Yay, our paper is now an issue and also made it to the cover!!

The closing date for the Research Fellow in Palaeobiology position is 12pm (BST) Friday 5th July 🚨 The role will have a focus on researching and enhancing the Museum’s collections! 🙌 See here for more info.: oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/museum-researc… Oxford University Museum of Natural History #Palaeontology

Can you identify japanese birds, bats, frogs or mammals? We are looking for natural history experts to do *paid* work with Pivotal doing species IDs 🧪🌍 Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/response… More info in the link in the quoted tweet:

Word of the day is ‘absquatulize’ (19th century): to dismiss, send off, and put to flight.

If you want to better understand #punctuatedequilibria #punctuatedequilibrium read this recent article in Paleobiology by Niles Eldredge based on a talk at a geosociety Annual Meeting symposium: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are hiring! Job for a talented earth sciences early career research and teaching fellow to join me and Claire Nichols at St Edmund Hall! Please get in touch for further info! seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/earl…

Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology. Link: lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

I'm hiring! Looking for a technician to segment/curate/deposit CT scan data for fossil and living cichlids. Part of U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project w/ @umich team of HernanLopezFernandez in University of MichiganEEB + me in UM Paleontology & @michiganearth. Please share widely! Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/251…

📢📢Dear all, I am looking for a student assistant (matriculated in a German uni) to perform retrodeformation techniques in sauropod caudal vertebrae 🦕 Please share it, if you know anybody who could be interested. Lots of thanks!! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e5e…

If you have ever wonderedf whether males or females contribute most to disparity in butterfly wings then you should go read Jen Hoyal Cuthill's latest paper: nature.com/articles/s4200… (And you thought homoplasy measures were exciting...)

Want to use data from macrostrat.org, but struggle working with APIs?🪨🔨 We’ve got an R package for you!📦Introducing rmacrostrat, our latest The Palaeoverse Community toolkit. Pre-print describing rmacrostrat is available EarthArXiv: doi.org/10.31223/X5XX37 #Geology #RStats

Eurypterids managed to evolve sizes unparalleled among invertebrates. Exploring potential drivers of their gigantism with Alexander Ruebenstahl and Dr. James Lamsdell was a blast. Nothing more fulfilling than testing old hypotheses with modern comparative methods royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚨 Registration for #PalAss24 is now OPEN! ✨ We're so excited to welcome everyone to Erlangen 🇩🇪 in December! Check out the webpage for all that will be on offer during the conference and beyond:🎄🥨 palass.org/meetings-event…

UMMZ seeks a collections manager for its remarkable fish division: more than 200,000 lots and 3.4 million specimens representing 98% of fish orders 🐟🐠🐡🦈 Details below⬇️

Excited to report the book "Macroevolutionaries" by me and Niles Eldredge through Columbia University Press is now available on Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=sCX7E… Miranda Martin #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology #naturalhistory

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.0.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨ - use USGS strat patterns with ggplot2🪨 - add horizontal timescales to radial trees 🍩 - built-in timescales updated (incl. colors) 🏳️‍🌈 Documentation: williamgearty.com/deeptime #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

NEW VERSION: Claddis version 0.7.0 is now live in CRAN. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/C…

If you know of anyone interested in macroevolution and spatial patterns of biodiversity, I am seeking new PhD students to apply this fall! Please reach out if you would like to chat! pascaltitle.com