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Iβve never worked out what βgoose book?β Means
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Iβve never worked out what βgoose book?β Means
We know that marine fishes π have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater π?
Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-PΓ©rez and friends (not just colleagues) π€Ώ π
shorturl.at/zgKfA
Giant snake on an info panel about to eat a screaming child
The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.
Well damn, this is cool.
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea | Chia et al., 2026 | Ecology Letters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A general method for detection and segmentation of terrestrial arthropods in imagesπͺ²
flatbug offers ecologists and practitioners a ready-to-use, efficient and accurate tool for arthropod monitoring that addresses common limitations of existing methods ποΈ
Getting our balcony checked today for what feels like the millionth time.
All prep for cladding work to finally begin soon.
Exciting to get it done but RIP balcony garden π
(We donβt have THE cladding but our building is covered in wood, which has spontaneously set on fire a few timesβ¦.)
Call for 5-year NERC Independent Research Fellowships is now open. No limit on grant value and open to international applicants. If you're interested in being hosted by Earth Sciences at Oxford, our internal expression of interest deadline is 16th March. Further details: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
Evolution of behaviors documented by trace fossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social
It is COMPLETE NORMAL to have to re-fill a form because I used an old one that is EXACTLY the same except for colour formatting.
I understand completely why the other form was rejected.
Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.
Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.
Current citation style:
MacFadden, B. J. et al. (2026). AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification. Paleobiology, 1β17. doi: 10.1017/pab.2025.10084
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Taking a moment of silence for the fallen legacy of the fifa peace prize
Figure 2.1 the variety of organisms with very different habits and habitats which may accumulate as fossils in one layer of sediment on the sea floor. Drawn by Miss Mary E. Pugh.
I donβt know what I like better: the bloat-and-float kangaroo(?) or the expression on the whale as it is taken down by a giant squid #FossilFriday
From: Ager 1963 Principles of Paleoecology
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what.
that's really cool!
Had an ultrasound done on my aching shoulder injury today
It is VERY cool to see how your shoulder bones and muscles move internally in real time. (in my case, jankily is the answer!)
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Individualised niches in a variable environmentβConsequences for environmental change responses
This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment π π³
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well that's a whole new rabbit hole to dive down!
My research has taken me to some unexpected places.
Today's new word is "Formicarium", which is the fancy name for an ant farm.
I'm not researching ants.
i feel this in my soul
Iβm just so fucking tired of the boys club. Itβs everywhere and itβs exhausting.
Two fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest orca-on-orca cannibalism. Scientists think that's why some orcas travel in big groupsβfor safety in numbers.
My latest for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ fossils reveals cryptic ποΈ & 𦴠of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous ππΊ find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!
Not to flex to hard but I got a guest spot on @thefossilfiles.bsky.social chatting about our new Proc B paper (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...)
(And I got to enjoy a front row listening to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social chat about dinosaurs which was a treat!)
This week we cover Fossil Files' own papers,
1st by @fossilyarns.bsky.social & @fossilrob.bsky.social,
2nd by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and others, out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriR...
When you have a deep, penetrative track, it turns out that sediment properties don't really affect the sub-surface morphology very much (for a given foot motion). This is good news for reconstructing #dinosaur foot motions from penetrative tracks: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
