Rachel Warnock
@rachelwarnock.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist, Professor at FAU.
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Natalie Cooper
20 days ago
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
FREE online here!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...
Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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Anne Koelewijn
21 days ago
There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well.
#biomech_sky
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Dr. Ming Khan
24 days ago
New paper alert! 🚨 🐌 We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
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Does anyone know any current or former recipients of an SNF mobility grant based in Germany? I'd be grateful for any leads!
24 days ago
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Society for the Study of Evolution
28 days ago
The deadline to apply to the Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee has been extended to December 15!
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
about 1 month ago
In an era marked by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss, it is imperative that we continue to invest in the unique value of natural history collections data "Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections" 🧪
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Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64303-3
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Anne Koelewijn
about 2 months ago
My research group has an open position for a postdoc! Interested in investigating the postural transition towards mammalian gait using movement simulations? We might have the right position for you! More details and application info here:
www.asm.tf.fau.de/en/2025/11/1...
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Postdoctoral researcher for DFG-funded project “FossilGaitSim”
The Biomechanical Motion Analysis and Creation (BioMAC) group at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a postdoctoral position with the goal to…
https://www.asm.tf.fau.de/en/2025/11/19/postdoctoral-researcher-for-dfg-funded-project-fossilgaitsim/
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Dr Thomas Clements
about 2 months ago
I am running for the outreach officer position for the
@thepalass.bsky.social
this year (manifesto in image). If you are a member, please check your mail and consider voting in the AGM. Several important roles are up for election with great candidates looking to work for our community.
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Yawako
about 2 months ago
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
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PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
https://yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
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Dr Alex Dunhill
about 2 months ago
PGRs Amy Shipley (
@sauropodlets.bsky.social
) & Lydia Woods recently published a review in
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
showing that while today’s extinction rates aren't yet at "Big Five" mass extinction levels, they’re likely the highest seen in the last 66myrs.
amdunhill.co.uk/2025/11/17/n...
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New paper by Amy Shipley and Lydia Woods
DeepBio@Leeds PGRs Amy Shipley and Lydia have published a review on the sixth mass extinction, as part of a working group on Cenozoic extinctions led out of the Anthropocene Biodiversity Centre at …
https://amdunhill.co.uk/2025/11/17/new-paper-by-amy-shipley-and-lydia-woods/
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Alana Sharp
about 2 months ago
Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at
#2025SVP
, email or find me or
@tguillerme.bsky.social
for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme: 🔗
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.co...
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dla-programme-morphological-trait-evolution-in-isolated-populations-of-large-mammals-and-its-implications-for-rewilding-in-the-uk/?p189569
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The Palaeontological Association
about 2 months ago
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SVP2025
@alexh-palaeo.bsky.social
@datadryad.bsky.social
@tamueccb.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Dunhill
about 2 months ago
Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with
@rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social
at
@bas.ac.uk
&
@bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
and others (inc me).
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/earthsciences/documents/phd-projects/2026-start/gw4dltp-2026-whittle-schmidt-the-effects-of-climate-cooling-on-the-evolution-of-antarctic-eocene-seafloor-ecosystems-final.pdf
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
about 2 months ago
Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of
@oupaleobiology.bsky.social
, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:
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Sebastian Höhna
about 2 months ago
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (
hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...
). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with
@anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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https://hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/GEvol2_PhD_Position.pdf
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Gavin Foster
about 2 months ago
Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here:
www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...
):
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PhD Topics - Entry September 2026 — The Foster Lab
This year we are involved in 3 fully funded PhD projects via IGNITE our NERC DLA. The deadline is Thursday Jan 8th 2026 . 1. Is the world already 1.5 C warmer?...
https://www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11/10/phd-topics-entry-september-2026
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Ana Serra Silva
about 2 months ago
Interested in the
@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
special issue on phylogenomic discordance?
