New paper day! From former MSc student Nathan Cochran's @paleodude.bsky.social work...you know how annoying it is to accidentally bite your lip? Imagine if you were a Dimetrodon!

First observed cranial pathology in the early Permian synapsid Dimetrodon limbatus

Dimetrodon is an early non-mammalian synapsid from the early Permian of Europe and North America best known for its elongated neural spines, which in life formed an interconnected sail, and an earl...

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Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lots of meaty papers from Tim Smithson's festschrift. In addition, we contributed a little paper on a lungfish otoccipital from the early Mississippian of Nova Scotia. Nothing fancy but it shows affinities with groups previously known only from the Devonian. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes the description of the back of two ray finned fish skulls. These show that in the earliest Carboniferous aged rocks at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, there was a mix of ancient forms and more advanced fish known from younger rocks. #vertpaleo #paleontology

Two partial actinopterygian neocrania (occipital ossifications) from Blue Beach, Nova Scotia

The earliest Carboniferous period (Tournaisian stage) is a crucial interval in actinopterygian evolution, but the actinopterygian fossil record for this stage is dominated by flattened specimens refer...

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Congrats to Nathan Cochran for passing his MSc exam on sexual dimorphism in Dimetrodon!

New paper day! From Conrad Wilson's MSc comes a new predatory fish from the earliest Carboniferous deposits of Blue Beach, Nova Scotia. This is the first fish in the fossil record to have its largest teeth in the rear of its jaws. #paleontology #vertpaleo #paleosky

A new predatory actinopterygian from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia provides insight into the evolution of actinopterygian feeding

The Devonian–Carboniferous transition represents a fundamental shift in vertebrate faunal composition and ocean ecology. Tournaisian-aged outcrops of the Horton Bluff Formation from Blue Beach, Nov...

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RIP Taz, our goofy little mutt with short front legs that brought so much joy to everyone she met, and has left a huge hole in our home. #dogs #DogsOfBluesky #RescueDog

The closing date for our positions in Veterinary Anatomy is May 15th, not the April date in the header of the Science Careers posting. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs #anatomy #VetMed #YYC

Assistant or Associate Professor, Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary - Calgary (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Calgary - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 670361

The University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is seeking two academic scholars for full-time positions in Anatomy.

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Join our team teaching Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Calgary! We are hiring two positions to start in the Fall teaching in our new integrated curriculum.

Assistant or Associate Professor, Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary - Calgary (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Calgary - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 670361

The University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is seeking two academic scholars for full-time positions in Anatomy.

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A detailed thread on a new study of recumbirostran Hapsidopareion. Well done @semifossorial.bsky.social !

Xavier A. Jenkins@semifossorial.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

Important new paper: Rogers et al 2025, Updating the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation of Montana: Lithostratigraphic revisions, new CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb ages, and a calibrated framework for dinosaur occurrences. 35 pages, worth reading! pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/...

My dog is kinda odd #DogSky #pets #DogsOfBluesky

Our 15-year-old pup Taz just loves to go bounding through fresh snow, even though she has very short legs #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky #pets #dogs www.youtube.com/shorts/UvZ4_...

Taz on a walk in the snow

YouTube video by Jason Anderson

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It seems like many of us here could use a reset. So for the next week, I’ll post serene videos from Hawaii. 🌺 #3 Gold dust day gecko eating a papaya in Hana, Maui. 🦎

There are now more than 80 #indiebookstores in the starter pack. Can we get it to 100 by Monday? Don't forget to use the list when buying books for the holidays! Support small businesses rather than billionaires whenever you can. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

Canada Post's main carrier union is now officially on strike www.cupw.ca/en/strike-fr...

STRIKE ON FRIDAY: Here’s What You Need to Know

On the morning of Tuesday, November 12, your National Executive Board issued a 72-hour strike notice to Canada Post for both the Rural Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) and Urban Operations bargaining uni...

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Starter pack of vertebrate paleontologists! There are a fair few slots left so if you’d like to be added or nominate someone to be added, drop a comment or shoot me a DM! go.bsky.app/VLmSB1B

*Logs onto Chessable for the first time in months* Oh hey, a new badge for having over 1000 variations to review! (Number of actual variations: 3500)

I've been here a while but there are tips here that were new to me!

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 2y ago

Saw this on Twitter, reposting here, with alt-text, for new arrivals

We have 2 spots in the Biological Imaging Apprenticeship. 15 credits. Strong financial aid available. Learn CT, SEM, and other applicable imaging techniques. Now with the correct QR code!! 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs. Cutting edge tools at the water's edge. Please retweet.

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Tonight's sunset #Maui #vacation

Watching the World Series at a tiki bar. (South Shore Tiki Lounge) #GoDodgers #LADodgers

I am on vacation so not very active here for the next 2 weeks - posting a few sunsets to make up for it. This was today #Maui #Kihei

And this was yesterday's sunset. Overall, better, but not as pink. #Maui

Earlier this year, @arvalis.bsky.social commissioned me to build a muscle model of a Komodo Dragon. Lizard anatomy is well studied, but many resources are hidden in literature often unknown/inaccessible to artists. The mission was to make an idealised, artist-friendly reference for lizard muscles.

Hello all and welcome to Bluesky! I will eventually get through all of the follows for follow backs but there are a lot of you! Stay tuned for upcoming new fossil fishes, amphibians, and reptiles! But first, off to commune with living fish and reptiles...

New paper day! This is the second in our series of revisions of early amniotes. This was started using old latex peels until the original fossils thought lost were relocated.

A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes - Swiss Journal of Palaeontolo...

The Upper Carboniferous protorothyridid amniote Brouffia orientalis from Czech Republic is redescribed. Photogrammetric scanning of the holotype and only known specimen yields considerable new informa...

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Nice to see so many more paleontologists on Bluesky!

Aline Ghilardi@alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 2y ago

(Mega)Updated Paleo people list ⚒️🤠🦴🐚🧪 go.bsky.app/QWhLarC

Took a mountain day today; met a juvenile black bear! Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Rocky Mountains (Sorry they are blurry; car was moving)