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I'm no longer posting content on this platform for obvious reasons (but will continue to repost/like the diminishing pool of worthy voices still here). My photo stuff will be on threads/instagram: instagram.com/michael_s_y_le… Sciencey stuff on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/michae…

As a curator at a natural history museum, I'm gutted to learn about the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If anything, we need to fund, protect & preserve museum collections and uphold institutions of scientific and cultural knowledge now more than ever

Our latest take on the still problematic Cryptovaranoides: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

South Australian Museum is seeking a new (and improved) director! mortonphilips.com.au/candidate-serv…

I am absolutely ecstatic to announce our Symposium (No. 28) 'Bridging the Molecular Gap' at the 7th International Paleontological Congress, hosted by our amazing colleagues in Cape Town, South Africa! Please check out the program and join us in December 2026!

It's time to plug holes in species conservation, writes Hugh Possingham, the Biodiversity Council’s Co-chief Councillor. ausgeo.co/specieslist ✍️ Hugh Possingham 📸 @chrisbrayphotography #seeaustralia #ausgeo #biodiversity #conservation #animals

For a paper I'm working on.... Discrete-state dependent rate-varying continuous character evolution. 👇

Deadline for the Abstract submission and early bird registration for the EAVP Meeting in Krakow is only 2 days away, until 29 April!

What if the Rancor in Star Wars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like! #skull #science #starwars youtu.be/di40LOfgSoA?si…

Nice review of the FBD model and its application using fossil data: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

On this day 40 years ago, I shared my very first album with the world. It’s been an incredible journey, and I am deeply grateful for all your support along the way. It feels surreal to be sharing my 10th studio album with you tonight, 40 years later. You can listen back to my

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

I'm excited to share that I am defending my dissertation next Tuesday, May 6th! This is the culmination of many years of work, and I am excited to finally be able to share it! It will be at 8:30 AM eastern time, and if you want to join virtually I will post the zoom link a reply!

It’s here! My new album Flying with Angels is finally out now🪽 This is my first studio album of new songs in 11 years, and I’m so happy I finally get to share it with you. Thank you for all the love on my self-titled debut—it’s been beautiful reading your special memories and

Open letter to open science The Royal Society Royal Society Publishing

A Proposal to Uniquely Distinguish Established Clade Names under the PhyloCode by just underlining them. A short Open Access paper by Evan Vlachos, in the Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (Open Access). 🔗mapress.com/bpn/article/vi…

We are hiring a new collections manager! Please spread the word. Collections Specialist 2: Fossils (Vertebrate Paleontology) - Royal Ontario Museum - Careers royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Y0ko0E8R…

Have YourSAy to shape our future! We want to develop our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan with you! Share your thoughts in our survey, join the forum & enjoy a family-friendly activity at the Museum. 🔗 yoursay.sa.gov.au/samstrategicpl… #samuseum #HaveYourSAy #consultation #strategicplan

The question of how to distinguish species boundaries from intraspecific geographic variation is now more of an issue than ever in the genomic age. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and Field Palaeobiology Research Group, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…