Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_1

🌿 Paleobotany PhD position alert!
Join a cutting-edge project in Frankfurt to unravel seed plant evolution across the Mesozoic. Work on fossils, traits, disparity WITH a truly nice PI @Lepidodendron
Apply here https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_1
#PhD #Paleobotany #Fossils #Botany

there are still 6 days left to apply to join my group at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt as a PhD Student in #Paleobiology! Are you interested in how the rock record shapes our undersanding of macroevolutionary dynamics of #plants in the #Mesozoic?

@SenckenbergWorld

https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_2

Seed #ferns experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2024-04-seed-ferns-complex-leaf-vein.html

Parallel #evolution of angiosperm-like venation in Peltaspermales: a reinvestigation of Furcula https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19726

"the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering #plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times"

Our new work has been published in New Phytologist. We reinvestigate the 201 Ma old Furcula, a #fossil #leaf with net-like hierarchical venation, and suggest this was a relative of the Peltaspermales experimenting with angiosperm-like #leaves (with little success) before flowering plants. This was only one of many natural #experiments highlighting the unique case of the success of #angiospems
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19726

my latest research on #cycads has been published in
Communications Biology.
Looking at cycad #leaves through time, we found they are FAR from living #fossils!
You can find more about this for free! #openaccess
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06024-9

I got an email today saying that my first solo author paper has been printed: a side project I did on the variability of vertebral laminae in Plateosaurus 🪅🎉🍾 -I wasn't prepared for this dropping on #FossilFriday- I can only share some of the figures.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378971323_Variability_of_vertebral_laminae_in_eight_specimens_of_Plateosaurus_Saurischia_Sauropodomorpha

my latest research on #cycads has been published in
Communications Biology.
Looking at cycad #leaves through time, we found they are FAR from living #fossils!
You can find more about this for free! #openaccess
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06024-9

Full or Associate Professorship in Behavioral Biology

University of Zurich, Faculty of Science

The ideal candidate promotes interdisciplinary research encompassing subjects such as ethology, genetics, physiology, ecology, neurobiology

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich-faculty-of-science-27778-full-or-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich-faculty-of-science-27778-full-or-associate-professorship-in-behavioral-biology/?feed_id=72729

Come explore the frontier of PCM with us! Mariana P. Braga (https://www.marianapbraga.com) and I host the symposium “What we can and cannot know through current and upcoming Phylogenetic Comparative Methods” at the joint​@evol_mtg in Montréal and want your views in that discussion!

https://ecoevo.social/@evol_mtg/111976003905981068

#Evol2024 #evolution #macroevolution #phylogenetics

🧵 1/X

my first paper of the year (and my first ever single author paper) has been finally published!

Do you work on fossil plants? Do you feel that your phylogenies are too uncertain? Don't fear uncertainty, EMBRACE IT!
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.16282

Interesting observation: talked to a few communicators recently who said that not knowing a subject helps them write better popular science articles.
With researchers it’s quite the opposite I feel: they think they can only do #SciComm about a subject they know extremely well. Thoughts?

I modified and updated my profile pic / website logo following the aesthetics of the #tidyverse #rstats packages. #Palaeontology

♻️ Analyzing anatomy over three dimensions unpacks the differences in mesophyll diffusive area between sun and shade Vitis vinifera leaves

Full #openaccess
👉 https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad001

Not everybody can move.

Not everybody should move.

You don't get to judge.

It says a lot when your response to "there's a fascist state next door" is to tell someone "oh, just don't live in the fascist state."

Easy. As if that would fix everything.

Just don't live there. Pack up your bags, pay movers with your nonexistent money, go on a road trip with your car, and leave your family behind.

It's telling how quick some people are to give ground.

Ilex mitis and its wonderful spiral thickenings and scalariform plates 🤩💯
Being used as firewood and charcoal (among other uses) in Ethiopia after Bekele-Tesemma 2007 ⬅️ GREAT BOOK

Please favor and boost. Let’s show that love can overcome hate and ignorance.

Like phylogenies? This paper may be of interest - we use simulations show that timescaling of phylogenies is not severely hampered by inaccuracies in placement of fossils on the tree of life.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12680

Led by Nicolás Mongiardino Koch.

#science #nature #phylogenetics

Sticking to the southern hemisphere, here's #Ginkgoites #villardeseoanii, an interesting species from the latest #Cretaceous of Argentina. It's one of the more recently described Ginkgoites species and has lobes with characteristics flat and notched tips. #paleoart #paleobotany

Assistant Professorship tenure track in Paleoanthropology

University of Zurich, Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science at the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for the Assistant Professorship tenure track in Paleoanthropology

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich-faculty-of-science-27...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich-faculty-of-science-27778-assistant-professorship-tenure-track-in-paleoanthropology/?feed_id=63071