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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congrats to Ben, Xavier, Roger and all else involved! Important paper, yet again showing how we can reinterpret known fossils with modern imaging techniques. Looking forward to the promised future research mentioned in this thread 👇

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cool new study on Tanystropheus, featuring specimens from our UMO collections at the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken! Congrats to the author Adam Rytel to what looks like a really comprehensive study. www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

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<em>Tanystropheus</em> still conspicuous—an osteological redescription of the first tanystropheid - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for visiting, @abel-paleo.bsky.social! Interesting science to come from your visit - looking forward to seeing more UMO fossils in the spotlight 🌊🐊

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper: doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🐢 In this paper, our team around Scott Bellotti describe multiple crania and mandibles of Plesiobaena antiqua, a Campanian baenid turte, assess intraspecific variation, and discuss the significance of this variation for baenid taxonomy.

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Brian Sidlauskas @briansidlauskas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The American Museum of Natural History is searching for a new curator, either in ichthyology or mammalogy. This is an incredible opportunity to work with an exceptional collection and outstanding colleagues. Review of applications begins November 10. careers.amnh.org/postings/4925

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Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever wondered which characters support individual clades in a tree? My new method maps phylogenetic support across a dataset. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Try it in R: pak::pkg_install("ms609/TreeSearch@cpp-search") ?TreeSearch::ClusteringConcordance

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Figure 1 from our paper, highlighting turtle ecology across phylogeny

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is another contribution to our series of review papers on the systematics of major groups. We asked world experts to give us their take on the state of the art, and where their field would be going in the next decade. Prof Susan Evans on lepidosaurs 👇

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interesting work day - exploring the Zoolithenhöhle near Bayreuth, an important Pleistocene cave archive.

Man ascending narrow metal latter up a crevasse in a cave

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...

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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Radial phylogenetic tree of passerine birds, with branches colored according to evolutionary rate. Color drawings of select species decorate the tips. A set of bivariate plots are shown as four panels below.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Especially given the breathtaking fossils and cool papers that have come from Skye of late, this sounds like a really cool position!

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Typical evening. I can finally watch a soccer game I want to and the only goal is scored in the minute I see to the toddler who woke for said minute. On a brighter node: paper accepted.

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

1/12 🚨🚨 I am so excited to share chapter 1 of my dissertation, now preprinted here: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We ask if are their fundamental, shared mechanisms that stop us from inferring the relationship of species and their timescale of divergence #biology #science

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is a great resource and primer to the topic! It was great fun to edit this one - more cool review papers in this series to come 😉

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Technically, they’re Remains now.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Legendary morphometrician Fred L. Bookstein (1947–2026) passed away (news by Hugo A. Benítez). Made the analysis of morphological shapes rigorous and mathematically justified. Paleontology here benefitted from the geometric morphometric innovations the most. 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

Founding figures of the geometric morphometrics by Fred Bookstein

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition

Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Oh - the first one is out! I’m editing several of these systematic reviews, and am looking forward to seeing all other contributions :)

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My kids like the right kind of animals 🐢❤️

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Double satisfaction today: Important reptile phylo paper out, & my family & I reached Vienna - a cycle trip of more than 400km down the Danube fr where we started in 🇩🇪. In this stunning building (Natural History Museum), they house one of the coolest turtle fossils (Archelon) - just passing today.

Natural History Museum Building in Vienna

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The coolest paper I’ve been involved with in a while just dropped! 1. we have (plenty) morphological support for turtles+archosaurs. 2. Eunotosaurus is a millerettid stem reptile, no stem turtle. 3. Without clear fossorial precursors, the ecology of shell evolution needs to be revisited (aquatic!?)

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Rodrigo Figueroa @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Very well-timed publication of my most recent work at @royalsociety.org Proc B showcasing the backbone of my future research at @stonybrooku.bsky.social! There is still much to learn about ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution and the diversity of ways brain and endocasts interact in this lineage!

