Luíseach Nic Eoin
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Archaeologist-turned-editor at Nature Ecology & Evolution. Eland, not dassie.
pinned post!
Hello! I'm Luíseach, an editor handling all the old things 🏺🦕🦴🧬 (but also live humans)
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
. My handle, Roinn an Luísigh, is a pun that I thought was funny 12 years ago because my name rhymes with 'taoiseach'. Puns work best when they're laboured and need explaining, right?
over 1 year ago
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Flora Graham
13 days ago
➡️ It's on! Paid internship for aspiring science journalists at Nature's London office. Up to three days a week working from home. All the details are here:
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...
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Nature News Intern, Springer Nature Opening Doors Programme
Nature News Intern, Springer Nature Opening Doors Programme London, UK - Hybrid Working Model Application deadline: 9th March 2026 Are you looking for an internship that provides hands-on experience i...
https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SpringerNatureCareers/details/Nature-News-Intern--Springer-Nature-Opening-Doors-Programme_JR105525
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Also in the 'Old Dead Things' section of
@natecoevo.nature.com
this week, we've got a spiky baby iguanodontian
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/e3CZH
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Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02960-9
25 days ago
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The early herbivor(ous microsaur) gets the...salad? Tyrannoroter heberti has teeth that suggest terrestrial herbivory was not an amniote innovation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A new species of pantylid microsaur from the Late Carboniferous of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has teeth with dental occlusion consistent with herbivory, indicating an early transition to this co...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02929-8
25 days ago
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Dr. Bethany Allen
26 days ago
What do we want? Fossil databases! 🐚🦕 When do we want them? Forever! 🗓️ Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02985-8
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
about 1 month ago
Wallets made of “human leather”. Necklaces made of teeth. Turning people into products isn't quirky, it’s wrong. We need a ban on buying and selling human remains.
www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
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Nature
about 2 months ago
Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
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Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry habitats and predator-rich landscapes.
https://go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
about 2 months ago
Our January issue is now live:
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪 🐝 pesticide impacts on wild bees 🪺 population genomics of avian brood parasitism 🌱 the origins of terrestrial herbivory Cover image from Abraham et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Palaeontological Association
3 months ago
🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...
#conference
#PalAss25
#uk
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Great day for cat archaeology all round
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3 months ago
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Nigel Monaghan
3 months ago
Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material
www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2025/1128/1546238-wildcat-bones/
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Alisa Bokulich
4 months ago
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
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"Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished" That'll be because without heads, they couldn't see where they were going?
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished
4 months ago
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Jordan Bestwick
4 months ago
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
https://c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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I'm not at
#SVP2025
unfortunately, but if you're interested in publishing in
@natecoevo.nature.com
one of my excellent colleagues can tell you how to get in touch with us!
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4 months ago
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Henry Gee
4 months ago
Here’s the
@natureportfolio.nature.com
crew at
#SVP2025
-
@joaovascoleite.bsky.social
@devinleaward.bsky.social
@lukegrinham.bsky.social
and me. Come and chat.
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Flora Graham
4 months ago
Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04966-w
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Nature Portfolio
5 months ago
Richard Wrangham pays tribute to Jane Goodall in an obituary for Nature, outlining how she was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats. 🧪
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Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists
She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.
https://go.nature.com/434pJ0s
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Walter Andriuzzi
5 months ago
Sheng et al. call for greater survey efforts and broader conservation initiative to protect the 11 (ELEVEN!) felid species of the Tibetan Plateau. (Strong contender for the Correspondence, or indeed article of any kind, with the best figure we ever published)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02871-9
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Nic Rawlence
5 months ago
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00579-2
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The archaeological record of plastics
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6 months ago
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FYI this excellent piece is now free access for a month--check it out!
#palaeontology
#plasticpollution
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7 months ago
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Sarah Gabbott's
@thepalass.bsky.social
plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for
@natecoevo.nature.com
: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution
rdcu.be/eAmRU
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Understanding environmental impacts of plastic requires a palaeontological lens - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02813-5
7 months ago
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
7 months ago
Our August issue is now live!
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
🧪 Featuring research on: 🧬 The antibiotic resistome 🌍 Palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs 🫄 Evolution of mammalian pregnancy Cover shows a pangolin from Emogor et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
7 months ago
This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started. Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.
Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02456-3
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Brenna Hassett
7 months ago
Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.
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I was really looking forward to
@cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social
but unfortunately can’t make it anymore. Hope to catch up later, but if you’ve got any
#conservation
#palaeobiology
papers please do submit them to
@natecoevo.nature.com
! Or drop me a message to discuss
7 months ago
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Paranthropus robustus ecology and life history via Sr isotopes from teeth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Geochemical chronologies in Paranthropus robustus teeth inform habitat and life histories
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Strontium analysis of Paranthropus robustus teeth from two South African sites reveals that the Pleistocene hominin probably exploited both savanna and riparian...
https://rdcu.be/exFEL
8 months ago
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
8 months ago
Our July issue is now live!
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
🧪Featuring research on: 🌴Regenerating tropical forests 🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles 🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tori Herridge
8 months ago
And here is a whole host of expert comment on the Moa/Colossal announcement -- well worth a read, with lots to think about.
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...
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Moa "de-extinction" plans announced - Expert Reaction
An overseas company has announced plans to "bring back" the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to "resurrect" t...
https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/moa-de-extinction-plans-announced-expert-reaction/
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Max Kozlov
8 months ago
Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature: "Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."
