Huge congrats to Juan Benito today for publishing the bulk of his PhD research—an investigation of 40(!) new Ichthyornis specimens. An extraordinarily detailed study of morphology and evolution of Late Cretaceous birds! Here is the open access link: peerj.com/articles/13919…

The first full day of #BES2022 is about to start! Tune in to the opening plenary from Jane Memmott with a welcome address from Mathew Williams 👏 Remember to ask your questions via our conference platform Whova.

Fantastic to be British Ecological Society Annual meeting in Edinburgh #BES2022

A little New Year's island biogeography, for anyone who's interested, comparing real-world and simulation performances of different ISARs. Publishing this paper felt like a great example of how helpful constructive reviewer comments can be. escholarship.org/uc/item/41q2s9…

Brilliant to see our work Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh on the Rhynie chert featured in today's The Sunday Post! Great to be quoted alongside Steve Brusatte and Nick Fraser highlighting the importance of fossil sites like Rhynie for understanding the evolution of life on Earth

Delighted to be working with Imran Rahman Tim Ewin and Jeffrey R Thompson understanding tiering in crinoids. We are looking for someone to build 3D models and analyse the community structure of crinoid communities. Please get in contact in you have any questions,

📢My 2nd PhD paper got accepted in my first choice journal: Journal of Animal Ecology ! 😃The paper will soon be available open access, so keep an eye on this space.

🚨🚨 New paper alert🚨 🚨 in nature on the emergence of the latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic foraminifera, with Isabel Fenton Alex Farnsworth🌻 Tracy Aze & Paul Valdes. We found the modern gradient emerged ~15 Ma, driven primarily by speciation! nature.com/articles/s4158…

If you spend enough hours watching fairy-wrens, you will eventually see them do something weird. In our new paper, we tell the story of GOOx, the young fledgling who jumped ship to a new family: a🧵 #WildOz #Birds

Island size isn't the only factor influencing biodiversity. A new study compared models adjusting for island age, habitat diversity, & resource availability on five hotspot archipelagos, finding that direct measures were best. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

We are honoured that the discovery of the fossil Auroralumina in #CharnwoodForest🌳 is included in the upcoming "Evolution 2022: The Most Interesting Discoveries of the Year" event at nmnh nas of ukraine in Kyiv🇺🇦

🇬🇧 1st CPEG - Leeds, UK [2018] 🇩🇪 2nd CPEG - Berlin, Germany [2021] CPEG 🇱🇹 Coming soon 3rd CPEG - Vilnius, Lithuania [2023] Don't miss our updates 🙌 Follow us on social media ➡️ cpeg2023vilnius ➡️ Facebook 3rd Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap #Conference

I'll be advertising a 3-year Natural Environment Research Council-funded postdoctoral researcher position EarthSciences UCL soon, using histological approaches to reconstruct growth rates & thermophysiology of crocodylomorphs over their evolutionary history, with Ryan Felice & Alexandra Houssaye

3-year Natural Environment Research Council-funded postdoctoral researcher position EarthSciences UCL with me, Ryan Felice & Alexandra Houssaye, using histological approaches to reconstruct growth rates & thermophysiology of crocodylomorphs over their evolutionary history (deadline=9th May): ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

E4 award WINNER: Oskar Hagen. Congratulations! Coupling eco-evolutionary mechanisms with deep-time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

Very honored to win this E4 award and sign the cover [ecography.org/content/april-…] 😝 I share this win with a huge thanks to so many people that helped me, including Ecography editors and formidable reviewers, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution iDiv Biodiversity Research ... [the list continues]

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 year palaeo postdoc Come & join Palaeo@Leeds & work on a cutting-edge palaeoecology research project with me, Andrew Beckerman, Celli Hull, Jen Dunne, Cris Little, Catalina Pimiento & Andy Ridgwell. Details here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Dr Mark Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Imperial Earth Science & Engineering, has received a President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, in recognition of his inspiring and innovative teaching approach. Congratulations Mark!

The Deep Time Ecology group Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Dept of Zoology Cambridge Earth Sciences arranged in height order (ecological tiering?) at the Annual Dinner at #PalAss23! Euan Furness Nile Stephenson Kendra Delahooke Princess Aira Buma-at

JOB: We're hiring a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology (permanent) UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences University of Bristol. Researchers of any branch of the tree of life and interval of Earth History welcome. Application deadline Dec 20. Please RT