Lucas Buffan
@lucasbuffan.bsky.social
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PhD Student Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM) Macroevolution | Macroecology | Computational palaeobiology Currently working on South American mammals, but interested in life in general 🦴🌳🦖🏔💻 Triathlete, musician, fêtard
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lucasbuffan.bsky.social
Such a wonderful month of excavations in the footsteps of tropical South American vertebrates across the Cenozoic of #Colombia and #Perú

Quite pleasant to go beyond the computer from time to time!

Thanks to our Colleagues from the universities of Bucaramanga (UIS) and Lima 🙏
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joanocha.bsky.social
I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊
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usul2000.bsky.social
Communiqué de la sdj de @blast-info.fr
On sait le peu de considération qu'a le gouv Israélien pour le journalisme et les journalistes donc il s'agirait, en France, de pas leur mâcher le travail en qualifiant de "militant" un journaliste qui est venu faire son travail.
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
So happy to be presenting this funky WhatsApp chat in Pontevedra along with the Galician Macroecology Queen @saravarela.bsky.social !! 🌡️🗻🦥

Gracias @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
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sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
⚡️Science in full swing⚡️
Today was packed with exciting sessions and inspiring exchanges.
Thanks to everyone for making it such a vibrant day!
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible
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eesaupe.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!
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simlacombe.bsky.social
My first PhD paper is now out in Biological Conservation, go check it out !
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

We combined 15 years of standardized monitoring and opportunistic data to track the recovery of the European otter in France 🦦🦦
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
We also provided some neat evidence supporting historical hypotheses regarding how tropical biodiversity changes at macroevolutionary scales. To know more about it, as well as about all what I couldn't detail in this thread, go have a look at the paper :)
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
...in a mass extinction scenario.
Palaeotemperature, diversity-dependent effects and the Andean uplift seem to have played a central role in explaining the long-term faunal change that we evidenced among Palaeogene South American mammals !🌡️🗻
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
Our reconstructions of the dynamics of lineage origination and extinction through time did not evidence any mass extinction among South American mammals at the EOT !
This said, we found support for a landmass-scale faunal remodelling that occurred way more gradually than what we would have expected
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
In #SouthAmerica, things were not that clear.
We therefore benefited from recent improvement in the continent's fossil record (particularly under low latitudes) to address whether mammals from this formerely island-continent did experience a mass extinction, as suggested for their european mates 😱
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT) marked a brutal cooling in global climate, that switched from a greenhouse 🥵 to an icehouse 🥶 phase. It has been related to a major faunal turnover among mammal communities, particularly in Europe. Some authors even characterised it as a #MassExtinction ! 🔥🦴
lucasbuffan.bsky.social
Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!!
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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lucasbuffan.bsky.social
Overalls back into fashion! Was such a pleasure to introduce my first PhD chapter at #PalAss24!
Thanks to the organising committee
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palaeoleeds.bsky.social
...and next up we have former Palaeo@Leeds member @bethanyjallen.bsky.social talking about inferring extinction rates from phylogenies!
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noemiehevin.bsky.social
Our article on the evolution of Apollo butterflies just got published in @ssbbulletin.bsky.social 🦋 We investigate how using total-evidence dating with the two Parnassiinae fossils reshapes their age and historical biogeography. 🌍 @cnrs.bsky.social #ISEM #evolution
👉 doi.org/10.18061/bss...
Original illustrations of the two fossils belonging to Parnassiinae. Illustrations of †Doritites bosniaskii on the left were made by Rebel (1898), and illustrations of †Thaites ruminiana on the right were made by Scudder (1875)