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Dr Elen Shute
8 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.
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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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Andrew Iwaniuk
8 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
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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 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦⬛
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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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Aubrey Keirnan
Dr Elen Shute
9 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🙂
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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
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@evolsara.bsky.social
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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!
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Aubrey Keirnan
Andrew Iwaniuk
9 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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reposted by
Aubrey Keirnan
Andrew Iwaniuk
9 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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