From Pisani et al: CAT-GTR is one of the most flexible models in the phylogenomic arsenal. Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Thank you to this recommendation letter writer for breaking the monotony of reviewing grad school applications today

We visited Synchrotron Soleil to 3D-scan insects & flowers trapped in amber, a very nice project led by @cocomacro.bsky.social. The results will help us better understand over 100 million years of diversification for insects and flowering plants. 🐜🌺

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period Read the full story: buff.ly/FDkYfxS @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Paper alert! 📣 Really cool study stemming from the Master thesis of #Benjamin_Zelvelder @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social with @remiallio.bsky.social #insect host-shifts between #parasitic and non-parasitic plants! #Proc.B @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Arthur Matte (@arthurmatte.bsky.social), PhD student at @cam.ac.uk, has received our Graduate Student Excellence Award. He investigates how evolution retools existing molecular systems to enable animals to share materials across bodies. More on Arthur ⬇️ #society

SIO faculty position - Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04481

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Out! We wondered what information is retained in the elemental chemistry of an animal poop 💩 that has fossilized - could it be a proxy? 🐊🦖🐢 Answer here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @amgc-vub.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @oseren.bsky.social @umons.bsky.social @belspo.be

Really happy about seeing this one finally out in @commsbio.nature.com ! Impact of the aridification of #Australia on a tribe of endemic #crickets 🦗 @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr @csiro.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @tonyrobillard.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

Out: new Carboniferous true bugs from Belgium and Northern France - from old collections at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with @belspo.be; by @isyebsp.mnhn.fr from @mnhn.fr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in papers in pal by @thepalass.bsky.social #paleoentomology #truebugs #hemiptera

2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Thrilled to announce that the University of Lomé #Togo 🇹🇬 inaugurated the first Palaeontology Collection building of the country last week! This was an exciting moment, which was made possible by the support of #UNESCO and the University of Lomé. #fossils #conservation #geoheritage

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

🚨PAPER ALERT🚨 A new work led by @jules2701.bsky.social explains the evolutionary dispersion of bark beetles (Scolytinae) and the angiosperms to gymnosperm host shifts during the Cretaceous. @ibb-botanic.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio! We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Scolytinae originated in Gondwana. Using revised time divergence for the subfamily, we here decipher their ancient biogeography and global diversification during the Cretaceous. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scolytinae might be older than expected! In this study we use three different dating methods, all suggesting that Scolytinae predate the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

To my great surprise, an article on a tiny (larval?) mysterious insect #fossil 🦖⚒️ from Permian of Germany, on which we were working since about Triassic, suddenly got published. Check out cute critter, its OA @cocomacro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy #FossilFriday how does a thread about the Inner Meadow biota and unexpected age for the fossils, and a refocusing of Martin Brasier’s #KotlinCrisis sound? We’ve been trickling out our findings from Inner Meadow including #Charnia brasieri, #Aninoides and there's even cooler stuff in review. 🧵

Here is a writeup of our work on #Aninoides and how it helped us to uncover a little bit of Beothuk astronomy. Obviously :-) With huge thanks to @julialaite.bsky.social gazette.mun.ca/research/dig...

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

We describe Badmaateridae, a new beetle FAMILY from Chile! Badmaater chilensis is blind, wingless, and extremely small (~1mm). 📄 Open access in Systematic Entomology doi.org/10.1111/syen.70020 #Entomology #NewSpecies #Beetles

📄New paper alert Controls on the sinking of hymenopterans and orthopterans in water of varying salinity: a taphonomic study 🔗https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.3.1 led by colleagues from @utoronto.ca

If you’re interested in extinction risk, please check out our new paper in @science.org led by my former PhD student Cooper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal github.com/ranwez-searc... Pretty convenient!

Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!

New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The deadline to apply for PhD positions with me (or anyone in my department!) are coming up: Jan 7th. www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

First paper from our 2025 beamtime at Synchrotron SOLEIL ✨ 📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber 🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10 Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social

Just published 📄 A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity: "Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation 🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib... @nozomuoyama.bsky.social

New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

“The rate at which new species are formally described is an essential but relatively understudied aspect of biodiversity.” The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Glad to share this paper out today on the biogeography and diversification history of carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes) using fossils & molecular phylogenies, which supports the hopping hotspot model doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

#Mesozoic vol.2(4) "The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)" #Insecta #mid-Cretaceous #new_species #diversification Nel,A., @isyeb.mnhn.fr , @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social & Azar,D. ➡️ mapress.com/mz/article/v...

New paper in Science Advances! Ants traded strength for numbers, and it worked 🐜 Our study comparing 500+ ant species shows how the evolution of cheaper workers fueled bigger colonies and faster diversification, shaping ants’ rise across the planet. 🔗To read here: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8068

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

🚨 New paper! Excited to share a discovery from my recent visit to NIGPAS, kindly supported by my friend Prof. Diying Huang 🙏 We describe the sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera). doi.org/10.11646/mes... @morethanadodo.bsky.social

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

We are currently hiring for a Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) Manager. They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement. Apply now! oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/dams-manager

A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution! It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...