Evolutionary biologists inducted into the National Academy of Sciences this evening in the beautiful NAS auditorium include Doug Emlen, Naomi Pierce, Katie Peichel, Susana Magallon, Jonathan Wendel, Anne Yoder, Bruce Tabashnik, Barbara Block, and Tyrone Hayes! #NAS161

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 American Society of Naturalists election: Becky Fuller (Illinois, President); Renée Duckworth (Arizona, Vice President); Katie Lotterhos (Northeastern, Secretary). More info here! amnat.org/announcements/… #WomenInSTEM

Congrats Stephanie Werner and PHAB Univ. of Oslo mn.uio.no/phab/english/n…

My favorite genre of #bryozoa is the screaming one 😱

A week left to submit abstracts for Evolution Meetings ! If you haven't yet, consider signing up for our symposium on the 'Cans and Can'ts of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods'. We're looking forward to theoretical, empirical, and other insights on the frontier of the field #PCM #Evol2024

Our next event in the Palaeoverse #lecture series will be held Thurs, 25 April at 14:00 UTC! Laura Mulvey will present a talk entitled 'Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology'

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#computational #palaeoecology

Are you a female grad student in #palaeontology ? Apply now 👇

Scientists with African, Asian names are less likely to be mentioned in news stories.

Add underfunding of said demographics by agencies like NSF, these practices have direct implications for academic career trajectories (in recognition, reputation, etc)

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GSA’s On To the Future (OTF) program supports students from diverse communities to attend GSA Connects by offering partial travel funding, meeting registration, one-year membership, mentorship & special sessions with leadership during the meeting. The application deadline is 3…

So well-deserved NHM_Bryozoa ! Paul has also taught and inspired many palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists, myself included! Can't wait to do more analyses and field work with you NHM_Bryozoa

New blog post alert! #NorDigBryo #bryozoa

Katrine from the University Museum in Bergen has attended the #OneOceanWeek in Bergen and has worked tirelessly to explain bryozoans to kids and adults alike!

You can read about how that went here: nhm.uio.no/english/resear…

Does Global Plate Model choice matter?

This is the question we address in our recent Methods in Ecology and Evolution article with co-authors Lucas Buffan, Mathew Domeier, Christopher R Scotese, Sabin Zahirovic, and Sara_Varela: doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

#palaeogeography #palaeobiology #palaeoclimate

A huge limitation for exploring large scale patterns of freshwater invertebrate diversity is the phylogeny. Here doi.org/10.1016/j.ears… we provide a comprehensive Tree of Life of EPTO and a review of their evolutionary history. Thanks Jorge García-Girón, Ph.D. et al

Agree completely with Miguel Gómez here.

It is worrying that the editorial team at NatureEcoEvo seems to have such a narrow view of what evolutionary biology is as a field.

Evolutionar biology is definitely more than genomics!

New! Latitudinal diversity gradients are known to be bimodal, w a equatorial dip, bc of too high temperature there. But new robust fossil evidence showed inconsistent view of high equatorial diversity in a warmer past. Exciting, still many unknowns on LDG! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Prof Sir Peter Crane is our 2024 Darwin–Wallace Medal winner! His contribution to the field of plant diversity is globally acclaimed and his research has profoundly altered our outlook on flowering plant evolution. He is also President of Oak Spring Garden Foundation.

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Interested in the community ecology of coral reefs? We have a Natural Environment Research Council REP summer internship looking at coral recolonisation post cyclone damage: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/reps

#MolluscMonday Gastropod shell from Tom Bowling Bay in northern New Zealand colonised by bryozoans, including Spiritopora perplexa, probably while still alive to judge from the unfouled area around the aperture.