Juned Zariwala
@junedz.bsky.social
PhD Student in Diapsid Skull Evolution at the University of Lincoln.
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Looking forward to meeting everyone at #2025SVP If you would like to know about the evolution of Antorbital fenestra (AOF) in archosauriformes, please come find my poster in Regular Poster Session IV on Saturday, November 15 2025, between 4:30-6:30PM. I am really excited to attend my first ever SVP!
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happy #worldwalrusday! this is pontolis, a massive walrus from the miocene and pliocene of north america 🦭 scaling the skull material suggests that it may have been as large as an elephant seal, with weight estimates ranging between 2-4 tonnes
(art by joschua knuppe)
(art by joschua knuppe)
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
happy #worldwalrusday! this is pontolis, a massive walrus from the miocene and pliocene of north america 🦭 scaling the skull material suggests that it may have been as large as an elephant seal, with weight estimates ranging between 2-4 tonnes
(art by joschua knuppe)
(art by joschua knuppe)
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what the heck
Oil Painting In 3D In Blender.
YouTube video by y3dena
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
what the heck
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Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can?
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can?
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department!
More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831
Please share widely!
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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and another on the evolution of gastropods (Polystira) in response to changing climate with Prof Chris Venditti and Dr Jon Todd (NHM UK).
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
CR2026_28 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
and another on the evolution of gastropods (Polystira) in response to changing climate with Prof Chris Venditti and Dr Jon Todd (NHM UK).
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
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Just posting again, but I've got two PhD positions on offer through the CROCUS-DLA at the University of Reading. One on the phylogenetics and evolution of dragonflies with Dr Jamie Thompson
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
CR2026_43 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Just posting again, but I've got two PhD positions on offer through the CROCUS-DLA at the University of Reading. One on the phylogenetics and evolution of dragonflies with Dr Jamie Thompson
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
#PhD #zoology #paleontology
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After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
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Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
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New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids
Notosuchian systematics have been highly debated in recent decades, particularly the placement of sebecids and closely related species. As the only notosuchian lineage to have survived the Cretaceo...
www.tandfonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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BIG news about vampire squid! I just learned their Japanese name "koumori-dako" means "bat-octopus," which is objectively better* and I'll be using it from now on. 🦇🐙
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Giant genome of the vampire squid reveals the derived state of modern octopod karyotypes
Marine organism; Genetics; Evolutionary mechanisms; Phylogenetics; Genomic analysis
www.cell.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BIG news about vampire squid! I just learned their Japanese name "koumori-dako" means "bat-octopus," which is objectively better* and I'll be using it from now on. 🦇🐙
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Doomscroll safety stop 🛑
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Doomscroll safety stop 🛑
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
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Mad props for being able to scan a live bat. Rocks can be tricky, live subjects must have been a challenge.
Happy to share our new paper is now published! 🎉
We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉
Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪
We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉
Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪
3D photogrammetry as a low‐cost and non‐invasive method for acoustic modelling of animal hearing
Sound localization is important for all eared animals and the spatio-spectral cues for localization are described through the head-related transfer function (HRTF). Current state-of-the-art for ob...
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Mad props for being able to scan a live bat. Rocks can be tricky, live subjects must have been a challenge.
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Flamingo. 🦩🦩 A flock of flamingos is aptly called a flamboyance. There are six species of flamingo worldwide. They are highly social creatures and often gather in large numbers. Awesome photo taken by Pedro Szekely #flamingo #naturephotography #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #pink
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Flamingo. 🦩🦩 A flock of flamingos is aptly called a flamboyance. There are six species of flamingo worldwide. They are highly social creatures and often gather in large numbers. Awesome photo taken by Pedro Szekely #flamingo #naturephotography #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #pink
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Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
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Highly recommended! I just finished a cover-to-cover read, and it's a great addition to the avian sensory ecology literature with excellent discussions of the links between brain & behavior. I prefer reading paper books (better retention) but the whole thing is freely downloadable! bit.ly/482xPZm 🦉🧠
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Highly recommended! I just finished a cover-to-cover read, and it's a great addition to the avian sensory ecology literature with excellent discussions of the links between brain & behavior. I prefer reading paper books (better retention) but the whole thing is freely downloadable! bit.ly/482xPZm 🦉🧠
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A. Romilio et al. (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
www.mdpi.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A. Romilio et al. (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020
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Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae) - Lecuona - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae) - Lecuona - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you create science-related art, enjoy looking at it, or just want to make your social media experience a little bit prettier and more intelligent, this feed is what you need.
The SciArt Feed 🐡 is NUMBER 4 in both science and art Feeds on Bluesky!
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you create science-related art, enjoy looking at it, or just want to make your social media experience a little bit prettier and more intelligent, this feed is what you need.
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Alas, this article on our reptile decomposition research does not come in a scratch-and-sniff format. However, if you'd like to see what my students, colleagues, and I have been up to with our decomposing lizards and crocodylians, here's your chance. 🧪
CSI: Cretaceous. A reptile body farm is shedding light on how dinosaurs died.
Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Alas, this article on our reptile decomposition research does not come in a scratch-and-sniff format. However, if you'd like to see what my students, colleagues, and I have been up to with our decomposing lizards and crocodylians, here's your chance. 🧪
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Waiting on chemo for New Idiot Dog, so here's a throwback to 5 years ago when I was finishing up the cast reconstruction of Walker's skull
This bruiser was the second Mosasaurus ever found in Kansas (Wally was the first) from the Weskan shale, near the Colorado border.
This bruiser was the second Mosasaurus ever found in Kansas (Wally was the first) from the Weskan shale, near the Colorado border.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Waiting on chemo for New Idiot Dog, so here's a throwback to 5 years ago when I was finishing up the cast reconstruction of Walker's skull
This bruiser was the second Mosasaurus ever found in Kansas (Wally was the first) from the Weskan shale, near the Colorado border.
This bruiser was the second Mosasaurus ever found in Kansas (Wally was the first) from the Weskan shale, near the Colorado border.
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Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!