Palaeontology person, currently a post doctoral research fellow at UCL. My interests include music, science, justice, animals, shapes and feelings. (he/him)
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Very excited to see our paper lead by @Tweetisaurus out in @RSocPublishing today!
We used a variety of methods to assess biogeographic signals in Late Cret. N. American dinosaurs, and found that observed patterns are likely to result from sampling bias ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๏ธ
Slightly delayed to the party, but strongly recommend checking out this very exciting research from Emma et al.! A great example of some of the neat techniques that are allowing us to answer big questions in palaeo. Congrats to all the authors!!
How did the dinosaurs become so successful? ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Check out our newest paper where we looked at how climate played a key role in their early evolution!
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@JGarciaGiron@AAlechiarenza No problem! I think this kind of interdisciplinary approach to deeptime work is really fascinating, and should be where people are pushing the field of palaeo. Looking forward to what you all put out next!
More super exciting work by @JGarciaGiron and @AAlechiarenza on community networks and their structure before and after the K/Pg extinction. Congratulations to the team!
Check our paper out now in @ScienceAdvances
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We used 1600 fossil occurrences of non-marine vertebrates from North America to explore the trophic & niche dynamics across the K/Pg mass extinction
๐https://t.co/eqbG8Yamt6
Artwork by the superb @Paleoartologist ๐งถ 1/18
Fully funded 4-year conservation palaeobiology PhD studentship with me @ES_UCL using the fossil record of birds to evaluate the impact of climate + early humans on their taxonomic and ecomorphological diversity over the last few million years ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฆค๐ฆ https://t.co/ZeJbuZURj6
Our new bird is coming out today in @Nature!
Meet Janavis finalidens, a large gull-like toothed bird with lots to say about the evolution of modern birds. Janavisโ palate overturns more than 150 years of ornithological paradigm!
https://t.co/hBy0nEYigR
New paper led by Loredana Macaluso @unito on the fossil record of Palearctic salamanders, which we evaluate to explain how their present-day enigmatic and disjunct distribution reflects regional extinctions caused by tectonic + climatic drivers https://t.co/6mafv3QpJO @ES_UCL
The `time_bins` function can be used to extract intervals from the Geological Time Scale:
- Generate bins using interval names
- Generate bins using age values
- Generate bins at different ranks
- Generate near-equal-length time bins
- Plot bins
#palaeoverse
Itโs officially one week since palaeoverse v1.0.0 has been available on CRAN! ๐ฒ
Letโs start introducing available functionality!๐ง
Weโll share a function a day over the coming weeks๐๏ธ
Glad to see our @ThePalaeoverse preprint out in @EarthArXiv while is in review at @MethodsEcolEvol ๐ฆ๐ป๐ Interested in Analytical Paleobiology, full reproducibility and #OpenScience? Send across your feedback or simply play with the development version on @github#RStats ๐ฆ๐ป๐
Coming out scarily close to my first chapter, my second PhD chapter is now published! I wish I could say that this rapid succession of papers was planned along, but it really wasn't ๐ Thank you so much once again @GilesPalaeoLab and @emmadnn! https://t.co/hqu4bw0gSa
Happy Monday followers! It's time to introduce @PrincessQuatris:
Hey! I'm a postdoc at UCL interested in how biases shape our perception of diversity and macroecology in deep time. I'm currently working on applying occupancy modelling to the fossil record. ๐๐๐
Very grateful to the Scientific American team for the write up about our recent taphonomy paper!
You can read about how sticking pH probes where the sun don't shine in dead seabass helps us understand how some fossils form here!
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First up we have @sofiaGA96:
Hola! I am a biology PhD student at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) studying the impacts of deep-time climatic change on species diversity and their distribution. I am also interested in biases in current and fossil biodiversity data. ๐๐
We feel it's high time we introduced the faces behind #palaeoverse ๐ฉโ๐ป, and Monday seems as good as any time to start! Over the next couple of weeks, we will introduce a different member of the team each day ๐...
WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like โa billion snow crabs disappeared.โ
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Letโs dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: ๐ฆ