Joe Keating
@evopalaeo.bsky.social
Palaeontologist who likes phylogeny, morphology and early vertebrates. Lecturer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social; Education Officer @thepalass.bsky.social; Developer of treesurgeon https://www.evopalaeo.com/
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Found the end of the rainbow. Its on the M5 just north of Exeter.
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Found the end of the rainbow. Its on the M5 just north of Exeter.
PalAss abstract accepted!
Here's a cheeky spoiler...
Here's a cheeky spoiler...
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
PalAss abstract accepted!
Here's a cheeky spoiler...
Here's a cheeky spoiler...
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Living sharks have innumerable tiny scales, but their earliest relatives somehow grew larger bony plates. In our new Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org, we work try and out how, arguing they grew by fusing and remodelling spines and scales.
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
September 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Living sharks have innumerable tiny scales, but their earliest relatives somehow grew larger bony plates. In our new Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org, we work try and out how, arguing they grew by fusing and remodelling spines and scales.
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
September 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
Decay experiments on shrimps provide insight into the fossilisation potential of arthropod appendages
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 Out now in @openpalaeo.bsky.social
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 Out now in @openpalaeo.bsky.social
www.openpalaeo.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Decay experiments on shrimps provide insight into the fossilisation potential of arthropod appendages
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 Out now in @openpalaeo.bsky.social
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐 Out now in @openpalaeo.bsky.social
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A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem-gnathostomes) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad @wileyearthspace @fossilrob.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes)
The armoured jawless fishes (‘ostracoderms’) are major and widespread components of middle Palaeozoic ecosystems. As successive branches on the gnathostome stem lineage, they represent the early sequ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem-gnathostomes) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad @wileyearthspace @fossilrob.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social
A phylogeny for Heterostraci
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very pleased to see this out, and huge thanks to Emma Randle for leading the study and @fossilrob.bsky.social for pushing it through the finish line.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very pleased to see this out, and huge thanks to Emma Randle for leading the study and @fossilrob.bsky.social for pushing it through the finish line.
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes)
The armoured jawless fishes (‘ostracoderms’) are major and widespread components of middle Palaeozoic ecosystems. As successive branches on the gnathostome stem lineage, they represent the early sequ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A phylogeny for Heterostraci
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very pleased to see this out, and huge thanks to Emma Randle for leading the study and @fossilrob.bsky.social for pushing it through the finish line.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very pleased to see this out, and huge thanks to Emma Randle for leading the study and @fossilrob.bsky.social for pushing it through the finish line.
Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!
June 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Come and visit @thepalass.bsky.social at the Lyme Regis fossil festival. See if you can beat the odds and become a fossil!
Just added some new functions to treesurgeon
github.com/evo-palaeo/t...
github.com/evo-palaeo/t...
June 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just added some new functions to treesurgeon
github.com/evo-palaeo/t...
github.com/evo-palaeo/t...
.@openpalaeo.bsky.social has published its first research paper!
Publish your research here too! Its totally completely FREE! There are NO publication costs and NO access costs.
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
Publish your research here too! Its totally completely FREE! There are NO publication costs and NO access costs.
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
June 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
.@openpalaeo.bsky.social has published its first research paper!
Publish your research here too! Its totally completely FREE! There are NO publication costs and NO access costs.
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
Publish your research here too! Its totally completely FREE! There are NO publication costs and NO access costs.
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
Foxy enjoying the evening ☀️in Bristol
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Foxy enjoying the evening ☀️in Bristol
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Super interesting paper outlining the damaging impact of the 'Gollum effect': researchers who restrict access to resources.
Very relevant to palaeo work regarding the gatekeeping of collection material and the harm this causes to science. Worth a read!
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Very relevant to palaeo work regarding the gatekeeping of collection material and the harm this causes to science. Worth a read!
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
May 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Super interesting paper outlining the damaging impact of the 'Gollum effect': researchers who restrict access to resources.
Very relevant to palaeo work regarding the gatekeeping of collection material and the harm this causes to science. Worth a read!
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Very relevant to palaeo work regarding the gatekeeping of collection material and the harm this causes to science. Worth a read!
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Congrats to Yara and team! They reveal that Anatolepis - previously interpreted as the oldest vertebrate with a mineralised skeleton - is not a vertebrate at all!
