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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 29/08/2026

The Darwin Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Michael J Benton OBE FRS for his contribution to many aspects of palaeontological science, as well as authoring the standard textbooks in the field, popular science and children’s books. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) is creating a Review Board, and we’re looking for candidates across the entire span of palaeobiology. Interested in being a Review Editor? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

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Review Editors needed for Historical Biology

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) Associate Editor team is growing! We’re currently looking for candidates with expertise in insects, other arthropods, molluscs, & conodonts. Interested in joining our team? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@historicalbiology.bsky.social Historical Biology is looking for a Data Editor to join the new Data Team! Dr Brooke Long-Fox (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) & Dr Sarah Shelley are our current Data Editors, interested in joining them? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New paper alert! Julia Clarke & I wrote a piece in @historicalbiology.bsky.social on 'key advances' in descriptive anatomy, taxonomy/nomenclature, & interpretative palaeontology. We outline new online collections for our key themes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Key advances’ in descriptive anatomy, taxonomy/nomenclature, and interpretative palaeobiology: an outline and perspective

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m so proud to announce that @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social is the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Historical Biology! Brooke is instrumental in our move to being an Open Science and FAIR journal. Look out for more from her!

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Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Taxonomists: If you liked the old TAXACOM mailing list, we've restarted it. You can sign up, here: groups.google.com/g/taxacom Please share widely! We don't have access to the old lists. If you know any taxonomists, let them know, and pass it on. #science #academia #taxonomy

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

For #FossilFriday, we're paying tribute to fossils from the incredible work of our deputy editor-in-chief, Dr Hans Sues, who sadly passed away last weekend. This photo of him includes a cast of a Brontosaurus skull, a 20 m sauropod, from the Smithsonian where he worked 🦕(1/6)

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Reminder that @historicalbiology.bsky.social is changing data policy in Jan 2026. The journal will move to 'Publicly Available', meaning that data & code must be publicly available in a repository that mints a DOI. Our Data Editor (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social ) & I are on-hand to answer questions

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Paleo Nerds Podcast @paleonerdspod.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Theropod Appreciation Day 🦃, aka Thanksgiving! We're thankful for ALL of YOU - our listeners, who make this podcast so much fun to make. THANK YOU!!! Listen to the newest episode with paleontologist and cat-lover 🐈‍⬛️🐾, Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues! 🔊 Listen now: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 24/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Day 2 of #2025SVP announcements! We are delighted to be promoting 6 of our editorial board members: Arnau Bolet, Diego Castaneda, Masaya Iijima, Beniamino Mecozzi, Jorgo Ristevski, & Mohd Shafi Bhat, to associate editors!

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#2025SVP News about @historicalbiology.bsky.social (Historical Biology): we’re moving to online-only publication come January 2027! Reminder that I’ll be at the T&F booth Friday 16:30-17:00. (Also there at the moment)

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Please take note - Historical Biology is moving to ‘Publicly Available’ data policy in Jan 2026. If data/code is used in a paper, they will be required to be in an online repository.

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Matthew Warke @matthewwarke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I'll be at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Birmingham (UK) next week. 🦖 We have an exciting itinerary planned including several Meet the Editor sessions. Come say hi and bring your questions to any of our editors at our booth! 🤝 #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleontology

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In a new Editorial, Historical Biology promotes preregistration, Registered Reports, @pci-regreports.bsky.social and PCI-Paleonotology, and a three year plan to move to open and FAIR data standards. A forward-looking approach by @drmarkyoung.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Publication day for My Grandparents Were Dinosaurs! The story of how birds evolved from dinosaurs, for kids, from the creative mind of @annebrusatte.bsky.social ! And some fact-checking from me. Thrilled to unbox our copies. And you can get yours in the link below!

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

MorphoBank Connects kicks off Sept. 18 with featured speaker presentations on research applications, integrations & innovative uses of MorphoBank. Speakers include 🧵 READ MORE: bit.ly/MorphoConnectsBlog REGISTER: bit.ly/morphobankconnect #evolutionarybiology #paleontology #phylogenetics #biology

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@historicalbiology.bsky.social now has online Collections. One where I highlight papers that are thought-provoking or advance a field. The other is edited by our Science Communication Editor (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social) - which brings together his SciComm series. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ghb...

