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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · 5d

New paper alert!
"Isotopic evidence of increased societal diversification in Pre-Columbian Panama"
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Isotopic evidence of increased societal diversification in Pre-Columbian Panama

PDF | The Pre-Columbian history of Panama stands in unique contrast to the state-level societies of Mesoamerica to the north and the Andes to the south.... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Oct 2

New paper alert! See press release here!
Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions

The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…

www.fau.eu

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Erin Dillon @erinmdillon.bsky.social · Sep 24

Work on reef paleoecology? Join our session "Reefs through time: leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems" at the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium

📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Sep 25

Our @icrs.bsky.social 2026 session is now open for abstract submission! Consider it if you work on reef systems through time!

Erin Dillon @erinmdillon.bsky.social · Sep 24

Work on reef paleoecology? Join our session "Reefs through time: leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems" at the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium

📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts

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Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · Sep 2

📊 new paper! The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which normally occurs every year in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
[most co-authors not on bluesky except @javsdiaz.bsky.social @jonscibulski.bsky.social]...

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The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) @swimshku.bsky.social · Sep 1

SWIMS will be a very busy place from tomorrow because Integrative Marine Ecology & Conservation (IMEC) MSc has launched! Tomorrow, forty-four students will start their journey at SWIMS and HKU. Their first class – Ocean Biodiversity, is at 9am. Welcome to SWIMS, everyone!
@jonscibulski.bsky.social

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The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) @swimshku.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dr Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social talks about the story of his latest paper: Historical Ecology of the Southern Central American Pacific Coast. With @odealab.bsky.social
More: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#marinescience #centralamerica #humanspecies #sustainability

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Aug 1

I second the curiosity about oxygen production - what % do you have the ocean producing? I often see ~50% as well (not air as the article states, but O2 as you say)

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 27

Awesome postdoc opportunity with some really great people. If you are interested in spatial paleoecology, take a look and spread the word!

The Spatial Ecology & Paleontology Lab @GT @sepl.bsky.social · Jul 23

Join our community! Seeking a postdoc jointly supervised by Jenny McGuire (GATech) and Michelle Lawing (TX A&M).
Details here: www.mcguire.gatech.edu/paleontology...

Join our community as a SEPL Postdoc! | Spatial Ecology & Paleontology Lab

www.mcguire.gatech.edu

Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 14

I have never been more honoured. My overhead mobility looking great.

Ian Cooke-Tapia, illustrator @iancooketapia.bsky.social · Jul 12

A cute drawing of one @jonscibulski.bsky.social being an amazing power(?)lifter and educator.

Also scientist.

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 11

"We are all ocean connected" stri.si.edu/story/we-are...
Official #Smithsonian press release now out!

@aesharpe.bsky.social

We Are All Ocean Connected

Marine resource use has influenced human population on the Central American Isthmus for millennia

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

I want to end by saying how special this article was to lead. It really was a beautiful team effort that brought it together, and I am very proud to have represented the Isthmus and #STRI #Smithsonian with this work. SCIENCE SHOULD BE COLLABORATIVE AND MEANINGFUL. I hope you agree, and enjoy!

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

This was all part of the wonderful special edition "Shifting Seas: Understanding Deep-Time Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems" in @royalsocietypublishing.org led by editor @lukeeholman.bsky.social

Illustration: Jacek Matysiak

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

Español abstract in supplements, along with español case-studies as well! doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Pay wall? DM for pdf!

Supplementary material from

The Pacific coast of the Southern Central American Isthmus is a highly productive and biodiverse region with a rich human history. Although the interaction of the oceans, climate, biodiversity, and ea...

doi.org

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

This would COULD NOT BE POSSIBLE without my wonderful co-authors and discipline experts (most not on BS) such as: @erinmdillon.bsky.social @odealab.bsky.social and the rest

Photos: @leilanilipour.bsky.social and Jorge Alemán

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

We tried hard to fuse stories of oceans, climate, biodiversity, and early human systems to bring focus to this incredible region of study, with a hope and a need to attract more attention to it in the future!

photo: @leilanilipour.bsky.social

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our work emphasises the importance of ocean–land connections for Isthmian peoples and the critical balance of livlihoods, research, and conservation efforts needed to ensure its future sustainability.

Photo: @leilanilipour.bsky.social

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

We identified three major transitions of Isthmian peoples relationships with the #ocean and its resources:
1) The shift to agriculture after megafauna extinction,
2) rising sea levels and the novel ecosystems they created,
3) Spanish colonisation and the globalisation of resource extraction

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

Using #STRI's vast zooarch collections, we found intersting diet trends showing the diversity of ecosystems peoples relied on over many thousands of years

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

My fav part was the incredible case-studies co-authors #nicole #brigida #irene @odealab.bsky.social @erinmdillon.bsky.social told about shell fishing, the pearl oyster industry, and the history of indigenous peoples under Spanish occupation.

All BEAUTIFUL illustrations: @cookedillustrations.com

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our proudly interdisciplinary team of paleobiologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and global change researchers worked hard to combine vast datasets that would be intersting to a wide suite of readers. Everything from zooarchaeology to sea level change!

Photo: Jorge Alemán

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌊Just out! We reviewed the history of human-ocean interactions, focusing on the Pacific coast of the Southern Central Asmerican Isthmus (Panamá and Costa Rica).

Over 16K years of stories on culture, environment, and ecology!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Illustration: Madeline Dall

Historical ecology of the Southern Central American Pacific coast | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Pacific coast of the Southern Central American Isthmus is a highly productive and biodiverse region with a rich human history. Although the interaction of the oceans, climate, biodiversity and early human systems has shaped the region’s ecology, ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Jon Cybulski @jonscibulski.bsky.social · Jul 2

Very excited for our new @pnas.org manuscript investigating changes in “big and little fish” ecology over the last several thousand years in the Caribbean! See awesome thread by @odealab.bsky.social below.

Go collaborative science team!!

Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · Jul 1

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?".

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

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