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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Know an outstanding early-career scientist? 🐟🐠🦴 Nominations for the Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship at @UCBerkeley (2027–2030) are now open! ⏱ Term: 3 years (starts July–Sept 2027) 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2026 Details: miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app... #Postdoc #HigherEd #ScienceJobs

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Miller Research Fellowship | Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nice work!! Second Sicence cover article of this month from Jack’s Lab!

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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday! 🐟New fish species described from Professor Juan Liu and Jiang-Yong Zhang! In their paper published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, they describe Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov., a fresh water cypriniform fish found in Guangdong, China. doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New fossil fish dropped! Meet Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov. Despite fragile, swampy origins, exceptional preservation of its head sensory canals is shedding new light on Cypriniformes evolution! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Paleontology #Ichthyology #Fossil #NewSpecies #Evolution

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Narimane Chatar @narimanechatar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New paper out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Taxonomic reassessment of tristichopterid materials (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from Middle Devonian Red Hill, Nevada, USA by Leong and Liu (2026). Read the full study here: buff.ly/kqHxf4E #PaleoSky #NewResearch #Devonian

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New study clears up a longstanding taxonomic problem with tetrapodomorph fishes from Red Hill, NV, and argues that Tinirau is a tristichopterid. Congrats to Derrick Leong and @liujuan.bsky.social of @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social!

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

May the fish be with you! ✨🐟

Fossil fish bones surrounded by rocks and found by CSVP attendees

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Humbled to see my work and opinion included in this study, alongside some of the best female paleoichthyologists across continents. Our resilience is written in the fossil record 💪🐟🐠🐡 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Women from the Americas and Their Contribution to Fish Paleontology

PDF | Paleontological studies have traditionally been conducted by male researchers, and the study of fossil fishes, as well as extant ones, has been no... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

On National Fossil Day, we celebrate the scientific and educational importance of paleontology and our responsibility to conserve fossils for future generations. Today, October 15th, 2025, is the 16th Anniversary of National Fossil Day! #NationalFossilDay www.nps.gov/subjects/fos...

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National Fossil Day (U.S. National Park Service)

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Excavated from the Pisces Point locality of Scollard Formation in Alberta, Canada, ~67 million years old, Acronichthys maccognoi, newly reported in @science.org, was recovered from ancient water body that flipped seasonally between fast-flowing channels and quiet, still pools.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Student’s life is not getting easier!

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fascinating catfish and a great report! Make sure to turn on the sound when you play the video. You won’t regret it! 😉

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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Support science and the UCMP this Thursday during #CalBigGive! Pledge to support our Education & Outreach Program! Read more about our dedication to science and our diversity of STEM Ed resources on our blog:https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/2025/03/support-science-and-the-ucmp-during-cal-big-give/

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Z. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.

We are now facing unprecedented, systemic challenges to scientific enterprise, its infrastructure, and the diverse people and communities that make it possible. The recent executive orders issued by the Office of the President of the United States threaten to directly harm our discipline and the people in it.

As paleontologists, we know that in times of upheaval, ecological communities that fare the best tend to be the most diverse. Analogously, our varied backgrounds and perspectives and our willingness to listen to and learn from each other have enabled us to adapt to challenges facing our discipline and our Society in the past. We believe that the best approach to overcoming these new challenges is to turn to our fundamental values and our mission, which includes facilitating the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, ecology, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals. We take this moment to specifically support and affirm the right of all of our members and our non-member colleagues to conduct science and live their lives in safety and harmony, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, or citizenship status.

We encourage members in positions of safety and security to advocate for members who are not. Speak out in favor of research funding, evidence-based policies, and policies that ensure people of all identities receive equitable protections and opportunities. SVP leadership is actively working with other scientific organizations to respond to and mitigate the impact of these government actions on our members. We will continue to prioritize building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive vertebrate paleontology community where all feel welcome and are able to thrive.

The mission of our Society is primarily scientific in nature. We seek to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology throughout the world,

and foster the scientific, educational, and personal appreciation and understanding of vertebrate fossils and fossil sites. Several executive actions taken by the current presidential administration are antithetical to this mission, including the pause and audit of federal grant funding, the silencing of federal employees, the stripping of climate history data from government websites, the attempts to downsize the federal workforce, including departments charged with maintaining fossils and fossil sites, and attacks on academic freedom, climate change research, disabled people, transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people, immigrants, and endeavors for diversity, equity and inclusion. These actions, if successful, will impede our ability to carry out our mission and harm the broader practice of science.

The Society would like to gather additional information regarding the effects of recent federal action on paleontologists on the ground. To help us in this task, we ask that you share your experiences. We would like to know if you have been impacted or may be impacted by these executive actions. We recognize that at this point there is uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the federal funding audit, pending legal challenges, and other aspects of these executive actions, so you may not know the full impacts yet. This uncertainty itself is an impact. If you have been or might be impacted by these executive actions, please fill out this survey. Please also provide any ideas or suggestions, including areas of concern on which you believe the Society should focus.

Below we share some resources that you may find helpful when considering ways to support your colleagues and/or take action during these tumultuous times. We appreciate that this is a time full of uncertainty for many of you, especially those located in the United States, and we will do our best to keep you informed of Society actions.

In solidarity,
Stuart Sumida, SVP President, and the SVP Executive Comm.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨Calling all undergrads!🚨 The IB SURE program at UC Berkeley is a great chance to dive into cutting-edge research in Integrative Biology! 🔬🐟🌿 My lab has hosted two IB SURE students in the past— fun research, hands-on experience, & mentorship! #ResearchOpportunity #IBSURE

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The remarkably similar-looking Noturus fish exhibit surprising variation in their Weberian ossicles, with significant associations to stem velocity and substrate type. This suggests that their auditory apparatus may adapt to specific microhabitats.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🎉 Published online today! 🐟 Thrilled to share FAM Lab PhD candidate Jennifer Hoeflich's thesis research! Using 3D GMM, she discovered that stream velocity & substrate influence ossicle morphology, suggesting acoustic adaptations to microhabitats. 🌊🪨🔬 #EcoMorphology #Ichthyology #Paleontology

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A vertebrate hard at work … dreaming of fish? 🐱💤🐠

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