Klimabekymra paleontolog forsøker å forklare hvordan alt henger sammen med alt i denne podcastepisoden fra @tellusmedia.bsky.social. Takk for meg!

I look forward to speaking at this workshop in August!

Apply for a grant to come work with us at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! We have good experience with MSCA postdoc applications and always looking for new colleagues with exciting projects. Get in touch if you have questions 🤩

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago.

The second best time is today.

Very nice event for students at Samfundet in Trondheim yesterday about oceanic life through time and current threats with Johanna Järnegren from NINA, Marthe Haave from SALT and myself 🐳🪼

Forskere har funnet mange fostre i magene til fiskeøgler. Nå har de forsket på dem – Dette gir nye muligheter til å forstå reproduksjon hos dyr som for lengst er utdødd, sier forsker.

For alle som trenger å lese nyheter om noe morsomt innimellom alt det andre: Min dyktige kollega @feikosaur.bsky.social har studert fossile ryggvirvler fra fiskeøglebabyer for å forstå graviditet og vekst. Moro og nyttig! 🐬🍼🦖 @forskning.bsky.social www.forskning.no/evolusjon-pa...

Takk for tilliten, selv om jeg alltid føler meg på usikker grunn med uttale på norsk, jeg kan fossile knokler bedre enn språk. Jeg selv sier Diplo-DO-cus når jeg tenker meg om, men det er kanskje dårlig begrunnet. Skal sjekke, og oppdatere snl hvis det er behov!

Methods for knowledge-based biodiversity monitoring and management under uncertainty (BioM) - UiO:Life Science BioM develops new interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty, combining ecology, statistics, and philosophy. The project delivers predictive tools, normative framewor...

2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social

Judith Pardo-Pérez and I are organizing a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social 🤩 Hope to see very many interesting abstracts! Get in touch if there are questions.

Very interesting study by @feikosaur.bsky.social and Erin Maxwell about ichthyosaur fetuses!

Photographs (A–C) and CT-scans (D–G) of morphotype E. (A) The complete specimen with x-y being cross section in picture F. (B–C) Orthoceratoid cephalopod shell fragment seen in two different angles. Red arrows pointing to the same spot in both pictures. (B) Shell fragment seen from the top. (C) Shell fragment seen in cross section. (D–E) Orthoceratoid shell fragment with a length of 15.8 mm and visible chambers. (D) Outside of the shell fragment. (E) Underside of the shell fragment. (F) Orthoslice of onychites marked x-y in picture A. (G) Bone fragment. (A–F) PMO 250.281. (G) PMO 250.904. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20746/fig-7

CT-scans (A, D, G–I) and thin sections (B–C, E–F) of morphotype A. (A1–A2) External and internal view of sub-morphotype A, PMO 250.270. (B) Tetrapod bone in thin section, PMO 250.004. (C) Fish vertebrae, PMO 250.009. (D1–D2) External and internal view of sub-morphotype A2, PMO 150.275. (E) Fish scale, PMO 249.999. (F) Degraded bone fragments, PMO 250.000. (G1–G2) External and internal view of sub-morphotype A3, PMO 250.273. (H) Burrows with a width of approximately 0.5 mm over a total area of three mm, PMO 250.530. (I) Conodont element measuring 1.22 mm in length, PMO 250.273. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20746/fig-3

Photographs of the different morphotypes found in the Grippia bonebed, Svalbard. (A–B) morphotype A1 cigar. (C–E) morphotype A2 amphipolar. (F–G) morphotype A3 cylindrical with grooves. (H–J) morphotype B1 spiral rounded. (K–L) morphotype B2 teardrop. (M–N) morphotype C sub-rounded. (O-P) morphotype D reniform. (Q–S) morphotype E wide cylindrical.(A) PMO 250.847. (B) PMO 250.846. (C) PMO 250.275. (D) PMO 250.854. (E) PMO 250.858. (F) PMO 250.860. (G) PMO 250.530. (H) PMO 250.533. (I’-I”) PMO 250.864. (J) PMO 250.841. (K) PMO 250.869. (L) PMO 250.868. (M) PMO 250.271. (N) PMO 250.884. (O) PMO 250.886. (P) PMO 250.528. (Q) PMO 250.899. (R) PMO 250.897. (S) PMO 250.281. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20746/fig-2

