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Scientist spotted 🔦 Andrei Sourakov (Andrei Sourakov), researcher and collection manager here at our McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, published a book with his daughter Alexandra that explores the 100-million-year history of butterflies. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-bo… 🌼🦋🐛

The AAAS has named 12 FLORIDA faculty members as Lifetime Fellows for their exceptional achievements in science and innovation. Congratulations to these individuals for their dedication to scientific advancement. Learn more about each fellow: news.ufl.edu/2024/04/aaas-f…

Congrats! 🔸🔹 Michal Kowalewski (@MJKowalewski), Thompson chair of invertebrate paleontology here at the Florida Museum, is one of 34 FLORIDA faculty members named 🐊 2024 UF Research Foundation professors! Full announcement: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/michal…

#ICYMI 🔎 There are 16 porcupine species in Central and S. America, but only one in the U.S. + Canada. DNA evidence suggests N. America’s sole porcupine belongs to a group that originated 10 million years ago, but fossils seem to tell a different story. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…

Exploring Museum Collections 🦈 #SharkSunday Several specimens from our vertebrate paleontology collection show a variety of colors of #fossil shark teeth. Richard Hulbert explains how shark teeth fossilize and develop these colors: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/are-sh…

Research news 🔎 NSF funds awarded to study bagworms, bubonic plague, ancient mammals and more efficient ways for people to share their observations of nature with scientists. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/fundin… 🐛🌎🦠🗺️

For years, picrodontids were thought to be primates based on their teeth. Researchers recently took a closer look at a picrodontid skull and came to a different conclusion. discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/a…

Exploring Museum Collections 🤩 Cute carapace! #FossilFriday This is the only known large section of a carapace of this armadillo species found articulated in Florida! Feature Species: Dasypus bellus Specimen: # UF 61906 Locality: Hillsborough Co. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb…

While we know museum visitors love live labs in exhibits, a new study looks at the experience of the scientists and volunteers laboring in the lab: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/intera… Study by Elizabeth Riotto, Megan Ennes, and Melanie Giangreco: doi.org/10.32473/ufjur… University of Florida News

Advocational paleontologists discovered a new site in FL! Check out our paper on the unusual taxa (especially horses, tapirs, and pampatheres) that lived during a poorly known time interval (0.5-0.7 Ma)! mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/4/… #FossilFriday Florida Museum FLORIDA MDPI

Job Alert: We are hiring a 2-year postdoc Florida Museum to work on an NSF-funded project to investigate the impact of climate change on mammalian functional diversity across the PETM. Email Jon Bloch or Arthur Porto with any questions.   Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5341…

We are hiring two Postdocs Florida Museum FLORIDA! 1) Paleobiology + AI (U.S. National Science Foundation -funded, with Bloch Lab @UF ): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5341… 2) AI for Biology (open-ended): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5342… Deadline Jan 15th. Flexible start date. Please, RT! See also biovisionlab.com

In case you missed it, we extended the application deadline to January 23!

Welcome Vaughn Shirey, our newest curator of butterflies and moths! 🎉 👏👏👏🦋 Working in our McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Vaughn M. Shirey | Ph.D. will help study and digitize our moth and butterfly collections. About his career and research: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/vaughn…

A new study of the most complete skeleton of a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, Mixodectes pungens, has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/a-62-m… Study: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Thank you Maria Vallejo-Pareja, Sarah Steele Cabrera and Domenique Sorresso! 👏👏👏 Announcing our annual graduate student awards, given for significant contributions to the development of museum collections, programs & research. About each recipient: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…

#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more fossils: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/…

A fossil tooth and two vertebrae unearthed in the Dominican Republic have paleontologists rethinking sebecids, giant croclike terrestrial predators, and their story in the Caribbean. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/giant-… Study: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Congrats Lazaro! 👏👏👏 So proud of our students graduating from FLORIDA this week and grateful they choose to do their grad work with our faculty! Dr. Lazaro Viñola-López, advised by Jonathan I. Bloch, received his doctoral degree through the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UF Department of Biology 👉 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/from-th…