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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

So, what to take away from all of this?

Meme featuring panels from Watchmen, depicting Doctor Manhattan on the Moon contemplating time. Speech bubbles indicate that Chondrosteus can tell us something about the origin of sturgeons every time we look at it, written here as “It is 1833/1927/2026. Chondrosteus can tell us about the origin of sturgeons.”

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Out now in Contributions from me and @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, a deep dive into an early member of the sturgeon and paddlefish lineage. Bear with me, but there’s a long backstory highlighting uncertainty about the anatomy of living species and how well-studied fossils can still yield new insights.

Photograph of a fossil fish skull in right lateral view. The bone is dark brown/black against a gray matrix.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

UMMP is hiring: Administrative Assistant Senior position with primary duties related to administrative support, collections and publications compliance, and museum outreach and communications work. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Administrative Assistant Sr | U-M Careers

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

And with that the last formation piece of the year is done! Monte Bolca is one of the most famous productive fossil lagerstätten in the world! This Italian paradise for Eocene fossils is just as ingrained into paleontology like Solnhofen or Hell Creek. But since we...

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Harriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word! openpalaeo.org @openpalaeo.bsky.social

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Managing Editor job advert

Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Steering Committee job advert

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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Rodrigo Figueroa @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!! You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Fantastic boxed set of Paleozoic fish models from Ward's, scared up by Matt Kolmann.

Relief models of early fishes on rectangular blocks, arranged in two columns in a box.

Inner side of box lid containing fish models. Depicts a phylogeny (of sorts) of vertebrates with lots of dotted lines and branches that don't connect at the base.

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James Andrews @james-v-andrews.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Interested in Carboniferous vertebrates from the North American continent? Check out our new publication in the Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan series. dx.doi.org/10.7302/25119

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James Andrews @james-v-andrews.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Some of my favorite photos from a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan several summers ago.

A wooden bridge crossing over a stream that runs through a coniferous forest, with a waterfall in the foreground.

A forced perspective shot to make a thin break in the rocks appear larger than they are. Cliffsides of Pictured Rocks visible on the horizon.

A forced perspective shot to make a small, sandy cliff appear larger. The sun is setting in the background.

Dusk over a calm, shallow inlet of Lake Superior. A crescent moon is visible on the left horizon.

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

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