Aubrey Keirnan
@aub-birdy.bsky.social
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Aubrey Keirnan
24 days ago
#2025SVP
has begun! Starting strong with the awesome Paleoart Workshop 🎨🌴🦕 If you’re around, come check out our poster about an extinct ibis that basically tried to be a kiwi 🐦🥝
@evoneuro.bsky.social
@aub-birdy.bsky.social
#2025SVP
#paleoart
#birds
#extinct
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Serjoscha Evers
25 days ago
Just in time for
#2025SVP
,
@gsferreira.bsky.social
& I have a new paper! We explore the neuroantomy of the early stem turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani, based on CT scans I acquired long ago during my UK-based PhD times. Flight to B'ham in 2h 🤩🐢
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Even though many early stem turtles are known from relatively well-preserved skulls, their neuroanatomy remains poorly understood, limiting insights into key cranial and ecological transitions. Here w...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00410-4?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251111&utm_content=10.1186/s13358-025-00410-4
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Dr Elen Shute
11 months ago
The more I work in wildlife monitoring, the more I realise wildlife moves around & often we have little idea why, when, or how far 🙂 ‘Place-based conservation’ makes much more intuitive sense for plants than animals.
theconversation.com/to-save-aust...
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To save Australia’s animals, scientists must count how many are left. But what if they’re getting it wrong?
Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures of how species are faring.
https://theconversation.com/to-save-australias-animals-scientists-must-count-how-many-are-left-but-what-if-theyre-getting-it-wrong-247456
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Aubrey Keirnan
Andrew Iwaniuk
11 months ago
New paper out from the lab today! Here we show that digital reconstructions of brains from skulls can be used to estimate cerebral hemisphere & cerebellum volumes in birds.
#birds
#paleontology
#ornithology
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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@evolsara.bsky.social
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Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts | Biology Letters
For studies of the evolution of vertebrate brain anatomy and potentially associated behaviours, reconstructions of digital brain endocasts from computed tomography scans have revolutionized our capaci...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0596
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Check out our latest paper validating telencephalon and cerebellum endocast measurements in birds 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦⬛
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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@evoneuro.bsky.social
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Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts | Biology Letters
For studies of the evolution of vertebrate brain anatomy and potentially associated behaviours, reconstructions of digital brain endocasts from computed tomography scans have revolutionized our capaci...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0596
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Dr Elen Shute
11 months ago
Flinders Palaeo colleagues knocking it out of the park with this paper on short-faced kangaroo extinctions. No shortcuts, just lots of specimens, lots of patience & some fancy microscopes. Chipping away at Pleistocene extinction questions a few species at a time🙂
theconversation.com/new-study-ch...
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New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct
Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The cause has been the subject of fierce debate.
https://theconversation.com/new-study-challenges-a-major-theory-on-why-some-kangaroos-mysteriously-went-extinct-246681
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That's a wrap on
#SICB2025
with
@evolsara.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Check out poster by
@evolsara.bsky.social
in the poster hall at
#SICB2025
and grab an awesome sticker between 3:30-5:30pm!
11 months ago
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Aubrey Keirnan
Andrew Iwaniuk
11 months ago
Happening now! Check out
@aub-birdy.bsky.social
poster on parrot endocasts at
#SICB2025
and get a swift parrot sticker!
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Aubrey Keirnan
Andrew Iwaniuk
12 months ago
Going to
#SICB2025
in Atlanta? Interested in CT scanning, birds, or brains? Some see posters by
@evolsara.bsky.social
and
@aub-birdy.bsky.social
on hawks and parrots and pick up a sticker!
#ornithology
#birds
#neuroskyence
#anatomy
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