⛏Vertebrate Palaeontologist 📝 Assistant Professor @stonybrooku 🇿🇦Proudly South African 🦕Basal sauropodomorphs are my jam ✉ [email protected]
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📢📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY
The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand is looking for a new director!
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Spent a wonderful few days in London, where I finally got to meet Fern (*swoon*) and the new baby, Enigmacursor 🤩🦕🌿
It was wonderful wandering around @NHM_London , and catching up with friends/colleagues. A massive thank you to @NHMdinolab for everything 🤗👏🇬🇧
A highly successful and enjoyable #2025SVP @SVP_vertpaleo in Birmingham! Had a wonderful time chatting about synchrotron scanning, catching up with friends/colleagues from back home and around the world, and finding out what cool fossil science people are up to! 🤩🦕👏🇿🇦🔬🩻🇬🇧
📢📢What's better than one tenure track position? TWO TENURE TRACK POSITIONS! See comments for descriptions. 🧠🦴💀🐁🦎🐍🐢🥳
BOTH have an application deadline of Nov 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
Feel free to reach out with any questions!
📢📢WE ARE HIRING! 🥳🎉
Please share far and wide.
Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the areas of evolutionary neuroanatomy, comparative neuroscience, brain evolution, and/or sensory adaptations in vertebrates.
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That's a wrap on 2.5 weeks of fossil digging in one of our favourite places, Qhemegha, EC, SA. 🇿🇦⛏️🦕💚
A great crew, fantastic hosts, cooperative quarries, fabulous new fossils, and heeps of memories.
Thank you to everyone involved.
Until next time, I already can't wait! 🤩
Today marks one year since I started as an assistant professor at @stonybrooku ! 🎉🦕⛏️🎂
I am so very grateful to my colleagues and the students in the Department of Anatomical Sciences for being such a great bunch of people to be around and work with.
📢This year’s NorthEast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES) will take place on Friday April 11th, 2025 at @stonybrooku , NY!🥳🎉
Deadline for submitting a presentation title and author list will be March 14th.
Spread the word far & wide!
For more info, see below⬇️
In January 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting at the 200 years of dinosaurs meeting at the @NHM_London. Today, our invited review in the @RSocPublishing Biology Letters was published!
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
#FossilFriday post courtesy @AMNH. Apex and the origami christmas tree in one day? Not too shabby. 🎄⛏️
A neat little peek into some of what our department at @stonybrooku gets up to in the field! 🦕🦖🐊🐁⛏️
I'm very grateful to be surrounded by such supportive, engaging and fun colleagues/friends! 🤩
Read it here:
mag.stonybrook.edu/fossil-hu…
Happy Holidays from @NHMdinolab and myself! 🎄🎁
We give you a "A (not so) brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series".
This is really Paul's passion project, and I am so grateful to have been involved.🌟
ALT Chronological timeline summarising the taxonomic history of Massospondylus spp.
ALT Colour lithograph of the palaeontological gallery at the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London. Artists, T.H. Shepherd and E. Radclyffe. This file comes fromWellcome Images, a website operated byWellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom (© Wellcome Trust: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0013494.html).
Delighted to share this, just out, written with @Kimi_Chap detailing the taxonomic history of Massospondylus and tidying up its syntypes. Hopefully a good read for taxonomists & a good cure for insomnia for the rest of you. #FossilFriday Free here: tinyurl.com/4pxys3u4
To all @SVP_vertpaleo members, remember to join the SVP Business Meeting today at 5:30pm ET. It is a great opportunity to learn more about the behind the scenes of the society and ask any questions you might have.
Ain't no party like a histo party! Thank you @PaleoZoek and @BensonLabOxford for sharing your toys with me. 🎉🦴🔬
And thank you @JackL0vegr0ve and @NHMdinolab for inviting me onto this neat project! 🤩
Happy #FossilFriday!
