father | husband | Yorkshireman | ⚽️goalkeeper/clubman/coach/referee | Associate Professor of Palaeobiology | extinction & macroecology | UP THE OWLS & UP THE MAIN! views my own (he/him)
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Prof Alex Dunhill
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The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had complex food webs despite the losses
Big implication 🌍🦴
We can now reconstruct ancient food webs with trait data alone!
Manual: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
🥳 Our new paper on the Permian-Triassic transition in Türkiye is published! 🎉 We have prepared a video abstract of the article:
youtu.be/nYMK-_n9l0Y?...
New Scientist
Prof Alex Dunhill
🚨 NEW MUD DINOSAUR SCIENCE 🦕☄️
Obsessed with seeing networks being built, smashed and stress-tested with real data - not just debated from the sidelines 👀 (self-aware self-own 🙋).
🚀 Paleoecology leveled ⬆️.
Big questions + awesome squad → measurable, mind-blowning results 🤯
Here’s what went down 👇✨
pfwim uses functional traits and body size to infer “who eats whom” 🍽️➡️🐟
Works even when fossils don’t preserve interaction data 🪨
Validation on modern ecosystems shows strong performance 💪📊🔥
Deadline is this Sunday!
Abstract submission for Life and Planet 2026 is open! Come explore the co-evolution of life and the Earth with us:
New R package 📦: pfwim reconstructs ancient food webs from traits + body size rules 🌿🐳🕸️
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social @jackolivershaw.bsky.social @barankarapunar.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social with lots of help from @cemac.bsky.social