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Finding out
#Jomon
people (hunter-fisher-gatherer-potter-beangrowers) may have
#domesticated
adzuki beans blew my tiny mind, so I wrote a Research Highlight about it for
@natecoevo.nature.com
🫘🫘
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(original paper is in
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Early Japanese people were full of beans - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Early Japanese people were full of beans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02796-3
9 months ago
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Chris Stantis
9 months ago
This article is the culmination of a
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social
project led by the iso-GOAT 🧪Judith Sealy. I'm so honored to have attended the conference, talked about open science in isotopes research, and then been part of this paper led by Max Spies 🏺https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283
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Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility and migration: the way forward | Royal Society Open Science
Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) are increasingly used as a provenance tool in multiple disciplines. Application to biological materials requires knowledge of the variation in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr acr...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283
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Forests in England and Wales associated with higher human
#wellbeing
are in areas with the least socioeconomic deprivation according to new research from
@jessjessfisher.bsky.social
and colleagues from
@dice-kent.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(OA)
#AccessToNature
🧪🌎
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Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02765-w
9 months ago
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Dr Susan Greaney
9 months ago
Our alternative interpretations of the ‘king’ of Newgrange (a skull fragment from an individual who was born of incest) and his distant relations have been published! We argue for the importance of careful integration of aDNA results with detailed archaeological evidence. Such a great team effort!
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"museums must shift from being passive repositories of colonial-era collecting to active, ethical and inclusive participants in shaping a sustainable and just future." Claire Browning reviews
@jackdashby.bsky.social
's new book in
@natecoevo.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/es9pa
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Museums in the age of extinction - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Museums in the age of extinction
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02772-x
9 months ago
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Davide Foffa
9 months ago
[1/n] New paper co-lead by
@emmadnn.bsky.social
@macroecoevoale.bsky.social
and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
9 months ago
Data from questionnaires distributed to hunters and wild meat vendors in Nigeria suggest that most pangolins are not specifically targeted but are captured opportunistically for their meat, rather than for their scales
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pangolin hunting in southeast Nigeria is motivated more by local meat consumption than international demand for scales - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Data from questionnaires distributed to hunters and wild meat vendors in Nigeria suggest that most captured pangolins are not specifically targeted and that the animals are primarily captured for thei...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02734-3
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An insanely long pollen core shows vegetational change over the last 3.5 my in Tibet (OA)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#palaeoecology
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Three-and-a-half million years of Tibetan Plateau vegetation dynamics in response to climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors present a 3.5-million-year-long pollen record from the Zoige Basin of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, 3,442 m above sea level. The ~5,000 pollen assemblages retrieved from the core reveal man...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02743-2
9 months ago
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Luíseach Nic Eoin
Nature Ecology & Evolution
9 months ago
Our June issue is now live!
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on: 🧬Airborne eDNA 💰Costs of biological invasions 🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Strong contender for the most adorablest Species Spotlight we've published yet. Yes yes it's an interesting cryptic species complex but also LOOK AT ITS LITTLE SPOTS
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(free to read at
rdcu.be/eqtw4
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Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Eduardo Eizirik works to understand a cat complex.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02735-2
9 months ago
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Emily Hallinan
9 months ago
We're excited to announce the next
@icarehb.bsky.social
Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin
@roinnanluisigh.bsky.social
and Tansy Branscombe
@tansybranscombe.bsky.social
, who now work at
@natecoevo.nature.com
and
@barpublishing.bsky.social
. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.
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Oxford University Museum of Natural History
9 months ago
Our library and archives are home to so many treasures, including this colour copy of The Insects of Suriname by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) who was one of the first to depict the life cycles of insects (namely metamorphosis)
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Momentous discovery: while most
@natecoevo.nature.com
editorials are anonymous, it turns out last year we somehow reanimated Gideon Mantell and got him to write one for us, in 1869. Impressive, no?
10 months ago
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Why am I getting targeted ads for horse blankets while reading about Sahelanthropus? I neither own a horse nor have I considered buying it a blanket (would probably go for the blue and white polka dots though).
10 months ago
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Last month I got to see some extremely long-lived Cryptomeria japonica trees in Yakushima. A cool new paper in
@natecoevo.nature.com
shows average tree life expectancy has only a weak relationship w/ maximum lifespan, reinforcing the idea that the yakusugi have won the lifespan lottery
rdcu.be/elQOY
10 months ago
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Fondly reminiscing about the approx. eight weeks I spent as a tv review commissioner.
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10 months ago
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The obituary of Isaiah Nengo John Rowan mentioned in his
#HumanEvo25
talk is here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(you need to register, but it’s free access. Or free to read at
rdcu.be/ejH8J
)
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Isaiah Odhiambo Nengo (1961–2022) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Primate palaeontologist and passionate advocate for diversity in human origins research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01741-y
11 months ago
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Hello, I’m in Hinxton for
@eventswcs.bsky.social
#HumanEvo25
, please come say hello if you’d like to chat about publishing in
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
and other
@natureportfolio.nature.com
journals
11 months ago
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Great
@nature.com
editorial and
@naturepodcast.bsky.social
series referencing ongoing coverage in
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
of the taxonomic furore regarding eponyms
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
(Check out
rdcu.be/eja4P
for the most recent NEE piece following last year's IBC votes)
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Scientific naming conventions should keep in step with contemporary science
A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01238-1
11 months ago
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Emma Dunne
11 months ago
Delighted to share our paper on data equity in
#palaeobiology
as part of Paleobiology's 50th anniversary issue 🥳 We look at how palaeo data is collected, stored, curated & shared, and how equity in these processes is crucial for our field's future (1/n) 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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