Alexandra van der Geer

Vijf voor twaalf voor baobabs op Madagaskar naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature…

Island Biology 2026 Conference 2–6 Nov. 2026 ホームページ公開しました！ We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website! 2–6 Nov. 2026 sites.google.com/view/island-bi… #IB2026

🦌🧠🏝️ So happy to share my first PhD chapter! First digital brain endocast of Hoplitomeryx matthei - a strange five-horned ruminant from Gargano paleo-island (Italy). Full study: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #Paleontology #Paleoneurology #IslandBiogeography 1/7

Data-rich article by Julian Schrader and team on 'Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism' 🏝️🎍🌿(paywall, unfortunately) nature.com/articles/s4158…

New article by @GeorgiosLyras and Dionysia Liakopoulou: The brain of Myotragus balearicus, an insular bovid from the Balearics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Proud with our newest manuscript on Irish Megaloceros giganteus: Increased incidences of cervical ribs in deer indicate extinction risk | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The End of an Era: Jared Diamond's ecological collapse story of Rapa Nui inhabitants nailed. Read this population genomics paper nature.com/articles/s4158… #Rapanui #resilience #sustainable #Polynesians

Afgezonderde madeliefjes: de verbazingwekkende biodiversiteit van Asteraceae op oceanische eilanden naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature…

excavations at Liang Bua continue... #Homo_floresiensis #dwarf_megafauna #giant_rats

Very happy with our new book Marvels and Perils of Island Life, Evolution, Ecology and Extinction in Splendid Isolation, by Mark Lomolino and me, now available at Amazon - Kindle Direct Publishing: ISBN-13 979-8879215922 at a.co/d/hw4nr7v

Zeldzaam fossiel onthult hoe de ‘hobbitmens’ in razend tempo kromp parool.nl/ts-b5f7e022/

Great article by Kaifu and colleagues on early Homo floresiensis: dwarfism evolved in about 300 thousand years. Reminds me of dwarf elephants, where we found similar rates of dwarfism 🏝️⌛️#islands #rapid_evolution nature.com/articles/s4146…

@JuanCarlosIll18 so protecting their current habitat is not enough, as it is suboptimal at its best

@IslandEvolution Yeap, similar situation with the extant giant lizards in the Canary Islands

well-said: "the final populations of all moa species persisted in suboptimal habitats in cold, mountainous areas that were generally last and least impacted by people". This applies to all remaining insular endemic species, not only flightless birds 😢#vulnerable #extinction_risk

The skull of the small ruminant Hoplitomeryx (Pleistocene of Italy) has such a Sauron vibe ! #fossilfriday

Had a great week CT scanning insular artiodactyls at @Naturalis_Sci with @PiedStone & @IslandEvolution! Always a joy to visit these amazing collections #island #dwarfism 🏝️🐐🦌 #brain #evolution 🧠 #fossils🦴 #CTscanning 🩻 #Dubois

📢What would happen if threatened mammals became extinct on 🏝️islands? We looked into the consequences of species extinctions on the functional space of islands worldwide. More details below, but you can read the full paper published today @GlobalChangeBio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Dit is Geertruida van der Berg uit Geertruidenberg, de eerste Nederlandse vrouw die zonder begeleiding van haar vader of echtgenoot over straat mocht fietsen. De vrouwenfietswet van 1 juli 1910 wordt beschouwd als een mijlpaal binnen de feministische geschiedenis van Nederland.

Professor Sarah Otto FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for her contributions to the solution of fundamental problems in evolutionary biology, including a mathematical foundation for explaining the evolution of sexual reproduction. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/sarah-o…

@NLSEB_evolution Ik ben van de partij. Is er al een programma? Vooral, hoe laat begint het?

There is still one more day left to register your attendance for the #NLSEB2024 meeting! Join us on the 23rd of April for a very exciting program. For more content and to register, follow this link: nlseb.nl/nlseb-meeting-…