Amy Balanoff & I have a piece out on what it was like to be a dinosaur - how did they perceive the world in terms of smell, vision, hearing, and cognitive capacity. We are thrilled that Beth Zaiken created this beautiful illustration for our article. Thanks to Kate Wong for editing!

Applications are open for the Graduate Program at Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins Medicine. If you are interested in combining the fossil record with developmental biology to answer questions regarding evolutionary novelty, don't hesitate to email me! fae.johnshopkins.edu/people/faculty/

Faculty Search alert! Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology has three searches, two with MCZ curatorial appointment potential MARINE BIO bit.ly/3XEXC5H COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY & BIOMECHANICS at the Concord Field Station bit.ly/4ehnx9d EVOLUTIONARY BIO bit.ly/3AYIEin

#MicroscopyMonday 🔬 — A 3D reconstruction of a cleared mouse embryo labeled for neurons (magenta) and muscles (cyan). This type of imaging lets researchers can image deep into biological tissue to study neuronal morphology in an intact animal or embryo. Credit: G Carrillo

Crack open the latest issue of BBC Science Focus Magazine and check out this lively feature on Living Fossils, from our School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh alum Will Newton! Nice work from Will, already a talented sports writer, now an up-and-coming science writer as a side gig during his PhD. #fossilfriday

#OnThisDay our namesake Professor Charles Lapworth (1842-1920) was born. He was the first Professor of #Geology at Mason College, the forerunner of Uni of Birmingham. Read about his life on our blog, based on our "Unlocking Lapworth's Legacy" project: ow.ly/4QGj50SIUbp

A vertebrate and an invertebrate. 500+ millions of years of evolutionary distance.

🚨 Postdoc Position 🚨 @NYITAnatomy is looking for talented postdocs to teach human anatomy and conduct independent research. Prior experience taking/teaching Human Anatomy preferred, but not required. RTs appreciated! careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/3786/post…

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available Princeton University Press Find out more at evolutionevolving.org

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfof Nick Fraser Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇

University of Oxford's Museum of Natural History Oxford University Museum of Natural History is looking for a new Director. Apply to drive specimen-based research, ensure the care of our outstanding collections, and expand the Museum's role as a leader in science engagement. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

If you're interested in a career working with important zoological collections, the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is hiring an assistant conservator! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46400/. Bonus points if you can tell me where (and when!) this drawer of birds comes from...

Cheers to all who attended my talk at #sicb2025! Was a great first time attending the conference, and I'm looking forward to many more in the coming years.

Together with Yseult Héjja-Brichard, I developed an interactive class for science #teachers to teach biological #evolution through a card game. We crash-tested it with #highschool students in Milan and made it available online for broader use: replicards.netlify.app #SciCom

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley,"—so goes the old poem, but our morphological scheme of the mouse face shall never go awry. Our new paper is out. On the Maxillofacial Development of Mice, Mus musculus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚀 New Protocol Published! 🎉 I’m excited to share our latest work on HCR in gecko embryos 🦎🔬. This detailed guide provides insights into applying this powerful technique to non-traditional model organisms. 📄 Read more here: link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…

My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out on read-only format in Nature rdcu.be/ediyO @trilolight Andrej Spiridonov Stefano Dominici João Juan L. Cantalapiedra

Happy to see that our description of two beautiful specimens of the enigmatic oviraptorid dinosaur, Conchoraptor, was just published in AMNH Novitates: bioone.org/journals/ameri… (We're aware of the formatting issue in some figures, and are working on amending)

We are hiring a postdoc to work on our NSF-funded project on suboscine bird diversification! Rough goal is to build phylogenies from massive dataset (data are incoming!) and analyze diversification. Posting: shorturl.at/RkYkE

Head scales of the Sulcata tortoise, imaged with light sheet microscopy. Our new study in iScience journal reveals that their emergence is controlled by both chemical cues and mechanical forces. Read the full article here 🐢🔬 cell.com/iscience/fullt…