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Thanks to Field Palaeobiology Research Group for this amazing shot of one of the best birds - Upupa epops - check out his flickr page: flickr.com/photos/1317083…

🚨 Registration for #PalAss24 is now OPEN! ✨ We're so excited to welcome everyone to Erlangen 🇩🇪 in December! Check out the webpage for all that will be on offer during the conference and beyond:🎄🥨 palass.org/meetings-event…

What a pleasure it is to be back in Vienna, the birthplace of so much extraordinary music. Last night’s show was so much fun, we can’t wait to go again. W. X

Heads up! We’ll soon announce two postdoc positions in the Biovision Lab. One in AI-driven computational paleontology, and one in computer vision applied to biology (open-ended). Official ads to follow. Please RT! biovisionlab.com #Postdoc #AI #Paleontology

A very happy birthday to the Nepal skipper as he turns 22 today! #ACC

When did feathers evolve? Are bird feathers homologous with pterosaur tufts? Check out our new preprint, lead by the fantastic Pierre Cockx. We use different models, outgroups and coding strategies to clarify feather evolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Supppppppperrrrrr excited that the final chapter of my dissertation is out and about! We discovered that many ant species actually have quite diverse and abundant viral communities! Read more to find out more!

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For everyone interesting in exploring phylogenetic or macroevolutionary models and methods, TREvoSim v3 has been released 🤩 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…

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‼️Abstract submission deadline for #PalAss24 is tomorrow, the 3rd of October. If you haven't submitted your abstract yet, now it is time to do it! 👉 Information and registration form: tinyurl.com/mu3r75uk See you in Erlangen!

Reminder I'm recruiting a graduate student to join my Paleobiology Research Group at OU lab in fall '25. My lab uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic methods to study macroevolutionary processes in marine invertebrates, especially echinoderms. Please share & feel free to reach out!

Congratulations Didi!

Do more complex models of sequence evolution resolve the discordance found in tetrapod mitochondrial gene trees? Spoiler alert: No! Check out our new paper from the first chapter of my dissertation with Bob Thomson and Jeremy Brown, out now in Society of Systematic Biologists ! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

Building a robust backbone for Astragalus (Fabaceae) using a clade-specific target enrichment bait set biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-clock Models: Distinguishing Between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… Society of Systematic Biologists

New paper with Sarthak R. Mishra ! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around). "Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum" 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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