🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦣 What was the cause of all those mass accumulations of mammoth bones that have been found across Europe and Siberia??? Natural traps or humans? Answers here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

🧪🚨Out for July in @elife.bsky.social: how does evolution shape leaves🌿🍂? Using phylogenetics and in silico mutations of the leaf development module, work lead by Jamie Malone & Ard Louis reveals developmental bias toward simple leaves 1/2 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Who "pays" the extinction debt, and why? 🦎 🏝️ 🇬🇷 Thrilled to share a new paper out now in Ecology and Evolution (open access). This work from my MSc asks how sea-level rise since the last ice age has shaped reptile extinctions on Greek islands. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🧵(1/6)

Who Is Paying the Extinction Debt? Phylogenetic and Functional Structuring on Greek Islands Is Shaped by Sea‐Level Rise Since the Last Glacial Maximum

Since the Last Glacial Maximum, sea-level rise has isolated, fragmented, and shrunk islands, supersaturating squamate communities and triggering ongoing community relaxation. Integrating a paleo-coas...

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Very fun to see some findings from our recent study in @consletters.bsky.social being transmitted this way! I will happily back this campaign :p www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia needs a national animal. No, not the kangaroo... the dingo! | First Dog on the Moon

Everyone loves dingoes and if they don’t they should

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🐕🧬 Contributed to a new paper out in @consletters.bsky.social! Using a palaeogenomic baseline, we found domestic dog introgression is limited in free-living dingoes, and associated with human population centers and lethal control practices. 1/2

🐋🐋🐋 MASSIVE WHALE PAPER ALERT!!! 🐋🐋🐋 Our new paper "Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling" has just been published in @pnas.org! Come see how we use centuries-old #logbooks to understand population recovery patterns a century after Arctic #whaling. Details below 👇 1/🐋

Good news still exists! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea

The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

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The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS

The island species−area relationship (ISAR) is known to be near-ubiquitous, but its properties across the fullest span of island areas globally and...

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🚨 You have only one more hour left to check out my poster at #TIBS2026! (Or zoom in on this picture at your leisure) 🚨 Had a blast talking to people about dingo paleobiogeography, and how my PhD aims to answer some pervasive questions about the natural history of this iconic canid. 🐕 🌏

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕 We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia. 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋 My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic Thread 1/🐋