Anne Kort | The Virtual Paleontologist
@virtpaleo.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Michigan Society of Fellows at University of Michigan. I work with digital fossils that can be fixed with a Ctrl+Z.
https://annekortpaleo.com
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Hi, I’m Anne! I’m a paleontologist studying the evolution of locomotion in mammals. I do a lot with 3D data/ scanning and post tutorials about these techniques on my YouTube channel. I just started a 3 year term at University of Michigan as a postdoctoral fellow!
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ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social
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Hi #2025SVP! I’ll be presenting on the crania of the enigmatic Cretaceous marine turtle from Japan, Mesodermochelys, at B302 in tomorrow’s poster session! Looking forward to seeing you there🐢
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hi #2025SVP! I’ll be presenting on the crania of the enigmatic Cretaceous marine turtle from Japan, Mesodermochelys, at B302 in tomorrow’s poster session! Looking forward to seeing you there🐢
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Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at #2025SVP, email or find me or @tguillerme.bsky.social for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme:
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.co...
www.findaphd.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at #2025SVP, email or find me or @tguillerme.bsky.social for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme:
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are
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Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Mammals 🥰 Loved the first two seasons even more excited for this one!
Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Mammals 🥰 Loved the first two seasons even more excited for this one!
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If you haven’t already, go follow @svp_vertpaleo on instagram!
Join hosts @geosplore.bsky.social on our Instagram on November 4th at 8pm EST with guest @cjsalcidopaleo.bsky.social!
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you haven’t already, go follow @svp_vertpaleo on instagram!
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Nothing better than spooky fish fossils for a Halloween talk! If you're in the Ann Arbor area next week come check out my talk! 🎃👻🦴🐠
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Nothing better than spooky fish fossils for a Halloween talk! If you're in the Ann Arbor area next week come check out my talk! 🎃👻🦴🐠
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New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
Collections Study Grants
Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the University of Washington Burke Museum (UWBM).
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October 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
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S. Hoffmann & D.W. Krause (2025)
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia) - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Taeniolabis taoensis, the largest known multituberculate, is craniodentally one of the most well-known mammals from the early Paleocene of the Western Interior of the United States of America. Althoug...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
S. Hoffmann & D.W. Krause (2025)
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸
Incredible find at the used bookstore today
October 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Incredible find at the used bookstore today
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Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness
Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und
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June 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
I’ll be presenting at my first ever American Society of Mammalogists meeting in June! Let me know if you’ll be there and want to meet up.
May 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’ll be presenting at my first ever American Society of Mammalogists meeting in June! Let me know if you’ll be there and want to meet up.
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New permanent Fossil Preparator position with the Dibblee Geology Center at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, responsible for the preparation, conservation, and stabilization of fossils in the Earth Science Collection.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...
www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...
Fossil Preparator - Santa Barbara, CA 93105 - Indeed.com
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center
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May 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New permanent Fossil Preparator position with the Dibblee Geology Center at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, responsible for the preparation, conservation, and stabilization of fossils in the Earth Science Collection.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...
www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e...
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This #FossilFriday, one of the chapters from my PhD dissertation has been published! it is on the relationship of form and function in the Carnivora mandible using functional morphology, biomechanics, and geometric morphometrics on 3D data
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The relationship between form and function of the carnivore mandible
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May 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This #FossilFriday, one of the chapters from my PhD dissertation has been published! it is on the relationship of form and function in the Carnivora mandible using functional morphology, biomechanics, and geometric morphometrics on 3D data
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YV5A83...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YV5A83...
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science seeks a full-time, 1 year Research Assistant to enter plant fossil data into the new Integrative Paleobotany Portal, a database & research workbench that makes paleobotanical data widely available.
Multiple hirings possible.
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Multiple hirings possible.
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Paleobotony Research Assistant - Dallas, TX 75201 - Indeed.com
Perot Museum Of Nature And Science
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April 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Perot Museum of Nature and Science seeks a full-time, 1 year Research Assistant to enter plant fossil data into the new Integrative Paleobotany Portal, a database & research workbench that makes paleobotanical data widely available.
Multiple hirings possible.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
Multiple hirings possible.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
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The Friedman Lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan seeks a technician to generate, curate, segment, and archive micro-CT data for extinct and extant cichlid fishes.
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Research Laboratory Technician Senior / Friedman Lab - Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - Indeed.com
University of Michigan
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April 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Friedman Lab in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan seeks a technician to generate, curate, segment, and archive micro-CT data for extinct and extant cichlid fishes.
www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
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Fossil prep job at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social in Southern California! Full time + benefits!
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Recruitment
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April 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Fossil prep job at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social in Southern California! Full time + benefits!
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New paper from Sierra Lopezalles of the Polly Lab group: Lopezalles SM. Leveraging functional morphology to increase accuracy of body-mass estimation: a study using canids. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-13. doi:10.1017/pab.2025.1
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March 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New paper from Sierra Lopezalles of the Polly Lab group: Lopezalles SM. Leveraging functional morphology to increase accuracy of body-mass estimation: a study using canids. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-13. doi:10.1017/pab.2025.1
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Collections Manager- Vertebrate Paleontology
Regular Full-Time
The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC)
Los Angeles, CA, US
Collections Manager- Vertebrate Paleontology
Regular Full-Time
The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC)
Los Angeles, CA, US
Recruitment
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March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Collections Manager- Vertebrate Paleontology
Regular Full-Time
The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC)
Los Angeles, CA, US
Collections Manager- Vertebrate Paleontology
Regular Full-Time
The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC)
Los Angeles, CA, US
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Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
March 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
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Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.
March 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.