Out: new Carboniferous true bugs from Belgium and Northern France - from old collections at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with @belspo.be;
by @isyebsp.mnhn.fr from @mnhn.fr
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
in papers in pal by @thepalass.bsky.social
#paleoentomology #truebugs #hemiptera
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
Thrilled to announce that the University of Lomé #Togo 🇹🇬 inaugurated the first Palaeontology Collection building of the country last week! This was an exciting moment, which was made possible by the support of #UNESCO and the University of Lomé.
#fossils #conservation #geoheritage
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009
🚨PAPER ALERT🚨
A new work led by @jules2701.bsky.social explains the evolutionary dispersion of bark beetles (Scolytinae) and the angiosperms to gymnosperm host shifts during the Cretaceous.
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio!
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Scolytinae originated in Gondwana. Using revised time divergence for the subfamily, we here decipher their ancient biogeography and global diversification during the Cretaceous.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Scolytinae might be older than expected! In this study we use three different dating methods, all suggesting that Scolytinae predate the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution.
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
To my great surprise, an article on a tiny (larval?) mysterious insect #fossil 🦖⚒️ from Permian of Germany, on which we were working since about Triassic, suddenly got published. Check out cute critter, its OA @cocomacro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
leaf shaped fossils of Charnia brasieri and Trepassia sp.
Mike Simon and Pascal removing the overlying soil (all by hand) the area in front is the size of the site in May 2025
Happy #FossilFriday how does a thread about the Inner Meadow biota and unexpected age for the fossils, and a refocusing of Martin Brasier’s #KotlinCrisis sound?
We’ve been trickling out our findings from Inner Meadow including #Charnia brasieri, #Aninoides and there's even cooler stuff in review. 🧵
Here is a writeup of our work on #Aninoides and how it helped us to uncover a little bit of Beothuk astronomy. Obviously :-)
With huge thanks to @julialaite.bsky.social
gazette.mun.ca/research/dig...
Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes.
Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
We describe Badmaateridae, a new beetle FAMILY from Chile!
Badmaater chilensis is blind, wingless, and extremely small (~1mm).
📄 Open access in Systematic Entomology
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70020
#Entomology #NewSpecies #Beetles
📄New paper alert
Controls on the sinking of hymenopterans and orthopterans in water of varying salinity: a taphonomic study
🔗https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.3.1
led by colleagues from
@utoronto.ca
If you’re interested in extinction risk, please check out our new paper in @science.org led by my former PhD student Cooper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
The deadline to apply for PhD positions with me (or anyone in my department!) are coming up: Jan 7th.
www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
@isyebsp.mnhn.fr @morethanadodo.bsky.social
First paper from our 2025 beamtime at Synchrotron SOLEIL ✨
📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10
Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
Just published 📄
A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity:
"Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation
🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib...
@nozomuoyama.bsky.social
New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
