That’s why my papers often include asides such as “(Don’t try to deny it, you know what you did.)”
Read the first review in our new special collection- Perspectives on the Systematics of Fossil Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities.
A decade after Deuteropoda – insights into the systematics, evolution and dynamics of Cambrian euarthropods by Ortega-Hernández.
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#PaleoSky
Sean Carroll
The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants.
Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other.
Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is celebrating our department's collections manager, Lyndsey Farrar! Many thanks for all the awesome work you do behind the scenes in the invertebrate paleontology collections and to the public! #FossilFriday
Let's all look at the work of @kiabugboy.bsky.social instead (who also features fossil echinoderms, though not in this thumbnail)
#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link
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Speaking as a research faculty/curator at a natural history museum who has been involved in hiring exactly the sorts of museum specialist & collections manager positions Silvia describes here, this is an excellent summary for how to frame skillsets. And if possible get experience in collections asap
What sets the mutation rate of a cell type in an animal species?
Jo Wolfe, PhD
Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
Interesting reconstruction of the enigmatic Cambrian echinoderm Helicocystis, which is one of the oldest stalked echinoderms with radial symmetry. Fossils like Helicocystis are important because they help us understand how echinoderms evolved from bilateral to pentaradial body plans
Mutation rates per generation are strikingly similar across germlines of animals and across at least one somatic cell type, suggesting a key role for natural selection in shaping mutation rates. This ...
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
When your heart belongs in NYC but you now live in Oklahoma and are an OKC Thunder fan
Using extensive fossil occurrence data and Bayesian Brownian Bridge modelling, this study derives data-driven calibration densities for molecular clocks and suggests a Late Jurassic origin of flowerin...
🪼🦥🐚Could you become a Museum Specialist after your PhD in the Natural Sciences?! 🦕🦀🐢🌲
Behind every museum collection is a team making science possible.
🧪#SciComm
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