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I'm so excited to say I am NOT a doctor, but I passed my MPhil viva today 🎉💫 My thesis started as a PhD, but I had to make some difficult decisions along the way, to prioritise my deteriorating mental health. #phdlife

New preprint looking at the different patterns inferred by cophylogenetic methods: "Distinguishing cophylogenetic signal from phylogenetic congruence clarifies the interplay between evolutionary history and species interactions". doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… Helene Morlon (1/6)

I am resigning as #AssociateEditor at #JBI Biogeography.News because Wiley has not reprioritized access & journal quality over profit, maintaining barriers to equity & publication - particularly for #ECRs and peers from the #GlobalSouth

My first Palaeontology paper! 🥳 Lots in here about different approaches to using the FBD model for tree inference, explored using simulations, led by Joëlle Barido-Sottani. TL;DR careful taxonomy & morphological data collection really matter for these analyses!

New paper NatureEcoEvo led by Alex Payne & Katie Davis, with Moonikin Campos, in which we show how the interplay of biotic + abiotic drivers shaped the 250 million year history of crocodiles + their extinct relatives: nature.com/articles/s4155…

🚨 Attention students 🚨 Free spatial methods workshop at Oxford Earth Sciences & Oxford University Museum of Natural History, led by me, @PalaeoTom, Rob Whittaker, & BensonLabOxford. Apply by Feb 1st!

First paper as a first author out 😊 it's a project I've done supervised by Phil Mannion at EarthSciences UCL during my master's internships ! Big shout out to him and to the coauthors Dr. Advait M. Jukar and Rajeev Patnaik who helped to acheive this work !

Introducing treesurgeon (github.com/evo-palaeo/tre…), a new R package of tools and tricks for working with phylogenetic trees and data, especially morphology! Here's a few things it can do...

Hi palaeo-twitter, I have a request: I am looking for books/articles on the history of palaeo-climatology at the end of 19th/early 20th century, especially on the moment where pleistocene climate oscillations were discovered and established. Any suggestion ?

Please share! We have a PhD opportunity co-supervised between Ignacio Quintero and Hélène Morlon, to study the build-up of biodiversity gradients from total-evidence spatial diversification dynamics in École normale supérieure | PSL in Paris. If interested contact me at [email protected]!

😔 It's not "nature" or the "circle of life" This figure is believed to be an underestimation because it counts only confirmed kills, not birds caught and eaten or injured, only to die later.

time to talk about my favourite guy, victorian poet william barnes, who tried to replace foreign loan words in english with "pure germanic anglo saxon" ones that he made up. such as: ❌genealogy ✅kin-lore ❌grammar ✅speech-craft ❌pliers ✅nipperlings (more below)

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

On a besoin d'une coalition de gauche large et unitaire avec une seule candidature par circonscription.

🔴 Le PS, le PCF, les Ecologistes et LFI tombent d'accord et présenteront des «candidatures uniques» partout en France aux élections législatives. Suivez notre direct : bit.ly/4aVhN2V #FrontPopulaire

🔴 URGENT - Retrait systématique et sans condition de tous les candidats du Nouveau Front Populaire arrivés en 3e position lorsque le RN est en tête (déclaration officielle de Jean-Luc Mélenchon)

Our latest: Nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system nature.com/articles/s4155… led by @ERR_Moody UoB Palaeobiology and many other greay colleagues inc Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) Gergely J Szöllősi Anja Spang (she/her) Ziheng Yang's Group David Pisani, Tim Lenton and Graham Shields

🚨 Excited to share our new paper on mammal forelimb evolution, now out in Functional Ecology ! We explored how moving underwater or staying airborne influenced the diversity and evolution of mammal forelimbs 🌊🐳🦇🌌🐾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Introducing Sutekhsuchus dowsoni 🐊 My new paper, with Cecily Nicholl, Bethany Pittard, Hesham Sallam and Phil Mannion revises the Egyptian Miocene gavialoid Tomistoma dowsoni tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…