🚨Hot off the press!🚨 Some fossils preserve soft tissues like internal organs - how does this happen? How can watching fish rot help us understand this process? Who would be mad enough to do that? All this and more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… (open access).

Super excited to share my first paper!🥳🥳🥳 This is work from my MSc with Kenneth De Baets @[email protected] and Rachel Warnock on parasite extinction estimates 🪱📊 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🎓 Are you a graduate of 🇺🇦🇧🇬🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱🇷🇴🇷🇺🇷🇸🇸🇰 and interested in a research stay or MSc @PalaeoFAU ? 🇩🇪 The BAYHOST scholarship is now open for applications (deadline Dec 1): uni-regensburg.de/bayhost/englis… 🪸 Explore here for more info on our MSc and research! palaeobiology.nat.fau.de

The time has come! My dissertation defense presentation is Wednesday at 10:45am Chicago time, and you're invited! Click here 👇 to register for the Zoom link. See you in the Paleozoic1 uchicagomedicine.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🎉 I am delighted to announce my first co-first authored paper has been published!!! 🎮 "The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools" 🦕 Check it out (for free!) here: gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/289…

Out today in nature: a quartet of papers that provide a remarkable view of the first chapters of jawed vertebrate history. Collectively, they shift an entire research agenda to the early Silurian--and before.

My latest research on the early jawed fish of China in collaboration with Min Zhu, Qiang Li, Ivan Sansom IvanS @Palaeo_Bham Uni of Birmingham and other colleagues from IVPP, CAS IVPP Early Vertebrates and Qujing Normal University

OK, so the world of early vertebrate palaeontology is EXPLODING, with 4 papers in this week's nature. Short* thread of why fossil fish-botherers are excited and why you should be too 🐟🦈 Spoiler alert: your evolutionary origins have just stretched further back in time.

We are so pleased to share our paper on the ethical, legal & political issues surrounding #Myanmar amber. We explored the data behind this important case to highlight changes needed to curb unethical and illegal practices in #palaeontology 🧵(1/9) 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4200…

How did the dinosaurs become so successful? 🦕🦖 Check out our newest paper where we looked at how climate played a key role in their early evolution! 🔗: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are thrilled to share that the paper describing the #palaeoverse package is now out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! 📦 Check it out to learn more about our #community project, and some of our future plans! 🔓 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20… #OpenAccess #RStats #GraphicalAbstract #Palaeontology

The rumours are true! The 4th Palaeovision Contest will be hosted by the University of Birmingham in December 2023. #TakeItToTheFish

Come do a PhD with me! If you've a passion for bones, birds and biomechanics then I've got some great news for you.

Job alert: I’m hiring two postdocs! The first is a 24 month position looking at the first anatomical radiation of ray-finned fishes during the mid-late Palaeozoic; the second is a 33 month position looking at macroevolutionary trends in ray-finned fishes during the Palaeozoic 🐟

Excited to see the first chapter of my PhD submitted!🥳 We show the impact discrete character evolution models on tree inference & present an approach for assessing the adequacy of models using posterior predictive sims. Check our preprint & tutorial 👇🏻biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our new paper (and my second PhD chapter) on the skeletal completeness patterns of Palaeozoic chondrichthyans!🦈Thank you to my co-authors IvanS, @ButlerLabBham and Mike Coates for their help! doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

Beyond thrilled to have my final PhD chapter published as FirstView in Paleobiology today! It is finally done! Massive thanks to my co-authors for all their dedication and help! doi.org/10.1017/pab.20…

How did the earliest vertebrates feed without jaws? 🐟 Check out our new paper #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing Proceedings B, in which we describe the three-dimensionally preserved mouth of a heterostracan, the Palaeozoic jawless fish below. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…