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Michael Lee (Evolutionary Biologist)

@michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

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Scientist, Parent, Spouse, Bayesian, Twitter Refugee -not necessarily in that order Day job: Professor, Evolutionary Biology, SA Museum & Flinders Uni Homepage: michaelsylee.wordpress.com

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Michael Lee (Evolutionary Biologist) @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social · Nov 19

Currently just squatting, but will start posting if I miraculously get enough spontaneous follows 😀

Meanwhile, my research blogs (and bird photo spam) can be found here:
www.instagram.com/michael_s_y_...

Michael Lee (Evolutionary Biologist) @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social · 4d

Fully funded PhD scholarship on Scorpion Evolution at Flinders University, working with Russell Bicknell, Bruno Buzzato
@brunobuzatto.bsky.social and myself

Details at this link:
www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Please spread the word!

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 20d

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paper led by co-advisee Joao da Silva on the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) using micro-CT scanning and with phylogenetic and biogeographical implications academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Osteology and ontogeny of the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) based on micro-CT scanning and its phylogenetic and biogeographical implications

Abstract. Dicynodonts were a globally distributed group of herbivorous synapsids that first appeared during the middle Permian (Guadalupian) and survived t

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Jacob C. Blokland @blokoweka.bsky.social · Aug 13

60 million years ago, eastern #Aotearoa New Zealand was #penguin paradise!

We describe 4 archaic penguin species from the Waipara Greensand, North Canterbury. This now totals 10 species from there, in addition to a diversity of Paleocene penguins from Otago and Chatham Island.
#fossil #birds

Multiple exceptionally preserved fossils from the Paleocene Waipara Greensand inform the diversity of the oldest stem group Sphenisciformes and the formation of their diving adaptations

Abstract. We report new stem group sphenisciforms (ancestral penguins) from the Paleocene of the Waipara Greensand (Canterbury, New Zealand), and describe

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NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social · Aug 13

A great part of being union is the community of support we provide for one another in difficult times. All are welcome to show appreciation for Liz & others standing up for #ANU staff & students.

If you're not yet an @nteunion.bsky.social member, join at www.nteu.au/join. ✊

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Jacob C. Blokland @blokoweka.bsky.social · Aug 1

New #research out today led by George Sangster, with Trevor Worthy, Pascale Lubbe, Paul Scofield & myself.

Recently #extinct flightless #rail Hodgens' waterhen from #Aotearoa New Zealand is a 'giant' crake of the genus Porzana, rather than a nativehen of Tribonyx.

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Another case of island gigantism: the extinct Hodgens’ Waterhen (Tribonyx hodgenorum) is a member of Porzana (Aves: Rallidae) - Journal of Ornithology

Tribonyx hodgenorum (Scarlett, Rec Canterb Mus 6:265–266, 1955) was a flightless rail (Rallidae) endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand that became extinct in the eighteenth century. The affinities of this r...

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Jul 21

Former Australian National University chancellor slams 'gobsmacking' proposed university cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Former ANU chancellor says proposed uni cuts 'gobsmacking'

Former Australian National University chancellor, Gareth Evans, says proposed cost-saving cuts to the institution have "ignored or gravely under-valued the significance of ANU's very distinctive natio...

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Michael Lee (Evolutionary Biologist) @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social · Jul 16

You know you are in the tropics when a Brown Tree #Snake joins you for coffee at #CairnsAirport!

It stuck its tongue out at the expensive menus and decided to go forage in the nearby mangroves instead.

Happy #WorldSnakeDay !

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