Digesting an ancient ecosystem: #coprolites from the Grippia #bonebed, Lower #Triassic, Svalbard

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@peerj.bsky.social #paleobiology #paleontology #fossils

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My chapter is of course about a whale skeleton, a small Lagenorhynchus/Leucopleurus from the Natural History Museum @uio.no with a story that fascinated me.🐬 This volume and the project Collecting Norden gave an opportunity to write and think about whales in new ways. OA. brill.com/display/book...

In addition to sixteen chapters on different objects from our amazing colleagues, we wrote an introduction. It is behind a paywall, so let me know if you want a pdf brill.com/display/book...

Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪

Nordic convergent evolution network NordForsk is an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that provides funding for and facilitates Nordic cooperation on research and research infrastructure.

www.nordforsk.org/projects/nor...

Arctic plants, ichthyosaurs and more! We received funding from Nordforsk for a Nordic network for convergent evolution #NCEN! It is led by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and me, hosted at the Natural History Museum @uio.no and include researchers with amazing work🥳 www.nordforsk.org/projects/nor...

🎓 IPC7 Travel Grants – Call for Applications

The IPC7 organisers offers five Travel Grants to support delegates wishing to attend the IPC7.

Each grant covers:
✈️ Return economy airfare
🏨 Accommodation (University residence)
🎟️ Registration fee
🍽️ Conference dinner

UMB2025flip

I årboka 2025 for @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social 200 år har jeg skrevet om museumssamlinger og forskning i fortid og framtid, sammen med Anders Goksøyr og Rein Aasland. // Text in yearbook for the museum in Bergen about collections and research 🐋🏛🧪 (In Norwegian) um.uib.no/3001UMB2025F...

We find no significant difference in inferences when using the humerus compared to the femur. Also, we found that mean corpuscular volume is correlated to the harmonic means of vascular canals. Both give more opportunities for what data can be used when we want to understand vertebrate physiology🫎🐬🧪

Scandinavian University Press

New paper from the ECHO project 🥳 Does the upper arm bone tell us the same things as the thigh bone if we look inside?💪🏼🦵🦴 Lead by Mathieu G. Faure-Brac, we investigated how we can expand the available input data to be used in paleophysiological models.

www.scup.com/eprint/P8MS2...

Thank you for a great conference in Birmingham #2025SVP with the Natural History Museum @uio.no team🤩 @aubronectes.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @meghalithic.bsky.social Petter Nordenhaug and Mathieu Faure-Brac

Look what my amazing colleagues did! Early Triassic bonebed at Svalbard shows recovery after mass extinction🥳 @aubronectes.bsky.social

Petter Nordenhaug, also Natural History Museum @uio.no has a great poster on mixosaurs

Rate–time scaling in phenotypic evolution: Limitations of current models in capturing temporal dynamics Abstract. Evolutionary rates correlate negatively with time, which makes it complicated to compare rates across lineages that have diversified on different

Article out in @journal-evo.bsky.social with @klvoje.bsky.social:

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All from the Natural History Museum @uio.no 🤩

Myself on swimming evolution in ichthyosaurs and whales 🐬🐬🐋 Talk in Hall 4 Thursday at 0815.

Feiko on neoichthyosaurian pelvic girdle evolution 🐬🍼 Talk in Hall 4 Thursday at 0845🤩

Mathieu presents the first results from our work on ichthyosaur metabolism🐬🌡 Poster session on Thursday 🤩

We are at #2025SVP and having a great first day! From the ECHO and EXPLAC projects in our group postdocs Mathieu Faure-Brac and @feikosaur.bsky.social. Our marine tetrapod presentation times below 👇

Veldig fin tekst om evolusjon av vinger og flyving av vår student Aylin Gjøringbø i siste nummer av Biolog🤩 @feikosaur.bsky.social / Talented student Aylin Gjøringbø in our group just published a great essay about the evolution of fight (in Norwegian).