Brian Beatty
@vanderhoofius.bsky.social
Comparative Anatomist, Vertebrate Paleontologist, and Surface Metrologist - Long Island NY, Florida, China, everywhere!
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Brian Beatty
@vanderhoofius.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Postdoctoral Teaching & Research Fellow in Old Westbury, New York | Careers at Old Westbury, NY
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) seeks a Postdoctoral Teaching and Reseach Fellow for the Department of Anatomy.
This is a 3-year position in the Anatomy ...
careers-nyit.icims.com
Our department of Anatomy at NYITCOM (formerly known as NYCOM) is hiring a postdoc!! Please consider applying and spread the word. Teach anatomy in the fall, research all the rest of the year, for 3 years!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/3786/po...
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/3786/po...
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Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Tahlia Pollock @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social has an amazing new study integrating 3D shape, biomechanics, and optimality modelling, helps explain why so many mammals evolve sabre teeth: functional optimality was a key driver behind the repeated evolution of extreme sabre-tooth morphologies.
January 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Tahlia Pollock @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social has an amazing new study integrating 3D shape, biomechanics, and optimality modelling, helps explain why so many mammals evolve sabre teeth: functional optimality was a key driver behind the repeated evolution of extreme sabre-tooth morphologies.
Fascinating…
January 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Fascinating…
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Looking for reviewers before Christmas
December 11, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Looking for reviewers before Christmas
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Eugenia, P.M., Bona, P., Siroski, P. and Chinsamy, A. (2025), Analyzing the Life History of Caimans: The Growth Dynamics of Caiman latirostris From an Osteohistological Approach. Journal of Morphology, 286: e70010. doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
Analyzing the Life History of Caimans: The Growth Dynamics of Caiman latirostris From an Osteohistological Approach
This research offers insights into the life history and growth dynamics of Caiman latirostris, highlighting their growth patterns, aging, and attainment of sexual maturity, and how environmental cond...
doi.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Eugenia, P.M., Bona, P., Siroski, P. and Chinsamy, A. (2025), Analyzing the Life History of Caimans: The Growth Dynamics of Caiman latirostris From an Osteohistological Approach. Journal of Morphology, 286: e70010. doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
Spent the afternoon helping my students prepare for a big day tomorrow. The first day of sampling for our AHA-funded project starts at 7:30am tomorrow!!!
December 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Spent the afternoon helping my students prepare for a big day tomorrow. The first day of sampling for our AHA-funded project starts at 7:30am tomorrow!!!
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#artadventcalendar x #fossilfriday Valenictus sheperdi, an extinct tusked (but otherwise toothless) walrus from the Pliocene Purisima Formation of northern California - here shown cruising along an early rocky shore habitat. We named this earlier this year. 🐡🐬🦑🦖
December 20, 2024 at 6:09 PM
#artadventcalendar x #fossilfriday Valenictus sheperdi, an extinct tusked (but otherwise toothless) walrus from the Pliocene Purisima Formation of northern California - here shown cruising along an early rocky shore habitat. We named this earlier this year. 🐡🐬🦑🦖
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10 anuran species x 4 muscles (3D diceCT scan data) x 40 to 168 fibres/muscle = a monumental study of form and function in frog legs by Leavey et al. WOW!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
10 anuran species x 4 muscles (3D diceCT scan data) x 40 to 168 fibres/muscle = a monumental study of form and function in frog legs by Leavey et al. WOW!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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#artadventcalendar day 18: Life restoration of the 17-18 myo fossil walrus Pelagiarctos from southern California, with a photograph of the mandible overlain - walruses were still quite sea lion like at the time. Graphite and digital, 8x10", 2012. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology 🐡🐋🦖
December 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
#artadventcalendar day 18: Life restoration of the 17-18 myo fossil walrus Pelagiarctos from southern California, with a photograph of the mandible overlain - walruses were still quite sea lion like at the time. Graphite and digital, 8x10", 2012. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology 🐡🐋🦖
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Amy M. Balanoff (2024)
Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science
Biology Letters 20(12): 20240472
doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science
Biology Letters 20(12): 20240472
doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science | Biology Letters
Our fascination with dinosaur brains and their capabilities essentially began with
the first dinosaur discovery. The history of this study is a useful reflection of
palaeoneurology as a whole and its ...
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Amy M. Balanoff (2024)
Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science
Biology Letters 20(12): 20240472
doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science
Biology Letters 20(12): 20240472
doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Natalia Jagielska Thomas G Kaye Michael B Habib Tatsuya Hirasawa Michael Pittman (2024) New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins eLife 13:RP100673.
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins
Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) imaging of early pterosaurs uncovers new soft tissue data of tail vane that reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins.
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Natalia Jagielska Thomas G Kaye Michael B Habib Tatsuya Hirasawa Michael Pittman (2024) New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins eLife 13:RP100673.
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:44 PM
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...
Please repost 🦑🧪
Please repost 🦑🧪
December 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...
Please repost 🦑🧪
Please repost 🦑🧪
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Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes
Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Realizing that I’ve basically become by dad… same beard, same sorts of glasses, same corny jokes… miss you dad
(can you tell which ones are me?)
(can you tell which ones are me?)
December 15, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Realizing that I’ve basically become by dad… same beard, same sorts of glasses, same corny jokes… miss you dad
(can you tell which ones are me?)
(can you tell which ones are me?)
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Awesome image showing how birds can be so smart despite having small brains — more neurons packed into that small space (Olkowicz et al. 2016: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....)
December 12, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Awesome image showing how birds can be so smart despite having small brains — more neurons packed into that small space (Olkowicz et al. 2016: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....)
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Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6
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The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.
www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM
The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.
www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
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Biomass of living mammals, compared! I knew the world was mostly humans and cows but I'm pleasantly surprised that baleen whales are a visible chunk due to pure size, rather than numbers. Original paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(This was on other sites but I haven't seen it here with alt text)
(This was on other sites but I haven't seen it here with alt text)
December 12, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Biomass of living mammals, compared! I knew the world was mostly humans and cows but I'm pleasantly surprised that baleen whales are a visible chunk due to pure size, rather than numbers. Original paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(This was on other sites but I haven't seen it here with alt text)
(This was on other sites but I haven't seen it here with alt text)
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This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
December 11, 2024 at 10:01 AM
This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
Just after thanksgiving I went to Fire Island Wilderness Visitor Center, and besides a beautiful sunset, had a visit with an old friend, Balaenoptera physalus
#whales #longisland #fireisland
#whales #longisland #fireisland
December 11, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Just after thanksgiving I went to Fire Island Wilderness Visitor Center, and besides a beautiful sunset, had a visit with an old friend, Balaenoptera physalus
#whales #longisland #fireisland
#whales #longisland #fireisland
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New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...