🐸 Why is a frog a frog is a frog, while a salamander is not a salamander is not a salamander? 🤔🦎 After many brainstorming sessions with Ronald Bonett, we explored this question in a new perspective. We discuss how life-cycle complexity may shape morphological diversity! 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1086/744206

🐸 New paper from the META-MOSPHOSIS team! Vivien investigates how external factors (temperature, continental fragmentation) and internal factors (life-cycle traits) shape species richness in salamanders. 🌍🦎 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #Salamanders #Biodiversity #Evolution #Herpetology

First #CROCOLOCOEVO ERC grant job posted! More to come tomorrow! 50% time "Research administrator" with an important twist: the ERC thankfully has reduced its bureaucratic burden for grantholders, quite a bit. #scicomm people would be welcome- see next skeet! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... (1/2)

Job Opportunity at the RVC: Research Administrator

This is a fixed-term, part-time position (17.5 hours per week) for 36 months.Applicants should ideally be able to commence by 1 December 2026, although some flexibility may be possible. The role will ...

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For years, 💀MorphoSource💀 has given researchers, educators, and students 🚨free access🚨 to 3D data on museum specimens from around the world. 🔆Now it is asking for some help to continue its work🔆 www.morphosource.org/donate/

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

Some basic info about #CROCOLOCOEVO project from my new @erc.europa.eu ERC Advanced Grant, starting later this year. There will be a lot more to come over the next 5 years. www.rvc.ac.uk/research/res...

Grant agreement signed! Advertising 4 new jobs (3 year contracts w/potential to extend +2 years) on ERC #CROCOLOCOEVO grant next week-- stay tuned for details. 2 postdocs 1 technician 1 research administrator who can do science communication Start date flexible but could be as soon as 1 November!

New features in MyoGeneratorRemix 3.0 Coming soon... #FossilFriday

For those nerds like me who love your almost-niche (mammal evolution during the Mesozoic) natural history written with, wit, verve and actual style, Beasts Before Us by @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social is a veritable cracker. Do yourselves a favour.

Hi! My World View in Nature Reviews Biodiversity was published today! Read about my three main aims when educating people about topics in natural history. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Three ideas to inspire curiosity in natural history education

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Natural history can captivate the minds of all manner of people for a multitude of reasons, but a shifting media landscape demands adaptation from public educators....

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Bijlert demonstrates that the plane strain modulus and dissipation parameters are not scale invariant. 👀 buff.ly/JN8BqCF

🦎 We're hiring a 3-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join Dr. Mateusz Tałanda’s lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469220

Assistant Professor (post-doc) - Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (WB-KG-14/2026)

Te position of Assistant professor in the project “Long transoceanic dispersals or land bridges? Unravelling biogeographic patterns and the evolutionary success of the lizard superfamily Lacertoidea”.

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Very excited to be kicking off our new NERC AI4ES project! Working with @chesterzoosci.bsky.social & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, we’ll be exploring monocular depth estimation + single-image 3D reconstruction to extract animal size, shape & body condition from camera trap images.

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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Excited to be at the @caryinstitute.bsky.social this week! Register and you can also watch my talk on Zoom (nice logo @bahanbug.bsky.social ! I take no credit there...)

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies@caryinstitute.bsky.social · last wk.

On Thu, Oct 1 @11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with Arizona State University's @n8upham.bsky.social: No Mammal Is an Island. How do species interact—and how do those interactions shape evolution and disease transmission? Free + open to all. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-mammal-...

Dear members, 🦴 The PalAss is pleased to be supporting a three-day Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop with the Systematics Association and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK. ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #workshop

Yes absolutely, positively do not feed a scientific paper, grant, or whatever you are peer reviewing into LLM or any other software without permission.

Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt: No Bad!

ALT: Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt: No Bad!

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This was my exact experience. Silent Hill jokes included 😁 When the guy enters the house and you see the stairs, I turned to my horror-fan friend and said "if a ball bounces down those stairs, I'm gone". Yes, I'm such a wimp with horror films/games. And yet I loved this movie. (Except the ending)

Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · last wk.

Just emerged alive but possibly infected from "Resident Evil" and holy frijoles Zack Cregger you nailed it you crazy bastard! Go see it in cinema, it is a riot of black comedy and utter terror that one must behold on a big screen!

So clearly Gen Z is coming to college without basic computer knowledge like how file structure works. Does anyone have a good resource I can provide to incoming undergrads?

We are organising an in-person Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop, in partnership with SRUK/CERU and @thepalass.bsky.social. When: Nov 9-11, 2026 Where: University College London There are limited places, so please pre-register by October 8th!!! Find more details here: tinyurl.com/52c9u7dw

That "top 100 best shows" list doing the rounds is so awfully biased and subjective that I'm not even going to boost its engagement by linking it. It should've been named "This person's 100 favorite shows made after 1999".

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

How did modern lizards and snakes come to dominate ecosystems across the globe? For anyone interested in evolution, biodiversity, or vertebrate palaeontology, this review from C4IA's Susan Evans, provides a fresh perspective on a fascinating branch of the tree of life.🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1477...

Lepidosauria: history and relationships

Lepidosauria encompasses Rhynchocephalia (the New Zealand tuatara and its fossil relatives) and Squamata (lizards and snakes), lineages that diverged from one another around 240 million years ago. ...

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Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Buscamos candidat@s para pedir una #FPU con un buen expediente académico. Adjunto detalles del proyecto. Interesad@s que cumplan los requisitos, enviad mail a: figuerola@icm.csic.es #invertebradosmarinos #cambioclimático #acidificaciónoceánica @fpuinvestiga.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

FPU Investiga@fpuinvestiga.bsky.social · 2w ago

🫡¿Vas a pedir la FPU26? Esto te interesa 👇👇👇

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

This is true at so many levels, and for so many professions. And also, as an introvert, thank the gods for no more surprise people ambushes (I mean, interactions). The death of phone calls is both the best and worst thing brought about by messaging apps and videocalls.

Kris Crandell@kriscran.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am going to show my age with this one but damn do I miss having a phone in my office so I could actually get shit done instead of this interminable email and Teams-hopping.

Quite an updated and deep outlook on the main problems (and potential solutions!) in avian phylogenetics, past and present, stem and crown! Also very well written & nice to read, congrats you both (J. Benito is not in bluesky yet)!

Lizzy Steell@lizzysteell.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 New bird paper! 🚨 Take a look at our review paper that Juan Benito and I put together about avian systematics and the bird fossil record along with what we think are important future directions in the field 🐦 🦴 🦜🦅🦤 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huge congratulations to Isabelle on publishing a new paper as co-first author with her Master’s student! 🥳 In this study, they explore how habitat use and prey-capture behaviour differ between Pyrenean Brook Newts living in cave streams versus surface streams 🦎💧🕳️ 👀 👉 Check out: shorturl.at/SL6yw