Is the taxon cycle working on plants? See our recent work on the Canarian vascular flora showing a predictable progression of colonization, range expansion, diversification, range contraction, and eventual extinction, often driven by competition among congenerics. More here: doi.org/10.1002/brv....

Fantastic & amazing collaboration & research project about modelling & predicting the future of our global floras in a world of Plant invasions! Almost 10.000 SDMs & range projections😱😍💪

New paper out on the brain endocast of a distant relative of pangolins: Metacheiromys! We found a possible neurological convergence among myrmecophagous mammals 🧠🐜 Check it out, it's open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Academy of Natural Sciences ( @acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

RIP Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas. 🦧 “(She) reshaped our understanding of great apes and at the same time powerfully demonstrated the impact one individual can have in protecting our planet.” 🌏 www.sfu.ca/archaeology/...

🚨 #PaperAlert! #Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters! Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates. Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️ 🦣🏺🧪

The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

The Burpee Museum, Rockford Illinois is hiring a Director of Collections and Research. They need a Ph.D. who is field, oriented, collaborative, can publish on their major fossil collections, generate grant money, & work with the public. App: burpee.org/director-of-... Dinosaurs & more galore.

Data on the postcranial skeleton of hippos are rare. So I am glad to announce this new paper on the postcranial anatomy of Miocene hippopotamoids, led by Lorenzo Scribano @isemevol.bsky.social, with F. Lihoreau, C. Nekoulnang Djetounako and J-R. Boisserie. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 1/6

"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua." Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper out from @hoehna.bsky.social Lab, led by the brilliant @bjorntko.bsky.social! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life doi.org/10.1093/evle...

New paper! 🚨 Nice collaboration with @predator-smarts.bsky.social and other colleagues on the role of predatory-prey interactions in shaping animals cognition 🧠 #cognition #brain #animals #macroevolution

The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉 More views at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

哺乳類の歯のエナメル質が、最長で4800万年前（始新世）までアミノ酸を保存できる極めて強固なバイオアーカイブであることを明らかに 解析結果、アミノ酸濃度は死後10万年以内に急減するが、その後はエナメル質の結晶構造に守られて安定化 従来の記録（約2400万年前）を大幅に更新するものであり、絶滅動物の系統解明や古生態復元に向けた新たな可能性を提示 論文OA www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Conservationists in northeastern Cambodia moved critically endangered banteng to Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary using helicopters and trucks. With populations hit by hunting and deforestation, experts say relocating isolated herds could help secure the species’ future.

New preprint on a new diversity-dependent biogeographic diversification model using deep learning. Joint work with my amazing advisor @landismj.bsky.social. Details of the paper in the comment section. #evobio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New #AmniotaLab research! How well do computer models really predict bite force in living animals? 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 has just published this paper from her PhD, testing digital jaw models against real bite-force measurements in #lizards 🦎

A postdoc position in Biogeography and Macroecology is available at Palacky University, Czech Republic, with an application deadline of March 15, 2026. For details, contact prof. Vladimir Remes at [email protected]. More info: https://vladremes.github.io #postdoc

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds. www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

🧵 Why are there so many habitat-specialist squirrels? A new global study explores how habitat specialization has shaped squirrel evolution 👇🐿️🌍

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

The pygmy mammoth was a separate species from the wooly or Columbian mammoth that adapted to island life. 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 was the size of a large horse, which was an advantage to their diet and navigation compared to their mainland cousins. View the pygmy mammoth at La Brea #TarPits!

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

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

New paper is out 🔓! We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns: - modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈 - small decline in the K/Pg 🤏 - a peak in the Eocene 🌄 - a long-term decline towards the present � www.cell.com/current-biol...

Check out this new digest paper published in @journal-evo.bsky.social presenting how Malagasy #lemurs cranial shape evolution is influenced by their body size. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 ‼️ Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done! Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumni😍 Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

The great @sandranogue.bsky.social at #TIBS2026 showing the power of #paleoecological data to show the patteres of human cultural complexity and #biogeographic dynamics in island ecosystems

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

An exhilarating first day at #TIBS2026 ❄️🌍 Alfred Russell Wallace Awards for Michael Donoghue & Mark Lomolino, the launch of our symposium on Quantitative Paleoecology, and outstanding talks throughout — all set in snowy Aarhus. Inspiring energy from the biogeography & macroecology community!

Join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, me, and our team of experts Yasmin Kahn, Stuart Prior, Meg Russell & Naomi Sykes on BBC2 TOMORROW at 9pm, for Digging for Britain Series 13!

Excited to be @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social conference in Aarhus with @pierreorgebin.bsky.social. If you're interested in neuroanatomy 🧠, hippos 🦛, bovids 🐐 & island evolution 🏝, come to see our posters today (16:00-18:00) & tomorrow (16:10-18:10) in Room 3 #TIBS2026 (1/2)

We are excited to kick off #TIBS2026! Our early session with Alfred Russell Wallace Award winners Michael Donoghue and Mark V. Lomolino was truly inspiring, offering valuable lessons and insights that will energize the rest of the conference. #biogeography #macroecology #science

A friendly competition between colleagues revealed an interesting story about hutias, giant barn owls and burrowing bees in a Caribbean cave. Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale... Illustration by Jorge Machuky

📣 #Forschungsnews: Wie gut konnten Säbelzahnkatzen riechen? Oder frühe Wale? Das hat ein Forschungsteam mit Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) durch anatomische Schädelanalysen und genetische Untersuchungen jetzt herausgefunden. smnstuttgart.bsky.social 👉 https://sgn.one/wrq

Our new paper builds a set of models to recover real-time seasonality data from serial enamel isotope profiles. It's currently operationalized for Equus, so please use the models on your horse and zebra serial isotope data! The paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

big thankyou to my collaborators and colleagues for their parts in this work: Eva Corssmit (www.evacorssmit.com) Jorge Rojas-Jimenez (linkedin.com/in/jorge-rojas-jim%C3%A9nez-a7b079269/) Martha MacMillan (linkedin.com/in/martha-macmillan-084661b8/) and here's the paper: doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70051

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums. www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

#paper How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Through plasticity, evolution, or a combination of both? Find out in our new paper by Alger Jorritsma, where we show which strategies evolve under different environmental conditions. @journal-evo.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

About 30% of island-restricted reptiles are currently threatened with extinction (vs 12% of mainland reptile species). Yet, just 6.7% of the published research from 1960-2021 is devoted to island species @mongabay.com @biology.ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...