Dr Joseph Bevitt
@Joseph_Bevitt
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Neutron & X-ray imaging scientist @ANSTO. Paleontology, cultural heritage, chemist, scicomm,🍾🍷,📚,Lego. Baba & husband. Darug country. All tweets own comments
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined October 2017
💡 Neutron imaging creates endless possibilities for scientific and industrial research and development. Discover how low power research reactors are now able to generate high-quality, detailed #3D images. Learn more in this article 👉 https://t.co/EK8bbRUmrP
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They’ve only waited 120Ma. A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians. Published in @JVP_vertpaleo , read it here: https://t.co/XpRd3eUAB8 Artwork by Jonathan Metzger. 1/10
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@museumsvictoria @PPaleoartist @Inxcetus @Joseph_Bevitt @DrTeethAl Finally, if you’d like an alternative runthrough of this research, check out are article at The Conversation here: https://t.co/6rCV2mjo8W 10/10
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Some of the new finds are the first evidence of these types of dinosaurs from Australia.
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NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵
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I’m excited to share a newly published species—Meet Ninumbeehan dookoodukah! @AaronKufner @incisorial @PaleoBadger @UWGeologyMuseum
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The severe greenhouse climate and seasonality of the early to mid-Late Triassic are thought to have limited terrestrial diversity at lower latitudes, but direct adaptations to these harsh conditions...
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Vertebrate paleontology has an ontogeny problem. I think I've solved it. NEW PREPRINT and THREAD 🧵 (link to preprint at the end) (Picture from Tetrapod Zoology, images owned by authors cited therein)
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Our specialist Engineering, Maintenance & Ops team has successfully installed a new cold neutron source in the OPAL multi-purpose reactor providing performance gains in the delivery of neutrons to instruments at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering https://t.co/pY1ylH9VwE
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Flinders palaeontology researchers and others abroad have discovered a new #coelacanth fossil, called Ngamugawi wirngarri, discovered in the Gogo Formation in Gooniyandi Country. This has revealed new exciting insights into its evolution 🔗 https://t.co/CZCnuy1ccV
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Parental feeding in the dinosaur Lufengosaurus revealed through multidisciplinary comparisons with altricial and precocious birds, Sci. Rep.: https://t.co/Pkl1wcPh8C In memory of dear friend Timothy D. Huang who brought this project, his passion and energy to us at @ANSTO
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Scientific Reports - Parental feeding in the dinosaur Lufengosaurus revealed through multidisciplinary comparisons with altricial and precocious birds
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Deadline for 2025-1 Proposal Round for access to #ACNS neutron beamlines & #NDF @deuteration facilities @ANSTO is 16.9.24. Register & contact the instrument scientists if you need help. Good luck! https://t.co/JVxvp0VLXt
#neutrons4industry #neutrons4science
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The Field Museum is establishing a CT scanning facility and is looking for a lab manager to run it. https://t.co/5So8jvZcXT
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Check out this postdoc position for @NSF project on cichlid evolution w/ @HLopezFernandez at @UMichEEB. Feat. collaboration w/ @mstiassny, @fountainscholar, & me. Ad for associated segmentation/CT tech position in @UMichPaleo coming soon!
I have postdoc position available @UMichEEB on morphological and phylogenetic analyses and dating of living and fossil cichlids. Apply at https://t.co/WDLIgMNIX6 Project is NSF-funded with @Friedman_lab, @AMNH @mstiassny, @fountainscholar. Email me for questions. Please share.
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Hanging out with the Brachiosaurus altithroax holotype, a humerus, at the Field Museum! With @Yara_Haridy.
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@CLMensforth with another great poster. If you’re at #ISELV2024 make sure you check out newly described anatomy of Koharalepis illuminated by neutron tomography #palaeontology
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A great 1st day on my visit to the American Museum of Natural History to promote @ANSTO & neutronCT to the research staff, curators, and collections specialists! Met the microscopy team & their new XrayCT, sea scorpions, trilobites, dimetrodon, cluttered hallways and more!
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Best pin ever!! Celebrating the first annual Pride Night at the AMNH and I've been gifted an atomic pin 🤯🥳❤️ !!!
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Hear how Kevin the curator at Kronosaurus Korner in Richmond, QLD made history by uncovering Australia's most complete pterosaur to date: https://t.co/x5QLZp4YiI
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Congratulations @AdelePentland, Kronosaurus Korner, and colleagues on this exciting discovery! I'm humbled to have had the opportunity to contribute with #neutronCT @ANSTO!!
Introducing Australia's newest pterosaur Haliskia peterseni, or Petersen's sea phantom!! Based on a 22% complete skeleton. Open access paper: https://t.co/Oj1pGdgrPm Spectacular palaeoart by @SerpenIllus
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