New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🐣 We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

FREE Paleontology short course at GSA 2025: "Open science, collaboration & reproducibility in Paleontology" 📅 Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM 🔬 Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases ✅ All career stages welcome 💰 FREE

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I'm so excited to share my latest paper out now! How did the ancestors of mammals make the switch from sprawling to upright, taking over the world in the process? Spoiler alert; it's complicated! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Cornell too! www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

City toads vs country toads, who's the toughest? 🐸 See our latest study, now published! 🎉 By comparing the morphology of common toads (Bufo bufo) across 4 different habitats, we found that toads don’t quite look the same…🔍 Link 👉 : link.springer.com/article/10.1... @anthony-herrel.bsky.social

What a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

This is an amazing local charity working with families and schools to help everyone learn to love to read! All donations are doubled this week, so dig deep! 🦖🦕+📚=❤️

🐿️ Through digitization, the National Science Foundation-funded program “Ranges” is bringing the traits of Mammalogy specimens online to become tools for transformative conservation science in areas like the biodiversity crisis and climate change: bit.ly/DigitizedMam...

New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨 In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day: The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top! The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bears, for those who care.... a new paper. www.sekj.org/PDF/anz61-fr... Bear Feet with Björn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357–376.

Upper arms, forearms, even parts of our wrists originally arose in fish living in rivers, streams, and tidal environments hundreds of millions of years ago

Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...