ruak #cave, Peninsular #Thailand 🦴

Resolving the “ontogeny problem” in vertebrate paleontology, recently published in Paleobiology, by @jgn-paleo.bsky.social - this is a *must read*, esp. for those in the archosaur realm www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This year's recipients of #EAVP #grants, our congratulations to: ERG: Alina Buschhaus AMG: Lisa Freisen, Giovanni Serafini, Giacomo Gobbo, Kim Stroben, Mohamed Abdou Abdou Fossil Studies Travel: Mirella López Miguel, Samuele Desogus We wish you every success with your research!

#EAVP2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania, has been a super enjoyable meeting in a beautiful city. My first EAVP in a decade but I hope to be in Vienna next year. Huge thanks to @darjadankina.bsky.social & all the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social organisers who did an amazing job.

Check out the work of the graduate students and postdocs from our Paleobiology Research Group at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social 2026 in Vilnius 🇱🇹👇

🦘 How big is too big to hop? Megan Jones explores the biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos #eavp2026 #Palaeontology #Biomechanics

Rémi Lefebvre explores biomechanical trends in the thoracolumbar vertebrae of the Nile #crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus🐊), revealing how the spine adapts through early development. #EAVP2026 #Palaeontology #Biomechanics

#EAVP2026 afternoon continues with methods and innovation: dental microwear, cartilage volume, crocodilian biomechanics, extinct kangaroo hopping, thalattosuchian neurosensory evolution and synchrotron data. First up: Amín Bhija talking about prelim results of his project-->

🦷 What did South America's ancient marsupials eat? Dorien de Vries et al. combines dental topography and machine learning to reconstruct the diets of fossil metatherians, revealing how their ecological diversity changed through deep time. #EAVP2026 #Palaeontology

Michael Buchwitz explores one of #ichnology's biggest challenges: linking fossil footprints to their makers, and how phylogenetic approaches can help us better interpret ancient trackways. #EAVP2026

Session 6 begins: Collections, Methods and Innovation. Expect databases, trackways, fossil preservation, morphometrics, AI and machine learning in vertebrate palaeontology. Tom Foret opens with Tri-Jur archeosauropmorphs #eavp2026

How do we confront the colonial histories behind vertebrate #palaeontology #collections? @daniajinn.bsky.social explores the challenges & opportunities of working with colonial-era collections, asking how museums and researchers can build more ethical, transparent futures

Online talk in FossilLegal: talk by Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Viktor Baranov et al. examines how war transformed Ukrainian vertebrate palaeontology, from colonial legacy to global integration. #eavp2026

Starting soon: FossiLegal 2026 session, first up: "FossilLegal: Ten Years On" with our President Jeff Liston

Last talk of the session: Holly Anderson (@palaeophd) investigates fossils from Yai Ruak Cave, Thailand, revealing evidence for the southernmost #Pleistocene hyena den in Asia and signs of cannibalism!🦴 #EAVP2026 #Taphonomy #Pleistocene

Ed the Hyena from The Lion King

ALT: Ed the Hyena from The Lion King

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PhD student Jeremias Glöggler discusses deep-time #palaeoenvironments of Eastern Africa, using large herbivorous mammals from the Turkana Basin to reconstruct ancient landscapes #eavp2026 *watch this space for Glöggler et al. (in prep), coming soon*

Timescales of Large Mammal Macroevolution discussed by Andrej Spiridonov #eavp2026

Simona Bekeraite's talking about evidence that avian predation may have helped drive nocturnality in small mammals. #eavp2026

Up now: how digital reconstruction is revealing the anatomy & evolution of dwarf hippopotamus Hippopotamus creutzburgi from Pleistocene Crete with Nikolaos Gerakakis. #EAVP2026 #Digital