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

‪[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...

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 ...

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-...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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!

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.

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. ⬇️

🗺️ 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! 🌏

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...

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/...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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/

🚨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

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.

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 🧪🧠

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 :

Scanning Australia's bones Can a new database of 3D bone scans help solve the mystery of the elusive ngudlukanta?

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

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

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

Declining to behave unethically & declining to capitulate to zionists could've saved Melbourne Symphony Orchestra $3.3 million in legal fees

Leaked document shows two threatened species could be wiped out at Middle Arm development site Exclusive: Conservation advocates say assessment shows controversial NT project ‘shouldn’t get past the starting gun’

A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They also have ripper databasing initiatives so they would be well-archived with a chance of digitisation

If you happen to be in Alice Springs this Saturday morning, Megafauna Central is hosting an international tabletop game day featuring our Go Extinct! Game. If you happen to be elsewhere, you can print and play at home: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe...

ANWC or Australian Museum for your Aussie species?

Top scientists call on Australian Government to allocate federal funding towards nature protection and management | Biodiversity Council Australia More than two dozen of Australia’s eminent ecology, conservation and biodiversity academics have called on the Australian Government to commit significant federal funding towards nature.

* An immediate increase in spending—to at least 1% of the federal budget annually— on environmental protection and restoration. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/top-sci...