tinyurl.com/v2eces3s
🧪 Three more summaries added below! We'll return when more articles come live. Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
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Transmitting Science
2 months ago
🔎 How can we measure and compare morphological diversity through time and across groups? New Edition of the course: Introduction to the Analysis of Morphological Disparity 📅 January 6th–15th, 2026 (ONLINE)
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Imran Rahman
2 months ago
Delighted to share our special collection of 24 landmark papers in vertebrate palaeontology published in
@journalsystpal.bsky.social
in the last 15 years, assembled to coincide with
#SVP2025
#2025SVP
. All these papers are free to access now and through November:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
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JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology
Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjsp20/collections/JSP-Landmark-Papers-in-Vertebrate-Palaeontology
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
3 months ago
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02873-7
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Will Gearty
2 months ago
I've had such a great time talking about some of my recent
#opensource
and
#openscience
work at
#useR2025
,
#USRSE25
, and
#GSAConnects2025
over the last few months! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of my
#useR2025
talk on YouTube.
#reproducibility
#paleontology
#datascience
#Rstats
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paleopal: A Shiny app for building data science workflows in paleontology - William Gearty
YouTube video by useR! Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhibWx3H98g
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PaleoSynthesis
2 months ago
👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (
doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him)
2 months ago
Just in time for
#FossilFriday
! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology
@thepalass.bsky.social
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great
@palaeoverse.bsky.social
team effort to offer a community resource!
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Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Large datasets of fossil occurrences, often downloaded from online community-maintained databases, are a vital resource for understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns, such as how biodiversity h...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70028
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Mario Vallejo-Marin
2 months ago
How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in
@journal-evo.bsky.social
. Thanks
@draverbee.bsky.social
@roszenil.bsky.social
and all co-authors for your hard work!
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Wert der Vergangenheit"
3 months ago
How animals first started to move? Some insights by
@egmitchell.bsky.social
(
@camzoology.bsky.social
) using fossil records.
valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
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The Dawn of animal life: quantifying the origination animal mobility
In this contribution, Emily Mitchell considers how animals first started to move.
https://valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954
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Madlen Stange
3 months ago
Extreme female philopatry in Pachypus beetles reveals 14 cryptic species! 🧬 Our study shows ancient speciation (5.3mya) despite limited dispersal, linked to the Messinian salinity crisis. Integrative taxonomy uncovers hidden diversity.
#Taxonomy
#Genetics
url:
academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
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Cryptic species can be phylogenetically old despite strong sex-biased dispersal
Abstract. The impact of strongly differentiated populations on species delimitation due to limited or sex-biased dispersal remains challenging and under-ex
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syaf072/8284975
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The Palaeontological Association
3 months ago
🦕 For
#PalAss
members: Are you planning to participate in
#PalAss2025
? 🌍 Don’t forget to check this option ✅ 💡 All information can be found here ⬇️ 🔗
palass.org/palaeontolog...
#palass
#conference
#bursary
#possibility
#apply
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Transmitting Science
3 months ago
🚨 Last call! Bayesian phylogenetic inference with BEAST2 📅 October 27 th – November 7th, 2025 💻 Online
#TScourses
#KeepLearning
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Moriaki Yasuhara
3 months ago
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/identifying-the-big-questions-in-paleontology-a-communitydriven-project/46B04AF85E7195F94D19FE5E8380E284
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Kenneth De Baets
3 months ago
The first
#leech
body
#fossil
predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years
peerj.com/articles/199...
@peerj.bsky.social
#Annelida
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Kenneth De Baets
3 months ago
10 years ago, our co-edited Topics in Geobiology volumes on
#Ammonoid
#Paleobiology
came out: From anatomy to ecology:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
From macroevolution to paleogeography:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In the last months of 2025, i will explore new discoveries on these topics in a thread:
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Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology
This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the origin and later evolution of this important clade, and we deliver hypotheses on its demise. The Ammonoidea produced a great number of species that can be used in biostratigraphy and possibly, this is the macrofossil group, which has been used the most for that purpose. Nevertheless, many aspects of their anatomy, mode of life, development or paleobiogeographic distribution are still poorly known. Themes treated are biostratigraphy, paleoecology, paleoenvironment, paleobiogeography, evolution, phylogeny, and ontogeny. Advances such as an explosion of new information about ammonites, new technologies such as isotopic analysis, tomography and virtual paleontology in general, as well as continuous discovery of newfossil finds have given us the opportunity to present a comprehensive and timely "state of the art" compilation. Moreover, it also points the way for future studies to further enhance our understanding of this endlessly fascinating group of organisms.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9630-9
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Kenneth De Baets
3 months ago
Just in time for
#FossilFriday
🦖 What are the big questions in
#paleontology
today?
dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇
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Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042
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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández
3 months ago
Another years-long project I was a working group co-leader was published today as well! Me,
@lepidodendron.bsky.social
and
@rachelwarnock.bsky.social
co-led the phylogenetics group and I had such a formative experience! ⚒️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/identifying-the-big-questions-in-paleontology-a-communitydriven-project/46B04AF85E7195F94D19FE5E8380E284?fbclid=IwY2xjawNDXc5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFOdFoxMkNsa0dxWGd5VHhOAR7QvswdP6NucPIhxPDvIXx6npKii64_6h1F06WwtNK3zj7g2AsSgbgP9qabkQ_aem_UxNaExo3wlCQcPo1BDyIQA
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Alessio Capobianco
3 months ago
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (
@heckeberg.bsky.social
,
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social
, Gustavo Darlim, and
@hoehna.bsky.social
)!
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
3 months ago
When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534725002265
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Andrew Christopher Knapp
4 months ago
Job alert!
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Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
https://jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer-in-Earth-Sciences/1040-en_GB
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British Ecological Society
4 months ago
Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️ This
#PeerReviewWeek
check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm
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Dr Thomas Clements
4 months ago
Very excited to announce that I will be joining the staff at
@uniofreading.bsky.social
in the new year. Especially looking forward to working alongside Kevin the Ichthyostega and the team at the
@colezoology.bsky.social
as part of my new role.
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The Palaeontological Association
4 months ago
⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the
#PalAss
Annual Meeting! 🎉 🔗 Registration link ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...
#conference
#uk
#palaeontology
#meeting
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)
4 months ago
What a great bunch of paleobiologists and soooo international!! the annual
@paleosynth.bsky.social
summer school. Such a pleasure to share methods with u all. Thanks
@devapriya-chat.bsky.social
@dralexdunhill.bsky.social
@moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social
& others for sending ur grad students over!
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
4 months ago
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the
@oupaleobiology.bsky.social
, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com/lab-news/
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We're looking for an applied mineralogist here in Erlangen! Earth Sci folk - please share the word! 🔨 🪨 💎
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
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Professorships
Check which professorships are currently vacant at FAU. Deadlines and contact details are listed in each call for applications. The online application process is straightforward through the…
https://www.fau.eu/people/working-at-fau/professorships/#collapse_7
4 months ago
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PaleoSynthesis
5 months ago
This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info:
www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...
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Extremely proud to be part of this project integrating stratigraphic paleobiology with phylogenetics. Go and chat to Nik if you’re at
#ESEB25
or check out his poster via the link below!
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5 months ago
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Ixchel González-Ramírez
5 months ago
It posted more than a week ago, but I finally find time to share my work with
@iochromaland.bsky.social
and
@rociodeanna.bsky.social
on the divergence times of Solanaceae! It has been one of the greatest collaborations in my lifetime with two inspiring scientists!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total evidence timetree analysis
Background and Aims The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown age ranging from ca. 30 to 70 Mya (mid-Oligocene to late...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666174v1.abstract
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hello gang, can anyone recommend resources for teaching programming in R to 1st year undergrads in geoscience? All and any tips welcome! 👩💻🐚📈
5 months ago
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Dr. Dawn Wright
6 months ago
"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers" Accessible, though paywalled at
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🧪
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David Maddison
6 months ago
A short video with a Mesquite tip showing how to display chronograms from a BEAST divergence dating analysis.
youtu.be/CvxX8GauqLo
🧪
#evolbio
@waynemaddison.bsky.social
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Displaying Chronograms in Mesquite 4
YouTube video by Mesquite ProjectTeam
https://youtu.be/CvxX8GauqLo
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Dr. Bethany Allen
6 months ago
This is today! 👇 Join me in a few hours to hear about what phylodynamic models can teach us about dinosaur evolution!
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April Wright
7 months ago
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social
Doing such a great talk, clearly explaining his convarion model for morphological characters and its performance relative to Mk Model. Preprint coming soon!
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