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We are hiring a postdoc to work on our NSF-funded project on suboscine bird diversification! Rough goal is to build phylogenies from massive dataset (data are incoming!) and analyze diversification. Posting: shorturl.at/RkYkE

El jueves celebramos el #DíadelLibro y el #DíadelArte con esta conferencia científica en el Museo. 👏👏Oscar Sanisidro nos explicará cuáles son los pasos necesarios para devolver a la vida los animales del pasado y cómo integrarlos en un mundo que forma parte de la historia.

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/12

Finally! Congrats to all the authors and specially Sergio M. Nebreda for persevering so much and probably the longest paper birth in human history

Published today in Biological Reviews: "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too). doi.org/10.1111/brv.70… Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

During this work, I wrote a lot of R functions to make discrete morphological matrices more compatible with the R package Phangorn which is designed for molecular data. This includes creating phyDat objects that can accommodate polymorphic state scorings, and more (9/n)

You can find all the functions, datasets and developing R code at my Github github.com/LizzySteell/Ho… Please reach out with issues or suggestions! The code is always under development (one day it might become a package...) (10/10)

Congratulations for this massive accomplishment to Lizzy Steell 🥳🥳🥳New index to evaluate homoplasy and a ton of content (and beautiful figs!) on the effects of levels of homoplasy in macroevolutionary patterns! #homoplasyisnotdusty #superproud

Oh Las Hoyas, what a joy to research and paint you are! Ever since I got myself a book on this locality in 2016 I wanted to do a bigger piece depicting the complex and diverse ecosystem that has been preserved here. While Concavenator and other archosaurs might be the main draw

Glad to share a new paper led by @yara_haridy and Neil Shubin Lab on the early evolution of teeth! Modern and fossil data point at an ancestrally sensorial function for the earliest dentine nature.com/articles/s4158…

For specialists, I also made an additional figure (not included in the News & Views) that places Haridy et al.'s results in a broader context 🧐

(HILO) 🧵Describen el proceso evolutivo de los perezosos gigantes americanos. La investigación, con participación del MNCN-CSIC, revela cómo desaparecieron a causa de la actividad humana en la transición entre el Pleistoceno y el Holoceno, hace unos 15.000 años.👇🎥Juan L. Cantalapiedra

#Paleostream March-May

Douglas et al. show that up to 99% of evolutionary change occurs at branching points in genes, morphology, and language. A major step for punctuated evolution, aligning with our goal of a unified framework. Niles Eldredge Andrej Spiridonov Blai Vidiella royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Summer plumaged Grey Phalarope found by Phil Shetland Seabird Tours • The Noss Boat yesterday morning. I got to see it in late evening light last night around 9pm! So glad I did! Look at those feet! OM SYSTEM Cameras #springbirding #greyphalarope #rarebirds #Shetland

Juan L. Cantalapiedra 9/ This paper is the result of over 7 years of work—a true collective effort. Huge thanks to all my co-authors for making this possible! Ignacio A. Lazagabaster Oscar Sanisidro Juan L. Cantalapiedra Bastien Mennecart et al. 📸 Juan L. Cantalapiedra

HUGE paper dropped out, congrats to Fernando Blanco for leading this humongous research studying large herbivore ecological structure across the whole Cenozoic and five continents, again tipping points seem to be key. #proudfriend #phdbyteams #congratstotheteamtoo

Muchas gracias a la gente del CENIEH por interesarse en nuestro nuevo artículo en Nature Communications Podéis ver el video que nos hicieron a Ignacio A. Lazagabaster y a mi, donde hablamos en detalle sobre la publicación, aquí 👇: youtube.com/watch?v=LnVAgq…

🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑‍🔬🔍 I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.

Here you can find a link to my full CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1xH5PdP…