In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩‍🔬 We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process! Watch out Monet ‍🎨 @accidental_aRt #rstats #Rtistry

What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples theconversation.com/what-should-ha… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

New research out! We found that red kangaroos living with dingoes grow up faster than red kangaroos that live safe behind the dingo fence 🦘🦘🦘 academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl…

We are launching tonight! 🚀 🤯 Read more about VAMP ahead of our launch party tonight in our article published today in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand 👀 theconversation.com/a-new-virtual-… Flinders Palaeontology Western Australian Museum South Australian Museum Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory @FlindersCSE

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from a giant in the field of Marine Mammal Research, Dr Cath Kemper!

VAMP_Palaeo launched tonight so now we’ve all got free digital access to hundreds of Aussie fossils 🐾🦴 huge congrats to the team Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) Jacob van Zoelen Aaron Camens

This week saw the launch of VAMP; the Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology. sites.flinders.edu.au/vamp VAMP_Palaeo #dinosaur #dino #dinosaurus #fossil #fossilskeleton #fossilfriday #palaeontologists #paleontology #jurassicpark #vertebrates #museums #Australia

Our manuscript on island biodiversity is out! Islands today are more similar to each other than they were in a pre-human past, because of 1) extinctions, 2) introductions of the very same species everywhere Frontiers of Biogeography @naturalis SUNY - The State University of New York 🏝️🐘=gone🐀=new escholarship.org/uc/item/5b14f5…

Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on! abc.net.au/news/2023-09-0… via ABC Australia

Ever wondered why large mammals have long faces? Biomechanics explains it 😊 Thanks for the fun discussions D. Rex Mitchell and Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) #allometryrules The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/why-the-long-f…

Several years in the making with two of the biggest brains in the field! Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) Emma Sherratt We unpack the who, the what, the where, the when, and the how of mammalian skull proportions and how they change with size across species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

But this review isn't just about skulls. We show how phylogenetic tests of allometry can be a problem when size correlates with phylogeny. As one reviewer said, it's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Emma Sherratt Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

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Why is a gecko 🦎 tail like a cactus 🌵? Because their bulbous tail stores resources for uncertain times Parallel evolution of expanded tails in monsoonal tropics lineages of an Australian gecko radiation in ⁦Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society⁩ doi.org/10.1093/zoolin… flic.kr/p/DG41CE