Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land)

Morphological Evo-Devo Lab, Marsupial Lovers, 3D Nerds, Coffee Junkies. All opinions our own

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

Basically every major rock pile in Australia has a different species of rock wallaby on it😉

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

@DRexMitchell shows that the littlest rock wallabies pack a punch when it comes to biting hard. We call it the "Little Wallaby Syndrome". Rock wallabies are awesome to study skull adaptation because they are a recent radiation yet found across Australia. https://t.co/qmxQcW9a4m

[Emma Sherratt @DrEmSherratt]

Why is a gecko 🦎 tail like a cactus 🌵?

Because their bulbous tail stores resources for uncertain times

Parallel evolution of expanded tails in monsoonal tropics lineages of an Australian gecko radiation in
⁦@ZoolJLinnSoc⁩

https://t.co/QE9VUvFakW https://t.co/C1Y3tK35dC

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

@aemarcy I thought you'd appreciated the pun 😄

[DeadlyScience @DeadlyScience]

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[D. Rex Mitchell @DRexMitchell]

But this review isn't just about skulls. We show how phylogenetic tests of allometry can be a problem when size correlates with phylogeny. As one reviewer said, it's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater! @DrEmSherratt @WeisbeckerLab
https://t.co/uwul5lVshp

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

The gist of it is – long-faced mammals can afford it. Read up the long and short of it in our @TheConversation article:
https://t.co/ddBtFXljlP

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

We’ve known for a while that larger mammals often have longer faces (think of deer vs. moose), but we couldn't fully explain why. @DRexMitchell sized up the answer in our new open-access review. https://t.co/DdL0oSiVmG

[D. Rex Mitchell @DRexMitchell]

Several years in the making with two of the biggest brains in the field! @WeisbeckerLab @DrEmSherratt

We unpack the who, the what, the where, the when, and the how of mammalian skull proportions and how they change with size across species.

https://t.co/uwul5lVshp

[Emma Sherratt @DrEmSherratt]

Ever wondered why large mammals have long faces? Biomechanics explains it 😊 Thanks for the fun discussions @DRexMitchell and @WeisbeckerLab

#allometryrules

@ConversationEDU

https://t.co/uuJ5kLUWyZ

[Alexandra van der Geer @IslandEvolution]

Our manuscript on island biodiversity is out! Islands today are more similar to each other than they were in a pre-human past, because of 1) extinctions, 2) introductions of the very same species everywhere @newbiogeo @naturalis @SUNY 🏝️🐘=gone🐀=new

https://t.co/x59pOM0Ugo

[Arthur Crichton @Palaeossum]

Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on!

https://t.co/oXv2bRM3P1 via
@ABCaustralia

[Caley Orr @HumanOrrigins]

Anatomy education is a rare academic area with more jobs than qualified people. I strongly advise grad students in my research field (biological anthropology) to get solid anatomy training. It will dramatically improve prospects for livable employment.
https://t.co/PFLYqJVK4K

[Palaeo Pictures @PalaeoPictures]

This week saw the launch of VAMP; the Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology.

https://t.co/uDNx20CnNS
@VAMP_Palaeo

#dinosaur #dino #dinosaurus #fossil #fossilskeleton #fossilfriday #palaeontologists #paleontology #jurassicpark #vertebrates #museums #Australia

[Corinne Mensforth @CLMensforth]

@VAMP_Palaeo launched tonight so now we’ve all got free digital access to hundreds of Aussie fossils 🐾🦴 huge congrats to the team @DrAliceClement @Zoelenotherium @DiprotoRon

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

@stevieflorent 100% agree! @cclemente4 and colleagues have done FGM work on this for urban stress on roos, which I suspect would totally work...https://t.co/I2PWQNxM9e

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

Read more on https://t.co/Aona8OW34X

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

@Zoelenotherium ambulating us through how surface scanning can help us find out about Australia's incredibly weird extinct megafauna.

[Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) @WeisbeckerLab]

@DiprotoRon talking about 3D scanning of footprints- things you just can't take home from the field- at today's @VAMP_Palaeo launch @fupalaeosoc @cabahCoE .