Remember Brazil's mobility programme Science without borders? A very different picture now... Brazil's Science is struggling #SOSCIÊNCIA

OUT TODAY: #Tetrapodophis is a tiny mosasauroid (dolichosaur), not a 4-legged snake! By Caldwell University of Alberta, myself, Michael S. Y. Lee (biologist), et al. We discuss its science, ethics, and its repatriation to 🇧🇷. #decolonizescience Free access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How large Purussaurus really was? And what about Mourasuchus? In a new paper led by our PhD student Ana Laura S. Paiva, different methods are used to estimate the body size of these and other Miocene crocs from the Western Amazonian region: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (art by Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆)

Depois de organizar três Semanas de Bioestudos entre 2016 e 2018, fui chamada para falar um pouco sobre as serpentes no evento desse ano. Minha primeira palestra da vida não poderia ter sido em um lugar melhor

We are looking for 2 enthusiastic Latinoamerican researchers interested in applying to a 3y #CONICET PostDoc fellowship to study (1)Phenotypic evolution & (2)Genomics of Liolaemus🦎, in Dr. Mariana Morando lab (Puerto Madryn) in collaboration with my lab (Mendoza). More info 👇

so happy to have done this project among great people

Pollination and eavesdropping: did you know that stingless bees can be great spies?  Research with these pollinators is important to understand our biodiversity and protect the nature around us! The researcher Ana Paula Cipriano explains: meli-bees.org/pollination-an…

the first paper of our Acre fieldwork is out!

Published this week in The Anatomical Record, new anhingids from the upper Acre River (Late Miocene of southwestern Amazon)! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… Congrats to Silvia Lomba, Annie Schmaltz Hsiou🇵🇸, Fellipe Muniz, and the others!

In July, Sílvia and Ana Paula got the chance to visit the Caramuru-Paraguaçu Indigenous Land and learned a lot about their history. Read now a little about the reclaiming of Caramuru-Paraguaçu meli-bees.org/reclaiming-the…