Help shape the future of #MorphoBank! Share your thoughts on our new platform in our quick, 1-minute survey 🧪

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#ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #openaccess #diamondoa #openscience

Top right: Photograph of two jaw bones with a one cent Euro coin for scale. The bones are a fragment of a mandible of Galanthis baskini from Las Casiones (small, darker specimen, above) and a complete mandible of the extant species Mustela nivalis (lesser weasel; lighter coloured specimen below). Image: Alberto Valenciano. Top left: blue rectangle is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology. Bottom: Illustration of body mass along the branches of the tip-dated Bayesian MCC tree, showing the ancestral body mass for each clade; illustrated specimens (not to scale): Lutra lutra, MNCN-3666; Vormela peregusna, IVPP-OV519; Zdanskyictis minimus, PMU-21788; Mustela putorius, MNCN-3846; Mustela nivalis, MNCN-14416; Mustela erminea, MNCN-14372; Neogale vison, MNCN-14417; Galanthis baskini, KS-9a; Martes americana, FMNH-51372.

Oldest evidence of a weasel reveals a Miocene origin of the Mustelinae (Mammalia, Carnivora) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social

“New early ruminants (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol (China), with remarks on their phylogenetic relationship” 🧪

Project on #MorphoBank: bit.ly/4ck9nok

Article in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social: bit.ly/4tZYmjx

#fossilfriday #evolutionarybiology #archaeology

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📣SAVE THE DATE! MorphoBank Connects is back for it's 2nd year, Sept 17 & 18 2026 🧪

Mark your calendar and join us for a free virtual conference featuring discussion, presentations, workshops & more!

#evolutionarybiology #openaccess #opendata #paleontology #treeoflife #morphology #phylogenetics

Explore the #MorphoBank project “Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries” 🧪

On MorphoBank ▶️ bit.ly/4dLR5P8

In PLOS ONE ▶️ bit.ly/4v0Ggz6

#fossil #fossilfriday #ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology @plosone.org #scisky

“Mosaic morphology in Podocnemididae revealed by a new turtle from the Middle Miocene La Venta Biome, Colombia” 🧪

Explore the project on #MorphoBank: bit.ly/4rXwxXF

Read the article in Papers in Palaeontology: bit.ly/4bLi9LX

#openaccess #paleontology #scisky #ecology #biology #archaeology

Create projects, archive data, use #phylogenetic analyses tools, and read for free on MorphoBank's newly updated #opensource platform. 🧪

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“From sabers to spikes: A newfangled reconstruction of the ancient, giant, sexually dimorphic Pacific salmon, â Oncorhynchus rastrosus (SALMONINAE: SALMONINI)” 🧪

Project: bit.ly/4bCHJ5T

Read the article in @plosone.org: bit.ly/4rH2VO6

#openscience #opendata #openaccess #paleontology #scisky

“A reassessment of Aspidosaurus chiton Broili, 1904 (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) based on a new skeleton from the early Permian of Texas” 🧪

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#fossilfriday #openscience #opendata #openaccess #paleontology #scisky

We love to see it! #fossilfriday 🧪

Thanks member organizations @amnh.org @stonybrooku.bsky.social and @adelphiu.bsky.social for their support

From #MorphoBank: “A new itasuchid (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia) from the Early Cretaceous of Mali and the ancient Paleo-Tegama river system of Gondwana” 🧪

🔎Project: bit.ly/4s7tk8O

📖@jvertpaleo.bsky.social article: bit.ly/4bwOk2B

#ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology

I’m excited to see MorphoBank receive a commendation award from SORTEE! 🎉

MorphoBank supports open and FAIR data (images, matrices, and specimen-linked) so research remain transparent, reproducible, and reusable.

Open science requires infrastructure - and communities to sustain it. 💚

MorphoBank honored by SORTEE - Phoenix Bioinformatics We are proud to share that MorphoBank has received a 2025 Commendation Award from the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).

We're pleased to share that MorphoBank has received a commendation award from @sortee.bsky.social 🧡

It's an honor to get this acknowledgement from colleagues who understand our work so deeply, and share a common mission!

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#ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology

It's the final day of #ERL26. But there's still time to visit with the Phoenix team. Drop by booth 818 to say hello.

#ERL #library #electronicresources #librarian

We're thrilled to be at the #ERL26 conference in Austin this week. Stop booth #818 to say hello to ED Josh Young and Sales Director Amina Khababa and to learn about our digital resource resources @morphobank.bsky.social and @tairnews.bsky.social

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We're honored to have been selected! 🧪

from researchers at @ohiouniversity.bsky.social, @denvermuseumns.bsky.social, and supporting member organizations @stonybrooku.bsky.social & @adelphiu.bsky.social

New on #MorphoBank: "Osteohistology of the unusually fast-growing theropod dinosaur Ceratosaurus" 🧪

MorphoBank: bit.ly/478cu0P
Article in Journal of Anatomy: bit.ly/4axLlGR

#openscience #opendata #openaccess #scisky #anatomy #paleontology

The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...

The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dowding et al survey palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databases

Phoenix is headed to #ERL26 in Austin! ☀️Visit us at booth 818 to learn more about our digital resources @morphobank.bsky.social and @tairnews.bsky.social, share feedback, and get involved.

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@erlconf.bsky.social #scholcomm #scisky #libraries #librarians

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NEW on hashtag#MorphoBank: “The origin of the tympanic fossa in reptiles revealed by a late Permian neodiapsid.“

From from researchers at @amnh.org and @stonybrooku.bsky.social, both MorphoBank supporting member organizations

#openaccess #openscience #Palaeontology

We're excited to attend #ER&L in a few short weeks! Visit us at Booth #818 and lets discuss digital research resources like @morphobank.bsky.social and @tairnews.bsky.social

#erandlfest #Libraries #ElectronicResources #ER&L

NEW on #MorphoBank: First Neogene Bat from India: Implications for a possible radiation of vespertilionine during the middle Miocene climatic optimum 🧪

Explore the project: www.morphobank.org/project/6175...

#openaccess #biology #anthropology #openaccess #evolutionarybiology #paleontology #scisky

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication DataDryad & SORTEE are teaming up for a panel discussion for Love Data Week 2026 - join us for a lively chat about the present and future of data

Join SORTEE, @elife.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @morphobank.bsky.social and Dryad this Thursday for a free #opendata webinar, in celebration of #LoveData26!

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#openaccess #opendata #datasharing #openscience #openresearch

Thank you to...

@nhm.org
@adelphiu.bsky.social
@amnh.org
Field Museum
@harvard.edu
IVPP
@macalestercollege.bsky.social
@osuceoas.bsky.social
@thepalass.bsky.social
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
University of Illinois
@utoronto.ca

For #LoveDataWeek26, we want to send a message of thanks to the member libraries and museums whose contributions help keep MorphoBank free for everyone to use, publish, and read. 🧪

#openscience #opendata #openaccess #ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology #scisky

For #LoveData26, let's talk #opendata across #schomcomms. Register ▶️ bit.ly/3ZPzj5p 🧪

Join panelists @richardsever.bsky.social of @openrxiv.bsky.social, Jennifer Meyer of @britishecologicalsociety.org, Wei Mun Chan of @elife.bsky.social and @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social of @morphobank.bsky.social