Keep science and First Nations culture alive at the SA Museum South Australian Museum Rally on parliament steps today.

Save our science! South Australian Museum restructure protest - don't let our research get left behind!

What, exactly, is TAXONOMIC VANDALISM? And who is guilty of it? I've updated and republished my article on Ray Hoser, quite probably the most extreme taxonomic vandal of them all.... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/5/07… Look for his totally sane responses and sockpuppet accounts :)

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Genomic SNPs resolve the phylogeny of an ancient amphibian island radiation from the Seychelles #caecilians Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution Supports monophyly of Hypogeophis (no more Grandisonia) and single origin of the pointy-snout! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looking for a #postdoc? We're hiring! Come and work with Ben Scheele, Richard Duncan and me on a project investigating cutting-edge approaches to restoring amphibian populations in #chytrid-impacted landscapes. 3-year position, fully funded by ARC DP uctalent.canberra.edu.au/cw/en/job/5012…

Ever seen a Bluetongue skink? What about a Monkey-tailed skink? No? Well, let me tell you a little about these guys and what we've learned from studying their evolution. Sidenote: check out our new paper in Current Biology sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ...

SA Museum restructure axed after Premier's Review - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/1…

4-year PhD fully funded by The Leverhulme Trust project (UK students only, sadly) investigating the 3D anatomy and motion of salamander necks. With me in University of Liverpool EMB lab, @KrisDaout, Daniel Schwarz, and Peter Falkingham. Apply by 28 Oct findaphd.com/phds/project/t… Image by D. Schwarz

It's finally here! Geometric morphometrics on fossil goannas from the Naracoorte Caves! 🦎🦎 Thanks to Liz Reed 🦇🦴🦉🐀🐩 Mark Hutchinson and Alessandro Palci for helping me see this through! bioone.org/journals/journ…

Our new paper The Anatomical Record on the vertebral morphology of the African #viper #Atheris With the aid of μCT scanning, we explore vertebral morphology & intracolumnar variation in 3 species of Atheris and compare with other viperid #snakes anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… Funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki

How do lizard skeletons adapt to the evolutionary reduction of limbs? ow.ly/rSAw50TFtzj #ProcB #OpenAccess Dr Marco Camaiti ChappleLab Alistair Evans EvoMorphoLab

New review paper on using AI to analyse Evolutionary Morphology is officially out! Was great to part of a large collaborative team writing this. academic.oup.com/iob/article/6/…

Tired of flattened early bird fossils? Today is your lucky day. Very happy to finally welcome 'Navaornis hestiae' to the world! It allowed us to see for the first time a (near)complete enantiornithine brain. Today in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… #spinningskull

New Riversleigh paper on some new malleodectids, including a new genus and two new species link.springer.com/article/10.100…

1 of 2 papers out this week 🐸🐸🐸🐸. This one is about three new tree frogs and Philoria godthelpi sp. nov. (Limnodynastidae) from the World Heritage Area Riversleigh, honouring Henk Godthelp who recovered many wonderful frog fossils. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Scientists have discovered the oldest ancestor for all Australian tree frogs🐸 Publishing their findings in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Roy Farman 🐸 et al. reveal that this 55 million-year-old frog extends the fossil record by approximately 30 million years. More👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I recently had the pleasure of creating an artist reconstruction of Australia's earliest known tree frog - described in new research by Roy M. Farman 🐸🦎 and team! 🐸 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Platyplectrum casca (left) and newly described Litoria tylerantiqua (right).

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Our study on the role of the #PETM on the early evolutionary success of salamandrids is out! Delighted to be part of this great project led by Loredana Macaluso, & with AndreaVvì, Anne-Claire Fabre, & Bastien Mennecart #salamanders #climatechanges 🌡☀️⌛️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… (1/2)