Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution π’
#Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution
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The Jenny Donald Undergraduate Student Conference Award is awarded to assist 3rds year genetics students to attend the annual conference. The GSA committee may elect to offer more than one award in a given year. Applications due 11:59pm 7th May AEST
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My "Introduction to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R" online book is now available here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer-o... Note it only deals with basic methods and was mostly written in 2020 if you're wondering why your awesome new method/paper is missing! Please cite it if you use it :)
Natalie Cooper
Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -
Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process
Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF
On any average day, 165,000 people die globally. Thatβs 60 million a year.
What do they die from?
π§π We built a new interactive tool that lets you answer this question, with data for every country.
Globally, 75% of deaths are from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Heart disease alone is 1 in 3.
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
Rego is open for AES x SASB 2026 in the beautiful UoW campus!
Natalie Cooper
Interesting! We also observed this behaviour in 2017 in French Polynesia! But we were not able to publish it. It means that this behaviour is widespread across oceans! See below our observation:
Nice review by Joris and co. There's several anecdotal and video evidence of blindsnakes climbing trees in Australia too!
connectsci.au/zo/article/7...
Our World in Data
Dr John Clarke
We present the first record of arboreality in the Madagascar-endemic typhlopid Madatyphlops ocularis (Parker, 1927) based on observations of three individu
Looking for some weird science to brighten your Monday? Check out our new paper on remora cloacal diving behavior in manta rays published today in Ecology and Evolution!
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Here we document seven observations of Echeneidae cloacal diving behavior in manta rays and one observation of gill attachment behavior. These observations span all three currently described species ...
