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...

During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves. Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat. Such as here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Howell et al. used WGS of wild-caught deer mice from two islands and one mainland location in British Columbia to investigate chromosomal inversions and non-equilibrium demographic history of this species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf254 #evobio #molbio #peromyscus

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona? Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇 For more information about the position: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

New #AmniotaLab research! Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃 paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...

Lead by Pili Martin Ramos 😊we present a new palaeoecological record in the Canary Islands, which reveals how climate, vegetation, and fire changed on the islands over the last 28,000 years 🌍 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @fdezpalacioslab.bsky.social @ferpalenrique.bsky.social and more 😊🏝️

Our new @nature.com shows that energy flows mediated by mammals and birds across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by >30% unevenly across functional groups, with major consequences ecosystem functions shorturl.at/AD0Yb

New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍

Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics

Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!

Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team! We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋 centa.ac.uk/studentship/... *Please share this!*

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44... Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

Thrilled that our paper “The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes” has been selected as October’s Editor’s Choice in @ecography.bsky.social ! 📰✨👇 sl1nk.com/AG7BC Huge thanks to Rafa Barrientos for the pic (I mean, Rafa is the photographer, not the stunning monkey 🐒)

Thrilled to welcome @paleobicha.bsky.social to the ZNS @unihalle.bsky.social! Excited for our collaboration 🦋🏝

Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Thrilled to have won the Student Poster Prize at #ESHE2025! 🏆 Grateful for the opportunity to share my work on Lebanese fauna and for all the inspiring conversations throughout the conference!

🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc! 🔬 Join our group in Copenhagen to study Water Buffalo 🐃 #Population #Genomics Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome! 👉 **Apply:** candidate.hr-manager...#Postdoc!#Population⏰Deadline Oct 15th 2025 #WaterBuffalo #Conservation #EvolutionaryBiology