Multiple roles available at Historical Biology! We are seeking a data editor, an associate editor & multiple review editors. Details: editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

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A mosaic of ‘Marley the Ilford Mammoth’ made from plastic bottle tops by artist Caitlin Atherton commemorates a mammoth skull excavated in 1863 from Uphall brick pits, Ilford. It’s a steppe mammoth, which lived c 200,000 ka 🦣 londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology

23 month research associate job now available with our team to work on Middle Jurassic mammals from Scotland. Requires strong experience with segmentation of CT data but does not require a PhD. Deadline for applications is 26th July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Research Associate (Leverhulme) - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 105138 - Grade 6

This is a Research Associate position to assist in palaeobiological research conducted as part of the project “New Insights Into Early Mammal Evolution From Exceptional Scottish Fossils” funded by the...

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We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

The Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) Associate Editor team is growing! We’re currently looking for candidates with expertise in insects, other arthropods, molluscs, & conodonts. Interested in joining our team? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

Associate Editor needed for Historical Biology

Associate Editor needed for Historical Biology

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Our new note, led by @matiarmella.bsky.social about Andinotoxodon (finally officially formalising the name) is out now in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0272...

New paper out in JSP! Jerry Hooker revisits the genus Lessnessina, the affinities of which have been long debated, with 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙪𝙢, a new sp. from the early Ypresian Blackheath Formation (UK) providing key morphological evidence. Read here: buff.ly/zoKuNWk #PaleoSky #FossilFriday

@historicalbiology.bsky.social Historical Biology is looking for a Data Editor to join the new Data Team! Dr Brooke Long-Fox (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) & Dr Sarah Shelley are our current Data Editors, interested in joining them? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

Data Editor needed for Historical Biology

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Nice article by @joshlukedavis.com on our Antarctic sauropod paper: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

First ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica identified as a titanosaur | Natural History Museum

Antarctica was once a thriving, forested ecosystem filled with a diversity of dinosaur life.

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🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS

PeerJ Megaherbivore coprolite DNA: yields and comparison of three ancient DNA extraction protocols on coprolites of giant ground sloth Mylodon darwinii peerj.com/articles/210... @peerj.bsky.social

Miniature giants: investigating limb long bone structure in dwarf proboscideans - Bader - 2026 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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Move over, elephant graveyards - this whale necropolis extends 1,200km along the Indian Ocean seafloor at depths from 4,600-7,000m; has accumulated at least 476 fossil whale carcasses over the past 5m years; and has 5 active whale falls. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...

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Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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💀The Swanscombe occipital was discovered 90 years ago ⛏️ 🔆Some reflections and never before published images from the museum archives🔆 rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Image made available by the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London. All Rights Reserved.

Our new paper led by Dave Krause on the iconic Paleocene mammal Taeniolabis is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Taeniolabis simmonsae (Multituberculata, Taeniolabididae) from the early Paleocene of the Denver Basin, Colorado: implications for taeniolabidid taxonomy and biochronology of the Puercan North America...

A recently discovered multituberculate skull with a nearly complete dentition from the lower Paleocene part of the Denver Formation (Corral Bluffs study area, Denver Basin, Colorado) represents a spec...

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S.L. Shelley, J.J. Eberle, G.M. Erickson & P.S. Druckenmiller (2026) Arctic ecosystems shaped mammalian dispersal and diversification before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction PNAS 123(22): e2601794123 doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Arctic ecosystems shaped mammalian dispersal and diversification before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction | PNAS

High-latitude terrestrial ecosystems are commonly viewed as marginal environments to deep-time evolutionary innovation, yet their role in shaping b...

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We’re hiring a herpetology curator @nhm-london.bsky.social - come join us! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Senior Curator in Charge, Herpetology:South Kensington

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A thoroughly deserved award to recognise Jerry’s immense contributions to palaeontology!

The Palaeontographical Society@palaeontosoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online for our 179th AGM and annual lectures!! It was held in Southampton, and was a bumper year for prizes and research awards. Dr Jerry Hooker was awarded our Palaeontographical Society Medal for his distinguished career in mammal #paleontology...

A wonderful day celebrating Andy Currant’s life and legacy, which we encounter in the NHM fossil mammal collection on a daily basis. A day of science, humour (as I’m sure he would’ve wanted!), friendship and emotion. A fitting tribute organised by my fabulous companion in curation, Roula Pappa

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A wonderful, emotional day at the @nhm-london.bsky.social remembering Andy Currant. Thank you Roula, @neilfadams.bsky.social &co for organsing. Here is the great man, next to another larger than life legend of BMNH fossil mammals (& our shared hero) Hugh Falconer

A wonderful, emotional day at the @nhm-london.bsky.social remembering Andy Currant. Thank you Roula, @neilfadams.bsky.social &co for organsing. Here is the great man, next to another larger than life legend of BMNH fossil mammals (& our shared hero) Hugh Falconer

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An ode to the Pleistocene hippopotamus of Great Britain, by Hugh Falconer [read today in honour of Andy Currant]: Place me on Grifton’s marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep There — pig-like — let me grunt and die, The last of Hip-po-po-ta-mi.

I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Our new paper is out! If you love caves, if you love archaeology, if you love ZooMS (and let's be honest, who doesn't?!) you'll LOVE this! #palaeoproteomics #ancientproteins #archaeology #ZooMS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The influence of fragmentation on a combined ZooMS and zooarchaeological study at Geißenklösterle Cave in the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany

Geißenklösterle Cave, a Palaeolithic site located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany, has yielded multiple Middle Palaeolithic strata and some of…

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Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

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Myfanwy, the Holyhead Mammoth, is in the news (again)! The dating results are back and they’re quite exciting 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Testing shows Myfanwy the mammoth roamed Anglesey 15,000 years ago

Myfanwy is one of the oldest mammoths to have re-populated Britain towards the end of the last Ice Age.

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Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

Archaeological Proteomics Lab@archaeoprotein.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘 Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4. All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/work...

Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

Neotaphonomic characteristics of vertebrate site formation in underwater caves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705854v1

For #fossilfriday, a new paper I was lucky enough to be invited to help with was published this week. Using dental microwear from fossil wolves to understand ecological resilience in modern wolves! Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🐺

Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear

We investigate dietary plasticity in European grey wolves across interglacial periods using dental microwear texture analysis. Enhanced durophagy is associated with warm climates in both modern Polis...

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Come and work with our colleagues @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - three new lectureship posts around School strategic priorities - including 'Evolutionary Biology and understanding the evolution of life'

University of Bristol Biological Sciences@bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...