Brandon Peecook
@gondwannabe.bsky.social
Paleontologist 🦴
Curator 🏛 Natural History Museum Denmark 🇩🇰
Prof 👨🏻🏫 University of Copenhagen
Biodiversity Superfan 🌍🦚🦉🦩🦖🦕🐊🐢🐍🐋🦬🦒🦇🦫🦣🐠🐡🦈🐝🐞🦗🦞🕷🪱🦑🐌🪸🍄🌲🌴🌾🌻
Curator 🏛 Natural History Museum Denmark 🇩🇰
Prof 👨🏻🏫 University of Copenhagen
Biodiversity Superfan 🌍🦚🦉🦩🦖🦕🐊🐢🐍🐋🦬🦒🦇🦫🦣🐠🐡🦈🐝🐞🦗🦞🕷🪱🦑🐌🪸🍄🌲🌴🌾🌻
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Brandon Peecook
@gondwannabe.bsky.social
· May 28
Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢
#Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution
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#Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution
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Huge day for reptile evolution.
We FINALLY find strong morpho-/paleontological support for Pantestudines with Archosauria. WOO! 🐢 + 🐊🦩
Eunotosaurus is firmly down on the reptile stem.
"Eu-not-a-turtle" amirite??
Phylo tests ALL prior candidates for turtle origins in one deeply satisfying work.
We FINALLY find strong morpho-/paleontological support for Pantestudines with Archosauria. WOO! 🐢 + 🐊🦩
Eunotosaurus is firmly down on the reptile stem.
"Eu-not-a-turtle" amirite??
Phylo tests ALL prior candidates for turtle origins in one deeply satisfying work.
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The 19th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates will be held in Uppsala from the 1st to the 6th of July 2027!
Sign up to the mailing list here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/sKN4rRqr7f
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September 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The 19th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates will be held in Uppsala from the 1st to the 6th of July 2027!
Sign up to the mailing list here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/sKN4rRqr7f
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Another big potential #FishJob
Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History
careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History
careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...
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September 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Another big potential #FishJob
Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History
careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History
careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
So wonderful to finally see this out! Congrats to @houdzgeorge.bsky.social and the team. 🎉
This is a big piece to refining the terrestrial Middle/Late Triassic across southern Pangea.
And the award for best use of “U” goes to the original genus: Ruhuhuungulasaurus. 👀
This is a big piece to refining the terrestrial Middle/Late Triassic across southern Pangea.
And the award for best use of “U” goes to the original genus: Ruhuhuungulasaurus. 👀
Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵
September 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
So wonderful to finally see this out! Congrats to @houdzgeorge.bsky.social and the team. 🎉
This is a big piece to refining the terrestrial Middle/Late Triassic across southern Pangea.
And the award for best use of “U” goes to the original genus: Ruhuhuungulasaurus. 👀
This is a big piece to refining the terrestrial Middle/Late Triassic across southern Pangea.
And the award for best use of “U” goes to the original genus: Ruhuhuungulasaurus. 👀
Good to have you!
After a month catching my breath in the UK, the second round of my sabbatical research tour is underway in Copenhagen 🇩🇰! Thanks so much to the staff of the @nhmdk.bsky.social for being so welcoming during my quick trip to look at some of their Cenozoic mammal fossils.
September 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Good to have you!
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Turtles. They're weird. Where did they come from? We find out in today's #FossilFiles. This one is hot off the press. We only recorded it this morning and it's out for your listening pleasure already! @fossilrob.bsky.social is my turtle hero. share.google/a5Aale2SzYyS...
The Fossil Files: Where did turtles come from?
The origin of turtles has long been a scientific mystery. Not only do they have super weird things going on with their ribs, head, and teeth, but also its unclear if they were more closely related to ...
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September 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Turtles. They're weird. Where did they come from? We find out in today's #FossilFiles. This one is hot off the press. We only recorded it this morning and it's out for your listening pleasure already! @fossilrob.bsky.social is my turtle hero. share.google/a5Aale2SzYyS...
