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New 📜 out open access in Paleobiology and the last from my Ph.D.: bit.ly/3PUB4rD Consilience from fossils and the living biota on crinoid historical biogeography, and the meaning for the origins of Indo-Pacific diversity

Great to spend some quality time with the UM Paleontology crew at #IPC6 🌏🇹🇭

A little more than week left until the deadline. As the search chair, I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, the university, and the area. Please help get the word out!

New preprint! "Sorting of persistent morphological polymorphisms links paleobiological pattern to population process" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Introducing a new genus of crinoids! Led by intrepid MISE intern Riccardo Virgili. #thisishowMISErolls #freePDFatlink tandfonline.com/eprint/K3JQZHX…

Question: what is the most insane fossil in the world? Answer: the Holm preparation of Eurypterus. These are Wenlock (~430 Ma) sea scorpions etched out of limestone with nitric acid and mounted on slides in the late 19th century. LOOK AT THIS SHIT!

Super fun and interesting collaboration with some great folks!

PhD position available in my lab in Oslo. Does one (or more) of the following subjects make your heart beat faster than normal? ☑️ mammals ☑️ phenomics ☑️ morphometrics ☑️ quantitative genetics If yes, read more here 👇 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Come to Oslo and join the team!

It was announced today that Chuck Messing, one of the world's global authorities on crinoids passed away today. He loved researching the deep-sea and sharing what he knew with students and colleagues. He will be missed.

I am very proud! The Phenotypic Evolution Time Series (PETS) database is now online! pets.nhm.uio.no PETS is a public database containing data on phenotypic change within (fossil and contemporary) lineages. Why did we make it? A short 🧵

The Stratigraphic Paleobiology Field Conference 2024 is happening! Applications open January 8-March 8. stratigrafia.org/fieldconferenc…

Our paper in Science Magazine demonstrates that microevolutionary evolvability can predict evolutionary divergence across timescales spanning thousands to millions of years, linking evolution across these vast time intervals. Work led by Agnes Holstad science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper alert (open access)! Thanks to a new tip-dated phylogeny of bonytongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) with a large sample of fossils, we find that today's freshwater arapaimas and arowanas were ancestrally marine! (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Very sad news…. Michael Ruse passed away today. We only met in person a few times but we have interacted for about 15 years and he was always more than generous as a scholar in providing thoughts and advice. In Memoriam: Michael Ruse (1940-2024) leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/11/i…