Priscila Rothier
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at
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! ππ We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
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Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02393-9
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New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! π£ We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly π¦
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Will Gearty
3 months ago
π’ deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals π
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with insight about deeptimeπ¦ development and code examples!
#rstats
#geology
#paleontology
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Transmitting Science
3 months ago
FREE Paleontology short course at GSA 2025: "Open science, collaboration & reproducibility in Paleontology" π Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM π¬ Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases β All career stages welcome π° FREE
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2025 Paleo Short Course
https://www.paleosoc.org/2025-paleo-short-course
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at
@cornellvet.bsky.social
! ππ 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....
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Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02393-9
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Robert Brocklehurst
5 months ago
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/...
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Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals
The βsprawling-to-parasagittalβ postural transition is a key part of mammalian evolution from non-mammalian synapsids. This study uses evolutionary adaptive landscapes to reveal parasagittal postures ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003188
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Larry Glickman
7 months ago
Cornell too!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
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Cornell Sues DOE for βUnlawfulβ Cuts to Indirect Costs for Research Grants
University administrators announced in a Monday statement that Cornell joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Secretary Chris Wright which cut research grant funding for indire...
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/04/breaking-cornell-sues-doe-following-1-billion-funding-freeze
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Soline Bettencourt
8 months ago
City toads vs country toads, who's the toughest? πΈ See our latest study, now published! π By comparing the morphology of common toads (Bufo bufo) across 4 different habitats, we found that toads donβt quite look the sameβ¦π Link π :
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo? - Urban Ecosystems
Human activities induce habitat modifications and the intensification of land use including urbanisation and agriculture. Human-modified habitats are often fragmented, generating patches separated by ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-025-01682-x
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Bibiana Rojas
11 months ago
What a cool paper! π€© 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 β¬οΈ avian predator density ππ¦ Have look at it here:
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS
11 months ago
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! π¦π¦+π=β€οΈ
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
11 months ago
πΏοΈ Through digitization, the National Science Foundation-funded program βRangesβ is bringing the traits of Mammalogy specimens online to become tools for transformative conservation science in areas like the biodiversity crisis and climate change:
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Pedro Godoy
11 months ago
New croc paper alert! ππ¨ 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/...
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Kory Evans Ph.D
12 months ago
New paper alert π¨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic
@lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02586-3
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MissHalcyon
12 months ago
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!
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Corrie Moreau
12 months ago
π£ π£ π£ 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...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PnS-tHYXNVPaSfbXT5v9qZl0T7QHH4AtwoyIJSRQ5a0/edit?gid=76501376#gid=76501376
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P. David Polly
12 months ago
Bears, for those who care.... a new paper.
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Bear Feet with BjΓΆrn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. β Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357β376.
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Neil Shubin
12 months ago
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
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Dr. Darien Satterfield
12 months 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.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS
12 months ago
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...
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