Sergi López-Torres
@sergilopeztorres.bsky.social
Mammalian paleontologist | Assistant Professor @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social | Research Associate @natural-history.bsky.social | Primate Origins & Mammalian Evolution. He/Him.
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Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)
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Our mascot Geno enjoyed a little pumpkin treat for #Halloween today 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Our mascot Geno enjoyed a little pumpkin treat for #Halloween today 🎃
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Happy #Halloween! The perfect day to feed my #flesh eating #dermestids their first fresh meat.... 🍖 #taphonomy
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy #Halloween! The perfect day to feed my #flesh eating #dermestids their first fresh meat.... 🍖 #taphonomy
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Happy #Halloween from all of us here at IBE - where we like to celebrate spooky #skeletons all year round! 💀🦴
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Happy #Halloween from all of us here at IBE - where we like to celebrate spooky #skeletons all year round! 💀🦴
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Warm congratulations to Ks Dr Marcin Uhlik on successfully defending his PhD! Marcin's hard work and resilience have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder 🎉🥳
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Warm congratulations to Ks Dr Marcin Uhlik on successfully defending his PhD! Marcin's hard work and resilience have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder 🎉🥳
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Wishing Dr Andrej Čerňanský a fond farewell today, as he completes his research visit and returns to Comenius University Bratislava - come back soon! 👋
October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Wishing Dr Andrej Čerňanský a fond farewell today, as he completes his research visit and returns to Comenius University Bratislava - come back soon! 👋
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Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina and Dr Debora Baumann Di Lábio on being awarded their IDUB microgrant to conduct actualistic #taphonomy studies on freshwater #bivalves 🥳
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October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina and Dr Debora Baumann Di Lábio on being awarded their IDUB microgrant to conduct actualistic #taphonomy studies on freshwater #bivalves 🥳
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My research with Dr Dom Suraprasit of Chulalongkorn University on ' #Taphonomic Insights into #Fossil Preservation and Accumulation in Tham Khao Phak Kut #cave, Peninsular #Thailand ', has been accepted for a Standard talk at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My research with Dr Dom Suraprasit of Chulalongkorn University on ' #Taphonomic Insights into #Fossil Preservation and Accumulation in Tham Khao Phak Kut #cave, Peninsular #Thailand ', has been accepted for a Standard talk at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳
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Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski
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Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski
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I've been awarded a @ncn.gov.pl Miniatura 9 Grant to conduct #taphonomy research, 'Investigating skeletal #disarticulation patterns in the #fossil record using controlled simulated mass #burial experiments'
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October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I've been awarded a @ncn.gov.pl Miniatura 9 Grant to conduct #taphonomy research, 'Investigating skeletal #disarticulation patterns in the #fossil record using controlled simulated mass #burial experiments'
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My #Dermestid #beetle colony has had a huge population explosion! Lots of new crawlies to strip carcasses for my @thepalass.bsky.social #taphonomy grant! #palaeontology
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My #Dermestid #beetle colony has had a huge population explosion! Lots of new crawlies to strip carcasses for my @thepalass.bsky.social #taphonomy grant! #palaeontology
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Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...
Job description: General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle
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October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...
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Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Hello and welcome to our new mascot, Genowefa! Geno (for short) is a Hermann's #tortoise, found abandoned near the University's field station in northern Poland some weeks ago. We hope she will be with us for many years to come 🐢😊
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hello and welcome to our new mascot, Genowefa! Geno (for short) is a Hermann's #tortoise, found abandoned near the University's field station in northern Poland some weeks ago. We hope she will be with us for many years to come 🐢😊
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
September 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
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Position right next door for vert paleo!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
Assistant Professor in Paleontological Vertebrate Evolution
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and the Department of Ecology,Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invite applicants for atenure-track positio...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Position right next door for vert paleo!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
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Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack
Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack
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Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?
dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
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September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?
dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
New paper out in JVP, in which we describe two new species of the basal paromomyid primate Paromomys from the Paleocene of Alberta 🇨🇦 By Craig Scott, myself, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & Lisa Bohach.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New paper out in JVP, in which we describe two new species of the basal paromomyid primate Paromomys from the Paleocene of Alberta 🇨🇦 By Craig Scott, myself, @marytsilcox.bsky.social & Lisa Bohach.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
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Scientists from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC united in the group CSIC X Palestine meet every week in front of their respective institutes to support Gaza and Lebanon against Israel's attacks and denounce Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing. CMIMA (ICM, IBE, UTM) September 23, 2025
September 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Scientists from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC united in the group CSIC X Palestine meet every week in front of their respective institutes to support Gaza and Lebanon against Israel's attacks and denounce Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing. CMIMA (ICM, IBE, UTM) September 23, 2025