Meet Estefania Rodríguez, the Museum's curator and RGGS Professor of invertebrate zoology!

AMNH RGGS MAT postdoc Russell Bicknell and colleagues examine the pedipalps of the Australian black rock scorpion, finding 25 muscle groups and demonstrate the robust and powerful nature of these pincers: publish.csiro.au/ZO/ZO23044

‼️ Fossil Calibration Database will soon cease to function! It is currently hosted on the old PalAss server, which is going to die and will not be replaced. Please, be sure to get anything you need for it before the end of July 2024: tinyurl.com/4tywmzpd

One of my graduate students dropped by my office, exasperated, and said, "I don't know how to innovate. So, how can I do a PhD?". I erased my whiteboard and began listing strategies for generating new research ideas. They left reassured and excited! As #professors, we mentor

OK with LINK this time! Lectureship in Invertebrate Palaeontology at UCL. Please RT!! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

We are seeking a permanent part-time (4 days/week) Editorial Assistant to support Science at the Natural History Museum journals, the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology and Systematics and Biodiversity. This role is suitable for remote or hybrid working. Deadline of 1st July. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

Abstract submission for #GSA2024 closes in one week! Join us in session 'T129: phylogenetic and computational approaches in paleobiology' for fun times and exciting science @InvertLove_Kat and I super keen to see you there for another great session! 🌲💻📈

In a fun one for NYT Science, I get two paleontologists' takes on how they'd cook up a Cambrian shrimp-look-alike with a taco-shaped shell: nytimes.com/2024/07/23/sci… (there is science in it too)

NYT Science Thanks to Russell Bicknell and Alejandro Izquierdo López, PhD for entertaining my questions!

RGGS MAT postdoc Russell Bicknell, CUNY-RGGS PhD student Aaron Goodman & team document the largest arthropods (animals with exoskeletons) from the fossil record of Australia. These 9ft long animals functioned as the apex predators some 390 million yrs ago: nytimes.com/2024/08/16/sci…

Congratulations to AMNH-RGGS MAT Davis Postdoctoral Fellow Russell Bicknell on his award of a major 3-year, ARC DECRA grant and fellowship at Flinders University, Australia for the project “Defining the evolution of apex arthropod predators”!

Come and join our ranks Harvard University Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Museum of Comparative Zoology, we are searching broadly in areas related to evolutionary biology, marine biology and biomechanics! Please share with all your colleagues too!

Congratulations to this year’s graduates of the Richard Gilder Graduate School! This evening, the Museum held its eleventh commencement under the iconic Blue Whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, celebrating three doctoral graduates and 18 Master of Arts in Teaching Earth

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 We describe new material of Bunaia woodwardi, reassigning it to Offacolidae, and discuss a newly identified homology uniting Euchelicerata, Vicissicaudata, and Habeliida! Jonny Pierre Gueriau Allison Daley ANOM Lab Université de Lausanne Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Flinders University #palaeontology are excited to announce we're 2024 #CommunityHeritageGrants recipients! Funding will support preservation of our Flinders University Vertebrate Collection 🦴🥳👏 sites.flinders.edu.au/palaeontology/… AusGov Office for the Arts National Library of Australia National Archives of Australia @nfsaonline National Museum of Australia Flinders University Newsroom

Best conference logo ever!!! 😍 The Invertebrate Paleo Lab Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology is totally visiting beautiful Chile 🇨🇱 next year to share some Cambrian and Ordovician creatures 🤩

My new paper with Izak Schoon, Lachlan Hart, Russell Bicknell, Melanie Hopkins and Yong Yi Zhen on a new species of Triarthrus (trilobite) from NSW and its stratigraphic significance is out. Thanks to Katrina Kenny for the amazing reconstruction! openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LIN/article/vi…

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Nikolic on a successful Ph.D. dissertation defense (#48, 12/2/2024)!

🚨News! Russell Bicknell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology & colleagues from Uni of New England & Macquarie University have discovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary “arms race,” dating back 517 million years. More ⬇️ amnh.link/3DDCqpj

Researchers present new evidence for the youngest Naraoia and reassess naraoiid paleobiogeography using paleo-elevation models. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.…