Postdoc mentor, PhD advisor, upcoming colleage/boss (yeah me!), and BSc+MSc advisor having tapas and sangria in Madrid #IBC2024

Incredibly cool and important study, plus a great thread 👇 Check it out! Congrats, Dr Elsa Panciroli & team!

Mammals grew more slowly in the Jurassic than they do today. Congratulations to Dr Elsa Panciroli and all the team for this study published in nature based on synchrotron imaging…and a long-standing collaboration with European Synchrotron vincent fernandez esrf.fr/home/news/gene…

A wee explainer video about our work on #Krusatodon from the #IsleofSkye. Features amazing 3D reconstructions created by Matt Humpage, 3D printed at 3x life size, including the complete model of the adult skeleton 🤩 #ScottishFossils

Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Evolution / herbarium curator. Though it's not my department, I'm on the search committee, and anticipate interacting a lot with the successful candidate—please reach out with questions! jobs.montana.edu/postings/42139

Thursdays are collections days. Deconstructed Hyracotherium grangeri UMMP 115547.

This week I hosted a group from UNC Charlotte! The UNC students received training in field biology, mammals & museums, as well as science communication. As a capstone, the students are doing an outreach event on bats today at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Richard Allen White III, PhD Kelly Speer, Ph.D. UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

I was lucky enough to teach a course w/Randy Singer, PhD/ランディ・シンガー. Day 1: Students couldn't name a favorite museum & didn't know what scientists do at museums. Day 10: all students reported they realized museums were important, more appreciated the outdoors, + a lot wanted to be biologists.

Adam P. Summers and I are running a bioimaging course at Friday Harbor Labs this winter! Focusing on CT, SEM, histology, photography, and more. The course is 10 weeks, 15 credits, and scholarships are available. Priority applications are due in October. fhl.uw.edu/courses/applyi…

For #FossilFriday, I'm excited to present our latest research into mammalian metabolic evolution as part of the SVP 2024 Podium Symposium. 🐭🐹🐯🐻🐱 See you all in Minneapolis!

Delighted to be co-author on this new paper led by my colleague Elis Newham, using a large dataset of cementum increments to explore the evolution of mammal life history. Looks like Jurassic crown #mammals were already living faster lives! #MesozoicMammals science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

EARTH is hiring a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor. Candidates with a PhD specializing in Earth and environmental sciences are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by 9/16. For questions or comments, email [email protected]. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/149747

I am happy to announce that #ummz #mammalogy has recently updated its user agreements on MorphoSource, and we now can support “open download” to more than 2,000 CT datasets! More datasets are to come. Click on the link below for access. morphosource.org/teams/000343571

Our paper on the brain size allometry in Euarchontoglires is out in the Journal of Mammalogy! 🧠🐒🐿️🐇 We used the most complete dataset of brain mass and body mass data for primates, colugos, treeshrews, rodents & lagomorphs. Check it out! 👇 1/13 academic.oup.com/jmammal/advanc…

Every once in a whilesomething interesting happens and I remember to post. I'm currently on my grand tour of Argentina looking at all the sauropodomorph jaws I can find!

UM Paleontology Michigan EARTH cohort ‘24 x some friends. orientation is over- the real work starts Monday!

🚨New Pub!🚨New Early Cretaceous zalambdalestid stem placental mammal from Mongolia and evolution of Zalambdalestidae🦷🇲🇳by Lopatin & Averianov tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats Dr. Andrews!

But today's highlight was in the archives rather than collection: sketches for reconstructions of Permian tetrapods appearing in Case's "The Permo-Carboniferous Red Beds of North America and their Vertebrate Fauna" (1915), complete with notes from Case.

I’m very grateful to have been awarded a #DECRA from Australian Research Council! I’m so excited to study #terrestrial ecosystem resilience to atmospheres enriched in carbon dioxide! Science at Melbourne University of Melbourne #FossilFriday #Palaeontology #Palynology