Paper here: tinyurl.com/59sdw7x9
and a nice write up by @guillaumehouee.bsky.social & Philippe Janvier here: tinyurl.com/2u6haac8
Paper here: tinyurl.com/59sdw7x9
and a nice write up by @guillaumehouee.bsky.social & Philippe Janvier here: tinyurl.com/2u6haac8
The evolutionary origin of sensitive dental structures
Fossil data shed light on a debate about when vertebrate dental tissues arose by assigning an early sensory structure to arthropods rather than to vertebrates.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congrats to Yara and team! They reveal that Anatolepis - previously interpreted as the oldest vertebrate with a mineralised skeleton - is not a vertebrate at all!
Paper here: tinyurl.com/59sdw7x9
and a nice write up by @guillaumehouee.bsky.social & Philippe Janvier here: tinyurl.com/2u6haac8
Paper here: tinyurl.com/59sdw7x9
and a nice write up by @guillaumehouee.bsky.social & Philippe Janvier here: tinyurl.com/2u6haac8
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Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.
Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !
Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.
Dinosaur on dinosaur action!
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dinosaur on dinosaur action!
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It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Revealing patterns of homoplasy in discrete phylogenetic datasets with a cross-comparable index
Abstract. Investigating patterns of homoplasy can improve our understanding of macroevolutionary processes by revealing evolutionary constraints on morphol
academic.oup.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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A small bump in case anyone awake at this time can advise on R/C++ debugging... 🧪⚒️💻
Hello friends, does anyone have any suggestions for the R/C++ based pickle I find myself in? 🧪
I have a model written in C++ I'm calling from R using Rcpp. It is crashing without giving any error at some point between 2 and 7 hours runtime, at different points every time.
I have a model written in C++ I'm calling from R using Rcpp. It is crashing without giving any error at some point between 2 and 7 hours runtime, at different points every time.
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A small bump in case anyone awake at this time can advise on R/C++ debugging... 🧪⚒️💻
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I'm disappointed to resign from the editorial board of @royalsocietypublishing.org @royalsociety.org journal Biology Letters. I won't give my time and labour away to an organisation that - through inaction - condones the destruction of US science by one of its own, Elon Musk FRS.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I'm disappointed to resign from the editorial board of @royalsocietypublishing.org @royalsociety.org journal Biology Letters. I won't give my time and labour away to an organisation that - through inaction - condones the destruction of US science by one of its own, Elon Musk FRS.
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An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
Explaining the Trump Tariff Equation
YouTube video by Stand-up Maths
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April 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hi all.
Last chance to apply for @thepalass.bsky.social awards -including the *NEW DOROTHEA BATE AWARD*. This is for an early career person with up to 5 postdoctoral research experience.
Details of how to apply here: www.palass.org/awards-grant...
Last chance to apply for @thepalass.bsky.social awards -including the *NEW DOROTHEA BATE AWARD*. This is for an early career person with up to 5 postdoctoral research experience.
Details of how to apply here: www.palass.org/awards-grant...
Dorothea Bate Award | The Palaeontological Association
www.palass.org
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hi all.
Last chance to apply for @thepalass.bsky.social awards -including the *NEW DOROTHEA BATE AWARD*. This is for an early career person with up to 5 postdoctoral research experience.
Details of how to apply here: www.palass.org/awards-grant...
Last chance to apply for @thepalass.bsky.social awards -including the *NEW DOROTHEA BATE AWARD*. This is for an early career person with up to 5 postdoctoral research experience.
Details of how to apply here: www.palass.org/awards-grant...
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🥳 We would like to share a newly uploaded video on the #PalAss YouTube channel:
🎥 Palaeontologists Explain: How Do Fossils Form? ⬇️
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...
#palaeontology #fossil #youtube #video #channel #new
🎥 Palaeontologists Explain: How Do Fossils Form? ⬇️
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...
#palaeontology #fossil #youtube #video #channel #new
Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form? Palaeontologists explain: How do fossils form?
YouTube video by The Palaeontological Association
www.youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🥳 We would like to share a newly uploaded video on the #PalAss YouTube channel:
🎥 Palaeontologists Explain: How Do Fossils Form? ⬇️
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...
#palaeontology #fossil #youtube #video #channel #new
🎥 Palaeontologists Explain: How Do Fossils Form? ⬇️
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...
#palaeontology #fossil #youtube #video #channel #new
Reposted by Joe Keating
Very proud to be featured alongside other excellent early career scientists in a new video by @thepalass.bsky.social!
We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are!
youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...
We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are!
youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...
Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form? Palaeontologists explain: How do fossils form?
YouTube video by The Palaeontological Association
youtu.be
March 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Very proud to be featured alongside other excellent early career scientists in a new video by @thepalass.bsky.social!
We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are!
youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...
We talk about how fossils form and how rare they are!
youtu.be/LwF7qnYFde8?...