🚨Our paper on the major update to R package mvSLOUCH is out!🚨 Now w/ rapid speed for your large multivariate datasets + measurement error + missing data + crucially, the ability to specify precisely how sets of traits evolving by OU/BM interact, e.g. for modularity tests!

Paleontologists discover fossil birds with teeth had seeds in their stomachs, indicating that they ate fruit @currentbiology phys.org/news/2024-09-p…

The great David Penny's obituary: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Chronospaces: An R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20… 🧬🖥️ github.com/mongiardino/ch… #rstats

Modeling study explains why amazon is such a biodiverse paradise phys.org/news/2024-09-a…

Learn more about the technology behind Motus Wildlife Tracking System from our Motus Manager Lucas Berrigan in this feature by Smithsonian Magazine!

Feliz cumpleaños loquillo

Harder, better, faster, stronger? Dispersal in the Anthropocene | Trends in Ecology & Evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Variation of trait (e.g. brain size) can be observed for individuals in the same species, but also across different species. We use variation between and within species to test if a trait is evolving too fast or too slow: Thibault Latrille Nicolas Salamin ow.ly/fEzf50T8EGX

New paper->Rethinking the physiological cross-sectional area of skeletal muscle reveals the mechanical advantage of pennation doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… ..we use geometric models to highlight the mech. advantage of a pennate design & clear the air on some PCSA confusion Christofer Clemente

Investigation of Glandula Uropygialis in Different Avian Species Using Morphometric and Histological Methods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ah…

Estimating past global temperature is important for understanding the history of life on Earth and for predicting future climate. Now in Science, a new reconstruction of Earth’s temperature history over the past 485 million years—based on a method that combines diverse physical