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Carrie Mongle

@carriemongle.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Stony Brook University studying human evolution and phylogenetics. She/her. Opinions my own.

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yeah that tracks
Image shows four graphs from the paper, a) university employment, b) tenure  c) publications and d) quality adjusted publications. Each has an x acis for time before and after birth of first child and a line representing male and female academics sampled. In each case the line for women drops considerably more than the line for men after birth of first child
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”
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Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention
Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.
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Evolution Soup @evolutionsoup.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
✨NEW INTERVIEW✨ A NEW HABILIS SKELETON - Return of the Handyman ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE @carriemongle.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/KdEQvjHJQGE
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/03/2026
"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4d0fi3N
A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, on a black background. The quote is: "… why curtail a program … that cultivates and grows the number of US graduate students and future researchers?"
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/02/2026
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child drawing of a female scientist. The hedline is: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026
ICE has detained at least 3,800 kids under the second Trump administration — more than 500 of whom were under 5 years old. Children shouldn't be locked up by our government.
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What Happens After a Child Is Taken Into ICE Custody?
Five-year-old Liam Ramos' detention by ICE has sparked questions about the policies underlying the agency's deportation operations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Gutsick Gibbon: A Gentle and Modern Ape @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I made a video about that new Paranthropus hand! youtu.be/WmtNIRqPNc8?...
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Wake Up Babe New Transitional Fossil Just Dropped
YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon
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Evolution Soup @evolutionsoup.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
✨NEW INTERVIEW!✨ RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE @carriemongle.bsky.social @trentonholliday.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/kcGgfUbbkwE
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
National Fossil Day (and World Anatomy Day) seems opportune timing to drop a couple of coauthored papers with great collaborators. Here's #2 for the day, this one led by colleague Cody Prang of Wash U. Ardipithecus is of critical importance for reconstructing the ancestral condition for hominins. 🏺🧪
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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
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Black in Anatomy Inc. @blackinanatomy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Today, on his birthday, we celebrate an inspirational Black anatomist whose legacy guides #BlackinAnat to this day. Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first #BlackinAnatWeek in October 2021! blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video #AnatomyArtAdvocacy #CobbPanel
Black in Anatomy Highlight of Dr W. Montague Cobb. Born on October 12, 1904 and died on November 20, 1990. Black in white Image of Dr. Cobb in suite and striped tie on a yellow highlight background. Dr. Cobb was a dedicated physician, biological anthropologist, anatomist, teacher, mentor, writer and activist.Dr W. Montague Cobb. Born on October 12, 1904 and died on November 20, 1990. Rewatch our Black in Anatomy Week October 12, 2021 video and panel discussion at blackinanatomy.org/resources of “The Life and Academic Legacy of Dr. W.M. Cobb Anatomy, Art and Advocacy.” Dr Cobb is pictured standing in a suit and tie. Black in Anatomy Dr W.M. Cobb and Anatomy with image of Dr. Cobb and a path of his time in anatomy. 1904: born in Oct 12 Washington, DC; 1921: Graduated Dunbar HS; 1924 AB from Amherst; 1925 Certificate in Embryology; 1929 MD from Howard University; 1932 PhD from Western Reserve (first Black Biological Anthropologist to earn PhD); 1932 start faculty position at Howard University; 1947: appointed Chair of Howard Department of Anatomy; 1969: named a Distinguished Professor; 1980 awarded American Association for Anatomy Henry Gray Award; 2019 W.M. Cobb Award in Morphological Sciences named for Dr. Cobb; #CobbPanel #AnatomyArtAdvocacyDr W. M. Cobb’s Influence on Medical Illustration with images and illustrations of Anna Russell Jones, Naida Willette Page and Marsha Jessup. #CobbPabel #AnatoymArtAdvocacy Black in Anatomy Week
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Black in Anatomy Inc. @blackinanatomy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#BlackinAnatWeek kicks off today! From Oct 13-18, join us for impactful webinars, community, art, and reflection celebrating anatomy and the #BlackinAnat mission! Come connect, learn, and grow with us! Register at: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy & Visit: blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
Black in Anatomy Week 2025 Schedule (#BlackinAnatWeek) on purple and pink background from October 13-October 18, 2025.
Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy 
Mon, October 13, 6 – 7 pm ET: Member meeting, #BlackinAnatMeets
Tues., October 14, 5:30– 6:30 pm ET: Sleep Research and Inclusive Excellence at UCLA webinar with Ketema Paul, PhD, #InclusiveAnatomy
Wed., October 15, 3:30– 4:30 pm ET: Representation in Anatomy: A Journey through Illustration, Publishing, and Change, webinar with Marcelo Oliver, #AnatomyArtAdvocacy #WorldAnatomyDay 
Thurs, October 16, 6:30 – 8 pm ET:  Paint & Celebrate virtual painting with Ni-ka Ford, MS, CMI and Black in Anatomy’s 5th Anniversary , #PaintCelebrate 
Fri, October 17, 12 – 1 pm ET: Beyond the Scalpel: Managing the Heart of Anatomy Labs with Integrity, Equity, and Expertise webinar with Kerrie S. Lashley, DHSc, #DiversityofAnatomy
Sat., October 18, All Day – Black in Anatomy Day of Rest, Reflection and Community, #BlackinAnatReflcs;  #BlackinAnatArt
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Impact of intermittent lead exposure on hominid brain evolution
Lead exposure, as influenced by NOVA1 expression, affected brain function in multiple hominid species.
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P. David Polly @pdpolly.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
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Chris Robinson @3dmandibleny.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Awesome papers out today by some awesome colleagues of mine.
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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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Tim Vernimmen @timvernimmen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A fossilized hand reveals 'Nutcracker Man' Paranthropus boisei, thought to have made the Oldupai gorge tools until Homo habilis was found, would also have been able to make and use those. Based on the @nature.com paper by @carriemongle.bsky.social et al. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Discovery of fossilized hand may unlock a 1.5-million-year-old mystery
Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking.
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
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New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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Black in Anatomy Inc. @blackinanatomy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Announcing the 2025 #BlackinAnatWeek presenters! Join us for connection, celebration and inspiration. Highlights: Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy #BlackinAnat
Presenter highlights for Black in Anatomy Week 2025 with profile images of the 4 presenters, Ketema Paul, Marcelo Oliver, Ni-ka Ford and Kerrie Lashley. 