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Historical Biology article collections

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor John Whitlock. This Diplodocus specimen is Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM) 11161. It is essentially complete, largely undeformed, and has been studied so extensively; making it an exceptionally important fossil for understanding feeding 🦕

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a fascinating new paper detailing the collection of Sir John Murray on board the HMS Challenger at @nhm-london.bsky.social Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper by Miller & Jouet-Sarkany: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Historical Biology now has a Phylogenetics Editor (Dr Rodrigo Müller). Please read Rodrigo’s editorial where he goes over that this means for the Journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Phylogenetic studies at Historical Biology

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Peer Community in Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We're delighted to welcome Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social as our latest (and 36th) PCI RR-friendly journal! Full journal entry: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr... Complete list of PCI RR-friendly journals: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...

Statement of commitment: Historical Biology will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR.

Disciplinary scope: Empirical research covering evolutionary and systematic biology through time. Fields included are: descriptive and comparative anatomy, taxonomy and nomenclature, philosophy of biology, descriptions of new datasets and methods, phylogenetics, statistical analyses, palaeobiology, palaeobiogeography, evolutionary processes and patterns, molecular paleontology, extinction, and taphonomy.

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Some exciting Historical Biology updates! 1. We've changed data policy, to 'share upon reasonable request'. This is our first step to becoming an Open & FAIR journal. Now data availability statements are mandatory: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/.../data.../

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We will soon be changing our minimum Data Sharing Policy to ‘Share Upon Reasonable Request’ where authors agree to make data available provided this does not violate ethical concerns. Data Availability Statements will also be mandatory. Guidance: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing....

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Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm excited to serve as the Data Editor for Historical Biology! 🎉

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our first #ScienceCommunication editorial is published! Here, we highlight one of our recently published studies on a classic "dinosaur trackway" from the 1940s 🦕 🦖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The study being highlighted can be read #OpenAccess 🔓 here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Please read Brooke’s (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) editorial! She is the Data Editor for Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) and is forming the guidelines for our transition to be an Open and FAIR journal. Watch out for further updates from her! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Data sharing at historical biology

In this editorial, as the new Data Editor of Historical Biology, I will discuss how the journal is strengthening its commitment to research transparency, reproducibility and accessibility. This ini...

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We have a new special issue in the works at Historical Biology: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Human Behavior and Paleoecological Dynamics in Early and Middle Pleistocene Europe! We will be taking submissions until March 31st. You can read more at: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu....

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

New editorial: Darren (@tetzoo.bsky.social) is the new Book Review Editor at Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social). If anyone has ideas for book (online or hard copy) that they’d like to either review, or see reviewed, please contact Darren!

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

For all submitting authors: our journal has funding agreements with various institutions that may allow you the option of publishing your work #OpenAccess 🔓for free! You can check on our website to see if this is an option for your work: www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/m...

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I can officially announce that I have been elected as an ICZN Commissioner. I’m deeply honoured that the international zoological community voted me to be one of the eight new commissioners. My fellow new commissioners are listed on the ICZN website: www.iczn.org

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The start of Science Communication at Historical Biology! @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social will be leading our socials and will be publishing a new monthly SciComm editorial series. He is also on hand to help authors promote their papers published in the journal. Please read his SciComm Editorial too.

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Jack is the new Science Communication Editor for Historical Biology. In his editorial he outlines the exciting changes he’s driving. From Friday he will be running our social media presence, and he has a new monthly SciComm editorial series starting soon!

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Science Communication at Historical Biology

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The future of Historical Biology. (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) My first editorial as editor-in-chief. I outline the changes made so far and those to come. Watch out for the editorials from the 4 specialist editors! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NM79E...

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The future of Historical Biology

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

An update on the revamp of Historical Biology: we are well-underway! Over half of the Associate Editor positions filled, and 3 of the 4 dedicated editorships are filled: Book Review Editor, Science Communication Editor, and Data Editor. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Historical Biology has a Special Issue lead by Dr Antonio Pineda of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris. It is on the interplay between human behaviour and palaeoecology during the Pleistocene in Europe. The submission deadline is 31 March think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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