Happy Earth Day! I spent the day in the lab working on my concretions! This specimen is actually pretty heavy 😅

Big news from UM Paleontology and Michigan EARTH: we're searching for a new assistant curator/assistant prof! On the museum side, we're particularly interested in candidates with backgrounds in invertebrates or mammals, two of our most significant collections 🦀🦪🐚🐎🐆🐋

Happy #FossilFriday! We're wrapping up a week at the Denver Museum studying early Eocene fossils to understand how mammals responded to global warming! You can read more about our U.S. National Science Foundation grant with Amy Chew, Christopher Gilbert, Judy Diamond, and Ross Secord below! news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

Happy #FossilFriday! This morning we received notifications that our #SVP2023 abstracts were accepted, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Cincinnati this coming October!

We're hiring an Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology! floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/assista…

New: Eberle, Clemens, Erickson & Druckenmiller – A new tiny eutherian from the Late Cretaceous of Alaska doi.org/10.1080/147720…

I'm so proud to introduce Tony Edgington and Manica Nawaz, who are joining the COMPASS Lab at BC Earth & Environmental Sciences as my first PhD mentees! I'm thrilled to welcome them to Boston College and can't wait to get started on lots of exciting new coastal science. 🦅🌊🌍

I'm very excited to share our newest paper on plesiadapiform unguals! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy #FossilFriday! We're excited about our recently funded U.S. National Science Foundation collaborative research grant on how life recovered following the K/Pg mass extinction! Contact Prof. Chester if you're a Brooklyn College undergrad interested in paid research to study fossil mammals!

It was really great talking with Senator Schumer Chuck Schumer on Friday! We discussed the Brooklyn College Tow Mentoring & Research Program and our U.S. National Science Foundation funded research on primate origins, the K/Pg mass extinction, and global warming!

NEW in the Contributions of the UMMP: "Phylogeny and Evolution of North American Nothartcinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the early Eocene of Wyoming," in which Philip Gingerich suggests notharctine diversity paralleled warming and cooling during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum.

Black and Indigenous Scholars in Mammalogy Award is accepting applications! Awards of up to $1,500 to support research or activities relating to mammals. Apply here! mammalsociety.org/form/black-ind…

Hi paleo/bio anth folks - can anyone help aspiring paleoanthropologist and current undergrad Anita Patane (she/her) with sources of photos of hominin ankle (talus and calcaneus) fossils for her UNCO McNair Scholars project + honors senior capstone thesis?

New paper from my postdoc at American Museum of Natural History with Sergio Almécija and Ashley Hammond!!

Check out the new website for my research group in the Department of Anthropology ⁦⁦UW–Madison⁩! We’re looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students interested in primate socioecology with field and nutrition lab components. bryerlab.anthropology.wisc.edu

New research by Ph.D. student Jordan Crowell (@crowelljw), Prof. Stephen Chester, and John Wible at @carnegiemnh settles a paleontological debate that has been brewing for over 100 years gc.cuny.edu/news/new-resea… Chester Lab @ BROOKLYN Brooklyn College @gccunyanthro

Congratulations to Brooklyn College Anthropology Department Professor and senior author Stephen Chester (Chester Lab @ BROOKLYN) and Adjunct Lecturer and lead author Jordan Crowell (@CrowellJW) on the incredible work on this research that helped solved a mystery of primate evolution!

New #BiologyLetters paper from Chester Lab @ BROOKLYN @CrowellJW Basicranial - evidence suggests picrodontid mammals are not stem primates ow.ly/A0b850QpF4W #palaeontology #taxonomy #FossilFriday

Introducing Militocodon lydae, a new periptychid mammal from the early Paleocene, Denver Basin, Colorado. Led by @CrowellJW + myself w/ Chester Lab @ BROOKLYN and Tyler Lyson. (Artwork Andrey Atuchin) Open-access paper here! link.springer.com/article/10.100… #FossilFriday

Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years here at the Florida Museum. He leaves behind a legacy of deep dedication to science and teaching. 👏👏👏 We have so much gratitude for everything he's done for the Museum! Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bruce-…