Presentation schedule includes: 
October 14, 5:30– 6:30 pm ET: Sleep Research and Inclusive Excellence at UCLA by Ketema Paul, PhD,
October 15, 3:30– 4:30 pm ET: Representation in Anatomy: A Journey through Illustration, Publishing, and Change by Marcelo Oliver (medical illustrator),
October 16, 6:30 – 8 pm ET:  Paint & Celebrate with Ni-ka Ford, MS, CMI (certified medical illustrator) and Black in Black in Anatomy 5th Anniversary,
October 17, 12 – 1 pm ET: Beyond the Scalpel: Managing the Heart of Anatomy Labs with Integrity, Equity, and Expertise by Kerrie S. Lashley, DHSc,
Register at linktr.ee/blackinanatomy.
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/09/2025
Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community. Learn more this week: scim.ag/4nxcJbx
Young Turkana herders guide camels across Kenya’s arid landscape near Lake Turkana at sunset.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NEW: NIH leadership has denied the existence of a list of banned words for grantmaking purposes, but I have seen such a list circulating among staff. It has lots of words relating to gender and diversity, of course. Also things like "climate change," "vaccine hesitancy," "ethnic origin," and others.
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Come work with me! (Or Gabrielle or James) stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/ #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This new review by Sandel et al in @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social is a nice summary of the approach by which we can best link primate behavioral data to questions in #humanevolution using a more formalized comparative framework. #biologicalanthropology #paleoanthropology #primatology
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Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
So much fomo for missing #aaba2025, but at least I am missing it from the field
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Despite the recovery of 100s of fossils of Paranthropus robustus (a human cousin) in the last ~75 years, there's a lot we don't know for sure about its anatomy below the neck. This beautiful specimen contributes significantly to our knowledge of P. robustus hindlimb morphology. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
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First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa
Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Door sign official, I'm excited to introduce the SHaPE lab!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities. That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
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Nature @nature.com · 04/02/2025
Higher greenhouse-gas emissions, fewer jobs and dirtier air that kills more people: researchers have plugged Trump’s energy and climate policies into their models, and early results suggest far-reaching consequences for health, the economy and the planet. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway
Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm sorry... what?
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Senior scientists who will be reviewing tenure & promotion files in the future - please remember that the effects of many of these executive orders will disproportionately affect researchers from marginalized groups - often the same folks penalized by COVID-related delays, childcare issues, etc. 🧪
Image of a ship in rocky seas. Text reads “We are not all the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts, some have canoes, and some are drowning. Just be kind and help wherever you can”
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... 🏺🧪🦣 #paleoanthropology
Image from Skinner et al (2025) showing the SK 46 fossil specimen (a cranium typically attributed to Paranthropus robustus) from Swartkrans, South Africa. The specimen is depicted in sagittal section from the microCT image (top right) and as surface renderings of the cranium in anterior view (top left), lateral view (bottom left), and inferior view (bottom right).
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story | CNN
Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific...
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
IOB now in issue ! The Carnivoran #Adaptive Landscape Reveals Trade-offs among Functional Traits in the Skull, Appendicular, and Axial #Skeleton Chris J Law, L J Hlusko, Z J Tseng doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #fossils #analysis #carnivores #ecology #topology #locomotor #mammalian
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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R course with Alex Dornburg and Amandine Gillet. Phylogenetic (including total-evidence) dating, trait & lineage modelling, etc. 12-16 May 🧪@physaliacourses.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Poster for the R course showing an ancestral-state reconstruction of stripes in fishes.
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...
Example of Middle Jurassic mammal fossils from Skye, published by Elsa Panciroli et al. 2024.Cuillin Hills, the view from our field site on the Isle of Skye.
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Carrie Mongle @carriemongle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to be hosting @deadbovids.bsky.social for our TBI Speaker Series in a few weeks! DM if you would like to be added to our mailing list for the zoom link.
Flyer for paleobiology seminar happening on Feb 3rd at 10:30am EST
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