Fully funded PhD scholarship on Scorpion Evolution at Flinders University, working with Russell Bicknell, Bruno Buzzato @brunobuzatto.bsky.social and myself Details at this link: www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships... Please spread the word!

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

Paper led by co-advisee Joao da Silva on the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) using micro-CT scanning and with phylogenetic and biogeographical implications academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

60 million years ago, eastern #Aotearoa New Zealand was #penguin paradise! We describe 4 archaic penguin species from the Waipara Greensand, North Canterbury. This now totals 10 species from there, in addition to a diversity of Paleocene penguins from Otago and Chatham Island. #fossil #birds

Thank you, everyone, for your warm well wishes and generous support. The @nteuact.bsky.social has been especially amazing. And they’re putting on a BBQ*! Come along and grab a bite to eat and spend time with ANU community. *OMG this is hilarious 😆

New #research out today led by George Sangster, with Trevor Worthy, Pascale Lubbe, Paul Scofield & myself. Recently #extinct flightless #rail Hodgens' waterhen from #Aotearoa New Zealand is a 'giant' crake of the genus Porzana, rather than a nativehen of Tribonyx. (📷 credits given in ALT text)

Former Australian National University chancellor slams 'gobsmacking' proposed university cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

You know you are in the tropics when a Brown Tree #Snake joins you for coffee at #CairnsAirport! It stuck its tongue out at the expensive menus and decided to go forage in the nearby mangroves instead. Happy #WorldSnakeDay !

Our latest take on the still problematic Cryptovaranoides: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job advert: Research Associate in Environmental Time-Series Modelling We have just today advertised a new postdoctoral position funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) that will be based in the Global Ecology Lab…

Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Whoa … this is getting real! Thanks, @mikejennions.bsky.social for putting this together. I'm blushing! 😊

Memo to Canadian Government - now is the time to ramp up the Canadian Research Chairs program, as you will get plenty of amazing applications from across the border! www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/about_us-a_n...

WWF Australia job fixed term 2 years- conservation priorities in the Asia-Pacific region. jobs.wwf.org.au/jobs/5376960...

We look inside this beautiful beast’s braincase over here: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

The reviewer crisis credit: @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

Currently just squatting, but will start posting if I miraculously get enough spontaneous follows 😀 Meanwhile, my research blogs (and bird photo spam) can be found here: www.instagram.com/michael_s_y_...