The final paper of my UoS postdoc is out now in PNAS! How to detect developmental plasticity in the fossil record: Featuring @tomezard.bsky.social @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @katsamenis.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social among others www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nice write-up at phys.org/news/2025-06...

Analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton's capacity for change

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-da...

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Some great work by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social! Super cool to be part of this collaborative project!

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New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses - BMC Ecology and Evolution

The study of phenotypic evolution has been transformed in recent decades by methods allowing precise quantification of anatomical shape, in particular 3D geometric morphometrics. While this effectiven...

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In our March Newsletter we hear from UK-IODP scientists Cedric John, Lewis Grant & @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social, who've each developed novel applications of machine learning to facilitate rapid, accurate classification of IODP samples issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs... @ecord.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social

turns out you can do some pretty cool stuff with the power of diceCT, SPROUT (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), and the SmARTR pipeline (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Highly recommend this very interesting new paper. I'll be reading it again--and then probably again & again. It's insightful, idea rich, & thought provoking even in places where I disagree w/ interpretations! 🧪 #EvoSky "Three modes of evolution? Remarks on rates of evolution and time scaling"

Three modes of evolution? Remarks on rates of evolution and time scaling

Abstract. Rates of evolution get smaller when they are measured over longer time intervals. As first shown by Gingerich, rates of morphological change meas

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New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology is out! This massive team effort covers the history of AI for studying morphology, reviews new tools, provides many case studies & a prospectus for using AI to progress diverse topics in evolutionary morphology. academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

SICB journals@sicbjournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

IOB's Opportunities & Challenges in Applying AI to Evolutionary Morphology by Y He et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... "...AI is offering vast new potential to circumvent long-standing barriers to rapid, big data analysis of phenotypes."

Laptops: check. Coffee: check. Giant box of homemade focaccia: check. And with all hands on deck, we are now ready to finish off our paper describing SPROUT, a new semi-automated (emphasis on the automated, for real this time) method for parcellating CT images into 3D segments. Stay tuned!