These kinds of studies are extremely important in deciphering from the mechanistic point-of-view the evolution of behaviors using time-calibrated trace fossil record. First photo - Helminthopsis. Second photo - Helminthoidichnites. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23324 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Today (now my former PhD student) Liudas Daumantas defended his dissertation on the machine learning approaches in revealing the Bretskyan hierarchy of geobiomes.

Approximately 20 million vertebrate animals, moslty mice, are used in research each year. Some comparisons on agricultural use.

What if? 🤔

Significant implications on the ichnology->taphonomy-->biology mapping "Tracks exposed along subsurface layers had morphologies more robust to changes in sediment properties than the surface tracks." royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research 🧪 #Macroecology

More features you have, and more complex they are, the more vulnerabilites they will have on average. That's how the 'black boxes' work.

Prototaxites goes brrrrr 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

This is what evolution can do with a deer-like even toed who uncarefully stepped and stayed into the water...

MFS onlap on the virgin unconformity 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology

Fossil-Lagerstätte reveals profound gaps in the record of early multicellular life 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

On the pitfalls of uncritical application of hypergraphs 👇

"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia" www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

If humans evolved from monkey, why monkeys do not turn into humans now? Currently, they don't, but in the past there were more experiments which lead to the convergent bipedalism in the monkey clade besides hominids. Plio-Pleistocene was the generator time. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Obituary for a great paleobiologist Richard Karl Bambach (18 May 1934–20 June 2025) who infused the large-scale functional approaches to paleobiology and paleoecology. doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Why *shouldn't* Nature and Science happily publish something on the world's most successful Eldritch fingerlings? Why *shouldn't* people care about Horrific Predators From The Deep that were once available mostly in a convenient fun-size version?

Original approach of predicting soft tissues of plesiosaurs based on the first principles of thermal conductance and hydrodynamics: "blubber must have been present to assure a suitable temperature...within the plesiosaur." journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/te... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

"For the first time in a century, shellfish in parts of Boston Harbor are officially safe to eat straight out of the water." featuring my wonderful BU colleague @wallyfulweiler.bsky.social 🦪 #OceanOptimism www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Wow, just wow. Even giant Spinosaurus are kind of cassowaries! 🤯 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

A new blog-post by Shaun Lovejoy on our recent study on the scaling empirical geochronologies, and how the gaps in records follow statistical laws and carry deterministic signals from the Earth system dynamics. communities.springernature.com/posts/multif... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Synthesis article by @nilese.bsky.social , Telmo Pievani and Ian Tattersall on the punctuated equilibria in relation to human evolution with the discussion of the environmental forcing and different kinds of hierarchies. 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Anthropology #Geology link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A very interesting article on the Bretskyan hierarchy mechanisms of the divergence in fishes: "...gaps, such as the Sinaloan, Central American, and Galápagos breaks, consistently restricted gene flow" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Contrasting diversification and invasion histories of bivalves to the deep sea: "...evolutionary pathways to deep-sea endemicity are more often shaped by multiple, independent events than by in situ diversification" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Exploring Temporal Fluctuations in Multifractal Geochronologies scienmag.com/exploring-te... Time scales and gaps, Haar fluctuations and multifractal geochronologies 🧪 Shaun Lovejoy, @andrejpaleo.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Please save the dates and register for the online workshops on the quantitative and hierarchical methods in biogeosciences: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

More on the rise and fall of taxa and the biases in the estimation of their dynamics: "...the occupancy trajectories of marine animal genera look to be a relatively gradual rise post-origination with a sudden decline before extinction." doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

A Bretskyan hierarchy perspective on the role of geology and rivers in the diversification of freshwater fishes by James Albert and co. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio #Macroecology

New chapters of amazing unseen disparity of the past worlds 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio

Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins: "...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum" 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Climate

Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇 t.co/k6Qdu82nti 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography

Scientists just found that a curious group of plankton began to flourish rapidly after the dino-killing asteroid—a key sign life was on the mend. They made their discovery by measuring the slow accumulation of space dust after the impact. #Paleontology #PlankticForams New for @science.org 🧪🏺

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

We have used #recurrence_plot based methods to study the "High predictability potential of highly synchronized widespread floods in monsoon regions" – useful approach for forecasting future widespread flood events. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Grants for paleontological research for early career researchers 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

Interesting perspective on the interaction of pyrodiversity and the biodiversity. One more case showing the importance of the creative destruction and abiotic (here more of a blurred interactive 'bio-abiotic') factors in keeping biotic structure. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology

Life in topological dimensionality morphospace. 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

Popular article on our recent discovery of the scaling laws of empirical geochronologies: scienmag.com/exploring-te... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #Climate

Survival bias of the ocean floor certainly affects our perception on the igneous sources of global perturbations, including mass extinction events. There are no strict rules on why only terrestrial LIPs could trigger catastrophes. The study itself: doi.org/10.1130/G534... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

We all know that the taxonomic interest and effort of description in different taxonomic groups is rather obvious. But how severe it is, and how should we mitigate this ever-present bias? 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

Parasite-induced rostra of Jurassic belemnites: "The absence of any external injury corroborated by high-resolution computed tomography suggests parasitism as the most probably cause for shell deformation." app.pan.pl/archive/publ... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

This digital machine learning reconstruction could be a real breakthrough in the specimen paleontology. A good use of AI. "The oldest sepioid cephalopod from the Cretaceous discovered by Digital fossil-mining with zero-shot learning AI" www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

I'm glad to share our new study on the nature of distributions of gaps in empirical geochronologies of geological section as a function of time scale. Measurements of proxies are highly uneven if measured through time. 1/5  www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..." 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

Workahole and the deep passion for science, nature and the world helped me cope through some very difficult moments in my life (e.g. recent loss of my mother). I know it is a poison. But for a time being, poison can also serve as a medicine. Grok image of me in a natural setting.

Moments from the "Protmušis" (BrainBattle) intellectual tournament 21 years ago at VU. Here is our team (top left picture). From the left: Bronė L, me, Norbertas Noreika, Darius Kazlauskas @dariusbio.bsky.social . We were the first team who broken-even with undefeated team of mathematicians.

Creativity of scientific illustrations trying to convey complex multidimensional data sometimes is really stunning. Physical fields as topographic anatomical maps and phylogenies 👇 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #EvoBio

Interesting article exploring the role of the shapes of paleogeographies of coastlines as determinants of the extinction risk: "Taxa...that occur along east-west– oriented coastlines, islands, or inland seaways—consistently exhibit higher extinction risk" www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

So the "Lost World: Jurassic Park" sized stegosaurs were real all along?! Seven ton "sub-adult sauropod" sized stegosaurs apparently is a new thing on the block. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

Intriguing idea, that Ceratosaurus of the Morrison Formation, was a sabertooth cat analogue in its teeth shape and hunting patterns. I knew that their teeth were dagger-like, but here they are essentially the same size as in Smilodon, and they for the whole battery! t.co/JLD4aB4OGG 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

It's amazing how the Cambrian fossil record can overturn our understanding on the disparity, ontogeny and evolution of key groups! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio