New research proposes that groups of birds with early origins associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction experienced rapid evolutionary changes across their genomes and physiology. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: scim.ag/7RP

cool paper alert reminds me of when I visited Sulawesi cloud forests full of flycatchers/whistlers/fantails/mixed flocks. Then went downhill to beautiful lowland forests and saw, like, no insectivores I was so puzzled - maybe it's the weaver ants!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Colonisation lags predict sympatric diversity in birds biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Our paper is published today in nature journal! If you want to know more about how communities interact across habitats and interaction types, and their effects on ecosystem functioning and stability, the paper is here🔽 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Paper out in Current Biology today shows fruit in the guts of a fossilized Mesozoic bird with a toothed beak previously assumed to be a predator. On the one hand this is very cool but I have some thoughts on the spin applied by the authors. 1/7 cell.com/current-biolog…

The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila #Entomology #Braconidae

Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Excited that this pre-print about the evolution of reproductive isolation in experimental evolution studies is now out! This research was led by former postdoc Benjamin Jarrett in #SvenssonLab @Biology_LU Lund University, now at Bangor University (UK). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New research on the Global Impacts of Bird Extinctions 🌍🦜🦤 "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions" led by Tom Mathews and published in Science Magazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)

Super excited to announce that our paper is out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you’re interested in expanding coverage standardisation techniques beyond taxonomic diversity…📈📉

🎶🏝️Exciting news! Our new study in Ecology Letters extends the well-known principle of Species-Area Relationship into the world of ecoacoustics. Discover how habitat fragmentation influences the richness of natural soundscapes in the Amazon: a thread🧵doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

Book your time. On November 6th I will present an online talk at the Ma(th)ssX (Mathematics of Mass Extinctions) seminar series. "The Scaling of Earth Systems and Macroevolution" sites.google.com/view/mathssx/w…

Professor Alex Pigot explains the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Learn more about UCL's biodiversity research ➡️bit.ly/3NCRmWo

Paper accepted 🥳🙌 in #philtransb (Royal Society Publishing) is a nice way to start a grey Monday. Watch this space to learn more about how clustered warming tolerances drive non-linear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet! 🥵🌎🌿

New paper! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! 🦎🦎🦎 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Now published in Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…