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The ray-finned fish blackbox: unprecedented morphological diversity and the interplay between brain and endocast

Abstract. Vertebrates are unique among animals as they bear a neurocranium, which almost completely encapsulates the brain. Thus, within vertebrates, the e

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New paper! Thanks to John for initiating & leading this work, in which we describe the collumellae/stapes of sauropsids, including turtles 🐢, birds 🐦‍⬛, lepidosaurs 🐍 and crocs 🐊. "Clade-wide morphological and functional variation of the sauropsid columella" Open access: doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

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Clade‐wide morphological and functional variation of the sauropsid columella

The columella (=stapes) is the middle ear bone of reptiles that transmits vibrations from the environment to the inner ear. It has been shown to exhibit extensive interspecific morphological disparit....

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Good to see that this specimen will reside in Brazil in the (hopefully near) future.

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Eileen Straube @eileenstraube.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢 Paper alert! Excited to share the first publication of my PhD!😁 We analysed fossil occurrences of the last 23 Ma to understand how geographic range change relates to extinction risk.🌍🐚🪸🦈 Keen to learn more? Here is the paper: 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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The Extinction Risk–Range Change Relationship: Evidence From the Fossil Record

Aim Climate change is a major driver for the wave of species extinctions predicted for this century. Extinction risk assessments are often estimated from climate-driven reductions in the geographic .....

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If you're interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral (or any other) fellowship to come work with me @es-ucl.bsky.social on sauropod dinosaurs, crocodiles, fossil birds, past biodiversity patterns, and/or vertebrate conservation palaeobiology, please get in touch

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This was actually my 50th peer-reviewed paper 😊 feels like a bit of a milestone, even though I know it’s just a number.

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Olof Moleman @lordtrilobite.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Finished Nothosaurus marchicus skull sculpture. Life size print, sculpted in #Blender. #paleoart #sciart

3D printed skull sculpture of Nothosaurus marchicus, with open jaw held in hand.

3D printed skull sculpture of Nothosaurus marchicus, held in hand.

3D printed skull sculpture of Nothosaurus marchicus. Skull and jaw separated.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Also congratulations to Dr Juliette Menon, who defended her PhD today just after Guilherme. I supervised one of her chapters, but otherwise she was Walter Joyce‘s student 🐢

Walter Joyce to the right, Juliette Menon in the center and me to the left standing in front of a large screen showing a fossil sea turtle skull that was part of Juliette‘s PhD

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very special day: congratulations to Dr. Guilherme Hermanson for defending his PhD today - my 1st PhD student 🥹This brings our Swiss SNSF Ambizione project to an official end - many papers still coming. Guilherme will start an own postdoc project joining @singerstone.bsky.social‘s lab 🐢

Me in the foreground with Guilherme next to me, in front of his title slide on turtle ecomorphology

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Dr John Clarke @jclarkepaleo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

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Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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Erin E. Saupe @eesaupe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New paper: we describe the inner ear anatomy of Eunotosaurus africanus, based on a specimen that has not been published previously. Open access @journalsystpal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

3D models of the inner ear of Eunotosaurus

Eunotosaurus specimen from the BPI collections at Wits in Johannesburg

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... Guilherme & I investigate dietary selectivity on turtle K/Pg extinction - durophagous turtles have higher survivorship probability. Beautiful art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Durophagous Palatobaena, found to both sides of the extinction horizon, sitting on an extinct Basilemys with the mandatory T. rex skull in the background. Art by Joschua Knüppe

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David Bapst @dwbapst.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going. The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Lisa Hülsmann @lisahuelsmann.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io

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Earth System Research and Training at FAU

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I just love this place. Bird hall in the Naturkundemuseum Bamberg - original exhibits from 1791 (and younger). Newest cabinet from 1830s.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Usually, I don’t read threads with 35 posts on fishes - but I make exceptions for Matt’s posts ;)

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

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PearTree — Phylogenetic Tree Viewer

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