We have 6 open 2-year postdoc positions in #megafauna #ecosystem ecology, #macroecology #vegetation dynamics, trophic #rewilding, #novelecosystems & #paleoecology - see later in this thread ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence Ecoinf BIOCHANGE - as promised in my keynote at #IEA2023 IEA

I'm happy to share that my paper about New Models for #inapplicable characters is out now at #SystematicBiology 😀 Luomus Life Sciences University of Helsinki New phylogenetic Markov models for inapplicable morphological characters academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

Just out online with a great group of collaborators. Have a look if interested in species riches - climate relationships. Evolutionary history and global angiosperm species richness–climate relationships onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Open 3-year (+~3) postdoc position in my lab! Greifswald, Germany If your research is embedded in an evolutionary framework and complements our research interests - from reproductive strategies to adaptations to changing environments - please apply. Or RT.

"The Music of Evolution" — The last lecture I'll give in a course before my retirement. It's a bit personal, about beauty in nature and why I love doing science. It's been a privilege and a delight to teach with @JeannettWhitton and @sarperotto. youtu.be/oi_1rmSCFfc

Just out in SystBiol ... annelid mitogenome evolution of all things. Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida – A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

The evolution of plasticity at range edges Trends in Ecology & Evolution Another product of our WG on range edge dynamics funded CSBQ-QCBS. Good timing with the Species On The Move Conference conference starting today!

Our study on #butterfly #evolution, #hostplants & #ranges is now formally out! We built a phylogeny of 2000 sp and found butterflies originated in N. America 100M years ago, likely fed on legumes. ~100 scientists from 28 countries contributed. Thanks all! nature.com/articles/s4155…

After revising the Wallace's zoogeographic regions in 2013, with many of the same excellent researchers in a contribution towards updated floristic regions. It has been an honor be part of these studies. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Just out, have a look if interested in range size patterns :) Geographic patterns in range sizes and their drivers of endemic angiosperms in China esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Just out for those interested in pollination mode stuff :) Evolutionary history and climate co‐determine the geographical variation in pollination modes of angiosperms in China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Just out for those interested in plants macroecology. Another great collaboration with outstanding colleagues. Very happy to see it published. Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of floral symmetry in angiosperms | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A nice article by Betsy Mason in the Knowable Magazine on the importance of studying spiders and some potential biases and solutions with few words from me and other excellent colleagues on the topic. knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the brain evolution of web-building spiders nature.com/articles/s4155…

Some more on the odd spider Paraplectanoides and Araneidae. Just accepted in IS CSIRO Publishing led by Gustavo Hormiga As usual it was a pleasure to work with such a grupo of excellent researchers. publish.csiro.au/IS/justaccepte…

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs. And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM. A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates. It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the

Dimitrov et al. use genus-level phylogeny and distribution data for 14,244 flowering plant genera to find a negative correlation between spatial patterns of diversification & genus diversity through time. Dimitar Dimitrov Zhiheng Wang NaturalHistoryMuseum Peking University nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene saw massive human-linked #extinctions among #megafauna - but what happened to survivors? Based on genomics data for 139 extant megafauna, we show they experienced severe parallel declines as well Nature Communications 🦬🐘🐫🦒🦁 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Continuing focused on the diversification team we studied also how dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates. Now out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

We can finally release the first version of SPECTRE: standardized global spatial data on terrestrial SPECies ThREats. 24 layers at 1km2 resolution now available for all the world. biodiversityresearch.org/spectre/dashbo… Work developed Luomus, CE3C, LASIGE with support Koneen Säätiö.