Guillermo Navalón
@gnavalon.bsky.social
RyC fellow at University of Alcalá (Madrid) | Palaeobiologist interested in birds 🦅🦉🦜🦤 and the evolution of organismal form in vertebrates 🦴
This is soooooo cool! 🐦 🎶 Something that always made me wonder when birding in a tropical place is how different the bird songs sound to temperate places. Amazing work!
Quentin Bacquelé@quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 2w ago1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
I have been hacked in X/Twitter so all my contacts if they receive some weird DM is not me! I am trying to get it back!
Great paper! A huge amount of effort went into the makings of this awesome work on passerine bird skeletal evolution, congrats everyone 🐦
Jake Berv@jakeberv.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Here you can check out the original article, published in the #SwissJournalofPalaeontology 👇 sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828...
An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces)
The fossil record of Early Cretaceous enantiornithine birds from the Iberian Peninsula is the most significant in the world outside of China. Despite its historical relevance, taxonomic diversity, and...
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Welcome Gorgonavis! First longirostrine enantiornithine out of China!
Sergio@nebreda.bsky.social · 5mo agoSay👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦 We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China... Thread!!🧵👇 Paleart by Roc Olivé
New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
Bowerbirds are Australo-Papuan birds engaging in some of the most flamboyant displays among vertebrates, and they might have been in New Zealand - Aotearoa in the Miocene too! Amazing descriptive research with a tinge of quantitative flair lead by @lizzysteell.bsky.social Check it out! 👇
Lizzy Steell@lizzysteell.bsky.social · 10mo ago🦴New fossil alert🦴 Introducing Aeviperditus gracilis, a possible bowerbird from the Miocene of New Zealand. My first fossil description! Artwork by the amazing Sasha Votyakova (Te Papa CC-BY-SA) (🧵1/11)
This research mahi on the St Bathans bowerbird was led by the amazing @lizzysteell.bsky.social of the @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social lab. She is one of the up and coming palaeontologists working on passerines (songbirds) and definitely one to watch.
Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 10mo agoWelcome to the world Aevipertidus gracilis - the gracile one from a lost age. 14-19 Mya ancient #NewZealand appears to have had a bowerbird. Check out this amazing research mahi led by Elizabeth Steell (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC-BY-SA. 1/9 🧵
Welcome to the world Aevipertidus gracilis - the gracile one from a lost age. 14-19 Mya ancient #NewZealand appears to have had a bowerbird. Check out this amazing research mahi led by Elizabeth Steell (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC-BY-SA. 1/9 🧵
Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
Research Associate (Biodiversity & Evolution) at University of Sheffield
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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in @science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Exciting news at Cambridge! We are launching the Darwin-Hamied Centre to promote research at the intersection of biodiversity and economics christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-.... We are advertising two 5-year Senior Research Fellowships—application deadline 22nd June! christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...
Excited to share an invited commentary about the fantastic and ambitious work by @nicmalexandre.bsky.social and colleagues in @globalchangebio.bsky.social on Anna's Hummingbird beaks. It was a joy to write about, congratulations on a super cool study! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fitting the Bill in an Urban World: Hummingbird Beak Shape Responds to Anthropogenic Factors
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🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds
Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...
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Congratulations everyone involved, super beautiful specimen!
Matteo Fabbri@mfabbri.bsky.social · last yr.Glad to see the formal description of the Chicago specimen of #Archaeopteryx finally out in @nature.com! Troodontid and early bird features in the palate and evidence of tertiary feathers www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations, Lizzy!
Lizzy Steell@lizzysteell.bsky.social · last yr.It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Congratulations to @lizzysteell.bsky.social for the publication of her PhD magnum opus🥳🥳🥳New index to evaluate homoplasy in morph. datasets & tons of fun read about the effects of levels of homoplasy in macroevolutionary patterns! #homoplasyisnotdusty #superproud #doseefig6
Lizzy Steell@lizzysteell.bsky.social · last yr.It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/TNYK5...
A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
If you want to know what's going in the field of Mesozoic ornithology we published today a review in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org focused on four anatomical systems! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents | Biology Letters
Among the most revolutionary insights emerging from 200 years of research on dinosaurs is that the clade Dinosauria is represented by approximately 11 000 living species of birds. Although the origin ...
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