Roberto Rozzi

New paper is out 🔓!
We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns:
- modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈
- small decline in the K/Pg 🤏
- a peak in the Eocene 🌄
- a long-term decline towards the present �
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Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Digest: Craniofacial morphology diversification in Malagasy primates and the role of size constraints in adaptive radiation Abstract. How did size-related evolutionary constraints shape the diversification of craniofacial morphology during the adaptive radiation of Malagasy lemu

Check out this new digest paper published in @journal-evo.bsky.social presenting how Malagasy #lemurs cranial shape evolution is influenced by their body size.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 ‼️

Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done!

Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumni😍

Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️

❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️

biogeography.pensoft.net

#tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

The great @sandranogue.bsky.social at #TIBS2026 showing the power of #paleoecological data to show the patteres of human cultural complexity and #biogeographic dynamics in island ecosystems

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones.

To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done:
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New paper out! 🐦📊

We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.

Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

An exhilarating first day at #TIBS2026 ❄️🌍
Alfred Russell Wallace Awards for Michael Donoghue & Mark Lomolino, the launch of our symposium on Quantitative Paleoecology, and outstanding talks throughout — all set in snowy Aarhus. Inspiring energy from the biogeography & macroecology community!

Join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, me, and our team of experts Yasmin Kahn, Stuart Prior, Meg Russell & Naomi Sykes on BBC2 TOMORROW at 9pm, for Digging for Britain Series 13!

Amazing, thank you very much Tori for putting us in touch! @knapprew.bsky.social I'd love to have a chat!

Orgebin & Rozzi 🖼: 3013. Brain evolution in extinct dwarf hippopotamuses from Madagascar and Cyprus

Rozzi et al. 🖼: 3014. Virtual endocast of Duboisia santeng (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the Early-Middle
Pleistocene of Java and brain evolution in insular bovids (2/2)

Excited to be @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social conference in Aarhus with @pierreorgebin.bsky.social. If you're interested in neuroanatomy 🧠, hippos 🦛, bovids 🐐 & island evolution 🏝, come to see our posters today (16:00-18:00) & tomorrow (16:10-18:10) in Room 3 #TIBS2026 (1/2)

We are excited to kick off #TIBS2026! Our early session with Alfred Russell Wallace Award winners Michael Donoghue and Mark V. Lomolino was truly inspiring, offering valuable lessons and insights that will energize the rest of the conference. #biogeography #macroecology #science

an illustration shows light spilling through a round cave hole above and illuminating the cluttered interior with hanging roots and jumbled detritus in the distance while in the near ground several bees are active around the surface of a cross section showing short tunnels into the soil with larvae at the ends and one leading to a section of jaw bone and an inset illustration showing a larvae in a crevice of bone

A friendly competition between colleagues revealed an interesting story about hutias, giant barn owls and burrowing bees in a Caribbean cave.

Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/pale...

Illustration by Jorge Machuky

3D-Scans von fünf fossilen Schädeln verschiedener prähistorischer Säugetiere mit hervorgehobenen Gehirnregionen in Gelb.

📣 #Forschungsnews: Wie gut konnten Säbelzahnkatzen riechen? Oder frühe Wale? Das hat ein Forschungsteam mit Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) durch anatomische Schädelanalysen und genetische Untersuchungen jetzt herausgefunden. smnstuttgart.bsky.social

👉 https://sgn.one/wrq

Our new paper builds a set of models to recover real-time seasonality data from serial enamel isotope profiles. It's currently operationalized for Equus, so please use the models on your horse and zebra serial isotope data! The paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

A Quantitative Analysis of the Manus Musculature in Tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) Tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) show evidence in their forefoot bones that suggest clear differences in the way their load is distributed during locomotion. Here, we also found corresponding diffe...

big thankyou to my collaborators and colleagues for their parts in this work:
Eva Corssmit (www.evacorssmit.com)
Jorge Rojas-Jimenez (linkedin.com/in/jorge-rojas-jim%C3%A9nez-a7b079269/)
Martha MacMillan (linkedin.com/in/martha-macmillan-084661b8/)
and here's the paper: doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70051

Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490 About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.

www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

The evolution of plasticity and evolvability in a simple gene regulatory network How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Do they respond plastically or evolve through genetic alterations? We present a large-scale simulation stu

#paper How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Through plasticity, evolution, or a combination of both?
Find out in our new paper by Alger Jorritsma, where we show which strategies evolve under different environmental conditions. @journal-evo.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study. “Repti...

About 30% of island-restricted reptiles are currently threatened with extinction (vs 12% of mainland reptile species). Yet, just 6.7% of the published research from 1960-2021 is devoted to island species @mongabay.com

@biology.ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social

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Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.

Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.

Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Genomic Imprint of Chromosomal Inversions and Demographic History in Island Populations of Deer Mice Abstract. Populations that colonize islands experience novel selective pressures, fluctuations in size, and changes to their connectivity. Owing to their u

Howell et al. used WGS of wild-caught deer mice from two islands and one mainland location in British Columbia to investigate chromosomal inversions and non-equilibrium demographic history of this species.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf254

#evobio #molbio #peromyscus

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of November in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest along the Eurasian coast.

Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November...

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?

Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇

For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

New #AmniotaLab research!
Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃

paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...

YouTube video by Álvaro Castilla Beltrán El registro paleoecológico de Vega de Arucas: 28,000 años de clima, vegetación e incendios

Lead by Pili Martin Ramos 😊we present a new palaeoecological record in the Canary Islands, which reveals how climate, vegetation, and fire changed on the islands over the last 28,000 years 🌍
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@fdezpalacioslab.bsky.social @ferpalenrique.bsky.social and more 😊🏝️