#ICVM2023 We had an amazing symposium on "The Integumentary Skeleton" at @Cairns thank you. A huge thanks also to International Society for Vertebrate Morphology The Company of Biologists HFSP catherine williams Vickaryous Lab Anthony Herrel Mason Dean Roy Ebel Cassandra Donatelli Adam P. Summers Madeleine Hagood Ed Stanley Mike Schindler UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy

Heading back to the northern hemisphere after an unforgettable trip to Australia. Thanks to everyone who made #icvm2023 and the following week such a blast!

We're hiring! 📢 Assistant Curator of Vertebrate #Paleontology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 Info: 🔸 Apply via FLORIDA: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5279… 🔸 About our extensive collection: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/ 🔸👉 Position info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/assista…

Thanks to the organizers for an engaging and fun ToScAInternational. I’m always impressed with the diversity of talks and presenters! Hope to see you all again soon!

The BioVision Lab Florida Museum is looking for PhD Students in several areas (biology, paleontology, machine learning, etc). Please share widely. You can find more about the lab at biovisionlab.com #AI #computervision #PhDposition SACNAS SICB

It's officially #spookyseason 😱 A toad & salamander were the last meal for an eastern hognose snake in this CT image from the #NSFfunded project oVert, which is scanning 20,000 vertebrate specimens from the Florida Museum. 📷: Edward Stanley/David Blackburn/ Florida Museum

Hot off the presses, a new paper that applies Geometric Morphometrics to CT scanned cacao flowers to identify potential pollinators. This was a really fun project led by Katie Wolcott, & one of the first studies to use of the new UF Research Service Centers Versa 620 CT. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ap…

Happy Halloween! Here’s Dave and I getting in the mood for Dr. Jaimi Gray’s monster mash lecture UFVetMed this afternoon!

“If you get gotten by a platypus, you’ll know about it” -Jaimi Gray, 2023

Delighted to be a part of this fun collaboration with the @floridaMuseum's Jason Bourque and Richard Hulbert, using #microCT to identify the latest occurrence of the aquatic salamander family, Batrachosauroides, in the Eastern US. doi.org/10.58782/flmnh…

A tale of discovery about a tail of deglovery! The good folk over Bizarre Beasts have just released an excellent new video about spiny mice and their armored tails! I’ll wear my Acomys pin with pride! youtu.be/xKI9yIqyFWs?si…

We're hiring! 🔬 Scientific Lab Manager 🧑‍🔬 New full-time position here at the Florida Museum. Application deadline: Jan. 5, 2024 👇 Links: 🧪 Position info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/scienti… 🧪 Apply via FLORIDA: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5295… Share this info!

Interested in palaeo & #ancientDNA. I'm advertising a 3 yr Marsden Fund postdoc Zoology_Otago disentangling competing sources of morphological variation in #fossil record of geckos & skinks from #NewZealand & #NewCaledonia. Apply here (otago.taleo.net/careersection/…) #FossilFriday 1/2

Delighted to receive my Bizarre Beasts spiny mouse pins. I really love the video they made that talked about the tail osteoderms in these rodents, and am tickled that the armored, Eocene hedgehog thing, Pholidocercus, gets a shout out too!

7 years of #overtTCN digitization efforts has produced > 25K datasets from >13K vertebrate specimens. It's been an incredible experience with amazing collaborators. While the project is oVer(t), it's just the beginning of an amazing shift in accessibility of musuem collections.

Research Tech position available in our lab Princeton University! 🚨 Come work with us and develop new skill sets on morphometrics, CT data, and squamate evolution. Great opportunity for college/MSc graduates to gain pre-doctoral reserach experience. Please RT: social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1710…

Disappointed to see the Broadley’s flat lizard go out in the first round of #2024MMM , transported not only across the continent, but up into an arboreal environment. Drop that gaudy monkey off at the Augrabies falls and we’d see what’s up!

Happy Easter Monday! Just a reminder to squeeze peeps before biting into them to check that they have been fully marshmallified, otherwise they can be a bit crunchy.

The Field Museum is establishing a CT scanning facility and is looking for a lab manager to run it. fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…