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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · 17d

It's been the most fun science I've done for a long time...visiting @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron to scan huge shark heads with @draliceclement.bsky.social

Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 17d

48 hours, 8 sharks, 3 researchers and a WHOLE LOT OF DATA! 🦈 🩻 Another busy and successful trip to @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron!

With @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social for an exciting new project with @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social & our other fabulous collaborators… 🦈🦈🦈

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Davide Foffa @davfoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · Jun 17

It’s live!🎉
The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research >
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...

New Nectar Node at the University of Adelaide Launched | ARDC

The new node at the University of Adelaide has boosted cloud computing resources for South Australian researchers. Read about the showcase and explore how the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud is supporting ...

ardc.edu.au

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 18

An incredible new resource - Go @bluerehn.bsky.social !

Dr Emma Rehn @bluerehn.bsky.social · Jun 17

New paper for the palaeofire fans!

Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥

Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd...

This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!

A graphical abstract for the OCTOPUS SahulCHAR collection showing a map of Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand with red dots for data points. Text on the right of the image presents key statistics: 425 locations, 531 cores, 687 char records, 23 contributors

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats to @draliceclement.bsky.social for a very well deserved Research Leader Award!

Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · Jun 13

Cheers for the recognition @flindersuniversity.bsky.social College of #Science and Engineering Emerging #Research Leader Award 🏆

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Jun 13

The latest episode of What The Duck (Dogs!) is all about dingoes! Have a listen!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Dogs in Australia: What is a dingo? - ABC listen

This is the story of the domesticated animal that feralised itself. Where did dingoes come from and when? Where does a wild dog stop and a dingo begin? How much can genetics really tell us about Au...

www.abc.net.au

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 13

@draliceclement.bsky.social is making waves across the country!

Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · Jun 13

"Students keen to explore Canowindra’s fossils". A nice write-up in the Cowra Guardian about our recent Flinders University @flindersuniversity.bsky.social 3rd year palaeontology fieldtrip to Canowindra, NSW. Did you see it @canowindracranky.bsky.social ?

www.cowraguardian.com.au/sport/studen...

Students keen to explore Canowindra's fossils - Cowra Guardian

www.cowraguardian.com.au

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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · Jun 13

Rare job opportunity @ WA Museum Perth. Research Officer of marine fishes 2 year position. Fish IDs, DNA sequencing, curation and digitisation 🐟🔬🧬📷
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

WA Government Jobs | Research Officer (Fishes)

search.jobs.wa.gov.au

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Aww thanks Jaimi 😍we couldn't have done it without all the of support and encouragement from you & the oVert team!

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Jessica Theodor @jmtheodor.bsky.social · Jun 12

Happy to say that @aus10ash.bsky.social's MSc work on patterning at the p4/m1 boundary is out: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution

Tying the knot between morphology and development: using the patterning cascade model between cheek teeth to study the evolution of molarization in hoofed mammals

link.springer.com

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oh like the Ninja Turtle in Go Extinct! Megafauna! I will ruthlessly exploit the opportunity to plug that this and 29 other drawings of Australian (mega)fauna is freely available CC-BY-SA on Wikimedia Commons, link is on: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe... @wikimediafoundation.org

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joeflansan.bsky.social @joeflansan.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!

Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using a newly developed spatiotemporal phylogeographic path analysis method combined with phylogenetic niche modelling, the authors estimate clade-wide dispersal maps spanning the early Permian to end...

www.nature.com

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jun 11

Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration.

That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️

Painted bats belong alive in the wild — not dead on walls.

Tell Amazon to stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong.

act.biologicaldiversity.org

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jun 11

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍

We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 11

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales | Royal Society Open Science

Borings of the extant bone-eating worm Osedax have previously been found in Cenozoic cetaceans and Cretaceous marine reptiles. The stratigraphically youngest Cretaceous example is from the Maastrichti...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 11

What a brilliant idea! Now let's find a way of getting dead white men's names off those charts :-)

Gaia Rueda Moreno @papayaguacamaya.bsky.social · Jun 11

Super awesome paper I helped on about where bird names come from!

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Jun 11

ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole:

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · Jun 11

Laurel Nave-Powers is scanning sand lance to do cranial morphometrics on different species. She just got her first volume rendering of her own scans. Very exciting.

#scanAllFish
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A laptop computer showing a screen from the slicer program with a 3d visualization of a sandlance skull.

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · Jun 10

We postponed the deadline to June 22, so there is still a bit less than two weeks to apply!

Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Jun 10

If government really took this issue seriously it could be fixed very quickly and everyone—most importantly Australia's wildlife and ecosystems—would be far better off www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...

Going Rogue: The practice of rewilding native animals

ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production

www.abc.net.au

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · Jun 10

Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/

On the left of the image are three different views of a 3D model of the skull of a leaf tail gecko (Phyllurus platurus), with all bones isolated and colored to demonstrate skull anatomy, from top to bottom, anterolateral view, dorsal view, and anterior view. On the right side of the image is a 3D rendering of a contrast enhanced CT scan of the whole body of the specimen, rendered in purple.

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Jun 10

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...

And the ebook will be open access!

#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

A book cover entitled: Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis by authors Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. It features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel, as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 10

The result of three years’ worth of travel through Australia’s museum collections and three Universities, and heaps of help from the MorphoSource and oVert Teams @jaimiagray.bsky.social :

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 10

The multimedia team at @aunz.theconversation.com has put together a beautiful article on Ozboneviz: stories.theconversation.com/scanning-aus...

Scanning Australia's bones

Can a new database of 3D bone scans help solve the mystery of the elusive ngudlukanta?

stories.theconversation.com

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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections

Abstract. Billions of specimens are in biodiversity collections worldwide, and this infrastructure is crucial for research on Earth's natural history. Thre

doi.org

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