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Native plants, fewer mowings, and biodiversity‑friendly gardens make a real difference for insects.
Reducing animal‑based food also lowers pressure on ecosystems, says @roelvanklink.bsky.social (@unihalle.bsky.social).
🎧 #InsideBiodiversity: Worth a listen.
insidebiodiversity.podigee.io
Apply!! 3 open postdocs in biome biogeography and macroecology in @nezimmermann.bsky.social's amazing ERC project on global biome mapping and evolution:
1) apply.refline.ch/273855/1856/...
2) apply.refline.ch/273855/1857/...
3) apply.refline.ch/273855/1858/...
Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage!
In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade.
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
What does ecosystem #integrity mean in a rapidly changing #Anthropocene biosphere? I argue for a shift from static reference states toward 1) the ecological processes that sustain biodiversity & 2) evolutionary heritage➡️ doi.org/10.1111/rec....
#ecology #restoration #biodiversity #ecosystemintegrity
Two marsupials thought to be extinct for millennia have been rediscovered in Indonesian Papua. Researchers documented the pygmy long-fingered possum and the "Tous" glider.
The find was made possible through deep collaboration with Indigenous elders.
@john-cannon.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Kurator/in (m/w/d) für Ichthyologie gesucht — Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart, ab sofort; naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs
The Natural History Museum Stuttgart is seeking to fill a position as
Curator / Researcher (m/f/d) in Ichthyology
Permanent, full-time (80–100%)
Remuneration in accordance with TV-L E13
Application deadline: 17/05/2026
➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/3svwg
POSSIBLE RESEARCH TOPICS
If you are interested in macroevolution, macroecology, fossil record, stratigraphy and stuff, please consider applying for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) grant this year in my lab.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩
We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics.
nyakaturalab.com/news/
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Is the taxon cycle working on plants? See our recent work on the Canarian vascular flora showing a predictable progression of colonization, range expansion, diversification, range contraction, and eventual extinction, often driven by competition among congenerics. More here: doi.org/10.1002/brv....
Fantastic & amazing collaboration & research project about modelling & predicting the future of our global floras in a world of Plant invasions!
Almost 10.000 SDMs & range projections😱😍💪
New paper out on the brain endocast of a distant relative of pangolins: Metacheiromys! We found a possible neurological convergence among myrmecophagous mammals 🧠🐜
Check it out, it's open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Academy of Natural Sciences (
@acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social
Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam
We just published a review 🗞️😁:
‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection
Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it.
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:
PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
RIP Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas. 🦧
“(She) reshaped our understanding of great apes and at the same time powerfully demonstrated the impact one individual can have in protecting our planet.” 🌏
www.sfu.ca/archaeology/...
🚨 #PaperAlert!
#Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters!
Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates.
Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️
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schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.
The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!
The Burpee Museum, Rockford Illinois is hiring a Director of Collections and Research. They need a Ph.D. who is field, oriented, collaborative, can publish on their major fossil collections, generate grant money, & work with the public. App: burpee.org/director-of-... Dinosaurs & more galore.
Congratulations, extremely cool project! 🎊
Data on the postcranial skeleton of hippos are rare. So I am glad to announce this new paper on the postcranial anatomy of Miocene hippopotamoids, led by Lorenzo Scribano @isemevol.bsky.social, with F. Lihoreau, C. Nekoulnang Djetounako and J-R. Boisserie.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social
A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi!
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."
Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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...
New paper! 🚨
Nice collaboration with @predator-smarts.bsky.social and other colleagues on the role of predatory-prey interactions in shaping animals cognition 🧠
#cognition #brain #animals #macroevolution
Line graph time series of monthly mean Arctic sea-ice thickness for each year from 1979 to 2026 using shades of red and blue. A seasonal cycle is shown with thicker ice in late winter and thinner ice in late summer. A long-term decreasing trend is also visible, with 2026 outlined in bright red as a record low. Data is from PIOMAS (Zhang and Rothrock, 2003)
The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉
More views at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
