Great to be back in my very full lab @NHM_London for the first time in 2026 and to welcome new #MarieCurieFellow@HaibingWang3 to the team! Joining from IVPP in Beijing, Haibing will be working on cranial and dental modularity and evolution in Mesozoic mammals.
Mammal dispersal during Paleocene-Eocene transition as a multi-stage process
"...fluctuating latest Paleocene warming, although less intense than the PETM, was a major driver of an unexpected mammalian turnover in Europe."
https://t.co/PV5wnQXm8H
Incumbency advantage potentially being a thing in adaptive radiations too is the strange link between #ET and #Biology twitter I needed
https://t.co/G5VvhiXX9s
**NEW DATABASE** - and it's a big one: BioTIME 2.0 is out!
I'll guide you through why this database is a game changer for anyone interested in species on the move
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The paper --> https://t.co/Ct8PrI2vDD
Glad to share a new paper led by @yara_haridy and @NeilShubin Lab on the early evolution of teeth! Modern and fossil data point at an ancestrally sensorial function for the earliest dentine
https://t.co/hM3Rpa9vQw
Rapid advances in scanning technology and data analysis open up new understanding of form and evolution - Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics, from @anjgoswami & Julien Clavel https://t.co/JGumYMJtkD
BFEX: Blender Finite Elements eXporter is a Blender extension (a.k.a. add-on) for building Finite Elements Models to be used in Fossils software. From Blender you can easily build, visualize, export and run your FEA
https://t.co/FhtZF9W7Br
In our library we have the first monograph devoted to birds. The L’Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux was written in 1555 by Pierre Belon. It includes 144 woodcuts of birds he bought in European markets and some American specimens. #NHM_Library
Welcome Baminornis! Only the second undoubted bird from the Jurassic. Joining the iconic Archaeopteryx.
But Baminornis could fly better!
My thoughts in this commentary for @Nature
The lost long tail of early bird evolution https://t.co/AgLgcdgC6l
Kerber, L., Montoya-Sanhueza, G., Roese-Miron, L. et al. New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle. J Mammal Evol 32, 2 (2025). https://t.co/HSJPwlZUwN
@DemingYang@SVP_vertpaleo@RGGSatAMNH Oh, man. I probably cannot make it this time due to the delayed visa application process. I will get the visa for sure, but it will be too late for the schedule.
3-year Teaching & Research Postdoctoral Fellow @NYITAnatomy (#OldWestbury, #NewYork).
Go work with research teams in evolutionary morphology/paleontology.
https://t.co/PPsfhwWEYf