🚨Paper Alert!🚨 @keeganselig.bsky.social, @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social, @chrislaw.bsky.social, AM Burrows & @marytsilcox.bsky.social explore 'The evolution & development of molar size among exudate-feeding #lorises & #bushbabies' American Journal of Biological Anthropology 🦷🐵 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

The Evolution and Development of Molar Size Among Exudate‐Feeding Lorises and Bushbabies

Objectives A challenge for linking evolution and development is to find proxies for developmental processes that can be studied from the types of material preserved in the fossil record (i.e., teeth...

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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough invites applications for a 3 year Teaching Stream appointment in Biomedical Anthropology. Submit applications by Nov. 10, 2025. Details available here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

New paper out in JVP, in which we describe two new species of the basal paromomyid primate Paromomys from the Paleocene of Alberta 🇨🇦 By Craig Scott, myself, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & Lisa Bohach. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion about diversity in science. However, disability/chronic conditions has been absent. In response, Trends in Ecology & Evolution is publishing a series of interviews with ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are disabled or have a chronic condition.

The Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine invites applications for an Instructor position, with primary teaching responsibilities in human gross anatomy to healthcare professional students. One year renewable appointment. www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

Human Gross Anatomy Instructor, Research Instructor, Anatomy - HigherEdJobs

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“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)

New paper co-led by Maddy Lang and myself, providing the most comprehensive analysis of the evolution of olfactory bulb size in living and fossil euarchontoglirans. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

But how does it smell? An investigation of olfactory bulb size among living and fossil primates and other euarchontoglirans

Analysis of cranial endocast data of 181 extant and 41 fossil species from Euarchontoglires shows that there was a reduction in olfactory bulb size in Crown Primates, but that there were also subsequ...

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Our new study published today on a remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes from the early Paleocene of New Mexico! @purgatoriidae.bsky.social @abqtom.bsky.social @crowelljw.bsky.social @marytsilcox.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

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Might save a life.

Awesome work! If you’re supporting us from Canada, sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

There's an open comment period until March 17 where you can leave comments about Passport Gender Policy Changes. This site has both links to proposals (you'll have to submit a comment on each), sample comments to get you started, and you can submit anonymously. indivisiblesf.org/call-scripts...

A public lands protest will take place this Saturday, March 1st, at the Dinosaur National Monument entrance (Utah side), in support of federal employee community members who have recently lost their jobs. #PleaseShare #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #NationalParks

Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · last yr.

Blessings of the morning: going over student weekly reading reports, and as requested, they didn't use chatgpt. It's all full of life and originality and actual thinking, confusion, brain work. 😍😍😍 Will share the anti-AI motivational slides I showed them, French and English versions, a bit later.

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

A powerful window on one aspect of the current debacle

Gavin Sherlock@gsherloc.bsky.social · last yr.

On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 23rd February 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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🚨New paper alert! 🚨' #sensory #reconstruction of the #fossil #lorisid Mioeuoticus: #Systematic and #evolutionary implications ' 🙈🙉🙊 www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15... Many thanks to my coauthors Adam Lis, @ingthingg.bsky.social, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social sky.social 😊

Sensory Reconstruction of the Fossil Lorisid Mioeuoticus: Systematic and Evolutionary Implications

The fossil record of lorises and pottos (family Lorisidae) potentially dates back to the late Oligocene of Namibia, but a later moderate diversification of this family occurred during the Miocene of A...

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📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...

Sobering read about ongoing financial challenges for PRI. I'm hard pressed to think of a US museum that stretches limited resources further for science and outreach.

Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US). ⚒️🧪🦑 Please share widely and help if you can! ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

Heard a report that some ravens were perched above a downtown building purposefully and gleefully pushing snow onto the heads of people passing by. Happy New Year to the ravens, to the tricksters and shapeshifters, which is to say, to all of us finding glimmers of joy in the darkness

Me during literally every single second of A Muppet Christmas Carol

Are you a dog lover looking for a PhD? You're in luck, becuase we are advertising a BBSRC-funded project that combines evolution, morphology, and biomechanics, and actually helps #dogs live better lives! Check it out here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool, l...

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