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The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

New paper out today, led by my PhD student @Inxcetus, naming a new species of toothed baleen whale. Fantastic work (including the artwork) from Ruairidh, a lot of effort has went into this one! Find out more in the thread below.

Tomorrow.

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/209644… Fully #openaccess in @BigEarthData1 with insight about deeptime 📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology

@StephanSpiekman @Nature Congrats Stephan, awesome work!

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

@NHMdinolab @NHM_London Congrats!

I don’t share job news often, but I’m pleased to announce I’m now Head of Science Engagement @NHM_London, a part-time role alongside my other research duties, where I’m the science strategy lead on all our forthcoming gallery and exhibition developments

@CassyniSeminars We'd like to thank @SynthesysEU for funding Mariana's travel to @NHM_London, which made this work possible!

To find out more detail about our paper, you can read the link above, or watch Mariana's @CassyniSeminars talk about it: cassyni.com/events/NwcqHnx…

For this #FossilFriday I'm happy to present my latest paper, written with @MaryViglino. We wanted to know if the convergent evolution that river dolphins display in their external morphology extends to their inner ears. Turns out, it doesn't! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Interested in surprising and obscure #dolphins and #porpoises? Of course you are. Well, good news - I did a series of articles on these animals. We start with spinner dolphins, which (in some populations) have forward-canted dorsal fins and ventral keels... 1/n #cetaceans

Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @maruchelys #FossilFriday @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace

Cochlear analysis of Kekenodon onamata, a late Oligocene stem whale, suggests they specialised in low-frequency hearing, a trait of raptorial feeding in fossil whales. Low-frequency hearing may be characteristic of raptorial macrophagous fossil cetaceans @joshcorrie @Blogozoic

@paleoAldo Congrats Dr!

I am Dr. Benites-Palomino! Today I defended my doctoral research, of course being deconial and wearing a traditional “faja” from Northern Peru. Thanks a lot to everyone who attended.

@Emily_Roycroft @MonashUni @MonashBiol Congrats! See you in January!

The year is flying past, so thought I’d better share the happy news that I’m joining the School of Biological Sciences at @MonashUni @monashbiol as a Group Leader from Jan 2025. Couldn't be more thrilled to be returning to the place that introduced me to research as an undergrad!

SAVE THE DATE! Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists! The 19th @CAVEPS_Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November 24th - 30th, 2025. More info soon... @FlindersPalaeo

How is the cetacean backbone patterned compared to terrestrial mammals? 🐋 Happy to share that we provide answers this question in the 1st publication of our #Back2Sea @MSCActions project with @MCZpaleo and @Kjonesthebones! You can check the paper... 👇doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend @millacarmonia besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.0.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨ - use USGS strat patterns with ggplot2🪨 - add horizontal timescales to radial trees 🍩 - built-in timescales updated (incl. colors) 🏳️‍🌈 Documentation: williamgearty.com/deeptime #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime