The Field Museum is looking for an invertebrate paleontologist!!!
fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…

Hopefully better late than never! Sending love to the paleocommunity, I am sorry for any harm I have inadvertently caused...

New paper today led by Han Hu on the 3D skull of Jeholornis! In addition to the bones, we managed to get some nice insights regarding the sclerotic rings and the endocast: Jeholornis was probably diurnal and had relatively good sense of smell
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

phys.org/news/2022-09-w…
I don't need to see the stats to know this is how it is but still, it's whack.

if you can, the Field Museum would greatly value your support! #GivingDay2022 fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/GivingDay20…

happening now!!! South Side Science Festival - science for everybody!
voices.uchicago.edu/s3f/

Hear ye, hear ye! The big-eared Gansu hyena (Gansuyaena megalotis) graces the cover of Vertebrata PalAsiatica. Beautiful art work by friend Mick Ellison. The most complete aardwolf-line hyena known thus far. #FossilFriday

I don't know how well the actual question and answering went but we nailed the Jurassic Park cosplay 😍

Very excited to welcome postdoc Yosef Kiat to the O'Connor lab! He is an ornithologist studying the ecology and evolution of feather molt from fieldwork/collections and we're going to use his expertise to better understand Mesozoic paravians (see our 2020 Microraptor moult paper)

🦖 Dinosaurs: Fiction to Fact 🦕 Could there be a
Jurassic Park? Did an ☄️ cause extinction?

Join the live discussion w/ National Geographic writer Michael Greshko:

• Jingmai O'Connor, curator of fossil reptiles Field Museum, PhD USC Earth Science

• Kiersten Formoso, PhD(istressed), PhD candidate USC Earth Science

check out this new call for papers for a special issue honoring David Berman with guest editors Dr. Arjan Mann Bryan Gee and Jason Pardo: bit.ly/3acD26v

Among saurischians, Tyrannosaurus samples yielded the lowest metabolic rates. Giant sauropods and theropods were true endotherms, rather than gigantotherms.

HOLY SHIT this is cool!!! (or hot for some ha!)

In case you missed it yesterday - new job opening alert! Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Field Museum in Chicago (its a great place to work! you'll get used to the cold :P)
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/598460/ass…

excited to be heading up a search committee for our next VP curator at the FMNH! hmu for details
careers.hireology.com/fieldmuseum/82…

looking for contributors for this awesome special volume lead by Cass Morrison Lisa White Zakhele Nkosi & Paul Upchurch #EarthDay #AllEarth #change

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌱

For this #Easter #FossilFriday , enjoy this wonderful soft-shelled Protoceratops clutch showing awesome #dinosaur embryos
nature.com/articles/s4158…

heads up! The FM Grainger Bioinformatics Center is soliciting proposals for a 2-year postdoctoral research project relating to the bioinformatics of emerging pathogens. Think integration of bioinformatics, pathogen research, and collections. Comes w/ a research budget $20k/year!

join me next week for a free event hosted by LabX