I just voted [1] James Blackwell, [2] Alexander (Sasha) Mikheyev. If you're an ANU academic, I'd encourage you to do the same

Final Week to Register! AES 2025 | Brisbane | 1–3 Oct 🗓 Registration closes 29 Sept Don’t miss your chance to be part of three days of evolutionary science, talks & community. Secure your spot now! ausevo.com/registration/ #AES2025 #Evolution #AusSci #Conference

“Rich Grenyer, a biologist at the University of Oxford, said de-extinction is a “dangerous” distraction and that gene-edited animals are “at best a sort of simulation, rather like those unnerving animated AI portraits of dead relatives some… people create”.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

✊UNION WIN✊ The ANU has announced that there will be no forced redundancies. @nteuact.bsky.social members have fought tirelessly to save these jobs, showing every university staff member facing job cuts that change is possible. 📰Read here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ANU interim vice chancellor today announced no more forced redundancies under the Renew ANU program. Cuts are ongoing, but forced redundancies are off the table. It’s been a hard slog. Harms are ongoing. There’s still more work to do. I’m so proud of my colleagues, ANU community.

What is the threshold for sanctioning PM Netanyahu and his govt?! Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it. The global community has to do more. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...

Professor Bell’s resignation is the culmination of months of scandal, plummeting staff and student morale, and a governance system that is completely broken. Let’s not forget that Chancellor Bishop’s leadership has also been fraught, and she too must be held accountable for the crisis at ANU.

We are incredibly proud of everyone who has stood up for the #ANU and its people. Their example will encourage university staff and students across the country. @nteunion.bsky.social www.9news.com.au/national/aus...

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

We need ComCare to make a similar intervention at ANU. The psychosocial harm ANU executive are inflicting upon ANU staff is completely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I got bored with the tired old tree visualisations you see everywhere and asked an AI to make me an exciting one. Here is the Uto-Aztecan language phylogeny visualised in what it calls "space jellyfish" mode. #phylogenetics #spacejellyfish

New updated preprint! Many thanks to reviewers for their suggestions and helpful advice for improving our manuscript. Check it out if you're interested in fossils, phylogenies, and modeling morphologic evolution! 🧪

Almost 10 years ago Smith and Baum's textbook introduced me to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. We now have our own review on PCM! Come for history, traits and spicy takes! We welcome any comments/ concerns/ jokes! @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and MRM! doi.org/10.32942/X28...

One more step towards more insightful analyses in Evolutionary Macroecology. Thanks @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and all coauthors still not blueskylized for the collaborative endeavor! SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

The federal government provided its lowest ever share of Australian universities’ funding last year, despite its efforts to suppress their main source of private revenue #academicsky

Here is the package Tapestree used in the paper (by @ignacioq.bsky.social and @jeremy-andreoletti.bsky.social): github.com/ignacioq/Tap...

Generalists link peaks in the shifting adaptive landscape of Australia's dragon lizards https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672751v1

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short 🧵 (1/16)

The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672414v1

If you are planning to attend our biennial conference, abstract submission will close Sep 1, so be sure to submit and secure a spot! conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE! Pretty please 🙏🏼 www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

I just signed this petition to ANU council and you should too. Time to take out the 🗑 and fix this mess with genuine consultation 💫 Open to everyone, please share! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

@nteuact.bsky.social has today launched a petition to ANU Council 🛑 stop all forced redundancies 🛑 stop all Renew ANU change ❌ remove Chancellor Bishop ❌ remove Vice Chancellor Bell OPEN TO EVERYONE - please sign and share! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

I just signed @nteunion.bsky.social's Petition to ANU Council. Open to all to sign, so please do & then share! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Out now: The physiological costs of leadership We reveal that initiating movements—especially when attempting to initiate against a majority and when there is directional conflict—drives elevated heart rates in vulturine guineafowl www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

This weekend, @nteunion.bsky.social are endorsing these events all across the country. We'll be there this weekend, look for our purple flags! 💜

Amazing paper idea, brilliantly executed! Cultural #macroevolution of arcade video games by @svalver.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social and R. Alexander Bentley www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The geography of connectivity shapes plant endemism hotspots vist.ly/43xr5 #DiversityPattern #ElevationGradient

Yet more damaging and unnecessary job cuts announced today at ANU. Sending solidarity and well wishes to our colleagues in the Campus Environment Division. d1zkbwgd2iyy9p.cloudfront.net/files/2025-0...

Completely untenable. No leadership just inexcusable behaviour www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Standing in solidarity with brave colleagues and @nteuact.bsky.social reps giving evidence at the Senate Inquiry into uni governance. Grateful to @davidpocock.bsky.social & @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social for the tough questions. Disheartened by what’s come to light at ANU. Reform is needed urgently!

"Let us hope in marking the School of Music's diamond anniversary, we are not also preparing its obituary". Enough is enough; end the job cuts at #ANU. @nteunion.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Important open letter concerning the poor and rapidly worsening treatment of our casual sessional colleagues at @ouranu.bsky.social ANU staff please read and consider adding your signatures. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research? New research by @elinerentier.bsky.social published in Frontiers of Biogeography reveals that your choice matters —a lot— especially in mountains! doi.org/10.21425/fob...

‪Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 7 Aug 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Emily Stringer & Dr Jarrod Sopniewski, Postdoctoral Research Fellows from the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics at the University of Canberra. Details: rb.gy/x3t1fm

Island species are often more susceptible to extinction than their mainland counterparts, but mammals endemic to the Wallacea archipelago—the anoa and babirusa—are genetically healthier on islands than on the mainland of Sulawesi. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

‪Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 24 July 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Daniella Teixeira, Research Fellow from Queensland University of Technology. Details: rb.gy/xxhkpu

Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Darren Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow from the Peakall Group, RSB, ANU. Details: tiny.cc/gizp001

Cool study. Shows low dispersal of mammals across continents. Most are continental scale endemics. Significant in understanding the modern structure of the Bretskyan hierarchy from mammalian perspective. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year! Thanks to all collaborators

The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university. Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Good morning Australasian reptile genomics folks (that seems very specific). The Open Consortium on Squamate Genomics has a presentation by Arthur Georges (Uni Canberra) on Telomere-to-Telomere reptile genomes, this morning at 9am AEST. Join us for some dragon chat! bsky.app/profile/bren...

New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨 Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae. Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers? There's a whole bunch more names to use! Let me explain ...

In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social Article is open access and can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ

👏👏👏 @nteunion.bsky.social joins with the entire #ANU community in thanking the Minister, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social, for treating the ANU leadership & governance crisis with the seriousness it deserves. We now need action. The current situation at the ANU is untenable. www.afr.com/work-and-car...