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Dr Elen Shute @lonerangifer.bsky.social · Jan 22

The more I work in wildlife monitoring, the more I realise wildlife moves around & often we have little idea why, when, or how far 🙂 ‘Place-based conservation’ makes much more intuitive sense for plants than animals.
theconversation.com/to-save-aust...

To save Australia’s animals, scientists must count how many are left. But what if they’re getting it wrong?

Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures of how species are faring.

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Jan 22

New paper out from the lab today! Here we show that digital reconstructions of brains from skulls can be used to estimate cerebral hemisphere & cerebellum volumes in birds.
#birds #paleontology #ornithology
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Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts | Biology Letters

For studies of the evolution of vertebrate brain anatomy and potentially associated behaviours, reconstructions of digital brain endocasts from computed tomography scans have revolutionized our capaci...

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 22

We compared endocast surface area measurements with volume brain measurements in 136 species 🤩

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 22

Huge thanks to the people that upload to Morphosource, particularly those behind OVert and @nocturnetwork.bsky.social

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 22

Check out our latest paper validating telencephalon and cerebellum endocast measurements in birds 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦‍⬛ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @evolsara.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social

Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts | Biology Letters

For studies of the evolution of vertebrate brain anatomy and potentially associated behaviours, reconstructions of digital brain endocasts from computed tomography scans have revolutionized our capaci...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Dr Elen Shute @lonerangifer.bsky.social · Jan 10

Flinders Palaeo colleagues knocking it out of the park with this paper on short-faced kangaroo extinctions. No shortcuts, just lots of specimens, lots of patience & some fancy microscopes. Chipping away at Pleistocene extinction questions a few species at a time🙂

theconversation.com/new-study-ch...

New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct

Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The cause has been the subject of fierce debate.

theconversation.com

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 8

That's a wrap on #SICB2025 with @evolsara.bsky.social

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 6

Check out poster by @evolsara.bsky.social in the poster hall at #SICB2025 and grab an awesome sticker between 3:30-5:30pm!

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Jan 5

Happening now! Check out @aub-birdy.bsky.social poster on parrot endocasts at #SICB2025 and get a swift parrot sticker!

A red haired graduate student wearing a shirt bedecked with birds is talking to conference attendees about her poster entitled Just Wingin It. The poster has cartoon diagrams of several parrot species as well as a diagram of a parrot brain.

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Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social · Jan 3

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evolsara.bsky.social @evolsara.bsky.social · Jan 1

Well, 2025 is already off to a great start... missed the first flight of the year. But hey, at least I had the extra time to finish this Barn Owl. Priorities, right?
#flightfail #2025Ibegyou #barnowl #pencils #birds

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Dec 20

Going to #SICB2025 in Atlanta? Interested in CT scanning, birds, or brains? Some see posters by @evolsara.bsky.social and @aub-birdy.bsky.social on hawks and parrots and pick up a sticker!
#ornithology #birds #neuroskyence #anatomy 🪶🧠🧪

Two circular stickers are shown. On the left are cartoon illustrations of Swift parrots against a green background. On the right is an illustration of a front on view of a female northern harrier bisected with the skull on the left and an intact, feathered head on the right.

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