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Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University:
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
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September 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University:
irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
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Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴
This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!
This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!
Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)
Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...
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September 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴
This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!
This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!
🥲🥹☺️
This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like.
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
August 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
🥲🥹☺️
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This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like.
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
August 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like.
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape. scim.ag/4cirWKy
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My personal equivalent to "touch grass" is "touch fossil." Sometimes I just have to do that, to remind myself that life as a paleontologist is more than emails and pushing around bits and bytes.
August 28, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My personal equivalent to "touch grass" is "touch fossil." Sometimes I just have to do that, to remind myself that life as a paleontologist is more than emails and pushing around bits and bytes.
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Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/
August 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/
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Finally got downtown to see Junior!
August 27, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Finally got downtown to see Junior!
What!?
When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.
August 27, 2026 at 11:44 AM
What!?
I bore witness and it was a scene! @uwbiology.bsky.social
Last week in Christiania, I had the delightful experience of speaking to an large and lively audience in a vast 18th century stable, now converted to a performance, as part of the long-running Science and Cocktails series.
Bonus: the video production of my talk here is the best I've had yet.
Bonus: the video production of my talk here is the best I've had yet.
Information, disinformation, and the future of human society with Carl T. Bergstrom
YouTube video by The Science and Cocktails Foundation
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August 26, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I bore witness and it was a scene! @uwbiology.bsky.social
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Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was
August 21, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was
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EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost!
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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August 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost!
ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net
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Result from the López de Bertodano Formation #paleostream! I have been looking forward to this one for a while as it combines some fascinating aspects of the latest Cretaceous. This formation was deposited in Antarctica and I hear you all: "wait a sec, that's not what I...
August 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Result from the López de Bertodano Formation #paleostream! I have been looking forward to this one for a while as it combines some fascinating aspects of the latest Cretaceous. This formation was deposited in Antarctica and I hear you all: "wait a sec, that's not what I...
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Our latest paper started out as a DDIG project 14 years ago and grew into an interdisciplinary reassessment of Madagascar's oldest fossil lizard, showing that Konkasaurus mahalana is a gerrhosaur and the earliest known colonization from Africa by an extant Madagascan lineage. doi.org/10.1093/zool...
August 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Our latest paper started out as a DDIG project 14 years ago and grew into an interdisciplinary reassessment of Madagascar's oldest fossil lizard, showing that Konkasaurus mahalana is a gerrhosaur and the earliest known colonization from Africa by an extant Madagascan lineage. doi.org/10.1093/zool...
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Friends in Copenhagen: I'm really excited to be visiting in less than two weeks. I hope to see you at Science and Cocktails, where I'll be talking about how digital information technologies are threatening our ability to make sense of the world and make prudent collective decisions.
Science and Cocktails in X31: Information, disinformation, and the future of society
Science & Cocktails is proud to announce an episode with evolutionary social biologist superstar, Carl T. Bergstrom, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, and author of the book
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August 7, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Friends in Copenhagen: I'm really excited to be visiting in less than two weeks. I hope to see you at Science and Cocktails, where I'll be talking about how digital information technologies are threatening our ability to make sense of the world and make prudent collective decisions.
Cow bone!?! 😎
Sometimes you have to improvise structural support in a field jacket. Here I used a gauge from a broken weather station and a cow radioulna. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
August 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Cow bone!?! 😎
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Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic
July 10, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic
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I am thrilled to share that I will join the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org as the Dean of Collections, Curator, and Professor in September!
August 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I am thrilled to share that I will join the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org as the Dean of Collections, Curator, and Professor in September!
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If a Lepidodendron falls in a forest and no one has evolved ears that can hear it, does it still make a sound?
August 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
If a Lepidodendron falls in a forest and no one has evolved ears that can hear it, does it still make a sound?
Absolutely, the talks I saw were excellent!
July 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Absolutely, the talks I saw were excellent!