Kirstin Brink
kirstinbrink.bsky.social
Kirstin Brink
@kirstinbrink.bsky.social
Paleontologist studying the evolution and development of biomineralized tissues 🦷🦖🦎🐟
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#FossilFriday - explore the stunning armoured plates of a 390-million-year-old placoderm fish fossil from Manitoba! 🐟
Image shows the central and postorbital plates of Elmosteus lundarensis gen. et comb. nov. Read the full study by Jobbins et al. (2025): buff.ly/g6sEO4A

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July 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New paper: new application of histological staining for visualization of endogenous proteins in fossil material. We can stain fossil tissue and see collagen in situ! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
New Application of Histological Staining for Visualization of Endogenous Proteins in Fossil Material
Biochemical applications are increasingly utilized in paleontological studies, especially for detecting ancient proteins in fossil samples. Histopathological staining techniques have been applied, but...
pubs.acs.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We are looking for a PhD student to work on halibut otoliths! The position is a collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada and @umanitoba.bsky.social .
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.
January 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New paper alert! This was a fun study examining intraskeletal growth patterns in leopard geckos using fluorescent labeling. Labels administered in ovo are still present up to 4 years post-hatching! doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Bone labeling experiments and intraskeletal growth patterns in captive leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius)
In this study, we used fluorochrome labels in captive leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) to track bone growth and intraskeletal variability from embryonic to adult growth stages. Overall, the ti...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM