I am joining the #Xodus and I am now on Bluesky as @trsimoes.bsky.social. Will be back on occasion to check my mail

Our lab's PhD student Daniel take on body size biases in tetrapod taxonomy:

Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with M. Tollis and F. Burbrink https://t.co/ljR8vp4G5H

and my perspective piece on their findings:

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioqevo et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data

Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin

Position in vert paleo at Rutgers https://t.co/wXuO2CnHUq

Folks, I am always happy to send papers through research gate...but maybe you wanna avoid the trouble when the papers are open access...just saying

New paper! Lead by Julia de Souza, and in collaboration with our dear colleagues, we have looked back to the anatomy of a long forgotten Dinodontosaurus skull. Result: considering the current diagnosis, we now have D. brevirostris in Brazil! + https://t.co/I3f5lS8c7L

We suggest this is inherent to the very distinct nature of these datatypes and the way they are collected, and we provide a conceptual framework from what can be concluded by evolutionary rates studies using each datatype.

Lack of comparability across existing methods makes definite conclusions more limited than what we wanted, but the biggest difference in our comparisons is always across datatypes.

We included discrete (phylogenetic characters) and continuous data (from 2D GMM) from the exact same species and, in most cases, from the exact same specimens. That was a lot of work…

We try to assess whether rates of phenotypic evolution based on multivariate data (discrete and continuous), using popular methods, and which influence how we measure phenotypic change and innovation across lineages provide comparable results. The answer is a very big NO.

Our latest paper, now on how to conciliate apparently discrepant evolutionary rate patterns in squamates, but which may well apply to any study system with @MCZpaleo and former student Arthur Brum #macroevolution https://t.co/i2pUbAmL2L

Really nice paper! Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record

Brazil hopes to turn the tide of dengue with a home-grown vaccine and an army of mosquitoes https://t.co/KpwLvo0vy4

Synchrotron CT of Moschognathus whaitsi revealed 1st full cranial description, showing evidence of headbutting behavior, “talon & heel” tooth shape & complex sauropod-like tooth replacement Lafferty et al: https://t.co/D9Fr2OCb3m Reconstruction by Morgan Farabin #FossilFriday

Happy to share the advance version of our big AREES review on squamate origin and early evolution: From Fossils to Genomes with my two amazing colleagues, Frank Burbrink and @evilsmaug https://t.co/ljR8vp5dVf

Great work led by @JyAndreoletti, on the Occurrence Birth-Death with lineage-specific speciation and extinction rates!

Don't forget to cite it if you use it!;) Simões, T. R., Greifer, N., Barido-Sottani, J., & Pierce, S. E. (2023).

New stuff: combine_log now also combines posterior log files from BEAST2 and MCMCTREE; write_partitioned_alignments2 writes partitioned data as separate alignments for any data type; clade_membership designates clade membership for each tip for in the tree used by other functions