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Annual Meeting #2025SVP was an absolute blast! Great to reconnect with European colleagues this year, and to hang out with EDDy Lab folks again. I presented some of our ongoing work on #teeth #biomechanics. Stay tuned, more toothy madness on the way! 🦷
Had a blast for the first #SVP2025 day yesterday with an amazing carnivora session 🦁🐻🦝🦦
What an amazing way to start the meeting 🤩
Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...
New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
We’d also like to highlight research conducted with fossils from this locality by international scholars who are utilizing new technology like 3D scanning which allows us to work with fossils in new ways and have a digital record that increases accessibility to these fossils.
Post-doc @narimanechatar.bsky.social is working with extinct sabertoothed cat-like carnivores from John Day, scanning a cast of Pogonodon platycopsis, housed in the UCMP. 3D scanning allows her to compare the shape and mechanical performances of its cranium and jaw. tinyurl.com/pogcranium
Image of three brown and black fossil jaw fragments of extinct weasel relatives, Leptarctus, with short but sharp cusps. Open access paper at https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.48360
Celebrating #NationalFossilDay with a new paper describing specimens of the most whimsical of weasel relatives, leptarctine ("slender bear") mustelids, from the collections of @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social.
Their teeth are so much fun to look at! 🦷
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(Cover image by P. Holroyd)
New study lead by
@liujuan.bsky.social out today in @science.org 🥳 Otophysan (e.g. carp, catfish, eels) didn't originate from fresh water but instead first evolved in a marine ecosystem, colonizing fresh water multiple times🐟 @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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.
New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷♂️
@universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social
@peerj.bsky.social
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NEWS: 4 years PhD studentship at the University of Malaga (Spain). Evolution of the backbone and limbs of crocodylomorphs, supervised by Professor Borja Figueirido @bortxaf.bsky.social and myself. More information here👇 #paleobiology #biomechanics
Fully funded PhD position available at
@univmalaga.bsky.social 👩🎓👨🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social
Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨
Brand new paper about meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social offering both practical guidance and structured comparison of meshing techniques in #CFD
➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70146
✨ Key improvements: – Works with modern Blender versions – 2 “lofting” methods for complex muscle shapes – Mesh resolution control – More accurate parameter calculations – Automatic muscle texture – Fewer bugs, better stability
🔗 Available here: github.com/MiguelDLM/my...
New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Abstract accepted for a talk at #SVP2025 - #2025SVP in Birmingham 🇬🇧 See y'all there if you wanna learn about fun stuffs we did to learn more about teeth form-function 🦷🥩🌿
Can you spot the Black Sabbath ref in the title? 😎🤘🎸
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The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053
1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY 🐈 A paleontological look at our favorite felines ! Did you know the very first known feline lived in France nearly 30 million years ago? Learn more 👇
Special thanks to @valentinfischer.bsky.social @narimanechatar.bsky.social and team !
www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_204630...
(finally) back in in Liège for a few days after two conference in a row.
Had an amazing time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #EAVP2025 and @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBCONFERENCE 🤩
Hey @sebiology.bsky.social attendees! Don't forget the A2 - Experimental palaeo session in Nightingale 1&2 tomorrow morning 🤩🦖🦾 #SEBCONFERENCE #SEB2025
So proud of Nicolas who just won the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social best poster award this year in Kraków 🇵🇱🤩🥟
I had the chance to co-supervise Nicolas for his BSc thesis last semester at @maastrichtu.bsky.social
We looked into the functional anatomy of proboscideans long bones using FEA 🦴🐘🦣
🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
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Please get in touch with questions!
The Invertebrate Paleontology department at the AMNH is seeking a full-time Museum Specialist.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
Has anyone been able to upload anything on MorphoSource recently?
Finally got it right this year 😍 #2026MMM
Long live the king of the artic 👑🐻❄️
A bit late but... for this #FossilFriday I'm proud to announce that I was awarded a #MSCA Global Fellowship scoring +98%🥳Starting Dec 1st I will spend 2 more years at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social with @tsengzj.bsky.social followed by 1 year at @univmalaga.bsky.social with @bortxaf.bsky.social🐺🐯🐻🦝
For this #FossilFriday meet Sarkastodon mongoliensis from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia from @natural-history.bsky.social we scanned with PhD student Melvin Vankeslt. First described in 1938 by W. Granger this oxyaenid was absolutely MASSIVE 😱
A bit too late for #FossilFriday but I haven't post anything in a while soooo... In the @natural-history.bsky.social for 2 weeks to scan carnivorous mammals with PhD student Melvin Vankelst and we found some BIG BOIIIS 🐯🐺
BFEX: Blender Finite Elements eXporter is a Blender extension (a.k.a. add-on) for building Finite Elements Models to be used on Fossils. From Blender you can easily build, visualize, export and run your FEA
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