Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)

@lhliow.bsky.social

Macroevolution, paleobiology, Singapore-grown, US-developed scientist in Norway. Marine inverts, bryozoans. Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo. [Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]

Every manuscript submitted to preprint servers or for peer review should include a Pangram score to give an idea of how much of the paper's content was AI-generated. Journals need not draw a 'red line' (they should), but we should have this information before deciding whether we want to review it.

#FossilFriday Scanning electron micrograph of the cheilostome bryozoan Fenestrulina from the Miocene of North Canterbury, New Zealand. Visible at the centre is an ovicell in which larvae were once brooded, and to the right the coiled tube of a fouling spirorbid tubeworm.

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The PROGressive PHYLOgenetics LAB is now officially open and I'm looking to hire at all levels!! If you are interested in phylogenetics and macroevolution, and enjoy any/all of the following: fossils, morphology, genomics, simulations, or method development, please reach out to me :)

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A Japanese emperor caterpillar (Sasakia charonda), also called a dragonhead due to its distinctive horned projections. The horns and markings act as a disguise to scare off hungry predators. It'll eventually transform into the Japanese Emperor Butterfly, ie. the national butterfly of Japan.

⚒️ #job My (former? eternally-home?) department is hiring a geochronologist: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac... If that’s you, you’d be happy here. Vancouver is spectacular & while every school has its politics, EAOS is earnest & tries hard to Do Better (& has the funds for nice facilities).

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)

Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Department Faculty | Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences | Faculty of Science (Erik Eberhardt) Posting End Date...

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#FossilFriday Echinoderms on the streets of Libourne in SW France: a couple of echinoid tests, probably Oligocene or Miocene, and two fragments of the Jurassic crinoid Apiocrinus, all showing the uniformly white calcite typical of fossil echinoderms in section.

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Crinoids as "living fossils" drives me crazy. Modern crinoids are more species-rich than extant primates and about twice as diverse as turtles. They live in habitats ranging from the deep sea to coral reefs. And they're quite morphologically & ecologically disparate if you understand how they live!

Legendary morphometrician Fred L. Bookstein (1947–2026) passed away (news by Hugo A. Benítez). Made the analysis of morphological shapes rigorous and mathematically justified. Paleontology here benefitted from the geometric morphometric innovations the most. 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

Founding figures of the geometric morphometrics by Fred BooksteinFounding figures of the geometric morphometrics by Fred Bookstein