PhyloJunction: a computational framework for simulating, developing, and teaching evolutionary models academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… Society of Systematic Biologists

We are very excited to host you in Erlangen! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr Emma Dunne, myself, or Rachel Warnock!

🚨 Registration for #PalAss24 is now OPEN! ✨ We're so excited to welcome everyone to Erlangen 🇩🇪 in December! Check out the webpage for all that will be on offer during the conference and beyond:🎄🥨 palass.org/meetings-event…

See you all in #Erlangen for #PalAss24 annual meeting!

Final article of Middle East Critique special issue "The Academic Question of Palestine" co-edited by myself and Walaa Alqaisiya. Anna Younes and Hanna Al Taher حنا الطاهر on post-Oct 7 erasure of Palestine, policing and political intimidation in German schools/universities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Last week, after months of hard work and lots of conversations, Science Magazine launched a new series—spearheaded by News from Science's Elizabeth Culotta, Shraddha Chakradhar and me—about how researchers are #decolonizing science. science.org/toc/science/38…

And a lot of them have done parachute science. Nussaïbah Raja and Dr Emma Dunne's work show just how parachute #paleontology is still rampant. The countries that are hit the hardest are in the Global South. science.org/content/articl…

Registration for The PalAss Annual meeting in Erlangen is zooming along. Our first fieldtrip is fully booked, and our second is at 50% capacity - so if you want to reserve your spot to go to the amazing Messel pits register today! palass.org/meetings-event…

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend Millacarmonia besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

Lots to digest in this piece - well worth 5 mins of your time to read. Though grim, the original study puts tangible numbers on the utterly shit situation that so many PhD grads + postdocs are finding themselves in right now 😔

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

In July, I put through a Freedom of Information Request to 140+ universities asking for year-on-year data on reports of racism, islamophobia, antisemitism. Most of them have now arrived back in my inbox, and the results are fascinating. 🧵

🚨 It's just over one month to the deadline for #PalAss24 abstract submission on Thursday October 3rd! ✨ More info about registration and abstracts here: palass.org/meetings-event…

📢 Due to issues with our payment processor Worldpay, we have been forced to temporarily suspend registration for #PalAss24. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, and are working hard to find a fix as soon as possible. Thanks, in the meantime, for your patience! 📢

At no point in Africa's post-colonial history has a national museum been looted at this scale this is yet more evidence that the UAE is a colonial scourge in Sudan, exactly like the French and British theft of Africa's priceless artifacts middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-loots…

Our application note is now in preprint at bioRxiv DeepDiveR is a package for deep learning estimation of diversity from fossil occurrences in R and Python 🤿🐅 Thanks to Dr. Bethany Allen and Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration so far! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just 3 more weeks to nab early bird registration and submit your abstract for #PalAss24! ✨ All of the necessary info is here: palass.org/meetings-event…

🌋Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction📷. New research in Science Magazine on how mega-El Niño solve a decades old problem in unifying both land and marine extinctions. The deadliest extinction in Earth's History. #sciencetwt #sciencetwt science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The media avoiding the term “ethnic cleansing”

🚨 There's only 1 WEEK left to nab early bird registration and submit an abstract to The PalAss Annual Meeting in Erlangen! 🚨 Deadline is Thurs Oct 3rd 23:59 BST! #PalAss24 More info here: palass.org/meetings-event…