Michael Landis

@landismj.bsky.social

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Undergrads, graduate students, and postdocs in evolutionary biology. Created Nov 17 2024.

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Andrej Spiridonov

@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

4 days ago

Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Recurrence-based identificationofPhanerozoicmega-climate states and
early-warning structure

Phanerozoic vulnerability across five mega-climate states

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Alisa Bokulich

@alisabokulich.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Happy publication day to Charles #Darwin for On the Origin of Species published #OTD 1859 🥳 (And a day of inspiration for all who struggle to finish their books...) #hpbio #HPS #EvoBio

Portrait of middle aged Darwin & title page: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,
OR THE
PRESERVATION OP FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
BY CHARLES DARWIN,
1859

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Andrej Spiridonov

@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

over 2 years ago

Evidence for the extremely old (early Eocene ≈ 50 Ma) terror bird from Antarctica! It forces you to think, what else we are missing by not knowing what happened on the whole continent for a duration of an average geological era? palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024... 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology

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Greg Priest

@gregpriest.bsky.social

over 2 years ago

“Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.” 🐋🌱 #evobio 🧪

www.nature.com

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature

Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt...

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Germán Orizaola

@gorizaola.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chern…. (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d…)

theconversation.com

Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.

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Andrej Spiridonov

@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Yes, they found exciting fossil tracks of two distinct hominids in close sympatry. But you know what is even more exciting? The traces of giant scavenger/predator storks (Leptoptilos cf. falconeri) found nearby. www.science.org/doi/10.11…. 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio

Trace fossils of hominids and giant storks

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Margarida Cardoso Moreira

@margaridamcm.bsky.social

5 months ago

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here: rdcu.be/e5EgU #EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

rdcu.be

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

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Andrej Spiridonov

@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Paleoartist Hodari Nundu made some awesome reconstructions and photo-scaling of the giant storks (Leptoptilos cf. falconeri)-- trace-bearers from Kobi the Fora Early Pleistocene. 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio

Scale model of the Kobi Fora footprint (Leptoptilos cf. falconeri) next to a human foot.

Leptoptilos cf. falconeri scaled to human

Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social

Yes, they found exciting fossil tracks of two distinct hominids in close sympatry. But you know what is even more exciting? The traces of giant scavenger/predator storks (Leptoptilos cf. falconeri) found nearby. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio

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Andrej Spiridonov

@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

7 days ago

Interesting article on the form and function of dinosaur gizzard tools -- the gastroliths, in the inference of their diets, and the evolution of feeding ecology. www.cambridge.org/core/jo…. 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Table 1. Predicted diets of extinct archosaurs based on gastrolith shapes. The italic predicted diet represents the predictions that differ from previous assumptions. Note that prediction accuracy is expected to be low on the specimens with fewer gastroliths, even if the posterior probabilities are high.

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Alisa Bokulich

@alisabokulich.bsky.social

over 2 years ago

Petition to urge Duke University not to close its herbarium ✍️ chng.it/TL77FmWNYv #histsci #evobio #philsci 🌿🌍 #envhist 📜🧪

chng.it

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The decision by Duke University to close their herbarium is deeply concerning. Herbaria are not just repositories of plant specimens, they are living libraries of life on Earth. They hold the keys to ...

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Prof. Gillian Brown

@gillianrbrown1.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

📢 Excited to announce that the new edition of my co-authored book on human behaviour and evolution will be published next month (Dec 2024): 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (3rd Ed)' global.oup.com/academic/pro... 🧪🏺 #evolution #psychscisky #evobio #philsci #histsci