Serjoscha Evers
@sirjoscha.bsky.social
Director of Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken, Bayreuth, a regional museum of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History | Pala(e)ontologist with reptilian bias | Associate Editor for Journal of Systematic Palaeotology | turtle evolution
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Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae
With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...
With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae
With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...
With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...
Three papers with different journals at the moment: a Permian reptile neuroanatomy paper, a broad-scale reptilian comparative work on a lesser researched anatomical structure, and a paper on K/Pg extinction selectivity in turtles 🐢 I’m diversifying topics 😊
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Three papers with different journals at the moment: a Permian reptile neuroanatomy paper, a broad-scale reptilian comparative work on a lesser researched anatomical structure, and a paper on K/Pg extinction selectivity in turtles 🐢 I’m diversifying topics 😊
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Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
On paper, I had an unproductive year (3 papers, 1st authored). But: child number two arrived, international move to start a permanent position, habilitation submitted, my student secured their first own postdoc grant & is on fire with manuscript submissions, so the year was a massive success 👍
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On paper, I had an unproductive year (3 papers, 1st authored). But: child number two arrived, international move to start a permanent position, habilitation submitted, my student secured their first own postdoc grant & is on fire with manuscript submissions, so the year was a massive success 👍
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Surprise, there's a fourth paper! Just out today, we segmented the skull of the Permian stem reptile Protorothyris, so you don't have to! Work done with Adam Behlke and @hanssues.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meshes also available on Morphosource.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meshes also available on Morphosource.
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Surprise, there's a fourth paper! Just out today, we segmented the skull of the Permian stem reptile Protorothyris, so you don't have to! Work done with Adam Behlke and @hanssues.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meshes also available on Morphosource.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meshes also available on Morphosource.
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Last Thursday @palaeoverse.bsky.social I shared some of our recent projects, exploring the application of phylogenetic methods and the exciting new wave of Bayesian diversification models.
#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution
youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?...
#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution
youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?...
Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Dr. Juan Cantalapiedra - Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory
YouTube video by Palaeoverse
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December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last Thursday @palaeoverse.bsky.social I shared some of our recent projects, exploring the application of phylogenetic methods and the exciting new wave of Bayesian diversification models.
#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution
youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?...
#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution
youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?...
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Excited to announce our latest article on open science in non-clinical CT data! Open science is transforming image-based research by making data and processes more accessible.
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excited to announce our latest article on open science in non-clinical CT data! Open science is transforming image-based research by making data and processes more accessible.
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
Link to website for info regarding the opportunity, requirements, and how to apply
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
It’s so hard to place 🐢 in high-impact journals. My student had another „place this in a field specific journal“ reply to a presubmission inquiry for EXACTLY the type of study that makes PNAS/CurrBiol/NatEE all the time for birds/mammals/squamates. Evolutionary insights also come fr small clades…
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s so hard to place 🐢 in high-impact journals. My student had another „place this in a field specific journal“ reply to a presubmission inquiry for EXACTLY the type of study that makes PNAS/CurrBiol/NatEE all the time for birds/mammals/squamates. Evolutionary insights also come fr small clades…
#FossilFriday: admittedly, I saw this Tuesday and not today, but look at this AWESOME pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus muensteri) at display in Eichstätt. Made the Archaeopteryx next exhibit appear almost bleak 😜
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#FossilFriday: admittedly, I saw this Tuesday and not today, but look at this AWESOME pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus muensteri) at display in Eichstätt. Made the Archaeopteryx next exhibit appear almost bleak 😜
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New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids
Notosuchian systematics have been highly debated in recent decades, particularly the placement of sebecids and closely related species. As the only notosuchian lineage to have survived the Cretaceo...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#2025SVP For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.
#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all
#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#2025SVP: You probably all know of these talks that are not quite your interest, but you go anyway - & then you’re surprised by how cool these other animals are? I invite you to make this talk mine 😉 let me give you an overview of main evolutionary innovations of early 🐢 evolution. 8:30 AM today!
I'm at the airport (Munich) – #2025SVP it getting real! I am super excited b/c this is my 1st major conference in 5 yrs due to COVID & then taking it slower since I have kids. Kids are w/ grandparents, so I can talk about how much I care about turtles Few 🐢-talks... don't miss out & come by Fri AM!
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm at the airport (Munich) – #2025SVP it getting real! I am super excited b/c this is my 1st major conference in 5 yrs due to COVID & then taking it slower since I have kids. Kids are w/ grandparents, so I can talk about how much I care about turtles Few 🐢-talks... don't miss out & come by Fri AM!
Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Even though many early stem turtles are known from relatively well-preserved skulls, their neuroanatomy remains poorly understood, limiting insights into key cranial and ecological transitions. Here w...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just in time for #2025SVP, @gsferreira.bsky.social & I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New study out in JSP! 🐢
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
New study out in JSP! 🐢
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
Sarda & Maniel unveil a new species of Elkanemys (Pelomedusoides) from the Turonian–Coniacian of Patagonia, Argentina, with phylogenetic analysis showing Elkanemys to be a member of Podocnemidoidae: buff.ly/QYAl9UX
#PaleoSky #Fossils #Turtles #Pleurodira
buff.ly/AIl42yY
Just got minor reviews on my first paper featuring something Permian 🤩
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just got minor reviews on my first paper featuring something Permian 🤩
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Wonder what’s in here? If you’re at #2025SVP and would like to know, drop my by Friday poster in the Turts and Crocs space, board B301.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Wonder what’s in here? If you’re at #2025SVP and would like to know, drop my by Friday poster in the Turts and Crocs space, board B301.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
I will be presenting my graduate research on Pan-Cheloniids, including revealing a new morphotype of Cenozoic sea turtle that lived surprisingly recently.
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Article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology
Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
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In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
This looks so cool! Can’t wait to see it in person :) will the exhibit be traveling afterwards?
After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This looks so cool! Can’t wait to see it in person :) will the exhibit be traveling afterwards?
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New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...