Garamaudo is already on Wikipedia; that was quick; thanks ;)

57 new species discovered by scientists from the Ocean Census Science Network, in partnership with @schmidtocean.bsky.social, CONICET Dialoga and Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Read the press release: oceancensus.org/press-releas...

57 new marine species discovered in Argentina’s submarine canyons

Ocean Census and Schmidt Ocean Institute fast-track South Atlantic discoveries in Buenos Aires, as a viral deep-sea expedition leads to new species breakthroughs.

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🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper! Brandon Kilbourne conducted a huge data collection effort for the limb muscle architecture (masses, fascicle lengths, pennation angles; thereby PCSAs) of mustelid mammals. We found conspicuous relationships with morphology and locomotor mode. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Muscle architecture in mustelid mammals: anatomical proxies for muscle function and their relation to locomotor habit - BMC Ecology and Evolution

Background Though skeletal adaptations for locomotion in mammals are well documented, possible limb adaptations in terms of muscle architecture have received far less study. Examining mustelid mammals...

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Sujet de M1 cette année sur l’étude morphologique et microanatomique de squamates fossiles de Villeveyrac à @mecadev.bsky.social avec Olivier Jansen et moi. Si un.e étudiant.e a une appétence pour l’étude de restes fossiles isolés et l’anatomie comparée, me contacter :)

#PressRelease 🗞️ Although long regarded as exclusively marine animals, mosasaurs -large Cretaceous predators- also included freshwater species. A research team has provided evidence with a specimen that lived around 85 million years ago near present-day Aix-en-Provence. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/new...

#Communiqué 🗞️ Longtemps considérés comme exclusivement marins, les mosasaures comptaient aussi des espèces d’eau douce. Un spécimen de 2,5 m, vieux de 85 millions d’années, retrouvé dans un lac, en apporte la preuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...

We describe a new freshwater mosasaur, from Provence France, with N Bardet @cr2p.bsky.social, FL Pelissier, Y Dutour, E Turini & T Torstosa in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. Welcome to Garamaudo! It seems that mosasaur evolution was more complex than we thought peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

INÉDIT 🎬 Comment les chauves-souris ont-elles donné naissance à une telle diversité ? 🦇 Avec plus de 1500 espèces, leur évolution est fascinante. Pour le savoir, direction les grottes et les forêts de Trinité-et-Tobago. 🌴 Le reportage complet 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/les-c...

Fusion IRD-CNRS : les spécificités de l’IRD qui seraient perdues à la suite du projet de réorganisation

Fusion IRD-CNRS : les spécificités de l’IRD qui seraient perdues à la suite du projet de réorganisation

Avec l’absorption de l’IRD par le CNRS, la recherche française perdrait le bénéfice de quatre-vingts ans de présence sur le terrain dans les pays du Sud.

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Demain, le 22 septembre, les agent·es du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle seront de nouveau en grève ! Toujours pour des salaires décents, mais aussi pour que cessent les violences managériales de plus en plus nombreuses dans l'établissement ! Rdv dès 9h30 au jardin des plantes !

Very excited that former Bristol student Julia May has published her Master's work on feeding mechanics using finite element modelling in salamanders! Co-authored by @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and myself in Journal of Morphology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Comparative Morphology and Mechanics of Aquatic and Terrestrial Feeding Salamanders

Jaw muscle size, bite force, and skull strength are driven by multiple factors, not just the difference between the two habitats. Necturus produces higher bite forces than Salamandra, but the stress ...

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Thank you for sharing this. Apparently the 3rd Edition of the Principles of Paleontology is freely downloadable. 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

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Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

En France, 1 reptile sur 4 est menacé d’extinction ! 🦎 🚨 C’est le constat de la dernière mise à jour de la Liste rouge des espèces menacées de France hexagonale, publiée par l’UICN, dix ans après la précédente évaluation. © M. Berroneau (1,2 et 6), J.-C. de Massary (3 et 5) et F.-G. Grandin (4)

Really excited to share our latest paper with you! We examine patterns of skull shape evolution in an awesome group of fishes and show that they rapidly innovated following the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiation

Adaptive radiations generate remarkable morphological diversity, yet traits often diversify at different rates and modes, producing mosaic patterns of evolution. Modularity, the semiautonomous organization of traits, can shape how selection and ...

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Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...

Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social + @piginatutu.bsky.social on growth in mekosuchine crocodylians, with implications for their extinction versus the survival of Crocodylus in Australasia (+ @houssayecnrs.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social, @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

We have a 2 year paleontology postdoc position as part of a DFG project www.smnk.de/museum/aussc...

Bonjour ! Je cherche un.e stagiaire pour étudier le lien entre sommeil et performances cognitives dans le laboratoire @mecadev.bsky.social du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Si vous êtes intéressé.e, contactez clara.hozer@edu.mnhn.fr ! Détails ici : docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Offre de stage en chronobiologie

Offre de stage en chronobiologie Nous recrutons un ou une stagiaire au sein de notre équipe BioAdapt de l’UMR MECADEV au Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle à Paris, et occasionnellement à Brunoy (9...

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Wonderful world of cephalopod evolution in deep time... " Here we provide an overview of some exciting fields in cephalopod research, where (in our biased opinion) the most impressive advances have been made." 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sur le terrain, les chercheuses face aux violences sexistes et sexuelles de leurs collègues

Sur le terrain, les chercheuses face aux violences sexistes et sexuelles de leurs collègues

Loin des laboratoires, les conditions de travail de terrain peuvent accroître les risques de violences sexistes et sexuelles et avoir des conséquences durables sur les carrières scientifiques.

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#AcademyofNaturalScienceMuseum is closing!!!?? This is terrible news! www.inquirer.com/education/ac...

The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries

The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.

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Open Palaeontology has a new look 💜 Our brand-new website is live! Same mission as ever: Diamond Open Access palaeo research — free to publish, free to read, for everyone. Come explore ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org #PaleoSky #OpenAccess #Palaeontology

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

New PNAS paper from our lab! 🪰🐭👩‍🦰 We developed a toolbox AutoGaitA to compare locomotion across species, revealing conserved velocity gradients and aging effects despite divergent strategies for propulsion. A step toward understanding conserved principles of motor control. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...