Here is the cutest phylogeny I ever worked on: total-evidence dating and biogeography of hamsters (led by colleagues at Montpellier and Madrid): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This will make my life easier! Nice work!
"MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data"
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Announcing The Evolution Exchange: a new interview series for the evolutionary biology community! This month, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom chats with retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner about federal science funding. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
Today is the last day to apply for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026 in Cleveland, Ohio in June! Funds can cover registration, transportation, food, and lodging. A budget template is available on the website. @evolmtg.bsky.social www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Therapsids are early-diverging synapsids that thrived during the Permian and Triassic periods, and ultimately gave rise to mammals. They include six major groups, which already exhibited considerable ...
Morphological data are essential for reconstructing evolutionary histories, particularly for fossil taxa, as they represent the primary source of information for integrating extinct lineages into ...
The paper: Statistical and Structural Bias in Birth-Death Models by @phylieu.bsky.social & @omearabrian.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Tiago Simões
Meet Megachelicerax cousteaui, a 500myo sea predator that just rewrote the evolutionary history of chelicerates by 20 million years! New study in @nature.com by @cambrianlife.bsky.social Dr. Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and Prof. Javier Ortega-Hernandez
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Harvard researchers reveal the earliest known Chelicerata in a new study published in Nature. The 500-million-year-old fossil, named Megachelicerax cousteaui, provides unequivocal evidence of chelicer...
Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩
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Accurate estimation of speciation ( $$\lambda $$ λ ) and extinction ( $$\mu $$ μ ) rates from phylogenetic trees is central to studies of diversification, yet it remains unclear whether commonly used ...
