And to think some people say you can't discern behavior from fossils theonion.com/new-evidence...

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras

BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...

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Here’s a great overview of our Dodo paper in @theconversation.com, authored by @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social @evolsara.bsky.social and myself #ornithology #birds theconversation.com/dodos-probab...

Dodos probably weren’t as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research

Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.

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Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

Interested in marine ecology + palaeontology for Honours at Flinders University? Great opportunity to learn about #sharks or #KillerWhales, how they feed, and how we can detect that using #DentalMicrowear. Great supervisory team! Interested? Send your CV and GPA to lauren.meyer@flinders.edu.au

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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After 7.5 years, I'm leaving my role as the UMMZ µ-CT lab manager at the end of July. This has been the most productive, and fulfilling period in my scientific career so far. I'm proud to say I've trained over 20 students, contributed to several publications, and generated over 12,000 µCT datasets.

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

On what planet is this ok?! Utterly scandalous stuff 👉 www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/08/j... 'Julie Bishop has resigned from ANU. She leaves a tattered legacy'

This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle

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The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery. Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

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Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My annual reminder that contrary to claims made by other labs, the hummingbird brain is NOT the size of a grain of rice. It's closer to a peanut. The brain-rice comparison is a misquote of a news article of one of our early papers. #themoreyouknow #ornithology #neuroskyence #neuroethology

JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Imaging Assistant:South Kensington

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Ants! Ants! Ants! 792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail: spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-... paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... website: www.antscan.info Phenomenal.

Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before

How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

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New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

Awesome article in @science.org on @danielgeldof.bsky.social Master's thesis on the secret of the rockhead poacher’s (Bothragonus swanii) unusual cranial anatomy. Daniel did some beautiful CT scans on this odd fish's head. www.science.org/content/arti...

This fish seems to use its bizarre skull like a drum

The rockhead poacher’s unusual cranial anatomy may help it communicate

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Opportunities in #sensory biology @latrobeuni.bsky.social: how animals with miniature brains can efficiently process multisensory stimuli? - Postdoc position internaljobs.latrobe.edu.au/cai/en/job/5... - PhD position www.amanda-franklin.com/s/PhD-Projec... #neuroethology #insects

JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...

The cuts to research funding in Australia "represent thousands of ideas never tested, experiments never run, students never trained, and careers prematurely ended." 💯😔

Gavan McNally@gavanm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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Disabled students belong in biological sciences spaces! Here is a thread of some tips and suggestions to make your spaces more inclusive.

So strange to see Glenn Northcutt's an iconic comparative vertebrate brains so twisted. Very disappointing to see AI stolen art on the cover of Royal Society 😔

Investment in R&D in Australia is at a historic low. If this recent / current trend continues, within five years Australia will be among the lowest of OECD countries.... www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

A paper in Scientific Reports shows that chameleons have evolved a longer, coiled optic nerve that is likely to provide “slack” to reduce tension on the optic nerve during the extensive rotations characteristic of the chameleon eye. go.nature.com/3JTSgQ1 #evosky 🧪

Applications are open for the free NERC short course "Integrative biodiversity discovery" at the Natural History Museum, London from 2-6 March 2026. Deadline: 1 December 2025. More info: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/study/training/integrative-biodiversity-discovery.html #course

Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum

An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.

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ANSTO’s neutron and synchrotron facilities are among the best-run and most productive parts of Australia’s research system... It would be a grave mistake to allow short-term accounting to jeopardise long-term national capability. theconversation.com/cuts-to-key-...

Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader

At the same time Australia has inked a deal with the US on critical minerals, it’s proposing cuts to facilities that underpin its clean energy ambitions.

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This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voic...

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It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid. POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition. Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍 Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.