Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!

Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)

Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...

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Science Magazine@science.org · 6d ago

This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like. By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy

This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like. By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy

My personal equivalent to "touch grass" is "touch fossil." Sometimes I just have to do that, to remind myself that life as a paleontologist is more than emails and pushing around bits and bytes.

Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/

Finally got downtown to see Junior!

What!? 🫪

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

I bore witness and it was a scene! @uwbiology.bsky.social

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

Last week in Christiania, I had the delightful experience of speaking to an large and lively audience in a vast 18th century stable, now converted to a performance, as part of the long-running Science and Cocktails series. Bonus: the video production of my talk here is the best I've had yet.

Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

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Result from the López de Bertodano Formation #paleostream! I have been looking forward to this one for a while as it combines some fascinating aspects of the latest Cretaceous. This formation was deposited in Antarctica and I hear you all: "wait a sec, that's not what I...

Our latest paper started out as a DDIG project 14 years ago and grew into an interdisciplinary reassessment of Madagascar's oldest fossil lizard, showing that Konkasaurus mahalana is a gerrhosaur and the earliest known colonization from Africa by an extant Madagascan lineage. doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Friends in Copenhagen: I'm really excited to be visiting in less than two weeks. I hope to see you at Science and Cocktails, where I'll be talking about how digital information technologies are threatening our ability to make sense of the world and make prudent collective decisions.

Science and Cocktails in X31: Information, disinformation, and the future of society

Science & Cocktails is proud to announce an episode with evolutionary social biologist superstar, Carl T. Bergstrom, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, and author of the book

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Cow bone!?! 😎

Adam Marsh@notthatmarsh.bsky.social · last mo.

Sometimes you have to improvise structural support in a field jacket. Here I used a gauge from a broken weather station and a cow radioulna. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

I am thrilled to share that I will join the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org as the Dean of Collections, Curator, and Professor in September!

If a Lepidodendron falls in a forest and no one has evolved ears that can hear it, does it still make a sound?

Absolutely, the talks I saw were excellent!

Dr. Jessica L Ware@jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to the #NSF #REU and #IRES students who presented today in our AMNH symposium!

Dino-centric postdocs at the Smithsonian 👇

Today is my first day in office as the new curator of vertebrate paleontology at @nhmdk.bsky.social & @ucph.bsky.social! 🇩🇰 🏛️ 🦴 🦕 😁 Starting off right with some proper Paleozoic Greenlandic friends (🐟/🐸, 🦈) and an extremely Danish office surprise! 🧱

Overall, we show that this remarkable story is not linear or simple as previously assumed. It follows a complex trajectory, with Cretaceous snakes already widespread in ecological and neuroanatomical diversity, and more specialized to different environments than the snake ancestral condition

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Stephan Spiekman@stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just in time for the weekend: this new skull fills a big gap in the formation of the bulldog-like🐶 rhynchosaur skull, which we also use as an excuse to review all of rhynchosaur skull evolution! Another Triassic weirdo off my bucket list✅ @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Time to retire? A study of 12.5 million scientists’ careers suggests that older scientists are less likely to produce disruptive work and instead build on existing theories. Younger researchers are more likely to overturn established ideas or open entirely new lines of inquiry. 🧪

Why science is becoming less innovative

A huge study suggests ageing scientists are part of the problem

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Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Reconstructed skull of Eunotosaurus africanus, an early reptile from the Permian of southern Africa. 🐢 Long hypothesized to be an ancient ancestor of turtles, recent work led by @semifossorial.bsky.social shows this curious creature is instead a 'turtleized' millerettid. (1/🧵) #FossilFriday

Huge deal all! @pbseons.bsky.social has made a SIX episode series around the Permian and it is a delight. Coming soon! 📺 🍿 There will be familiar faces.

Darcy Shapiro@darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So, some news: www.popsci.com/science/pbs-... We made a tv show! 🎉 #scicomm #paleontology

And the day after another paper has been accepted! On fossils from a very different part of the world, and this one took me years of hard work to complete. Surreal that this work will soon be out in the wild Watch this space, especially if you like the Triassic

Hady George@houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What better way to celebrate Scotland’s world cup victory than having a paper on a Scottish fossil accepted

Come work with some of the coolest fossils in the world! (Still time to apply!)

AshPoust@ashpoust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's still time to apply! University of Nebraska State Museum is searching for a Collection Manager for one of the most important Paleontology Collections in North America. Come join us and work with nice people and incredible fossils. Please apply! employment.unl.edu/postings/100...