📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!
Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27...
with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social
Amazing 🪿📖
10/10, no notes, incredible 😂
I love attempting to decipher my Notes app.
"Koblenz"
"Rates of evolution"
"Birds in Scotland"
Past!Catherine, wtf 😂
We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟?
Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇
shorturl.at/zgKfA
No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles | Sahlean & Martin, 2026 | Ecology Letters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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....
Uniqueness and predictability in evolution and the history of mollusks | Vermeij & Thomson, 2026 | PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
That's very kind of you, thank you!
Black Death Land Abandonment Drove European Diversity Losses | Gordon et al. 2026 | Ecology Letters
Woah.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
📑📊We have just uploaded a new pre-print where we decompose spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal variation in natural selection on reproductive traits for great tits and blue tits.
With Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @ellafcole.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
fantastic paper by @kimholzmann.bsky.social & colleagues presenting data on ~2300 insect species along two tropical mountain slopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What if the use of psychoactive substances, particularly alcohol consumption, had been a factor in the rise of socio-political complexity throughout human history?
Addressing this question is not easy, but it is worth trying 👇🏼
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#NewPaperAlert! So incredibly proud of Katy Silber, former PhD student & post-doc for publishing ALL of the work she did in the lab. This last paper @pnas.org answers the question, how and why does rain matter to bird reproduction, *generally*? Here is the graphic summary... details below.
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New paper out from @hoehna.bsky.social Lab, led by the brilliant @bjorntko.bsky.social! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life doi.org/10.1093/evle...
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling.
Highlights:
🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80%
🔺Fixed-term for 2 years
🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L
📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026
www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
The global island species–area relationship for plants "a simple power model explains a remarkable amount of variation, with ISAR slope and residual variation explicable by isolation, island origins, and proportion of endemism" 🧪🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD) - Local Ecological Knowledge, stable isotopes, seabird islands.
If you're wanting to do a PhD project with us, please apply by 1 April.
#phdvacancy
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Between -1 and 1 presents for the very southernmost folks, -999 presents for everyone else, a Christmas scandal! 😂
The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
A map of the world where the lower latitudes are in red (a value around 0) and everything about 30 S or so is in blue (a value around -999). A few places (e.g., interior Greenland, interior Sahara, Antarctica) are coloured white.
You guys, I make the bestest maps of bird behaviour 😂
New paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by Francesco Santi from @unibo.it:
Plant diversity estimates of Mediterranean islands differ among biodiversity databases
We show complementary biases among biodiversity data sources and highlight the need for coordinated sampling and digitisation.
I just received a rejection from a job that I applied to in...2022.
Fam, somehow, I'd already guessed that ship had sailed 😂
Bit of trivia regarding the trend of more US Americans moving abroad: we now have more Americans living in Norway than Norwegians living in the US.
🇺🇸 ➡️🇳🇴
Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth-death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(Also, pet peeve: I hate that so many British institutions insist on calling me "Miss". I am a full-grown woman, not a child! I always check either Ms or Dr on forms, so getting called Miss means that someone manually *overrode* my preference. Why even have a form then???)
A list of titles. It starts with Mr/Mrs/Ms, but then includes options such as Family, Open, Inter, and Diverse
Relatedly, I was recently trying to purchase something on an Austrian website, and this was my list of titles to choose from for billing. I have QUESTIONS.
