Congratulations to our 2026 Huxley Award recipient, Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa, for the educational resource: “evolved: an open-source R package designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in evolutionary biology”! Read more: shorturl.at/1ZdFE@mjanua...
Watched Satyajit Ray's "Charulata" last night. What a gorgeous film. Wonderful soundtrack (composed by Ray) too.
trailer: youtu.be/WJBglRi-IhU?...
Great poster reception at the E. C. Case year-end celebratory event in the Museum of Paleontology!
Agreed!
Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!!
My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species.
DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!
Ainda tem muito pra trazer de volta. Mas vamos trazer tudo!
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
I urge people to read both what Derek Peterson actually said in his commencement speech -- the whole thing -- and what he says in this article responding to the controversy. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses HT @daveyfwright.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wonderful interview with Caroline Strömberg on the Scientess podcast discussing her journey as a paleontologist and human. Such a great listen. www.scientess.org
(Lina does all the caricature portraits of the guests, including this one ☟of herself...)
Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢
#Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Society for the Study of Evolution
Jeff Wilson Mantilla
Jeff Wilson Mantilla
Jeff Wilson Mantilla
Matt Friedman
Rodrigo Figueroa
Prof. Juan Cisneros ⚒️🐉
Sam Bagenstos
Joseph W. Brown
Xavier A. Jenkins
I see "done is better than perfect" as writing advice very often. But at best it's not very useful advice; at worst, it can lead writers astray.
There’s a piece of writing advice that I run across a lot (I’ve even given it). It’s excellent advice, except that it isn’t. Which doesn’t make much sense even to me, so I’m going to try to unpack …
Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Stephen Heard
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"The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous," University of Michigan history professor Derek Peterson said as a follow-up to his graduation day remarks.
