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Smile! It's #FossilFriday.

What could possibly go in this empty space between the Ordovician and Devonian display cases at UMMNH? 🤔

Two tenured, mid-career positions available in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan: Climate-Driven Hazards and Earth Surface Dynamics. Applications due Aug. 15th: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-...

Missed out on #FossilFriday while checking out some cross bedding in the Cambrian Munising Fm. from a vantage point on Lake Superior.

World's oldest scombrid takes an X-ray bath.

New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Safe travels, @hesham-sallam.bsky.social! Always great seeing you--looking forward to our next meeting.

For #FossilFriday, and in honor of Dr. Sanaa El-Sayed, a beautiful 62-million-year-old veliferid from Egypt alongside the living sailfin velifer (Velifer hypselopterus).

Congratulations Dr. El-Sayed! 📸: @hesham-sallam.bsky.social

Please join us tomorrow morning at 10 AM eastern for @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social's dissertation defense seminar "Teleost fish evolution in the Cenozoic: New insights from Paleogene ichthyofaunas from the Eastern Desert of Egypt." Message or email me for Zoom passcode: umich.zoom.us/j/98521134857

Congrats to UMMP alum James Saulsbury!

Please join us for a public lecture on vertebrate paleontology in Egypt delivered by @hesham-sallam.bsky.social of Mansoura University! Attend in person (for those in Ann Arbor) or via Zoom webinar (umich.zoom.us/s/92615647424). Lecture begins at 7:30 PM Eastern.

Huge congrats to Lindsey DeHaan on receiving the Stoye Award for best student presentation in ichthyology at #JMIH26 in New Orleans! Lindsey presented work on macroevolutionary shifts in spiny eels, representing one of her dissertation chapters. 📸: @leicurtis.bsky.social

Away from Ann Arbor, so no UMMP collections for me. So here are some lovely Early Devonian echinoderms from the Hunsrück Slate of western Germany on display at PRI's Museum of the Earth.

Impressive new systematic treatment of fossil and living clupeomoeph fishes by Marramà and Carnevale: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

A phylogeny and revised classification of clupeomorph fishes (Teleostei, Otomorpha)The study of the Clupeomorpha Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 (herrings and allies) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Since the publication of the monographic work by Lance Gr...sciencepress.mnhn.fr