This project was a great collaborative effort with Tim Brandler, @acapomorphic.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Joëlle Barido-Sottani ✨
📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿
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Want to do a Masters by Research at the University of Bristol? If you're interested in phylogenetics, morphology, macroevolution or vertebrate palaeobiology, please get in touch!
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⏰ Deadlines:
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Outputs from TreeSim, FossilSim & SimClock feed straight into MorphSim 🔗 giving you a full end-to-end simulation pipeline with fossils, sampled ancestors, taphonomic biases & all 🦴
We have also developed a shiny app, MorphSimShiny, to help people less familiar with R to get started! 👩💻
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Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇
Oh, this looks quite convenient, especially the filtering and mimicking empirical matrices.
IQ-TREE 3 is now integrated with MCMCTree: That is, IQ-TREE's sophisticated substitution models can now be used for Bayesian molecular-clock dating analyses!