I’m thrilled to finally share this work in full. We looked at how vascular plants rearranged their xylem to overcome size constraints and spread on dry land with Brodersen Lab Kyra Prats @HuggettLab Wason Lab Jonathan Wilson An explanatory🧵for science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/10

Great to see this Guardian coverage of our recent New Phytologist paper on global plant diversity darkspots: tinyurl.com/mvyx3hw8 Led by Kew Science UNEP-WCMC

The Biogeography of the Amazonian Tree Flora nature.com/articles/s4200… Congratulations Bruno Garcia Luize, Hans ter Steege and all Amazon Tree Diversity Network contributors. A definitive analysis for the richest tree flora on the planet.

Happy #fossilfriday ! Continuing with the theme of change, today we will highlight Archaeopteris! Archaeopteris was one of the earliest trees, and lived from the Devonian to the Carboniferous. See a massive trunk on display University of Michigan Museum of Natural History !

Nice profile on Michigan EARTH PhD student and paleobotanist Jero Morales Toledo! lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us…

Yay! Congrats to lab member Abby for winning best poster presentation at GSA this fall about her work on woods from Antarctica!

Fossil insect-feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia's iconic Eucalyptus Giraldo et al. L. Alejandro Giraldo 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

#FossilFriday 🌿 Behold the late Devonian Cephalopteris and its Belgian relative Rhacophyton! These early ferns showcase fascinating planated yet unlaminated ultimate appendages—an evolutionary step toward the true leaves we know today. #Paleobotany

Revision of Sagenopteris : a major lineage of Mesozoic seed plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… Wiley Earth and Space Science #PapersinPalaeontology

Fossil leaves from the same type locality as Spinosaurus in Egypt! #Spinosaurus #SallamLab #Egypt

Convocatoria / Job Announcement Plaza de Investigación en Biología Integrativa con énfasisen botánica, en la Unidad de Síntesis en Sistemática y Evolución. tinyurl.com/27jwrzne

my unfinished paper watching me scrolling twitter

In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not

What can #population-level processes tell us about large-scale #biodiversity? 🧵: 1/9 A key question in #evolutionary #biology: Can we predict how quickly lineages diversify (#speciation rates) based on #traits observable at the population level? #microevolution #macroevolution

Researchers have genetically altered a mouse to express traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, including a long, coarsely textured coat, to create the woolly mouse. scim.ag/3QO97Ui News from Science

➡️New article out⬅️ "Archaeology and the Construction of Artifact Lineages: From Culture History to Phylogenetics" by O'Brien, Vidiella, Duran-Nebreda, Bentley & Valverde Open access: rdcu.be/ee0R2 Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky)

Earliest thorny #bamboo from Pleistocene of #Asia characterizing spinescence and paleoclimatic adaptations in bamboos #paleobotany doi.org/10.1016/j.revp…

PNAS: Barremian tricolpate pollen from Portugal—New evidence for the age of eudicot-related angiosperms pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq