🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

Curator of Vertebrates Position at the Smithsonian! www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Research Zoologist

The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a major bureau of the ...

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The final chapter of my PhD is out!! What happens when graviportal taxa get dwarfed? We explore this in dwarf elephantids from the Mediterranean Sea, looking at the inner and outer anatomy of limb long bones. 🐘📄 With @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and U. B. Göhlich #GRAVIBONE doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Miniature giants: investigating limb long bone structure in dwarf proboscideans

Terrestrial vertebrates rely on their skeleton to provide structural support and allow the movement of the body. Heavy, graviportal taxa, such as extant elephants, exhibit numerous adaptive features ....

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Has anyone a scan or the possibility to scan skulls of Dracaena? Adult or juvenile specimens. We have difficulties to find some... Help would be more than welcome! Thanks

We wish to appoint an additional co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Anatomy. We're particularly interested in people with expertise in musculoskeletal anatomy. You can register your interest via the linked expression of interest form.

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇

Remember to save the date: ICVM in Halifax, Nova Scotia (that's in Canada!), July 20-24, 2027. Keep an eye on our website for news: www.isvm-icvm.org And contact our Treasurer Tiana Kohlsdorf if you are not on our email list ("members"). Symposium proposal submissions will open up SOON!

New paper out in Geodiversitas! 🦣🦴 Ever wonder what the inside of Deinotherium giganteum looks like? Find out about it here: geodiversitas.com/48/7 Big thanks to the Budapest HNHM for providing access to this unique material! With Prof. Mihaly Gasparik & @segesdimartin.bsky.social

Bone microanatomy and weight-bearing adaptations in the giant proboscidean Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829)

Bone anatomy reflects the mechanical and functional constraints to which the skeleton is subjected. In graviportal taxa, the primary constraint is gravity, requiring specific adaptations in bone struc...

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2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

Nyakatura-Lab for Comparative Zoology | News

See what’s been happening in the Nyakatura Lab. News: discover our latest publications, recent events, and research highlights.

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Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

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Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

Pseudogenes document protracted parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals

Abstract. Adaptation to ant and/or termite consumption (myrmecophagy) in mammals constitutes a textbook example of convergent evolution, being independentl

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Frederic Delsuc@freddelsuc.bsky.social · last yr.

New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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Nicolas Galtier@nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington

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Looking for a master student to work on the microstructure of metapodials and phalanges in arboreal mammals!! Fully funded by the MNHN. Cool collab with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social ! Contact me for more info 😁

In honour of the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters by Guillaume Billet (2011) buff.ly/ZORpqsx @guillbi.bsky.social #PaleoSky #2025SVP

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Mindblowing research out of the wonderful @isemevol.bsky.social (where I'm delighed to be based for the next three months). Opening line: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring [1,2]. Here, we report a shift from this norm". 1. Darwin (1859) 2. Mayr (1942).

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Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude

Graham et al. report that high-altitude mammalian species have a greatly reduced number of olfactory receptor genes, and their brains have a smaller olfactory bulb, consistent with a deteriorated sens...

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Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

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@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Agence France-Presse@afp.com · last yr.

Le Parlement a définitivement adopté mardi la proposition de loi agricole Duplomb-Menonville, comprenant entre autres une mesure décriée de réintroduction sous conditions d'un pesticide néonicotinoïde, et présentée comme une réponse à la colère agricole de 2024.

Junior Professor Chair at MNHN Paris : Integrative Taxonomy for Describing Biological Diversity odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/r... filesender.renater.fr?s=download&t...

And here it is: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Such a @basantakhakurel.bsky.social thing to promise something “in the coming weeks” and then turn around and have it done like the next day #evol2025

A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets

The rate of evolution of a single morphological character is not homogeneous across the phylogeny and this rate heterogeneity varies between morphological characters. However, traditional models of mo...

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April Wright@wrightam.bsky.social · last yr.

@basantakhakurel.bsky.social Doing such a great talk, clearly explaining his convarion model for morphological characters and its performance relative to Mk Model. Preprint coming soon!

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

We’re hiring a postdoc (2+ years) in macroecology and macroevolution in my new lab at CZU Prague: www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_...

POSTDOCTORAL DATA SCIENTIST IN MACROECOLOGY AND MACROEVOLUTION (2+ YEARS IN PRAGUE) at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in Prague, CZECHIA

May 12, 2025 | We invite applications for a full-time, two-year data scientist postdoctoralposition (with potential for an extension) spanning large-scale... | NEW JOB

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Really glad to share with you what would be the oldest evidence of the epidermal skin of early synapsids, with the description of sphenacodont body impressions, likeky belonging to Dimetrodon teutonis, from the early Permian of BROMACKER! Behold Bromackerichnus! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior

Marchetti et al. describe Bromackerichnus, the first definite body impression of early synapsids and, more specifically, sphenacodontids. Bromackerichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epide...

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Are you seeking a postdoc opportunity? The Natural History Museum in Oslo is on the lookout for candidates who want to create their own projects. If you're interested in brainstorming project ideas, feel free to reach out! More information here:👇 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

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Here is our attempt at summarizing the state of the evidence for the punctuated equilibrium hypothesis. The paper is part of a special issue of Paleobiology celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PE Hypothesis. Work led by Gene Hunt. @lhliow.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...