Matt McKeown
@mattmckeown.bsky.social
He/him. Paleontology PhD Candidate in Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. Interested in the functional anatomy of metriorhynchoid thalattosuchians and other mesozoic marine reptiles
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A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information
This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
careers.nau.edu
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
careers-nyit.icims.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
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What's the secret to being a 'good' and 'productive' scientist? Having a lab with the brightest, most enthusiastic students!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What's the secret to being a 'good' and 'productive' scientist? Having a lab with the brightest, most enthusiastic students!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
And here, in no particular order, is a sample of Univ of Edinburgh student research at last week's @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting in Birmingham!
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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An Edinburgh family photo at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting.
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
An Edinburgh family photo at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting.
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!
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🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines
Alongside large madtsoiid snakes, the largest known lizards, thylacoleonid marsupials and a range of other terrestrial carnivores, the now extinct mekosuchine crocodylians were significant predator...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Eye think you should drop by poster 321 at today's poster session to see some cool research 👀🐊
#fossilfriday #2025svp
#fossilfriday #2025svp
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Eye think you should drop by poster 321 at today's poster session to see some cool research 👀🐊
#fossilfriday #2025svp
#fossilfriday #2025svp
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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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...
www.annualreviews.org
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...
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Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
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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
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Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
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Um novo pliossaurídeo bracauqueniíneo (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) do Aptiano Superior da Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colômbia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A new brachaucheniine pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) from the upper Aptian of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
We describe two new pliosaurid specimens from upper Aptian beds near Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia. Morphological analysis reveals they represent a new brachaucheniine genus and species, Boyacas...
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Um novo pliossaurídeo bracauqueniíneo (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) do Aptiano Superior da Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colômbia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hard as it is to believe, there was other paleo news yesterday! First, the "Dream Lizard":
M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025.
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...
M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025.
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Hard as it is to believe, there was other paleo news yesterday! First, the "Dream Lizard":
M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025.
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...
M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025.
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...
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Jose P. O’Gorman and Roger B.J. Benson (2025)
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628
doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024
www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628
doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024
www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian–
lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
www.app.pan.pl
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Jose P. O’Gorman and Roger B.J. Benson (2025)
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628
doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024
www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628
doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024
www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
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Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality
It has long been debated whether non-avian dinosaurs went extinct abruptly or gradually at the end-Cretaceous (66 million years ago), because their fossil record at this time is mostly limited to nort...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy #FossilFriday from "Texas Nessie", the polycotylid plesiosaur skull that we finished scanning, digitally restoring, printing and assembling about 1 year ago
The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪
The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happy #FossilFriday from "Texas Nessie", the polycotylid plesiosaur skull that we finished scanning, digitally restoring, printing and assembling about 1 year ago
The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪
The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪
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New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me!
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Biomechanical simulations of hindlimb function in Alligator provide insights into postural shifts and body size evolution
Locomotor simulations in alligators reveal that transitions to erect limb postures facilitate the evolution of larger body sizes.
www.science.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me!
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I need you guys to see this ...
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I need you guys to see this ...
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⚠️Job alert : "General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle" ⬇️
🔹https://www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/5783
#palaeontology #job #curator
🔹https://www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/5783
#palaeontology #job #curator
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
⚠️Job alert : "General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle" ⬇️
🔹https://www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/5783
#palaeontology #job #curator
🔹https://www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/5783
#palaeontology #job #curator
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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍
Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!
Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com
Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!
Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com
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October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍
Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!
Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com
Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!
Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com