I am very proud! The Phenotypic Evolution Time Series (PETS) database is now online! pets.nhm.uio.no PETS is a public database containing data on phenotypic change within (fossil and contemporary) lineages. Why did we make it? A short 🧵

🚨 Prospective Graduate Students! We're hosting a Graduate Program Information Session on November 30 at 3:00 PM - join us to learn more about our M.S. and Ph.D. programs! Registration: bit.ly/ougeoinfosessi…

The Sam Noble Museum is excited to invite the general public to an ecclectic series of new informative lectures lead by museum staff and experts on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to emergency management!

Re-discovered this absolute gem of a poem on echinoderm bodyplans in some of my old course notes

youtu.be/kPaZyCDCaWs?si… For those who couldn't tune in to my talk, it has finally been uploaded to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs YouTube channel. I hope you find it interesting.

We're hiring! Oxford Museum research fellowship in Palaeobiology - 3 year, independent fellowship with £7.5K research allowance per year. If you're a collections-based researcher please apply! oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/museum-researc…

Attention, fossil enthusiasts! 🦕🌿 Tomorrow at noon, join us at the Sam Noble Museum for a free lecture titled “Fossils: Prehistoric Puzzle Pieces!" Alysha Zazubec will delve into the fascinating world of fossils and ancient life.

#OUResearch in the News: Selina Cole, University of Oklahoma assistant professor & Sam Noble Museum assistant curator, helps answer the question, “Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions?” recently published in Smithsonian Magazine! smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

Great write-up by Riley Black 🦕🏳️‍⚧️ on mass extinctions, with some quotes by yours truly and @PedroMMonarrez

Delighted to have been awarded my first NSF grant with Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 and Melanie Hopkins! This will allow us to continue our work on the Late Ordovician mass extinction through phylogenetic approaches and fieldwork on Anticosti Island, Quebec! nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Still a bit stunned but absolutely excited to have received an NSF grant with co-PIs Dr. Leptaena (Selina Cole) & Melanie Hopkins on "Biogeography, turnover, and evolutionary dynamics of the Late Ordovician mass extinction: phylogenetic and field-based approaches" nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

The paleobiologist Carl Simpson uses computer modeling and experiments with living organisms to study whether the physics of cold water causes cells to act collectively like a multicellular creature. quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of…

Greetings from the Ordovician-Silurian boundary of Anticosti Island! Having a fantastic field season with Dr. Leptaena (Selina Cole), Melanie Hopkins, OU Geosciences grad students, & Invert Paleo teams from the American Museum of Natural History and Sam Noble Museum

🌍 Researchers from Sam Noble Museum have secured a $621,781 grant from U.S. National Science Foundation to explore Earth's first major mass extinction. 🦕 The team led by members from OU Geosciences will embark on groundbreaking expeditions to Anticosti Island in Canada. 🔍 more : link.ou.edu/46M451N

Love these recent fieldwork photos of Paleobiology Research Group at OU's "Hirnantian Heroes" team with OU Geosciences grad students & Sam Noble Museum staff

I'm recruiting a MSc student to work on an NSF project focusing on morphological disparity in crinoids from Anticosti Island. My lab at Paleobiology Research Group at OU uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic modeling to study macroevolution in extinct invertebrates. Feel free to reach out & please RT!

Hi all-- I'm looking for a graduate student to join the CLAST research group at Uni. of Oklahoma. Please share with students interested in stratigraphy, basin analysis, tectonics, and detrital geochronology/geochemistry. I will be at GSA. clastresearch.com

Are you an invertebrate zoologist? Come work with me at the Sam Noble Museum at U. Oklahoma. We're looking for a curator/professor of Recent Invertebrates! apply.interfolio.com/154669

Are you a biologist who works on birds? Come work with me at the Sam Noble Museum at U. Oklahoma. We're looking for a curator/professor of ornithology! apply.interfolio.com/154668

Re-posting one of my favorite pics of small-scale eolian stratification (and translatent beneath the grain flows)