Neil Shubin
@neilshubin.bsky.social
Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
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Neil Shubin
@neilshubin.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin
In this dazzling report, Shubin (Some Assembly Required), a biology professor at the University of Chicago, examines what the Ea...
www.publishersweekly.com
"dazzling" "it enlightens and amazes".
Fabulous prepublication review of ENDS OF THE EARTH in Publisher's Weekly. 💙📚 #arctic #antarctica #science
www.publishersweekly.com/9780593186527
Fabulous prepublication review of ENDS OF THE EARTH in Publisher's Weekly. 💙📚 #arctic #antarctica #science
www.publishersweekly.com/9780593186527
What a wonderful visit to the @college-de-france.fr! Thank you Denis Duboule and the faculty of the Collège.
A fabulous month of science, ideas, conversation and, of course, Paris. Catch my four lectures here: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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A fabulous month of science, ideas, conversation and, of course, Paris. Catch my four lectures here: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What a wonderful visit to the @college-de-france.fr! Thank you Denis Duboule and the faculty of the Collège.
A fabulous month of science, ideas, conversation and, of course, Paris. Catch my four lectures here: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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A fabulous month of science, ideas, conversation and, of course, Paris. Catch my four lectures here: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Thanks Alfonso!
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One of, so far 3 lectures being delivered @college-de-france.fr by @neilshubin.bsky.social
on our fish origins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Wonderful flow, educational, inspirational.
How we learn @ our ancestry. The origin of #walking. How we got our skeleton #MustWatch
on our fish origins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Wonderful flow, educational, inspirational.
How we learn @ our ancestry. The origin of #walking. How we got our skeleton #MustWatch
Neil Shubin (1) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Thanks Alfonso!
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Check out my third lecture at the Collège de France. On the origin of bones and teeth. Thanks to my host @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation and the community in Paris for a warm welcome!
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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
Neil Shubin (3) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Check out my third lecture at the Collège de France. On the origin of bones and teeth. Thanks to my host @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation and the community in Paris for a warm welcome!
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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
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Tomorrow Wedn 5th, lesson #4 of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr ‘How do new biological inventions arise in evolution?’ ⚠️ Final seminar on his Paris tour 2025 😲 Dont’ miss this last opportunity to meet him and his inner fish. 11am, aquarium Guillaume Budé 🐠Free swim.
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Tomorrow Wedn 5th, lesson #4 of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr ‘How do new biological inventions arise in evolution?’ ⚠️ Final seminar on his Paris tour 2025 😲 Dont’ miss this last opportunity to meet him and his inner fish. 11am, aquarium Guillaume Budé 🐠Free swim.
Reposted by Neil Shubin
Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting!
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...
Neil Shubin (2) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
m.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting!
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...
My first lecture at the Collège de France @cdf1530 is up! In English... Three more to follow in the coming weeks.
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Neil Shubin (1) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My first lecture at the Collège de France @cdf1530 is up! In English... Three more to follow in the coming weeks.
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Neil Shubin (1) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My first lecture at the Collège de France @cdf1530 is up! In English... Three more to follow in the coming weeks.
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Reposted by Neil Shubin
Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘
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‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky💙📚 #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky💙📚 #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky💙📚 #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky💙📚 #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Beginning a new adventure in the Arctic in July 1999. I’m to the left. Marcus Davis to the right. First day of fieldwork in the Arctic. We’d find Tiktaalik roseae five years later.
Photo: Ted Daeschler 🧪
Photo: Ted Daeschler 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Beginning a new adventure in the Arctic in July 1999. I’m to the left. Marcus Davis to the right. First day of fieldwork in the Arctic. We’d find Tiktaalik roseae five years later.
Photo: Ted Daeschler 🧪
Photo: Ted Daeschler 🧪
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Our work exploring a new explanation for the regulation of Hoxd genes and the #fin-to-limb transition. 🧪
It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social
#evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust
It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social
#evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust
How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our work exploring a new explanation for the regulation of Hoxd genes and the #fin-to-limb transition. 🧪
It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social
#evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust
It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social
#evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust
Congrats to Aurelie Hinterman aurhin.bsky.social, Chase Bolt chasebolt.bsky.social, and Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social!
Coverage in NYTimes by @carlzimmer.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
Coverage in NYTimes by @carlzimmer.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Congrats to Aurelie Hinterman aurhin.bsky.social, Chase Bolt chasebolt.bsky.social, and Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social!
Coverage in NYTimes by @carlzimmer.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
Coverage in NYTimes by @carlzimmer.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
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Before recently shipping this model out to its new home at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore, I brought it over to @neilshubin.bsky.social lab to see the latest updates to the sculptures anatomy. Tiktaalik’s discovery site on the wall map makes the scene!
September 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Before recently shipping this model out to its new home at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore, I brought it over to @neilshubin.bsky.social lab to see the latest updates to the sculptures anatomy. Tiktaalik’s discovery site on the wall map makes the scene!
Feeling the incalculable loss of Mark Norell (1957-2025): wonderful scientist and cherished friend. His influence will continue through his many mentees and the science he did and inspired.
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Feeling the incalculable loss of Mark Norell (1957-2025): wonderful scientist and cherished friend. His influence will continue through his many mentees and the science he did and inspired.
Excited to be giving 4 lectures in Paris in October at the Collège de France. Free and open to the public!
‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof. @neilshubin.bsky.social, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof @college-de-france.fr. in Paris @psl-univ.bsky.social. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁
September 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Excited to be giving 4 lectures in Paris in October at the Collège de France. Free and open to the public!
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
August 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
August 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
Congrats to @tdcapellini.bsky.social @gayani.bsky.social and the entire team!
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Congrats to @tdcapellini.bsky.social @gayani.bsky.social and the entire team!
The great Tyler Kellior swung by lab with the latest reconstruction of Tiktaalik. Here we are in the "look what I just caught!" pose and Tyler with his "a man and his fish" one.
Geological map of the Ellesmere Island are in the background...
Geological map of the Ellesmere Island are in the background...
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The great Tyler Kellior swung by lab with the latest reconstruction of Tiktaalik. Here we are in the "look what I just caught!" pose and Tyler with his "a man and his fish" one.
Geological map of the Ellesmere Island are in the background...
Geological map of the Ellesmere Island are in the background...
I’m thrilled that ENDS OF THE EARTH has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize!
In such fabulous company on the list.
royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
In such fabulous company on the list.
royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
August 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m thrilled that ENDS OF THE EARTH has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize!
In such fabulous company on the list.
royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
In such fabulous company on the list.
royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
ENDS OF THE EARTH is available now for a limited time on ebook for just $1.99. Get it while it lasts! 💙🧪
July 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
ENDS OF THE EARTH is available now for a limited time on ebook for just $1.99. Get it while it lasts! 💙🧪
New from the lab! Announcing MORPHOVIEW a powerful tool to quantify in high throughput the 3D structures of cells and tissues during organ morphogenesis. Great work by Sam Norris. 🧪
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.70061
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.70061
July 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New from the lab! Announcing MORPHOVIEW a powerful tool to quantify in high throughput the 3D structures of cells and tissues during organ morphogenesis. Great work by Sam Norris. 🧪
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.70061
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.70061
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
July 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