📣Evolution, morphology, biodiversity post-docs Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are being supported by The Open University STEM faculty! If you are interested in applying and working with me at the OU, please contact me ASAP leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-f… open.ac.uk/people/ts8723

Great to have danepavitt.bsky.social 🦕🦥🦈 join me at the OU for a research internship in evolutionary biology Biology at The Open University School of LHCS, The Open University

The oldest fossil cockroach with clear evidence for a colouration pattern to deter predators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… Dr Emily Swaby The Open University OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences Bristol Museum & Art Gallery CENTA #PapersinPalaeontology

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Our paper describing a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, 𝐴𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑠𝑖, has just been published (The PalAss)! A. simmsi possesses the earliest likely occurrence of aposematic (protective) colouration in cockroaches!🪳

🔵Please contact me today if you are interested in this Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship opportunity at The Open University 🔵There is an internal OU deadline tomorrow (1st Nov) noon if you intend to apply.

Great to see this! Prof. Christine Janis is an incredible scientist & has contributed enormously to #palaeontology, both through her research & teaching. 100% agree with ⬇️ It’s been a privilege working with her through the years. Huge Congratulations Christine!!! 👏👏👏

Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper today 🐢🤩🐢: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… We think the morphologically conservative body plan of turtles can in part be explained by allometric constraints imposed by the shell. See my thread on the 🦋-app, or also Guilherme's summary here 👇

Thousands of people walk past these ancient animals hanging on our walls every day! For hundreds of millions of years, these animals were the biggest creatures in the sea - some even reached the size of whales! Discover what happened to them 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Call for postdocs with an interest in paleoherpetology! Get in touch if you want to discuss funding opportunities to work with me at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (Catalonia) under Juan de la Cierva, Beatriu de Pinós or Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral schemes🦎🐸🐍 #paleontology

Excited to see our study on the evolution of Mesozoic marine reptiles across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary—featuring fossils from the iconic Marine Reptile Gallery—and recently published in Evolution Journal, highlighted in the News section of the Natural History Museum website! 🤩

Was very exciting to scan these iconic fossils in the Natural History Museum with Marc Jones ! Thanks again to all the team Andrzej Wolniewicz Prof. Valentin Fischer Dr Tom Stubbs, Torsten Scheyer and Jun Liu. Our paper published in Evolution Journal is accessible if you're curious 😉 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

📣Funded PhD position at the The Open University in #evolution #palaeobiology #botany “The macroevolution of leaf venation” with Luke Mander, Sidonie Bellot and myself. More info: centa.ac.uk/studentship/20… App deadline: Wed 8th January 2025

Congratulations Antoine. Fantastic work! Laboury Antoine 😀👍

Really happy to have passed my PhD viva last Friday! 🎉 I would like to warmly thanks Prof. Valentin Fischer, Dr Tom Stubbs, Torsten Scheyer, Denis Baurain, members of my jury and all great researchers that have helped during these 4 years. It was a fantastic journey in the Mesozoic seas!

Congratulations Antoine!

📣Funded 4-year OU PhD positions as part of the ILESLA doctoral programme. Potential to work with me on palaeobiology and evolution projects #morphology #biodiversity Deadline for 2025 entry is 29th January Details: shorturl.at/7ba0Z

March 11 deadline looming for 44 month PostDoc UoB Palaeobiology researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication: comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with myself and James Clark

Happy to share our new study published today at Proceedings B! 🐊 Royal Society Publishing Sebastian Hoehna 📝 “The effects of cryptic diversity on diversification dynamics analyses in Crocodylia” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #crocodylian #species #macroevolution 🧵 (1/7)

Interested in skeletal development? Biomineralization? Invertebrate body plans? Imaging? Then this three year postdoc Biological Sciences is for you! There are still ~2 weeks left to apply. Details are here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… and please reach out to me if you're interested!

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…