She also serves in leadership roles promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific community.
As Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Historical Biology, she hopes to strengthen open and FAIR data practices and support transparent, reproducible research.
She collaborates on aquatic ecology projects examining productivity, nutrient availability & PFAS contaminants in modern rivers & contributes to efforts that develop AI-assisted tools for data curation, while advancing open & reproducible science through her work with MorphoBank.
Brooke studies chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves (our highlighted fossils today), using morphometrics, phylogenetic analyses, sclerochronology, and microbial ecology to investigate how symbiosis, shell morphology, and environmental gradients shape biodiversity.
For #FossilFriday, we're pleased to announce Dr. Brooke Long-Fox as our new deputy editor-in-chief!
Dr. Brooke Long-Fox is a paleobiologist whose research explores how organisms respond to environmental change across spatial & temporal scales.
Our paper on the phylogenetic nomenclature of Caimaninae is the Editor’s Pick in Historical Biology! 🐊 Glad to see the topic highlighted.
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Hans left a huge mark in the field of palaeontology. He is well remembered by peers & enthusiasts for his thorough work & jolly sense of humour.
He will be dearly missed by friends & colleagues at Historical Biology & beyond. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. (6/6)
Lastly, we have Pappochelys, which Hans called one of his favourite fossils. This diaspid reptile's discovery suggests turtles should also be considered diaspids. This critter, described by Hans in 2015, could thus be a stem turtle 🐢
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/nat... (5/6)
Hans' lasting legacy in palaeontology is perhaps best reflected in this fossil - Hanssuesia, a pachycephalosaurid named in his honour in 2003. This was a dome-head dinosaur from the Cretaceous, & this critter even suffered a lesion. (4/6)
This fossil is the braincase of an Upper Triassic pseudosuchian from Canada, cautiously ID'ed as Postosuchus. This fossil, the focus of one of Hans' most recent papers, showed this clade's presence at low palaeolatitudes.
Paper: doi.org/10.1007/s125... (3/6)
This fossil is Irritator challengeri, a spinosaurid from Brazil. Hans was part of the team that extracted the skull from rocks it came in. The name "Irritator" reflects irritation of palaeontologists who found the skull damaged by collectors.
Paper: doi.org/10.1671/0272... (2/6)
For #FossilFriday, we're paying tribute to fossils from the incredible work of our deputy editor-in-chief, Dr Hans Sues, who sadly passed away last weekend.
This photo of him includes a cast of a Brontosaurus skull, a 20 m sauropod, from the Smithsonian where he worked 🦕(1/6)
Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under Publicly Available data policy 🔓
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Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under Publicly Available data policy 🔓
Submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission.
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King Tyrant cover
My review of Mark Witton's outstandingly good book King Tyrant, published 2025, is now online at Historical Biology ... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UIQGI... Hit me up if you want a pdf #dinosaurs #books
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@historicalbiology.bsky.social - exciting new era has begun! Our first big step to becoming an Open Science & FAIR Journal. If anyone has any questions please do contact our Data Editor @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social
Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓
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📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah
📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli is a palaeoichthyologist at the Vertebrate Paleontology Division, at National University of La Plata (CONICET). Her research interests are studying the ichthyofaunas of Argentina and Antarctica 🐟 🇦🇷
For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Andrea Villa.
This is GMH Ce IV-4057-1933, holotype of the gecko Geiseleptes delfinoi from the Eocene of Geiseltal, Germany. This species represents the oldest member of the gekkotan family Sphaerodactylidae currently known.
Fantastic press coverage for this paper by one of our @historicalbiology.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Rodrigo Temp Müller, published in @journalsystpal.bsky.social - a great free access read for this #FossilFriday
Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors!
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
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📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Andrea Villa is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, in Spain. He mainly works on fossil herpetofaunas of Europe, Africa, and Asia and the comparative morphology of amphibians and reptiles (both extant and extinct) 🦎 🐸
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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Hans Püschel.
This is Micrauchenia saladensis (SGO.PV.21700), a litoptern—one of the key groups of South American native ungulates (SANUs). Figure sourced from Figure 4 of Püschel et al. (2023).
Are you interested in exploring an editorial role in paleontology this #FossilFriday? @historicalbiology.bsky.social is seeking Associate Editors across all areas but particularly experts in terrestrial & marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
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📣Editor spotlight
Dr. Hans Püschel is a Chilean vertebrate palaeontologist who specialises in the evolution & biogeography of South American mammals by combining cutting-edge computational methods and fieldwork. He is currently a PI at the Millennium Nucleus EVOTEM in Santiago.
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Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors!
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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