Tom Roper-Smith

Job announcement: a four-year postdoc position in phylogenomics at the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath, with James Clark and me (I'm moving to Bath later in the year...). www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Job Alert: Senior Research Associate in Phylogenomics @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication - comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with @jameswclark.bsky.social

Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!

Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology up for grabs @bristolbiosci.bsky.social for someone who studies "evolutionary processes and the emergence of large-scale patterns of organismal diversity using comparative genomics, and/or bioinformatics. Application deadline February 16

A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology Selecting among competing statistical models is a core challenge in science. However, the many possible approaches and techniques for model selection, and the conflicting recommendations for their us...

We are reading this paper - again! - for lab meeting this week. It’s so good and essential that it requires periodic revisiting, esp. as new folks join my group. Generates great discussion and introspection.

The authors also approach the topic with refreshing humility.

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tahlia Pollock @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social has an amazing new study integrating 3D shape, biomechanics, and optimality modelling, helps explain why so many mammals evolve sabre teeth: functional optimality was a key driver behind the repeated evolution of extreme sabre-tooth morphologies.

Faculty job alert!! Come join the team @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

We are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science with a Tutorial Fellowship @ www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Application deadline 7th Feb. 2025

Details here: tinyurl.com/yc3axenr

Please Quote. DM/email me for more information.

Fancy coming to work with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social and me looking at the impact of stress on evolution using simulations?

This project is funded for four years, with a decent amount of spending money and includes cover for tuition fees no matter where in the world you are from

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

This! And bear in mind if you are in palaeontology, there is a curated list on the Palaeontological Association website:

www.palass.org/careers/phd-...

Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at University of Oxford Recruiting now: Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...

Congratulations Dr Mulvey! 😊

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us!
Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens!
Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me.
Details👇
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Thanks Rachel! 😊

Exploring the macroevolutionary impact of ecosystem engineers using an individual‐based eco‐evolutionary simulation Ecosystem engineers can radically reshape ecosystems by modulating the availability of resources to other organisms through modifying either physical or biological aspects of the environment. The int....

Overdue introductory post!
Hi 👋, I'm Tom, a palaeobiologist with an interest in diversification dynamics, both taxonomic and morphological, and a penchant for evolutionary simulations. My most recent work combines the two: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nice to meet you all!

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New opportunity➡️

University of Cambridge has a new program to provide fully funded opportunities for 5 #Brazilian Mphil students a year!

For more details and opportunities to link up with the Conservation Research institute, see:

conservation.cam.ac.uk/suzano-maste...

Interested in pursuing a PhD in paleobiology and want to think more about extinction? Check out the below PhD project! Please get in contact if interested!
earth.ox.ac.uk/disentanglin...
Illustration by Victor O. Leshyk

Our new paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology is out! This massive team effort covers the history of AI for studying morphology, reviews new tools, provides many case studies & a prospectus for using AI to progress diverse topics in evolutionary morphology. academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

Happy birthday Erin!

Thanks Graham!

Hi Graham, new here! Could you add me to the starter pack?

Saupe Lab updates are moving to BlueSky - consider following if you're interested in biogeography, macroecology, maceoevolution, extinction selectivity, and species' responses to climate change!

Our latest, by Emily Carlisle, Zongjun Yin, Davide Pisani and myself: Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m advertising PhD projects in palaeoclimate, stratigraphy & palaebiology of past greenhouse worlds for entry in Oct 2025!

Funding via our new @ukri.org doctoral programme: www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

Projects here: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/graduate/pro...

@oxfordenvres.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

My followers have doubled in the past few days (uh, hi everyone! glad you're here!), so I figured I'd repromote this. Fully-funded and very flexible PhD available at the University of Aberdeen on the cultural evoluation of tea! 🫖