@marcelcardillo.bsky.social
Australian National University. Macroevolution, macroecology, biogeography, biodiversity, conservation. www.macroevoeco.com
Four maps of the Australian Monsoonal Tropics
New paper led by Emmeline Norris based on her Honours project: Land tenure contributions to protected area growth under alternative conservation targets in the Australian monsoon tropics
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New Not Drowning, Waving album with Sir George Telek entitled “Malira” out Sept 19th ahead of Melb Recital Centre show on Sat 20th. Front cover features Wargi Apelis from the acclaimed Moab Stringband of Raluana, Rabaul.
07.09.2025 23:40 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2I was ok with it until the last two words of the title
29.08.2025 00:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What about this classic Oz Crawl song that I'm pretty sure was written with the 2020's in mind:
youtu.be/pv9nyNb4NTk
And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
22.07.2025 20:45 — 👍 12262 🔁 3356 💬 75 📌 110Why is there such variation in species diversity among regions? Work led by @alexskeels.bsky.social shows that the history of climate change driving expansion & contraction of biomes is at least as important as current environments. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502129122
16.07.2025 00:08 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
enormous phylogeny of ~700 Grevilleoideae plants plus outgroups with major tribes and fossil calibrations highlighted
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
15.07.2025 23:59 — 👍 37 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1Thoroughly approve of #3, #5 & #8
11.07.2025 07:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You could have picked the original Warumpi Band version of My Island Home, but otherwise all good choices 👍
11.07.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The hardest part of PhDing is coming up with important, original questions that can feasibly addressed. Pretty sure Grok can't come up with good research questions.
10.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨
Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.
Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm
What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!
Let me explain ...
A split-screen image. The left side shows a rhinoceros mother and calf in a savanna landscape with scattered trees. The right side depicts a forest fire scene with orange flames and silhouetted trees against a dark sky. Text reads: "Biodiversity is in crisis" followed by: "1 million plant and animal species risk extinction Ecosystems are collapsing Misinformation slows progress." "Trust the science. Conserve, restore and sustainably use biodiversity."
‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
To be fair I think there’s a just a general all-round drop in support at the moment.
03.07.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The skeleton of the early whale Maiacetus suspended from the ceiling. It is a mammal with anatomy like a crocodile’s.
For millions of years, whales walked on land.
Early whale evolution was an evolutionary burst in wetlands, estuaries, and ocean shallows, otter-like mammals with crocodile smiles moving between land and water. This form, Maiacetus, lived in what’s now Pakistan about 47.5 million years ago. 🧪
Congratulations to 17 new Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows, announced today. Regrettably, this appears to be the final year of this scheme. www.arc.gov.au/selection-re...
26.06.2025 01:39 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations
Bromham et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ICCB25 I need to do a prioritisation analysis to decide which sessions to attend…
18.06.2025 03:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You poor things, how did you survive?
17.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s so nice to be in Brisbane this week…
#ICCB2025
Prescribed fire, it's a very 🔥 topic! What do we know though?
Find out today! Plaza Level Meeting Room P3, 11:06 am. #ICCB2025
Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in Brisbane this week! If you're interested in plant traits, fire or rapid evolution, come along to my talk on 'trait-fire mismatch' Monday at 2:55 PM in Room P5. Hope to see you there! 🌿🔥
15.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0How to tie a truckies knot
15.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The US military parade starting with Fogerty's masterpiece about how millionaires send working class kids to war, 'Fortunate Son' is tippety-top subversive resistance. Trump may have missed that but not the lack of crowds or desultory trundling. youtu.be/ZWijx_AgPiA?...
15.06.2025 09:46 — 👍 65 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0Sorry 11:53am not 10:30
13.06.2025 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#ICCB2025 I'll be presenting our work on "Over the Horizon" extinction risk forecasting for proactive conservation planning at 10:30am on Monday, in M2.
It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...
This year, at #ICCB2025, I will share our research on butterfly migration. If you are around, come and say hi! Also, feel free to reach out if you are looking for a PhD position. You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.
12.06.2025 00:52 — 👍 63 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
I'm proud of our li'l Schoolhouse Rock for Insect Taxonomists cartoon, but if you're not in Bug World here are some annotations for you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI... cc @danlwarren.bsky.social
02.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 103 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 10
How did they know
31.05.2025 09:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday to Susan Janet Ballion aka Siouxsie Sioux, born on this day in 1957, London, England
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd
